Patrick Scott Patterson | Women Gamers, Girl Gamers & Grown-Up Gamers in 1990 @PatrickScottPatterson | Uploaded May 2014 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
A short clip of Nintendo's Howard Phillips from 1990 I am posting to prove a point.
As I talk about video games for a living across the country, I often find myself fighting about the media's present day belief that video games are a "kids toy" and "played by boys".
Not only do I find myself correcting them, but I often hear in response that adult video gamers and women video gamers are some kind of recent thing.
They're not. Here's an interview clip from the then-face of Nintendo during Nintendo's peak year with demographics that showed the fast rise of both adult and female demographics all the way back then.
A short clip of Nintendo's Howard Phillips from 1990 I am posting to prove a point.
As I talk about video games for a living across the country, I often find myself fighting about the media's present day belief that video games are a "kids toy" and "played by boys".
Not only do I find myself correcting them, but I often hear in response that adult video gamers and women video gamers are some kind of recent thing.
They're not. Here's an interview clip from the then-face of Nintendo during Nintendo's peak year with demographics that showed the fast rise of both adult and female demographics all the way back then.
