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Video Games Used To Be Female-Friendly Until Nintendo Got Involved

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During the early years of the video game industry, video games used to be female-friendly. Women such as Atari’s Carol Shaw were a massive influence on the industry, making games that were gender neutral with female main characters that nobody questioned. However, when Nintendo began to get involved in the early 1980s, they decided that video games were more like toys rather than games.

Gender usually separates toys, so Nintendo decided to categorize video games as boys’ toys and marketed their systems towards boys specifically. It was this transition that established the idea that video games are for boys and gaming is a boys club.