Gaming is having a Nobel Prize in STEM moment here.
'PC Gamer' Celebrated 30 Years of Video Game History Without Naming a Single Woman
3 years ago by stopthatgirl7 to c/games
sugar_in_your_tea 0 points 3 years ago path: 0 5500367 5503420 5503702, hotness: undefined, score: 0, children: 0
JowlesMcGee 9 points 3 years ago
I thought Amy Hennig worked on Legacy of Kain, which did come out on PC.
rainynight65 8 points 3 years ago
Was going to say, the PC Gamer bit is bad enough, but how do you write a rebuttal without mentioning two of the arguably most accomplished influential women in gaming, namely Roberta Williams and Jane Jensen?
thesmokingman 6 points 3 years ago
I am fairly confident that Roberta Williams was mentioned in Stephen Levy’s seminal work Hackers. It’s been 5+ years since I read the 25th anniversary edition so I don’t want to say it was good or bad; it was enough coverage that I remember it and think it’s really weird that PC Gamer wouldn’t include her work.
Kyyrypyy 88 points 3 years ago
Considering that the term "computer engineering" was created by a woman, programming is based on maths solved by a woman, and the push for graphics in adventure games was started by a woman, I don't think PC Gamers list is worth even checking, as I know that many notable leaps in gaming I don't know about have since been pushed by women.
huginn 46 points 3 years ago
Not OP but I believe he's talking about Margaret Hamilton. She also wrote the descent module for the Apollo lander.
Potatos_are_not_friends 12 points 3 years ago
I kinda find PC Gamer to be irrelevant. Same as IGN and Kotaku.
Extremely hot take: I rather read through the uninformed shitty ai generated gamerant articles.
GeniusIsme 7 points 3 years ago
Ai generates texts with accordance to material it learned from. So it will be PC gamer, IGN and Kotaku combined.
sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 3 years ago
Eh, I kinda like IGN and occasionally PC Gamer. Yeah, they have some stupid takes, but in general I find something of value in most of their articles.
Pregnenolone 1 point 3 years ago
Gamers are the most oppressed minority, fuck everyone else.
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ChicoSuave 6 points 3 years ago
It has always been like that and if you didn't notice, that's on you for being unobservant.
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They are totally right, it's a shame that PC Gamer did not name a single woman.
One nitpick though: Two of the women named in the article, Rieko Kodama and Amy Hennig, did not create games for PC. Both were employed by console makers. Jen Zee being acknowledged is certainly deserved, but a there are many, many trailblazing women in PC gaming which should be highlighted: Roberta Williams (co-founder of Sierra Online), Brenda Romero (Wizardry series), Jade Raymond (Assassin's Creed producer) or Danielle Bunten Berry (M.U.L.E.), just to name a few.
Particularly the omission of Roberta Williams who has not only co-founded one of early gaming's most successful game dev studios and publishers, but also designed the long-running King's Quest series which transformed and defined the adventure game genre, is inexcusable. It does not get more influential in gaming than that.
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