I am falling behind on the booze related part of the retrochallenge. So at the very least, I needed to find some alcohol related ads. Here we go - Softporn Adventure - with naked chicks and champagne - enticing you to buy a text adventure game.
This was Sierra On-Line's only text game, as they became famous for their "hi-res adventure" games, and apparently trademarked the phrase at one point, sueing anyone who tried to use similar wording (see http://gue.vintagegaming.org/galleries/index.php?pub=1&item=0&id=1&key=0 ).
According to Moby Games: "The game's cover shows 3 nude women and a waiter in a hot tub. The hot tub was located at the house of Ken and Roberta Williams, On-Line Systems' owners. The circles in the background is a duplicated image of the top of the hot tub. The woman on the left was a shipping clerk at On-Line Systems, the one in the center is the wife of Bob Davis who created Ulysses and the Golden Fleece and the one on the right is Roberta Williams herself. The man was a waiter from a local restaurant. The image was featured in TIME magazine's first story on computer games."
But back to the game. Your goal is to get laid. Years later, Al Lowe would take the same puzzles and places (bar, disco, wedding chapel, convenience store, etc.) and added graphics and called it Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards - and Lowe even got permission to include a version of Softporn on a Larry greatest hits collection.
A bit of history here, the first adult-themed game. I know some computer magazines caught flack for even running the ad.
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