CD-ROM REVIEWS

Busty Babes 1997

This CD has won the 1996 AMEE "Best Hardcore Picture CD"
award, and it deserves it. It has also been nominated for the 
13th annual AVN awards for 1996.

The models include top-notch adult talent such as Felecia
and Peter North. All the models, even the lesser-known ones, are
attractive, and the action is 100% explicit hardcore. On top
of that, the image quality is outstanding. The shots appear to
have been taken by a professional photographer during the 
filming of adult video features. 

There are 580 pictures in each of three formats/resolutions:
1024x768x24bit jpeg, 1024x768x8bit
gif, and 640x480x24bit jpeg. The jpegs, especially the
1024x768 versions, are of extremely high quality, and the
gifs are very smooth. 

For each format, the following directories are available 
(with the number of images in parenthesis):
1_on_1 (103), blowjob (90), cumshot (63), foreplay (24)
groupsex (97), lesbian (68), models (81), muffdive (48)
thumnail (25). 

The "thumnail" directory contains contact sheets of all
the pictures. There are bbs description files in each
directory. The "models" directory contains pictures of 
girls posing solo, the "lesbian" directory contians pictures
of girls having sex with each other, and the "groupsex"
directory contains mostly g-b-g threesomes, but also some
b-g-b and some foursomes. The rest of the directories have
pictures of one man and one woman having sex. 

In addition to the pictures, there are a dozen mpeg movies, 
which take up a total of 198 MB. I was surprised by how good
they are. They are 352x240 resolution, and they played smoothly
on my 133 MHz Pentium with software playback. An MPEG viewer is included
expires in 14 days tho. You need your won MPEG viewer.

All 12 of the movies were filmed in strip clubs. The first
and third show two girls getting it on up on stage and the
second one shows three girls. The last two of these three are
really explicit with lots of kissing, touching, and cunnilingus.
The first one is more of a tease, but it is well done and the
girls are extremely cute. The nine other videos are of solo
girls performing on stage. All the mpegs have appropriately
selected musical accompaniment. 

As I've said about all the other Busty Babes disks in my
possession, I wonder how this series got its name. The women
in the still photos are no bustier than your typical group of
porn actresses (not all of them have boob jobs), and most of
the girls in the videos have small, natural breasts. So, like
Busty Babes Volumes II, III, IV, before it, Busty Babes 1997 
is not a giant boob fetish CD. I think it is better this way.



Miss Nude World (softcore 506 images)

This CD has been nominated for 1996 awards by both AMEE
and AVN (adult video news).

The pictures on the CD are a collection of photographs taken
at the Miss Nude World competition. I don't know much about
this contest, but it appears to be the world championship of
professional strippers. 

The women are beautiful showgirls: long-legged, taut-bodied,
large-breasted (probably surgically enhanced), and tannned all
over. 

Each photo comes in 1024x768 jpeg and gif, and 640x480 jpeg.
There are many series on the disk.

The pictures are rated 'X', meaning there is full nudity, but
no sex. There are many full-on beaver shots. A couple of the
series show two girls performing together. They're more playful
than sexual, though. 

Most of the pictures are of the girls performing their acts 
up on stage. Some them show the girls offstage, e.g. posing
on a couch. Their acts are sometimes quite complicated, and 
lots of them involve whipped cream and fudge. One of the girls
drips hot wax from candles on herself. One of my favorite sets
is of a girl letting the guys in the audience eat ice cream 
off her pussy with spoons. Some of the girls contort themselves
into unusual positions. 

The photography is excellent, especially considering that most
of the pics are live action shots taken stage-side in a
nightclub. Only a few of them show the audience in the
background, so most of the time she's your private dancer.
The image quality of the jpegs is excellent. The gifs were
color-reduced pretty well. 

If you're a big fan of strip clubs (I know I am), you will
probably like this CD. It is like having a first class strip
show on your computer.



Busty Babes IV (WIN/MAC)

As with volumes II and III, the breasts are not generally 
huge, and I still wonder how this series got its name. Maybe
they are all really big on volume one, which I haven't seen. 

The GIF images are of very good quality for 8bit material. The
GIFs are either approximately 512x768 or 768x512 in size. The
PICTs are sized to fit on a 640x480 screen and were not color
reduced as well as the GIFs were. The .PICTS are for MAC users.

There are about 100 girl-girl shots on the disk, about 90 are
of girls by themselves, and the rest show one or more girls
having sex with one or more boys. The action is very intense and
involves both single and double penetration, tongues, mouths,
fingers, single and double dildos, vibrators, and even ballpoint
pens and bananas. 

This is a good CD.



BUSTY BABES III

As with its predecessor, the title is a misnomer. Do not expect
to see only women endowed with flesh zeppelins moored to their
chests. The breasts run the entire gamut in size Unlike its
predecessor, however, the photos on this CD are mostly of
hardcore XXX action. 

The talent includes well-known stars such as Megan Leigh and
Ron Jeremy. Since most of the photos appear to be of live
action being shot for video, they have an action look and not
a posed look. The female models are all attractive, and most are
beautiful. The male models, except for Ron "the hedgehog"
Jeremy (who, by the way, is my favorite male porn star) and a
 couple of the others, are good-looking as well. 

About 1/2 of the pictures are of one or more boys having sex
with one or more girls. About 1/4 of the pictures are of two or
three girls having sex. The girl-girl shots are some of the best
I've seen on CD. They show serious application of tongues, fingers,
vibrators, strap-ons, and single and double dildos. The rest are
of solo girls. 

The images come in three formats: 8bit PICT and GIF, and 24bit
JPEG. There are 791 PICTs, 613 GIFs, and 316 JPEGs. The GIF
and JPEG images are either 512x768 or 768x512. The PICTs are 
sized to fit on a 640x480 screen. The quality of the images, even the
8bit ones, is outstanding.

They are sorted into directories by subject-matter (e.g. "groupsex",
"lesbian", "oralsex", etc.). 

I would guess that there are about 900 unique photos on the disk.