But with the release of games like Playboy: The Mansion, Leisure Suit Larry, and The Singles, sexual content has gained a firm foothold and for the first time, ventured into the mainstream.
Furthermore, when Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled, it created a power vacuum that was left largely unchecked, launching a civil war and allowing for al-Qaida – the group where ISIS has its genesis – to gain a foothold in Iraq for the first time.
Federer's serving is aggressive that it's impossible for Murray, who's such a good returner, to get a foothold in the first three points.
Aspas wanted to leave Depor with two feet in the second division; instead, he has left them a foothold in the first – a shaky one, but a foothold nonetheless – and left his own side tumbling head-first towards relegation.
The Blues struggled to get any kind of foothold in the first half with the dominant Chiefs pack dictating proceedings.
The Lib Dem decision was also a disappointment to the Conservatives who had been hoping to get a foothold on power at national level for the first time since John Major lost the 1997 election.
Watson, who won the US Open girls' title in 2009, finally grabbed a foothold in the match by breaking for the first time to make it 2-2 and got the crucial break at 4-3 before levelling at one set all.
The government would then, for the first time, lose its foothold on the Jaffna peninsula.
When Ahmadinejad became president in 2005, the radicals had aligned themselves with him and for the first time gained a substantial foothold in the government.
The Allies failed to reach their goals for the first day, but gained a tenuous foothold that they gradually expanded as they captured the port at Cherbourg on 26 June and the city of Caen on 21 July.
