Man Enough

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Man Enough
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Developer(s) Tsunami Media
Publisher(s) Tsunami Media
Platform(s) MS-DOS
Release1993 [1]
Genre(s) Dating sim
Mode(s) Single-player

Man Enough (also known as Man Enough: The Ultimate Social Adventure) [2] is a 1993 dating video game from Tsunami Media.

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Gameplay

Man Enough is a 1994 dating simulator and romantic adventure, featuring FMV and dialogue trees. The player begins as a lonely man handed a card to the dating agency by a friend named Nick. From there, the player makes seduction attempts with five women—Blair, Erin, Quinn, Fawn, and Kellie—each with their own quirks, turn-ons, and scripted rejection paths. Gameplay revolves around choosing dialogue options from conversation trees, where success involves using lines from the character bios in the game manual. Even with a success, the dates end in bizarre ways including: a helicopter interrupting a picnic, a paintball ambush, or a woman revealing she is a developer plant. Eventually, the player is invited to date Jeri, the agency's FMV hostess, who challenges the player to skydive solo as a final test. If the player survives and says the right lines, the player is rewarded with intimacy—only to discover it was all a month-long prank orchestrated by Nick and the women. The game ends with Jeri telling the player he is "Man Enough." [2]

Development

The game was developed by Tsunami Media, a company founded in 1991. [3]

Reception

Entertainment Weekly gave the game a D+ rating: "Man Enough doesn't have the courage of its own sleaziness, as the final encounters are all interrupted before anything happens. Expensive frustration, then-and God help the boob who tries these sub-Club Med lines out on human females". [5]

The game sold 30,000 copies. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Silverman, Dwight (January 2, 1994). "Dating software's politically incorrect". The Daily Advertiser . p. 41. Archived from the original on November 20, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 Cobbett, Richard (February 15, 2020). "Crapshoot: Man Enough, the unromantic romance game". PC Gamer . Archived from the original on October 7, 2014. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  3. ↑ Crumrine, Lisa (June 12, 1992). "Softwar's firm's products futuristic but easier to use". The Fresno Bee . p. 44. Archived from the original on June 21, 2025. Retrieved August 20, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Mann-oh-Mann". Aktueller Software Markt (in German). March 1994. p. 66. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  5. 1 2 Burr, Ty (October 14, 1994). "Singles Seen". Entertainment Weekly . Archived from the original on April 21, 2009. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  6. ↑ TJ Talasmaa (January 1994). "Man Enough – Puutostiloja". Pelit (in Finnish). Archived from the original on May 10, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Man enough". PC Player (in German). February 1994. p. 90,91. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
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