Tetris was still new and cutting edge
So few in my social circle had email that we all shared each others' latest gems. It would qualify as spam today, but back then, we took what we could get. A friend of a friend of a relative of a proper fundamentalist Christian wife sent round a game file. I blithely downloaded the forwarded file and saved it to my hard drive at work. Forgot about it, as I did have work to do in my 15 minutes of allotted time (we shared one dialup phone line and an aol account amongst a dozen of us).

Came the day I opened the file and it was a Tetris tribute game... Probably an 8-bit graphic game, "Sextris" I think, with various shapes of male and female nude bodies in crude, out-of-focus monochrome. All right, I thought, how hard could this be? I diligently played shape after shape, concentrating whilst endeavoring to not laugh or let anyone in the office know what I was up to. I skillfully manoevered naked men and buxom nude women right and left, spinning them around, dropping them jn place, perfectly matching the shapes to make solid rows. The rows stacked up rather than disappeared, which puzzled me. Undaunted, I pressed on. Tits and asses reached the top of the board, game over, I lost. What a rubbish game!

A few days later, I had a bored few minutes so I opened the file again. I spent less effort stacking the nudie-shapes and more effort appreciatng the artistic genius necessary to create such detail with so few pixels--perky boobs, a hint of a smile, waves of hair cascading down a shapely back.

Then it happened. I lost my focus, and instead of spinning a woman so she nestled neatly, back-to-back on a male shape, I accidentally dropped her directly on a prone male. Instead of sticking up at an odd angle, she dropped down further, straddling his ready crotch and its anatomically-correct male parts! The sounds of satisfied moans erupted, the shapes wiggled a bit, and dissapeared!

I laughed in surprise, delight, and head-smacking chagrin as I realized that I had finally learned how Sex worked. Or how Sextris worked. And I wasted a great many more hours playing that game and trying to stack the players so a match would create a cascading orgy of partners.

I miss that game, and I guess the innocence of those early days of the internet!
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Mon 26 Mar 2012, 11:30, Reply)