Nintendo Hard a Turn-On? Hard Games Compared to a Certain Kind of Sex

It's possible that my first sexual relationship began just like yours. I met someone cute and we started talking on instant messenger, where we exchanged an embarrassing number of kissy face emoticons. We held hands at the high school football game, followed by a fumbling attempt at making out underneath the bleachers.

--Samantha Allen, writing in a guest editorial for the web publication Kotaku

This makes a strange sort of sense. I'm going to dive into this using one of my favorite genres as an example, fighting games. All games have the effect to some extent--I remember actually getting weak in the knees when I finally finished off Kefka in Final Fantasy VI, after so many attempts over the years ending with disastrous failures--but it's most immediate in a brawler.

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