Gamer , the gossips say that it is a normally asexual being who exhausts hour after hour in front of a screen, clinging to a console controller or a keyboard / mouse, while saving a virtual world from a threat, of course, also virtual .
The gamer is nourished by a fairly large group of friends, all of the same sex, who share a hobby with him, he frequents forums and gets angry if someone criticizes the console he has just bought. Normally he is unable to detect if it causes any positive effect on a female (rare but it can happen), but instead he could talk for hours about the different power ups that are obtained in his favorite game or about the graphic supremacy between two consoles.
But there are certain titles that are capable of blocking the skills of the most staunch gamer. Games that suddenly short-circuit the motor functions of the avid user by showing them elements that, in principle, are discordant within the world they are used to playing. Those elements go beyond cutting-edge graphics, colored visual stimuli or fardon power-ups… those elements are: Pornstars. Welcome to Pornstars in Video Games, a claim to the gamer’s testosterone.
Some time ago we dedicated an entire article to Japanese erotic games, treated from a fairly aseptic point of view, and today we are going to visit another aspect that has recently occurred in current video games.
The progressive appearance of female porn or erotic stars as the topics that videogames deal with are hardening and looking for a specific market sector. Games that seek a commercial vein (usually among male audiences) featuring a renowned pornstar who will lend her image.
Today’s examples show that regardless of genre, the pull effect should work as, little by little, they are incorporated into the cast of common titles. Without going any further, the news recently broke that in the new ‘Yakuza’ a Japanese pornstar named Ryo had been hired to perform motion capture and dubbing tasks for a character. Just because of the morbid? Can be.
‘Backyard Wrestling 2’ – Sunrise Adams
In this wrestling game, Sunrise Adams, a Californian pornstar, was hired to provide not only the cover image, but also to be modeled in 3D and participate in the fights as just another player.
‘GTA Vice City’ / ‘Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4’ – Jenna Jameson
In the eighties adventure inside Vice City, the previously considered queen of porn, she played an erotic actress named Candy Suxxx and in the fourth part of ‘Tony Hawk’, her image and voice were used for an unlockable character named Daisy. Does it make sense beyond the morbid to use Jenna Jameson as a skater? Probably not.
‘FaceBreaker’ – Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian is one of those trash celebrities that Obama’s country throws every two by three and, despite starring in a homemade porn tape, she is best known for going to parties and being friends with Paris Hilton. In ‘FaceBreaker’ we could get to control her and burst her face with good blows… along with Peter Moore’s.
‘Saints Row 2’, ‘Backyard Wrestling 2’ – Tera Patrick
The one considered by many, the current queen of porn, played a microbiologist of the same name in a downloadable pack of ‘Saints Row 2’. And yes, its mere presence is argued by thinking about the type of target that ‘Saint Row 2’ is aimed at and what the clever kings of marketing think it is looking for.
‘Wing Commander 2’, ‘Wing Commander Prophecy’ – Ginger Lynn Allen
Miss Ginger Lynn was one of the most recognized pornstars of the early nineties (now she must be quite old for this party) and she played the technical chief Rachel Coriolis within the popular saga (which by the way to see if they resurrect) of space games. A pornstar playing an onboard engineer on a spaceship? Yes, okay.
‘Yakuza’ – Rio
The example that we saw a few lines above. She is Rio, a young Japanese girl who has participated in some porn films and who has been chosen, within a huge casting, to play the stewardess of a strip club in the latest version of the popular ‘Yakuza’ by Sega.
‘SiN Episodes’ – Bianca Beauchamp
Bianca is an erotic model who usually poses dressed in leather and latex. But we gamers can remember her for having played the owner of SiNTek, Elexis Sinclaire in the mythical ‘SiN Episodes’. A character who was closer to a typical dominatrix and who, in turn, was closer to what Miss Beauchamp is used to doing.
‘Leisure Suit Larry – Box Office’ – Carmen Electra
We could not forget the charismatic ‘Larry’ in this review of pornstars in video games. If any franchise has numbers to contain any of these actresses within the cast, this is it. Former Baywatch, Former Playmate, Former Pussycat Doll, and Dennis Rodman’s ex-wife, Carmen Electra plays Ginger Vitus, a pornstar that Larry will try … well, what Larry always tries.
‘V.I.P.’ – Pamela Anderson
We couldn’t help but talk about the iconic 90s silicone blonde. The unforgettable beach watchman starred in her own series, an onion called ‘VIP’ in which she played the head of a protection company and detectives. Of course we saw the video game and, of course, we were able to control Pam along with her two most representative and remarkable icons that did not prevent her from performing all kinds of somersaults and flying kicks.
And now the final blow to the stomach …
‘Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude’ – Ron Jeremy
A well-known pornographic actor, many think that he inspired Miyamoto when creating ‘Mario Bros’ (note the irony), and that he played a small “fairy” (naked and with his genitalia hanging) who gave advice to good old Larry in one of the most deplorable games of the saga. Maybe one day, when the Mario Bros franchise lives its lower hours, they will turn to him to resurrect it. At the moment with ‘Larry’ he has not succeeded.
As you can see, many porn stars are lending their image and voice to video game characters. Perhaps it responds solely and exclusively to commercial purposes, for that of the wild call to testosterone of the gamers who are supposed to make up the specific target they want to address, or perhaps it is that we are seeing how two apparently distant worlds come together. At the end of the day, video games and eroticism seek to amuse, right?
Of course, the perverse idea that a good packaging tries to camouflage the bitter taste of caramel runs above all this. Some clever marketing genius may think that the presence of one of these erotic stars is going to increase the market share to which the game aspires or that, in some way, it will cover defects in the title. It is a big mistake to think that you can buy us like this.
Thanks to Natxo for the information.
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