Video Games and Gender.

My favorite video game growing up definitely had to be Killer Instinct. I remember going over my uncle's house, sitting in front of his television and playing it on the SNES for hours. I actually have a SNES emulator on my computer and play it occasionally when class gets boring or need a study break.

The best part of Killer Instinct was that you could pick your character's outfit color: green, blue, gray, pink, yellow, orange, white, or red. You could pick Cinder, a naked, flame male, and make him pink. Yup. You could pick Spinal the skeleton and make him red. How awesome.

However, the creators of Killer Instinct only included one female character in the game, Orchid. She was scantily clad and was thin with large breasts. As a little girl, I of course always picked Orchid and eventually mastered all her moves and when I got bored of her I masted Cinder, the naked flame man, and made him pink. At least I had some options.

Given the options, I'm sure I would've enjoyed playing other video games if they included female characters. The only other game I remember playing was Donkey Kong Country 2 which also had a female character. Other games such as Mario and Super Ghouls n' Ghost did not interest me as much and I grew bored and never mastered them. Perhaps having a gender option in video games would encourage females to play more.