Erotic games made the PC-8801 popular, but customers quickly tired of paying 8800 yen ($85) for such simple games. In some of the early erotic games, the erotic content is meaningfully integrated into a thoughtful and mature storyline, though others often used it as a flimsy excuse for pornography. Early eroge usually had simple stories, some even involving rape, which often led to widespread condemnation from the Japanese media.
Other now-famous Japanese companies such as Enix, Square and Nihon Falcom also released erotic adult games for the PC-8801 computer in the early 1980s before they became mainstream. It became a hit, helping Koei become a major software company. That same year, Koei released another erotic title, Danchi Tsuma no Yuwaku ( Seduction of the Condominium Wife), which was an early role-playing adventure game with colour graphics, owing to the eight-color palette of the NEC PC-8001 computer. It was an early graphic adventure, with sexually explicit images. The first commercial erotic computer game, Night Life, was released by Koei in 1982. NEC was behind its competitors in terms of hardware (with only 16 colors and no sound support) and needed a way to regain control of the market. Competing systems included the Sharp X1, Fujitsu FM-7, MSX, and NEC PC-8801. Japanese eroge, also known as H-games or hentai games, have their origins in the early 1980s, when Japanese companies introduced their own brands of microcomputer to compete with those of the United States.
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