What Happened to Purple Moon Games for Girls?
Editor’s note: We updated one line to add context about a character in one of the Purple Moon games, which may affect how the character is understood.
Thirty years ago, video games were predominantly marketed to boys. Nintendo and Sega ran TV ads featuring boys proclaiming how “awesome” and “powerful” the latest system was. And the biggest computer games tended to revolve around male-coded activities like shooting or combat. But in the late ‘90s, a small indie game studio called Purple Moon set out to change that — creating story-rich, emotionally complex games designed to welcome girls into…
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