Original Release: Merit, 1991, PC
The nekkid ladies of early 90s Penthouse are broken up into your choice of puzzle pieces
Penthouse: Electric Jigsaw (PC, Merit, 1991)
Where to Buy: eBay
How to Emulate: MS-DOS Emulation Guide
Review by: Master-B
Penthouse: Electric Jigsaw is kinda ingenious from a marketing perspective, it’s composed in at least a potentially modular way such that you could add the latest Penthouse Pets to it over time. The problem it runs into is that there just isn’t much to it, unless you REALLY love doing jigsaw puzzles for their own sake and somehow naked ladies will enhance the experience for you.
Fans more inclined to the jigsaw side of things would probably be more interested in Merit’s original Electric Jigsaw, which this is adapted from (and has no nookie). In terms of titillations, you’re shown the full picture for as long as you like before you go into the jigsaw puzzle, so it’s not like it’s a reward-based thing.
But, if you do like jigsaw puzzles, it at least offers you a good interface and a lot of options for divvying the pictures up into different numbers of pieces. You get a large playfield to mess around in, which scrolls smoothly while carrying a piece at the edge of the screen, and pieces click into place permanently with an audible cue when they find their proper homes.
The lady pics are also about as high-res as you were going to get for 1991, better than you would expect from the rather visually threadbare interface. But the game seems to have gone nowhere, not receiving any updates beyond the included package of 1990-1991 Pets.
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