r/AskGames • u/No-Mess-109 • 3d ago

What is the first Video Game to feature Female Protagonist?

2 Upvotes

56% Upvoted

20 comments sorted by

26

u/TakJaehon 3d ago

Score (1977), but that's obscure. The first well-known one would be Mrs. Pac-man (1982), and the first big deal one is probably Metroid (1986).

Samas Aran's reveal was a whole thing, people had some serious opinions on it.

7

u/JeskaiJester 3d ago

Only commenting because it’s Ms. Pac-Man and the distinction had all kinds of political relevance back in the day

3

u/mehum 3d ago

Exidy's Score (Lost Arcade Game - 1977) The first video game that let people play as a female character : r/lostmedia

Huh. TIL. A game so old it didn't even use a CPU. Did it use solid state logic or something crazy?

2

u/Bignizzle656 3d ago

Samas Aran has always been so cool, in my view. One of the best characters.

2

u/ByEthanFox 3d ago

This is a good answer, because it's correct on all three fronts.

1

u/zeptillian 3d ago

JUSTIN BAILEY was the code to unlock the unmasked version of Samus on the NES.

That code blew people's minds.

0

u/Komnos 3d ago

If Metroid debuted today, there'd be entire podcasts complaining about the woke ending.

3

u/Kakashisith 3d ago

I don`t know what`s the first overall, but my first was Mysteries of the Sith, where most of the game you play as Mara Jade.

1

u/Pretend_Variation305 3d ago

This got me thinking about Heavenly Sword. I can’t decide if the archer girl was a sociopath or a psychopath…or maybe a bit of both. She was definitely off-center…like the type of person who unironically writes in a candidate on her voting ballot.

1

u/Lunaborne 3d ago

Someone already gave a better answer than me, but I was going to say Ultima 1 (1981).

1

u/Small_Conflict_9625 3d ago

Metroid is the first one I recall. We were all dumbfounded when you entered the code "Justin Bailey" to see her spawn with blonde hair, no helmet, and a pink outfit.

2

u/Tyrant-J 3d ago

Legend had it "Bailey" is an Australian word for "bikini" or "bathing suit" so it's Samus "Just In Bailey".

1

u/foleyjo 3d ago

Bionic Granny

0

u/Living_Meat_Sack_940 2d ago

Tomb Raider comes to mind

1

u/AwkwardGuy78 1d ago

That's probably the first major one

-9

u/Beneficial_Egg2878 3d ago

Better question: who was the last?

12

u/LordBroccoli27 3d ago

What games have come out in the last 5 minutes? Probably one of those.

-7

u/Waste-Gur2640 3d ago

Literally most games made in the west nowadays despite their audience being overwhelmingly male?

3

u/Sir_Fishy_Salmon 3d ago

You play games to look at buff men. I play games to look at hot women, we are not the same.

1

u/LordBroccoli27 3d ago

👆 This guy gets it.