"Virtual Vixens" was the first (that I completed) of a wave of adult interactive CD-ROM games. What made these possible is the use of QuickTime movies which can be stopped at will or cued to different points as needed. Unfortunately, the performance even on a "recommended" system was often poor. Here are some specific complaints. First, the "README" file is poorly written, and has been seen on other disks too, sometimes in worse condition than here. The advice it gives about trying to remedy problems or improve performance is vague and cryptic. The list of tested hardware devices isn't really necessary if the Windows conventions were adhered to, so why bother? Second, the start of either the game, on-line manual, or movie test are all visually confusing and distracting. You'd think they would have found some way to keep the screen from going to black and white, or just black, for such a long time before something else appears on the screen. Third, the choice to use either "normal" or "double" mode appears to affect only the introduction video. By the way, this video is probably the best portion of the whole disk! Anyway, the limitation of using only 256 colors and 640*480 is a bit annoying too, especially since Windows 3.1 supplies no simple way of changing video settings. Fourth, the display and cueing mechanism for "walking around" appears to have some serious problems. There are long delays between doing simple actions like turning from side to side. They point to either a slow "fast-forward" for a single "walking around" movie, or an extremely slow method of locating the proper clip to play. Considering that there are only 10 unique sequences to show (go down elevator and walk down ramp, walk left, walk right, turn left past center, turn right past center, turn left to corridor, turn right to corridor, walk down corridor, turn around and walk up corridor, open door) during movement in this game, this is terrible work. Fifth, the audio during many of the sex sequences is either missing or has noticeable extraneous dialogue or noises. Apparently the sound editing wasn't very good. Because there are portions where there is no sound at all, maybe what was cut out was even worse. Sixth, the video editing was pretty bad too. The "dissolve in" doesn't quite work when large areas of skin tones are used; some large black areas persist for quite a while. At the very beginning of the "Eve" sequence, there is a large black area in the upper left area of the screen that lasts for quite a few frames. There are also several times during sex sequences where there were obvious mistakes during the filming, such as "penis slips out, apologies all around", "action stops completely for several seconds, hands wave in and out of camera range, action stays stopped, then action resumes". Seventh, the mechanism for cueing selected portions of the sex movies had a few bugs. For instance, choosing "Penis (either) Chest" on 3 of the 4 women would cause the "Hands Feel Chest" sequence to play, but with a penalty to the player. For "Katrina", choosing "(any) (any) Rear" before the chest clothing was removed would show a "sorry" clip with her chest bare. There were also many times when clicking on an area to start a sequence would cause either a white screen to appear, or several frames of other sequences followed by a black screen and then MAYBE the selected sequence would start. Trying again sometimes made things work, but often several tries were needed. Eighth, the graphic method of choosing sex actions and displaying sexual arousal was interesting, but had some problems. The male meter would sometimes go blank in the middle of a sequence, although this may have been due to me clicking on other icons to set up an "abort". The female meter would sometimes go all the way to the top without giving an increase in arousal for several more seconds, while other times the meter didn't even reach the top before the increase was given. Only some of the actions chosen were legal; there was no reason to let the player try to do anything to the back of the head or the back of the chest if these actions were never allowed. There were sometimes delays after pressing buttons, particularly "rotate", which couldn't be explained away by showing clips on the screen, since nothing was supposed to happen then. Ninth, successful game play (at least for me) demanded that the player ignore a piece of advice in the on-line manual. To complete this game, the player MUST abort ALL of the "penis" sex sequences before they reach their end (or "point of no return"). Without that, following all the other advice in the manual was useless. This should NEVER happen to a player; the manual is often the only source of trustworthy information about how to play a game, and if it is fatally wrong or incomplete the game may be unplayable. The following is a copy of what used to be on the Pixis web site as tips for playing "Virtual Vixens". GIRL: Eve Hand Open + Face Hand Closed + Breast Hand Open + Butt Hand Open + Crotch P-Tool Up + Mouth P-Tool Out + Butt GIRL: Katrina Hand Open + Face Hand Open + Breast Hand Closed + Breast Hand Open + Breast Hand Closed + Crotch Hand Open + Crotch Hand Open + Butt P-Tool Up + Face P-Tool Out + Crotch GIRL: Arial Hand Open + Face Hand Open + Breast Hand Closed + Breast Hand Open + Breast Hand Closed + Crotch Hand Open + Butt P-Tool Out + Butt P-Tool Up + Face GIRL: Crystal Hand Open + Face Hand Open + Breast Hand Closed + Breast Hand Open + Breast Hand Closed + Crotch Hand Open + Crotch Hand Open + Butt P-Tool Up + Face P-Tool Up + Crotch Without a copy of the game to verify this, I can't be sure. But if it's anything like "Space Sirens", you should be able to play the movie files with a Windows Media Player that has QuickTime for Windows drivers, or by using the QuickTime Movie Player. Anything after QuickTime 2.0 should work. Sorry, I gave my copy away before I thought of putting this info up on a website. V2_TFUI.MOV on the Space Sirens disc reveals that the real names of the girls in VV are Katrina, Aria, Crystal and Yve (not Eve). Overall this game was a disappointment. The first and last girls were the only ones given any lines describing the plot. Two of the girls didn't mention their names, and the third didn't say that you could proceed to the end of the game now. And after successfully completing the fourth girl, you get the impression that more can now be done, just before the end credits screen is shown! Also, the second girl (Katrina) must have had massive breast implants, because her chest appeared to have two balloons stuck to it; the others were at least believable but not too pretty. The production values on the sex sequences lead me to believe that this could easily have been shot by a one-man crew, plus the male lead and four females, in a single day directly onto videotape. The lousy audio and video editing (although I'm sure at least a little was done) leads me to believe that there were no re-takes of the sex sequences. All in all, this game was worth less than 2 hours of my time, and a lot of it was wasted by delays and interface problems. Definitely not worth a second look. Pete Karsanow - bishoujo.helper[AT}sbcglobal{DOT)net http://www.geocities.com/hentaihelper/