late 80's video game hotties?

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I have been listening to the Retro Gaming Roundup podcasts and loving them and they did a top ten gaming hotties list a few months ago. It got me thinking about the earliest "sexed up" video game characters, meaning not just being a female (for example Samus Aran) but actually being a sexy graphic avatar onscreen.
I believe Ms Pac-man was the first female video game characfter you play as (am I wrong?) but, no disrespect to her ravashing roundness, I wouldn't describe her as sexy. I seems like the late 80's are when video game characters actually started to look kinda hot, am I right?
The female character in Golden Axe comes to mind as the first lady in a sexy outfit. Maybe Valkyrie from Gauntlet but only in the title page, in the game she's just a bobble-headed avatar seen from above.
Or perhaps Storm from the X-Men coin op? Would she be the first?

Were there any other sexy looking female characters from that era of gaming? I am thinking before the 90's because definitely that's when the graphics got good enough to make female characters look alluring (so that disqualifies X-Men's Storm)
 
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These are all good suggestions but other than the girl from the title page of Arch Rivals, I have no idea what any of these characters look like. Got any screenshots? (I hate to admit I've never played any of these games)
 
1989...Super Monaco GP has a Hot Blond on the cover screen...dont forget about the flag girl on Pole Position
 
Actually, in my opinion Poison is the first video game hottie (I really don't think the Golden Axe girl is all that sexy, too pixelated) but I wanted to see if there were other examples before I make that claim. I know she's an opponent in the game, you don't actually get to play as Poison in Final Fight, but there's no denying her charms. The Smash TV girls are a pretty close second, but, as with a lot of these other examples, they just appear in a single screen image, they are not moving characters on screen.

And before the whole transvestite argument rears its head again, Poison is coming for Street Fighter X Tekken and the articles all state Poison is a SHE in every reference.
 
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There was the kidnapped girl in Double Dragon that got punched and thrown over the big dude's shoulder. First example of showing a little bit of panties in a mainstream game that I can remember. Scandalous.
 
Not late 80s but Taki from the first Soul Calibur game was pretty smokin. Plus you could totally see through her clothes.
 
And before the whole transvestite argument rears its head again, Poison is coming for Street Fighter X Tekken and the articles all state Poison is a SHE in every reference.
Yes, post-op. It doesn't really matter, but officially Poison is transsexual in Japan and a post-op woman in U.S. It's all pixels anyhow (and at that size only about 2 or 3) :D
 
What about Chun-Li from Street Fighter? Sexy and able to kick your ass....

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Had a gf that used to play street fighter and always used chin li. I found them both sexy. For some odd reason though when i was dating her was during a period of my life when I had lost intrest in video games. That was a very dark year of my life.

There were also the hotties from ivan stewarts super off road.
 
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