Monday, November 16, 2009

Video Games and Women

It's a known fact that most video games are targeted at the male species, often depicting kick-ass muscle men characters, or big-breasted women with bad attitudes. It seems that for the longest time video game companies just couldn't get it right for women. Sure, women can enjoy the blow 'em all up, run-from-the-cops stuff, but sometimes those kinds of games just aren't satisfying.
Now we have the Nintendo Wii. I won't say that Nintendo was the first game company to realize the potential in women video-gamers, but I have to admit that I think they took a really good stand by releasing the cute games available for Gamecube and Gameboy. The Wii was the next big step, releasing fitness games, cute adventures, puzzle games, etc. It really gives women a chance to get into some video-gaming fun.

I love it.