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Who was your first childhood videogame crush?

Pictured: Rikku from Final Fantasy X

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Nuff said
- Those are some perky triangles
  
  Those triangles probably save quite a few fps.
  
  I always appreciate the girls who go to conventions cosplaying as PS1 era Lara. It's not a difficult costume to source, you need a pale blue tank top, brown shorts, brown boots, fingerless gloves, a little backpack, the pistol belt with the huge square buckle, and half a shoebox.
  
  Those perky polygons gonna prep you pecker
- She wears it way better than Tesla.

The silhouette was quite a bit for a 14 year old.
- Woah. The art is gorgeous. What's the game?
  
  Defender of the Crown (1986)
  
  This was my favourite game as a kid.
  I was full on obsessed (with the gameplay!)
  I re-visit it once in a while and always have a good time.

Im dating myself, but Jill of the Jungle. All 12 pixels of her!
- I remember being titilated by that pixelated babe as a young-un!

- You cropped out her best feature!
  
  Yeah she’s thicc, but she shows it off with how powerful her legs are, so it actually fits her in more than just a sexual manner. The fact she could crush a watermelon with her thighs is just a perk.
- Surprised there isn’t more Chun Li here
- I scrolled knowing chun li would pop up somewhere.
- Yeah, but Third Strike has the best version of her character design IMO.

- Kerrigan X Duke

- There was a PS1 Fighting game where you, in the menu, could turn "boob movement" on and off to a very little change ingame.
  Which one is this?
  
  Dead or Alive

Don’t quite remember if it was high school or college for me….
- Honestly, neither does Quistis
- Dawwww my first video game love was Zell Dincht! I thought his face tat was SO fucking hot.
  My husband and I got married on Halloween and we were Rinoa and Squall for the reception.
  I fuckin' love me some FF8.
- i will forever be a trepie <3

Princess Daphne from Dragon's Lair. I'm so very old.
- Damn she can get it tho
- This screenshot just clawed a memory from the depths of my brain. I don’t even remember playing this game as a kid, but I vividly remember this character and art style.
  
  It was made by Don Bluth. You might have seen his other game Space Ace, and you've definitely seen some of his movies, like An American Tale (Fievel), All Dogs Go To Heaven, Secret of NIMH, or Rock-a-doodle.

- Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards.
  It's someone named "Eve"
  You're welcome 😁
  http://larrylaffer.net/ladies/lsl1ega/eve-ega
  
  Thanks! A decades old mistery is finally solved 😄
- "Ken sent me"

- Leave him alone, he's in the middle of some calibrations

It was Led from Septerra Core.
- Holy crap I thought I was the only one that played that game.
  
  It's on Steam if you want to relive the experience.
  Last time it was mentioned here on Lemmy I was surprised how many other people also thought they were the only one who played it.
- That game is a hidden gem. So many dope story beats.

I've got to go with Sophia Hapgood.
- That's probably about right, game came out in 92

Battletoads The Dark Queen

Would 1,000 percent accept being stepped on

For me, maybe Razor from Maniac Mansion, even though I never made it more than ~30 mins into that game. My kid brain didn't understand the funny tingly feeling but years later I realized, "oh duh, hot punk babe".

There was also Princess What's-Her-Name, though she wasn't much of a character.

In terms of characters with actual detailed personality, the first big one was probably Rinoa from FF VIII. I was the same age as her when I played it.
- My hunch is you have a thing for redheads.
  
  And latex/spandex. Now that you mention it, this might've been the start of both lol
- rinoa was my absolute favourite ff character ever and the first ff character i ever cosplayed <3
  
  I thought I saw elsewhere in the thread that you're also on Team Quistis. She's great too 😄

I was convinced, until the end of the game, there had to be some way to bring her back.
- There was actually a method discovered relatively recently, which allows you to skip her death sequence entirely. Or rather, you force the death sequence to happen out of order, so she isn’t actually removed from your party when she should be. It’s obviously not intended, but it is possible to keep her alive. She doesn’t have any dialogue or cutscenes for the rest of the game, but it’s interesting that it’s possible.
- There was. >!GameShark!<

I'm a little embarased to say--I mean I was a preteen boy at the time--but I spent way too many hours fantasizing and lusting over the picture of the Rogue class in the Diablo 1 manual.

Those pixelated succubus titties in the Hell stages were really something too. Kids today just don't know how desperate we were for even a hint of nudity.
See also, the other love of my young life, Samus Aran.
- I recently did a single player story playthrough of the four numbered Diablo games, and I noticed that the succubi alternate between naked and clothed in each game.
  Naked
  Clothed
  Naked
  Clothed
  So my prediction is that they will be naked again in D5, whenever that comes out.
- JUSTIN BAILEY
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Lucca, from the 1995 SNES JRPG, Chrono Trigger.
- Same. Lucca was every nerdy boy’s dream in the 90s.
  
  Nah. I was squarely in that audience but my heart went more toward princess Marle and weirdly attractive blonde cavewoman Ayla. Luca was a cool pal though. And you can't deny those crits.
- Was she drawn by Akira Toryiama ?
  
  Yes, the game's art was done by Akira Toriyama.

- Golden Axe was how I learned at the age of six that I was attracted to women. Used to squint at the CRT a lot to get a better view of that low res ass in that red and silver thong.

yeh, I'd hit that

This lady right here.
- She was my second crush! I recently discovered that there are Bloodrayne Movies; i did not check imdb yet how trash they are lol
  
  Yeah, they are bad 😅

Rikku taking off her outer bodysuit was probably a sexual awakening for a lot of young teenagers.
- My partner always credits this scene for making her realize she is bisexual.
- I had a save before the fmv and cried when I forgot and saved over it

- Viconia (and to a lesser extent Jaheira) is the reason I always go for the snarky, jaded and cynical character whenever it's an option. She's the "I can fix her" meme except you actually can and it's amazing.
- Innate spell resistance is hot.
  Still mad about ::: spoiler spoiler Her appearance in bg3. I fixed her! She wasn't evil anymore in my game! :::
  
  Yeah I was pretty upset about Larian for that one. One of the best and most nuanced characters in BG2 reduced to a brainless cartoon caricature. Same goes for
- Viconia! Definitely my archetype. Strong and evil, but somehow vulnerable as well.

^ < > ^ < > 🍼

Like, I kinda get it based on her in game model, but not from that rendition.

I think my first was probably Elaine Marley from The Secret of Monkey Island. I wasn't used to seeing strong independent women in video games.
- Hell yeah!
  TBH, Guybrush was kinda cute too, if you like complete fucking dorks.

Let's just say, I wanted to get "eaten" by a grue

Shana, the legend of dragoon.
- Really? Rose was definitely mine. Mysterious elf girl come to save the day.
  Though maybe I was just into older women. She was >!11,000!< years old ...lol
  
  Agreed I love Rose too.
- My brother in Christ, that was a box in my memories I didn't realize I needed to open
  
  You are free to sever the chains of fate that bind you.

Yes please suck the life out of me.

Chun-li
- 🦵🦵

Posts you can pinpoint the average Lemmy users age with
- Mine was Rydia (adult!) from FFIV, which came out when I was 15, so...checks out.

Street Racing Syndicate

- More games for the backlog ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira:_Mistress_of_the_Dark_(video_game)

Jun'ko Zane
- Oh my god, fam! That's such a deep cut! Love that game!! <3
  
  <3 Have you heard that GOG is planing a remaster of that game? I don't have any clue when it will be available though.

Lt. Eva Lee from Red Alert 2. Yeah Tanya was hot too, but something about how Eva talked just made me swoon lol.

I scrolled pretty far and didn't see a single mention of Marle from Chrono Trigger (or I'm blind). Needles to say, she was mine. I've always had a thing for redheads 😊
- I always thought she was blonde.
  
  It's close, but the hue is just red enough for my book. I won't argue with anyone calling it blonde though. The official box art (both JP and NTSC) shows her slightly more orange than the sprite too.
- When I was playing chrono trigger the first time, I associated all the characters with friends. About 15 years later I married the woman I associated with Marle/Nadia, so I think my subconscious was telling me something.

Babette from Cosmic Fantasy 2.
Cosmic Fantasy 2 is the only game in the Cosmic Fantasy series that ever saw a North America release. It was released on the Turbografx 16 CD, which is the game system my mom bought me when she bought my older brother and younger sister of Super NES and a Sega Genesis.
She figured buying each of us a different game system would mean that we would share and collaborate, but nobody wanted to play my role-playing game, and they didn't want to let me play Sonic or Mario, so I sat down and played Cosmic Fantasy II from beginning to end.
It was the first role-playing game I ever beat, it was the first role-playing game I had ever seen with full-motion video, it was a really good story, and yeah, the introduction of Babette was a full-motion anime video of her taking a shower in a space ship, which was fantastic to preteen me.

::: NSFW Tap for pic
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Sorry! Tried to mark it NSFW, but the format wouldn't take.
- Holy shit! My boss just walked up to me and saw my screen.
  He then started furiously masturbating.
  Are you my boss?
- The word "spoiler" after the first ":::" is mandatory.

wow. I would likely have listed her at the bottom of the playable characters. I mean I definitely have lulu at the top followed by yuna.
- FF10 is like a personality test for sexuality:
  Lulu - goth dommy mommy
  Yuna - good conservative religious girls
  Rikku - young and playful girls
  Tidus - fuckboys
  Wakka - athletic twinks
  Auron - yes daddy
  Kimahri - 😻
  
  And the answer to that test is "all of the above"
  
  seymour - yes i have daddy issues sue me
  seymour flux - i can fix him
  
  maybe but I can explain why lulu is top in one word. cleavage!
  
  Ifrit - You have at least two Bad Dragons on display in your living room
  Shiva - You want to be stepped on
  Seymour - You made your therapist cry, and took it as a win
  Dona - You’re constantly chasing women who want nothing to do with you
  Barthello - You want a dude who can bench press you
  Isaaru - Quiet bookish guys
  Cid - You like watching your partner work on their car a little too much

First was probably Marie:

- She was your first? God damn I’m getting old…
  But also yeah, valid. The devs knew exactly what they were doing when they gave the main companion a traumatic past and daddy issues.
  
  Don't forget the boob window.

I don’t know about first, but she was one of the first I can remember

Kairi from Kingdom Hearts! She had a massive glow up between KH1 and KH2.

I remember when I played ff10 thinking "Rikku is kind of hot", and then reading she's 15 in the fiction. 17 in the sequel where she's even more naked. Nope. Why? Unnecessary. Just make her an adult!
At least ff7 Tifa is 20, which is still a little young. I didn't have a big crush on her, but I did think her suplexing building sized monsters was hot.
- I guess when you’re a kid yourself you don’t realise it’s a lot more creepy when the writers, animators etc. are 20s, 30s, 40s…
- She's also not real