Atari 2600 8-bit porn – The Custar’s Revenge Story

Todays video games are regularly classified as 18+, but there have always been “adult” games around. You know that any technology is always used for porn and it has always been this way since the beginning of gaming.

Custar’s Revenge was released by Mystique in 1982 for the Atari 2600. The game consisted of one level. You played General Custar and started at the left hand side of the screen. The aim of the game was to get from the left of the screen, past falling arrows, to the right side of the screen where there was a native american woman tied to a post who you would fuck to get points. No I am not joking. The native American woman’s name was even “Revenge”!

As you got more points the game would speed up, which would make it harder (excuse the pun) to get across the screen to the native American woman.

The game caused so much controversy that Ataris actually tried to sue Mystique, but lost the case. Eventually Mystique went out of business in the game industry crash of the 80′s and was taken over by Play Around. For some completely unknown reason, Play Around re-released Custar’s Revenge in Europe after changing a few things such as the colour, speed and difficulty of the game.

The game was released as a “flipside game” which is when the cartridge is double ended, giving you one game on one end with another game on the the other end. With the adult games released by Play Around, they would regularly have a game for the boys on one side and a game for girls on the other side. Yea, we all know girls love playing porn games right? Thats some seriously one sided male game designing.

There was also talk that the game was also released under the name “The white man comes”.

Seriously, what the fuck?

For me, the worst part of this game is that it is just a complete piece of badly thought out shit. It is offensive on almost every level, but putting that to one side, as a game, it is just horrible.

While I played on Leisure Suit Larry, at least it had some levels and missions. Custar’s Revenge has just one level with one mission!

Ok, for all you who do not believe me, here are some images of the game.

Custar’s Revenge by Mystique

Custar’s Revenge by Play Around

And here is a three part review of this game by one of the funniest game reviewers around.