Sex and nudity in video games to the eight-color palette of the NEC PC-8001 computer. It became a hit, helping Koei become a major software company. Also in 1982, the video game company Mystique released three unlicensed games for the Atari 2600; "Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em", "Custer's Revenge", and "Bachelor Party". The games were noted for their negative reception, particularly "Custer's Revenge" for its depiction of (what was perceived as) General Custer raping Native American women. Despite the increased sales (due to one of the first instances of video game controversy), Mystique went out of business after only releasing these three games. A company named
Ted Dabney studied trade drafting, which led to him getting a job with the California Department of Transportation while still a teenager. He eventually got his high school diploma from San Mateo High School; Dabney credited a math teacher named Walker there that got him interested in the electronics and computing areas. He then had a summer position with a local surveyor company, but when the work dried up by the winter, he was let go, and he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. Within his three years of the Corps he took courses on electronics, giving him an interest in