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Voyeur and Voyeur II were full motion video DOS and Macintosh computer games released in 1994 and 1996 respectively. The first game was also released for the short lived Philips CD-i video game console.

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Voyeur

In the first game you are a private investigator hired by a member of the wealthy Hawke family in order to gain enough evidence to bring down the corrupt Reed Hawke who is the CEO of Hawke Industries and has gathered the Hawke family together for the weekend to prepare for his announcement that he will be running for President of the United States. You control various hidden cameras located through the Hawke family home in an effort to gather enough evidence to destroy Reed Hawke's career.

The format of the game was similar to that of the Digital Pictures full motion video games such as Night Trap
and Double Switch, with two important differences. The first major difference was that Voyeur's full motion video included female nudity and simulated sex scenes giving the game a warning label on its box about its "mature subject matter." This is in contrast to full motion video games such as Night Trap
where everything was kept within the equivalent of a PG-13 rating.

The second major difference was that the playable character's client was different every game and thus the storyline would change slighty. While Night Trap
and Double Switch
did have multiple endings, most of them if you failed, the storyline did not change.

Controversy

Voyeur was released when the American video game industry was under an investigation by the United States Congress for the level of violence and sexually suggestive themes in video games. The result of these investigations was the creation of the independent Entertainment Software Ratings Board to rate all video and computer games sold in the United States of America.

The irony was that Voyeur was ignored by media critics and politicans in favor of the inoffensive Night Trap
.

Voyeur II

In 1996 Philips Interactive Media released a sequel to Voyeur. This time hidden cameras were placed on an isolated mountain cabin where various people have gathered for the reading of a will that is expected to give Dr. Elizabeth Duran control of a lucrative research institute. All of the cabin guests want control of the institute and your goal was to watch the cameras in order to find out which one is a murderer before he or she kills Dr. Duran.

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