You Are Not So Smart What’s it like to be a female gamer? Non-gamers, picture the biggest and most fun music festival you’ve ever attended. Imagine lots of noise and lots of energy. Now, imagine that at this fantastic festival — you’re in one of the most beloved bands. More often than not, that’s what competitive gaming feels like. It’s a diverse bunch. I would know: For the last ten years I’ve been playing Super Smash Brothers Melee — and for three of those years I played competitively in national tournaments. The Smash community is a dedicated bunch. It’s a diverse bunch, too. My competitive gaming career started at my family’s Chinese restaurant, Peking House. My competitive gaming career started at my family’s Chinese restaurant, Peking House, in Willimantic, Connecticut, where my little brother and I spent countless hours in the back playing games. It was around that time that I created my alter ego, Milktea. It was around that time that I created my alter ego, Milktea. Except: What’s missing from this picture? So I kept to myself.
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Historic Sites | Historic Holidays | Historvius Roberta Williams: The mother of computer video games Complaints are rife that the video game industry treats female employees and female players as outsiders or worse. But it wasn’t always that way. Laine Nooney, a doctoral candidate at Stony Brook University, has been looking at the contributions of Roberta Williams, who in the early 1980s co-founded one of the early video game companies, Sierra Online. “[Williams] was actually the designer of the first home computer adventure game with graphics,” says Nooney. The game was called Mystery House and was a murder mystery set in an abandoned Victorian house. As adventure games took off in the early ‘80s, Sierra Online became one of the largest independent producers of home software in the country. According to Nooney, at the time, developers and players did not see gaming as stictly a “guy’s thing.” “[Williams] had a passion project about encouraging families to play together,” says Nooney, who notes that Williams railed against the couch-potato stereotype of gamers.
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