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
Early history of video games directly displayed via modification of a video signal; it was also the first video gaming device to be displayed in a television commercial. It sold for US$100 and shipped with several games, including "Table tennis", which Bushnell had seen a demo of and which "Pong" had been based on. The Odyssey sold over 100,000 units in 1972, and more than 350,000 by the end of 1975, buoyed by the popularity of the table tennis game, in turn driven by the success of "Pong". "Pong" and the Odyssey kicked off a new era of video gaming, with numerous other competitors starting