Van Mai created the first playable human female character.
, the first console game to feature a named playable female human character. After years of digging and numerous “Return To Sender” marked letters,Today, the Video Game History Foundation is sharing the story of Van Mai neé Tran and her work in the video game industry.
Mai recounts her time in the early ‘80s working for Games for Apollo, a short-lived video game company based in Texas. There, she worked on, a game for the Atari VCS that featured a girl named Billie Sue tasked with saving her vegetable garden from a fluffle of hungry rabbits.Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week.Please confirm your subscription to Verge Deals via the verification email we just sent you.
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