I found one rather friendly German Atari review, Amiga reviewers shrugged it off or ignored it, PC reviewers in general smashed it to pieces. This reaction has its main reason in the poor quality of the DOS port.
There was, of course, the inevitable problem with the graphics. Since Emmanuelle used 16-color Atari graphics on the Amiga too (this may have been one reason for the lukewarm reception by the Amiga community) the gap was not all that wide. Still the EGA palette makes all the people in the game look sickly (the screenshot is from the Atari/Amiga version). The conversion of Teenage Queen handles this problem far better.
But the main blunder lies elsewhere: Emmanuelle is a point-and-click game. Yet the PC port had no mouse support at all. Pushing the cursor around with the arrow keys pretty soon gets very, very boring. Which is the main reason I never played very far into the game. If you still want to try it, be warned that it will run far too fast on a modern computer. Better try to get the Amiga/Atari version and play it with an appropriate emulator.
Emmanuelle was mainly the brainchild of Muriel Tramis, who also authored Geisha and whose probably best known achievment is the Gobliins series.
![[Part of the Emmanuelle box]](http://www.lauppert.ws/images2/emmanuelle.jpg)
The game interface is very bad and so is the game play. Even though you have a cursor you will have to use the keyboard as there is no mouse support. Again I can only wonder why they made this. Oh well—the graphics aren't much better than the other things I have mentioned and only people with too much time or a lot of patience will be able to find any joy from this game.
The game is relatively easy (in Coktel's standard), and is probably one of the earliest "erotic" titles, although any erotic element in the game is reduced to abstract numbers and gauges and sexual innuendos in the (awfully translated) dialogues. The fact that the game has no mouse support makes for a frustrating experience, as there is a fair amount of hunt-the-pixel objects to find.
