Sex Vixens from Space

Sex Vixens from Space is an erotic interactive fiction game created and self-published by Free Spirit Software. It first appeared in 1988 on the Commodore 64 and Apple II as part of the compilation *Sex And Violence Vol. 1*. A standalone version with graphics followed in November 1988 for DOS and Amiga, and in 1990 for the Atari ST. The game was inspired by the 1974 sexploitation film *Flesh Gordon* and was poorly received by critics. It gained notoriety when a shipment of copies was seized and destroyed by British Customs in 1989.

The game is the first in the Brad Stallion series, which later included *Planet of Lust* (1989), *Bride of the Robot* (1990), and *Sex Olympics* (1991).

**Plot** The player controls Brad Stallion, a freelance government agent and captain of the phallic spaceship the Big Thruster. He is hired by the Federated Government to stop "The Tribe," a colony of cloned hypersexual amazon women who raid planets and castrate men using a sex-ray gun. Brad must travel to their home planet Mondo and destroy the weapon.

**Gameplay** The Commodore 64 version is a pure text adventure with no graphics or alternative controls. In the DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST ports, text commands remain the primary input method, but graphics are added and players can interact with objects and characters using the mouse in a point-and-click style. Movement is handled with arrow keys, and shortcut keys provide access to the inventory ('I'), location information ('L'), and game status ('S'). The Big Thruster's computer AI, Sandie, offers advice based on the player's location and situation.

**Development** The original Commodore 64 and Apple II release was part of *Sex And Violence Vol. 1*, which also included *Bite of the Sorority Vampires* and *Hatchet Honeymoon*. The compilation cost $29.95 USD in 1988. The Amiga version sold for around 85 Deutschmark in 1988 and $39.95 USD in 1989. Credits for the Commodore 64 and Apple II versions list Lance Strate, though it is unclear if this is a real person, as the other two games in the compilation credit "Dick Long" and "Peter Grow" respectively. Later ports had larger development teams. The game was published in Europe by ASoft. The Amiga and DOS versions support a second disk drive to run both game disks simultaneously, but the Atari ST version requires disk swapping.