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Old 08-October-2007, 03:30 PM
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Videogame customers are overwhelmingly adolescent males. That means there’s a potential market for games that would appeal to girls, and that market is worth literally billions of dollars. So the question is, why don’t games makers create more games that target girls? Believe me, they’ve tried. It’s just that nobody can figure out exactly how to do it - except the Japanese, apparently.

I think that a big part of it has to do with the differences in our brains. Most boys just happen to really enjoy blowing things up*, and the only place they can do that is in a video game. The things that most girls enjoy doing, they are able to do in real life, so they don’t find any enjoyment from the escape of a game.



* or whatever it is that the game lets them do.

No, I think the girlfriends or wives all send their boyfriends or husbands to the store to buy the games. Like they do everything else.

You might be surprised to find that tampon sales are mostly to males too
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Man, you got to love those arcades. Pac-man, Space Invaders (Though I never get past level two on either), ping-pong, air hockey... especially those cool air hockey tables with the uv lights and sci-fi sound effects. If could play those for free, I'd be happier than I could ever imagine.
Gonna brag here. I've got one of these in my basement.
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Wow.

I have a Donkey Kong Game n Watch years ago during my highschool.

Wonder where it is now?

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Wow.

I have a Donkey Kong Game n Watch years ago during my highschool.

Wonder where it is now?

With the Popeye one
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