One Girl's Ancient Struggle Against Bad Games

re: One Girl's Ancient Struggle Against Bad Games

John H. — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:11:30 GMT

What you're referring to is the unfortunate intersection of:

1. the suckiness of 95% of licensed games

2. the parents' profound ignorance of those games

3. parental confusion as to what girls "want" in games

Points 1 and 2, mind you, stung boys pretty often too. There was an astonishing number of awful NES games, many of them made by American companies that should have known better. Japanese Famicom developers treated the game consoles as a first-class platform; American ones almost universally as an avenue for cash-in ports and licenses.

This attitude was, and continues to be, responsible for the current Japanese reputation for being the video game world leaders.

re: One Girl's Ancient Struggle Against Bad Games

Jen Ho — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:50:10 GMT

"My circle of friends was primarily made up of females in spite of my tomboyish ways, and I was invited to my fair share of girl-populated birthday parties. Most of these party houses had an NES, [...] the system never went ignored."

Yeah, that was my childhood too. It's kind of why I roll my eyes whenever guys tell me they're so surprised to find a girl who plays games. We did, and do. I'm glad that mentality is sort of going away!

re: One Girl's Ancient Struggle Against Bad Games

Nadia Oxford — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:15:21 GMT

Sarcasm. Obviously not true. ;)

re: One Girl's Ancient Struggle Against Bad Games

AbsolutelyNot — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:38:27 GMT

"Bonus admiration is issued if they do it with only half their clothes on,..."

What.