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Or, more properly, MISS PEACH WORLD 1: SUPER L.A. COP. Be warned, this video is a bit on the NSFW side.

I don't normally delve into non-work-safe material unless it's germane to understanding the heritage or evolution of a totally benign-looking title (.e.g. Qix or Match-mania), but this was by request. So I apologize if you find tiny pixel nipples offended... but I assume we're all grown-ups here.

Anyway, as 8-bit smut goes, this is definitely the most interesting bit of filth to put under the retrospective lens. There were a fair number of softcore Famicom/NES games back in the day, but none with quite so remarkable a backstory as Miss Peach World.

Thanks to the patron who originally made this request — apologies that I didn't write down your name and can't seem to find the original message thread in which you requested a "controversial" topic! — and to Steve Lin/The Video Game History Foundation for lending me a physical copy of Miss Peach World. Surprisingly, no one has ever dumped the ROM to post online! Though I suspect that won't be the case for too much longer....

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Miss Peach World (NSFW) retrospective: American trash becomes Japanese filth | NES Works Gaiden #07

By Patron request, here's a "controversial game": An unlicensed and slightly smutty American game that became straight-up porn when Japanese publisher Hacker International got ahold of it. And to further tempt the fates, they sold it with packaging that made it look like a Mario game starring Princess Peach. Some men want to watch the world burn; myself, I'd settle for burning this janky excuse for an NES game. Special thanks as well to Steve Lin and the Video Game History Foundation for lending me access to this rare game in order to create this project video!

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Hardcore Gaming 101

We've been working on a complete guide to the Famicom Disk System, which necessitated playing all of those Hacker/etc. unlicensed games. Frank's assessment is fairly accurate.

Jeremy Parish

I was thinking about putting together a comprehensive piece on Hacker, but that revelation encouraged me to focus elsewhere.