12 Dirty Jokes Hidden In Your Favourite Video Games

7. Spartan Barrack, Forward March! - Alpha Centauri

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Sid Meier's classic, Alpha Centauri, was released in 1999 and was set in a futuristic universe that was essentially what would happen if your Civilization playthrough made it to space and lasted into the 23rd century. There aren't a whole lot of opportunities for a good sex jokes in 4X games without getting obscure, some might think - but Sid Meier's crew thought differently.

One of the facilities you can build on your space base is the Network Node - it improves lab efficiency and unlocks alien artifact research options. Some of the Spartan soldiers on your base also have something to say about the things in their barracks:

"I don't know what I've been told, Deidre's got a network node. Likes to press the on/off switch, dig that crazy Gaian witch!"

Spoken in full military cadence with a call-and-repeat response followed by a command to march.

Reminds me of when Matsuzaki Kennichi (of Macross and Gundam fame) helped write for an erotic visual novel that had a bunch of female space marines call out a cadence about how you had a 'nice body' the first time they see you.

I will not be taking questions on how I know this.

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