''Bachelor Party'' (aka ''Mystique Presents Swedish Erotica:'' ''Bachelor Party'') is a pornographic video game for the

Atari 2600 The Atari 2600, initially branded as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS) from its release until November 1982, is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977, it popularized microprocessor- ...

American Multiple Industries American Multiple Industries was a company that produced a line of pornographic video games for the Atari 2600 called ''Mystique Presents Swedish Erotica'', which included the games ''Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em'', ''Bachelor Party'' and ''Custer's Reveng ...

in 1982.

Gameplay

The game is a simplified version of '' Breakout'' where the "ball" is made to look like a nude man and the "bricks" are made to look like nude women and the man bounces back and forth horizontally rather than vertically. On the left, he is repelled by a woman with whom he collides and subsequently eliminates from play, or by the opposing wall. On the right, a paddle (said to be a container of aphrodisiac "

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" in the manual) returns the depleted bachelor to the room full of women. The paddle is controlled by the player using a

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. The premise is that of an unnamed bachelor having his final fling with a room full of inexplicably nude women. The equally unclothed bachelor is propelled repeatedly into the room of women by a container of "Spanish Fly" used as the player's paddle. When entering the fray, the bachelor's exaggerated and

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penis is seen to be erect. When he returns from having collided with (and presumably had sexual intercourse with) a woman or after hitting the opposing wall, his penis sags. It returns to erect when the bachelor is successfully set moving again toward the left. A second version of the game, titled ''Bachelorette Party'', also exists. It has no difference in gameplay, but has the game sprites reversed: The player uses the paddle to bounce a naked woman toward naked men.

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