3VR's licensing agreement with Japanese publisher Dic only allowed the game to use images from the 65-episode US television version of the cartoon - in which the vaguely sexy nature of the characters has been "toned down," says 3VR marketing manager Danielle Stein.Collect Higgledies to grow stronger! Though the cartoon had spawned a handful videogames by the height of its Japanese popularity in 19 - each game selling in the hundreds of thousands - 3VR had to develop its just-released Sailor Moon children's game from scratch. In fact, even the relatively innocuous and extremely popular Sailor Moon had some trouble becoming a US game. "The only market where that could start appearing is the PC." Despite that fact, however, Pixis is developing its own console-based space-sex adventure using the UltraVixen character. " anime as a rule is violent and sexual," explains GamePen editor Aaron Loeb. Though companies like Sega have highly successful adult titles in Japan, the games aren't released in the United States, where console games are considered a children's or family market. The game itself, however, is likely to remain in the download ghetto, with sales of perhaps a few of the limited-edition UltraVixen CD-ROMs. In a particularly American touch, Ariel will even become a digital centerfold in the December issue of Rage, Larry Flint's Gen-X porno magazine. True to the anime tradition of spreading a property over as many media as possible, Pixis also plans comic books and T-shirts. The game is available for download on the UltraVixen Web site, and it costs US$6.95 for an encryption key for seven days of play at each game level.
The goal is to use a variety of sex toys to induce Ariel to super-orgasms, which apparently have the power to time-warp her out of the various torture chambers - on space ships or in Nazi Germany - where she finds herself trapped. UltraVixen is basically Virtual Valerie refigured as an action-adventure game starring a doe-eyed "college student" named Ariel. "We wanted to make a splash," says Pixis' Robert Roy of the company's first foray into animated games.
And indeed that company, Pixis, has teamed with a Japanese gamemaker to produce UltraVixen, which it bills as the "world's first online 3-D anime sex game."
It would require some doing to take adult Japanese anime - a genre rife with schoolgirls, S/M, and robot sex - and "push the envelope of good taste." It would require, perhaps, the company behind such projects as the Virtual Vixens CD-ROM and Buttman's Ultimate Website.
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