--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: By looking at video games, you only get to know video game manufacturers's ideas of male fantasies: "According to NPD Group, a market research firm based in New York, some 81 percent of video game players are male"; and "Informal estimates put the proportion of women in the [video game manufacturing] industry at around 10 percent, and most of them tend to be in customer service, marketing or quality assurance. Relatively few women work as game designers and producers, and even fewer are programmers" (Katie Hafner/The New York Times, "How Women Enter World of Video Games," October 15, 2004, <http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/10/14/business/games.html>). -- Yoshie ---
Don't the Japanese have a sizeable number of video games targeting teenage girls?
Somebody should do a comparative study of video games across cultures. As far as I can tell from my limited experience, Russian computer games tend to revolve around battles between Napoleonic troops and Cossacks and WWII, using the German words every Russian child knows: "Haende hoch!" and "Hitler kaput!" :) There's also a Ukrainian shooter based on a Soviet sci-fi thriller, but updated to be set in post-meltdown Chernobyl. Lots of mutants.
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