This ad for Interplay from 1999
This ad for Interplay from 1999
BY GAMERS, FOR GAMERS
It's like if someone distilled the entire reactionary anti-woke gamer mindset into one picture, it's amazing
The developers are all "cool" white guys with shades while the only women in the picture are anonymous blonde bikini babes only there for eye candy
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It's doubly disappointing because Interplay turned out surprisingly queer in retrospect: Rebecca Heineman, one of the more prominent trans women in video gaming history, was involved in its early days, and both Tim Cain and Black Isle's Josh Sawyer later came out as gay. Also, slightly unrelated, but I appreciate that because Baldur's Gate 1 and 2's NPC portraits were based on staff, it had at least some PoC representation, even if it was mostly on a visual level.
huh i didn't know josh sawyer was gay! neat