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magazine published advertisements for Hacker's games, it felt its relationship with Nintendo—which it relied on for preview materials—was so threatened that five of Tokuma's top executives travelled to Nintendo to apologise to Yamauchi in person. However, NEC was more tolerant of Hacker's PC Engine
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The Hacker name was first used by Satoru Hagiwara, an entrepreneur and former music producer, for a monthly PC magazine. Hacker International was founded by Hagiwara as an outlet for its writers' ideas; its first product was the Hacker Junior, an upgrade for Famicom systems that provided composite
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video output and turbo controllers, for which they were sued by Nintendo and eventually settled out of court. The company was also known for the Disk Hacker software which allowed users to copy
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disks using only an ordinary Disk System (as opposed to the official method of using Nintendo's authorised Disk Writer units, which were placed only in game stores and charged 500
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to copy a selected game to a customer's disk). Several versions were released to combat successive anti-piracy measures introduced by Nintendo.
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with pornography intact (albeit sometimes modified to "Westernise" the girls' features) by another Taiwanese company, Panesian.
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personally opposed pornographic content in Famicom games, believing they would tarnish Nintendo's reputation. When
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companies and were released in non-pornographic form elsewhere in the world; however, three were released in the
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None of Hacker's games, with the exception of their 15 PlayStation titles, were licensed by the respective
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Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children
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brand) and actually thanked Hacker for helping console sales. Hacker became a licensee for the
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and sold approximately 30,000 to 50,000 copies each. Many of their games were developed by
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Hacker's relationship to other Japanese adult console game producers of the era, such as
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as a reward for skilful playing. These games were usually distributed through
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company that developed and published games from 1990 to 2001 for the
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Index

Panesian
video game
Nintendo
Famicom
Famicom Disk System
NEC
PC Engine
PC Engine CD
Sony
PlayStation
consoles
porn
Hot Slots
Magic Bubble
nudity
mail order
Taiwanese
United States
Nintendo Entertainment System

Famicom Disk System
yen
console manufacturers
Hiroshi Yamauchi
Tokuma Shoten
PlayStation
Peek-A-Boo Poker
C&E
American Video Entertainment
Thin Chen Enterprise

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