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Pictured: Rikku from Final Fantasy X

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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The silhouette was quite a bit for a 14 year old.

[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Woah. The art is gorgeous. What's the game?

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Those are some perky triangles

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[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

She wears it way better than Tesla.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 65 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Im dating myself, but Jill of the Jungle. All 12 pixels of her!

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[–] remon@ani.social 52 points 1 month ago
[–] Laggindragon@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago
[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There was a PS1 Fighting game where you, in the menu, could turn "boob movement" on and off to a very little change ingame.

Which one is this?

[–] duffer@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Dead or Alive

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Don’t quite remember if it was high school or college for me….

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Honestly, neither does Quistis

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[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Princess Daphne from Dragon's Lair. I'm so very old.

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[–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards.

It's someone named "Eve"

You're welcome 😁

http://larrylaffer.net/ladies/lsl1ega/eve-ega

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[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Leave him alone, he's in the middle of some calibrations

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[–] brillotti@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Battletoads The Dark Queen

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Would 1,000 percent accept being stepped on

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 30 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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For me, maybe Razor from Maniac Mansion, even though I never made it more than ~30 mins into that game. My kid brain didn't understand the funny tingly feeling but years later I realized, "oh duh, hot punk babe".

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There was also Princess What's-Her-Name, though she wasn't much of a character.

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In terms of characters with actual detailed personality, the first big one was probably Rinoa from FF VIII. I was the same age as her when I played it.

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[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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I was convinced, until the end of the game, there had to be some way to bring her back.

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[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm a little embarased to say--I mean I was a preteen boy at the time--but I spent way too many hours fantasizing and lusting over the picture of the Rogue class in the Diablo 1 manual.

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Those pixelated succubus titties in the Hell stages were really something too. Kids today just don't know how desperate we were for even a hint of nudity.

See also, the other love of my young life, Samus Aran.

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[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Golden Axe was how I learned at the age of six that I was attracted to women. Used to squint at the CRT a lot to get a better view of that low res ass in that red and silver thong.

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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Rikku taking off her outer bodysuit was probably a sexual awakening for a lot of young teenagers.

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[–] mikedd@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 19 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think my first was probably Elaine Marley from The Secret of Monkey Island. I wasn't used to seeing strong independent women in video games.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

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Hell yeah!

TBH, Guybrush was kinda cute too, if you like complete fucking dorks.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 19 points 1 month ago

Like, I kinda get it based on her in game model, but not from that rendition.

[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (6 children)
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[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Let's just say, I wanted to get "eaten" by a grue

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[–] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] WagnasT@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Babette from Cosmic Fantasy 2.

Cosmic Fantasy 2 is the only game in the Cosmic Fantasy series that ever saw a North America release. It was released on the Turbografx 16 CD, which is the game system my mom bought me when she bought my older brother and younger sister of Super NES and a Sega Genesis.

She figured buying each of us a different game system would mean that we would share and collaborate, but nobody wanted to play my role-playing game, and they didn't want to let me play Sonic or Mario, so I sat down and played Cosmic Fantasy II from beginning to end.

It was the first role-playing game I ever beat, it was the first role-playing game I had ever seen with full-motion video, it was a really good story, and yeah, the introduction of Babette was a full-motion anime video of her taking a shower in a space ship, which was fantastic to preteen me.

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[–] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I scrolled pretty far and didn't see a single mention of Marle from Chrono Trigger (or I'm blind). Needles to say, she was mine. I've always had a thing for redheads 😊

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[–] Mist101@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

::: NSFW Tap for pic

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Sorry! Tried to mark it NSFW, but the format wouldn't take.

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[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

First was probably Marie:

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