Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2 is an adventure game produced by Activision Publishing, Inc. And published by computer gaming industry veteran Infocom. It was originally released in 1992 and is a product of a bygone era as well as a bygone genre.
I first played it back in college, and it was quite fun, even if it is quite easy and in fact a tad on the short side. The premise of the game is that The Leather Goddesses of Phobos (yes the Martian moon) have come to your town to enslave the population to use as their own private sex servants.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2 is an adventure game produced by Activision Publishing, Inc. And published by computer gaming industry veteran Infocom. It was originally released in 1992 and is a product of a bygone era as well as a bygone genre.
I first played it back in college, and it was quite fun, even if it is quite easy and in fact a tad on the short side. The premise of the game is that The Leather Goddesses of Phobos (yes the Martian moon) have come to your town to enslave the population to use as their own private sex servants. You can choose from 3 characters: male, female and you need to help a poor alien that has
crashed in your community. It is then up to you to get your characters to save the day and at the same time get laid. You see when you see another person (usually of the opposite gender) it gives you a clever little screw icon that leads to, well, you know, the birds and the bees (complete with all sorts of phallic symbols and implied sexual imagery). All this is being done while setting the perfect 1950's B movie small town, xenophobic atmosphere.
The game is quite similar to almost all games of the adult themed adventure genre, which seems to have started by the timeless Sierra Games classic Leisure Suit Larry. The interface is point and click, and is completely mouse controlled. It is your typical adventure game from the early days of pc gaming with an atypical amount of sexual innuendo and double entendres (all of which are tastefully censored, unfortunately). Lots of scantily clad honeys, which only add to the already nicely done backgrounds and graphics (keep in mind this is an old game, and for it’s time it was quite advanced graphically). The sound leaves something to be desired, but in the immortal words of Meatloaf, two out of three isn’t bad.
I had fun with this game back then, and just reminiscing about it this review has made me want to play it again. On a scale from 1 to 10, I would give it a six. Just make sure granny and the little ones don’t catch you playing it, it just might take some serious explaining!
