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this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2024
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If this sort of thing was commonplace, I wonder if this overtly male-focused advertising (I say "male-focused" as males, who are majority heterosexual, would be the largest collective that would be attracted to this sort of advertising) had anything to do with video games being stereotypically associated with males. Perhaps it's a sort of positive feedback. If so, I wonder what the initial bias towards males was.
if it was, it happened really fast since the association didn't exist before 1986.
before the video game crash, game systems were sold in electronics stores. afterwards, when Nintendo wanted to lose the association with the crash, they went t toy stores... and toy stores gender every product, at least back then, so they had to decide which side to put it on.