In 1981, a programmer named Chuck Benton was interested in doing database programming on the Apple ][, but he wasn't sure if the tiny machine was up to it. As atest casehe knocked out a little text-only adventure game. It worked pretty well. People who played the game liked it. So he called up the then largest publisher of Apple games to see if they were interested. They were.—Al Lowe, What is Softporn?
According to Ken Williams, the Softporn Adventure sold 20000 copies at a time when Apple had sold 100000 Apple ][ computers. It would later form the basis of the Leisuresuit Larry series; the first Larry game was little more but a graphic version of Softporn.—BTW the woman to the right is Roberta Williams.
