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Re:When She Codes, The Revolution’s Coming by yummyfajitas on Sunday January 22, 2012 @08:45PM (#3498623)
In that case, games with non-gendered characters should be popular among women. For example, Galaga, Mechwarrior, Metroid, etc. Similarly, games with male and female characters such as Golden Axe (clad in a mankini and bikini, respectively) should be equally popular.

Does reality agree with this?

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Re:When She Codes, The Revolution’s Coming by ceol on Sunday January 22, 2012 @10:23PM (#3498851)
Metroid is gendered. Using this from another comment, here Samus is at the end of the first game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Samus_at_the_end_of_Metroi... Do you think that appeals to women?

Do you have stats on the popularity of those games compared to other, gendered games? I'd be more than happy to look over them.

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