“Please enjoy the dangerous desires that lurk in your heart to the fullest in the game world. Never bring these acts into the real world.”
A quarter-century before Illusion became the target of international outrage and censorship, a lesser known computer game had its own share of controversy. Yet nobody in the West ever talks about 177.
This is an attempt to bring Western audiences up to speed on dB-SOFT’s most noteworthy eroge. This video provides context for its development and place in Japanese culture more broadly.
Warning – This video contains Adult Content, 18+ Only!
YouTube link (more heavily censored)
Internet Archive link (less censored original)
Chapters:
0:00 | Content Warning
0:21 | Introduction
1:17 | Rife
4:42 | An Overview of 177 by Macadamia Soft
10:12 | The ‘Story’ of 177
13:08 | The (Hi)Story of Macadamia Soft
19:10 | The 177 Controversy
23:48 | Commodified Sex & Rape [Culture]
32:07 | The (In)Visibility of Rape in Japan
37:12 | Make it make sense, make it add up
39:54 | Credits
Sources: https://rentry.co/177Sources
