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Spider-Man
Spider-Man (2002)
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Attachment If you put in the cheat code "girlnextdoor" you can play the game as Mary Jane Watson. At the end of the game, where Spider-Man and Mary Jane usually kiss, Mary Jane will kiss herself. This code was removed from later versions of the game, presumably because of the lesbian kiss in an E-rated game.
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Censorship, Development, LGBTQ+, Male/Female Gender, Regulatory Content Rating
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month March 14, 2013
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Persona 3 Portable
Persona 3 Portable (2009)
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In the PlayStation Portable version, while playing as the female protagonist, during the ultimate boss fight with Theodore (the male equivalent of Elizabeth), Fuuka will describe him as female.
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Console Difference, General, Male/Female Gender, Mistake, Version Difference
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2005)
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Dee Vasquez was originally designed to be male, but this was changed after the developers realized Spoiler:that all of the killers were ending up as men during development.
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Development, Early Idea, Male/Female Gender
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Phantasy Star II
Phantasy Star II (1989)
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In the Japanese release of Phantasy Star II, the piano teacher, Ustvestia, is openly homosexual. When a male party member volunteers to be taught the Musik technique by Ustvestia, Ustvestia replies, "He looks cute." Ustvestia then proceeds to charge the male party member less for the lesson than he would charge a female party member.

However, in the English release of Phantasy Star II, Ustvestia simply says, "He looks smart." The gender-based disparity in the fee for learning Musik is left unexplained.
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LGBTQ+, Male/Female Gender, Regional Difference, Version Difference
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Zoo Tycoon 2
Zoo Tycoon 2 (2004)
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Attachment Even though the horns of female Bongos are shorter than male Bongos in real life, both genders' horns are the same size in the game's African Adventure expansion.
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General, Male/Female Gender, Mistake, Real Life
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Fact Animal page on the Bongo:
https://factanimal.com/bongo/

Footage of the Bongo in Zoo Tycoon 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6AvLbWxXb8
Wabbit
Wabbit (1982)
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Attachment Billie Sue, the protagonist of Wabbit, was the first playable human woman in a console video game.
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General, Male/Female Gender, Real Life
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Action Girlz Racing
Action Girlz Racing (2005)
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Action Girlz Racing claims on its box to be made "for girls, by girls". However, the credits of the game show that many of the developer names are simply female versions of the names of developers credited on other Data Design Interactive games, such as Karl White becoming "Karla White", Julien Alden-Salter becoming "Julia Alden-Salter", and Teoman Irmak becoming "Teowoman Hermark".
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Advertisement/Commercial, Credits, Development, False Advertising, In-Joke, Male/Female Gender
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Evil Nun
Evil Nun (2018)
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The game's plot is inspired by the real-life string of Magdalene Laundries, specifically those in Ireland and Australia. Named after the Biblical figure Mary Magdalene, these were Protestant or Roman Catholic institutions ostensibly designed to house "fallen women" (i.e. sexually promiscuous women, prostitutes, young women who became pregnant outside of marriage, or young girls and teenagers who did not have familial support) by taking them in, or occasionally kidnapping them, and forcing them to work in laundries commercially-run by local nun convents under poor conditions and exploitative abuse.

A series of paintings by Rachael Romero, an Australian girl who fled from her abusive father and for a time worked in a Magdalene Laundry in the city of Adelaide, inspired the overall design of the game's laundry room and general aesthetics. The room, and certain objects such as a machine and a wooden basket, were also directly based on pictures from these laundries.
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Artwork/Illustration, Development, General, Inspiration, Male/Female Gender, Politics, Real Life, Religion
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Drill Dozer
Drill Dozer (2005)
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The choice of a young girl protagonist in Drill Dozer was decided by Ken Sugimori as he felt the juxtaposition would be more interesting than the sort of masculine character that would typically be depicted in mech-suit and vehicle-themed media.

Character designer Hironobu Yoshida was opposed to this decision because he found women to be hard to draw, and added thick, boyish eyebrows to Jill's design as a subtle form of protest.
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Character Design, Complaint, Development, Male/Female Gender, Real Life
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PaRappa the Rapper
PaRappa the Rapper (1996)
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In the Jet Baby theme song, Jet Baby is referred to with female pronouns, but when PaRappa and his friends walk out of the cinema and discuss the movie, they refer to her with male pronouns.
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General, Male/Female Gender, Mistake, Music
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Clu Clu Land
Clu Clu Land (1984)
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Bubbles' original name in Japan was Gloopy, and a defined gender was not given for her. It is very likely that Bubbles was made a female character by Nintendo of America, as her design lacks the common cartoon gender signifiers (such as a pink coloration or eyelashes) that Nintendo's character designers typically used at the time for female characters whose genders weren't intended to be a surprise reveal.
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Character Design, Male/Female Gender, Regional Difference, Theory
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Platform: Casio Loopy
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The Casio Loopy was not originally developed with the intention of being a specifically female-aimed game console, but ended up being marketed as such due to the popularity of stickers with women in Japan and previous Casio products aimed at a unisex child demographic gaining popularity with teenage girls.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration, Male/Female Gender
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 4, 2023
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Bad News Baseball
Bad News Baseball (1989)
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In the page of the manual for Bad News Baseball that introduces the girls' team mode, it explains that the girls' mode still shows boys in the cutscenes and follows up with "sorry for letting you down".
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Apology, General, Male/Female Gender, Manual
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Platform: PlayStation 2
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Complaint, Magazine, Male/Female Gender, Real Life, Sales
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 22, 2023
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Poostall Royale
Poostall Royale (2023)
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The 2009 Java Phone game Postal Babes is the first game in the series to feature a female playable character, with the second game to do this being Poostall Royale in 2023.
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Development, First, Male/Female Gender
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Fate/Stay Night
Fate/Stay Night (2004)
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In Kinoko Nasu's first draft of Fate/stay night that he wrote while in high school, he had planned for Saber to be a man and the player character to be a woman in glasses. While the two genders were eventually flipped for the final game, this idea was revisited in "Fate/Prototype", an original video animation released as part of the Carnival Phantasm OVA collection. Fate/Prototype portrays Saber and the primary Master as described in the early drafts, but as of now, the full story of "Fate/Prototype" has yet to be told, with the animation and short story details being the only known aspects of this particular adaptation.
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Development, Early Idea, Male/Female Gender, Multimedia Adaptation, Real Life, Retcon
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Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland (2006)
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Tingle's effeminate mannerisms have caused many fans to assume the character is supposed to be gay, and so much so that in 2006, GayGamer named Tingle as gaming's #1 "gayest character". The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma would say to Kotaku in 2015: "He's not gay. He's just an odd person." The Tingle spin-off games very overtly portray Tingle as a heterosexual man, with Ripened Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love being a combination of a dating simulator and point-and-click adventure where every date is female, while in Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, part of Tingle's motivation is that he wants to be with beautiful women.
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Awards/Awards Show, LGBTQ+, Male/Female Gender, Misconception
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Eiji Aonuma confirming that Tingle is not gay:
https://kotaku.com/nintendo-explains-where-tingle-came-from-1686538751

List of Ripened Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love characters, including the dates:
https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Characters_in_Ripened_Tingle%27s_Balloon_Trip_of_Love

Tingle being tempted by beautiful women in Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdYPxI-REgI#t=199
Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto (1997)
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The PC version of the game includes four female playable characters while the PlayStation version doesn't have any. According to Visual Sciences programmer Russell Kay, the lower number of playable characters in that version was due to VRAM issues and the fact that most of the PC characters were completed in the final months of the game's development, by which point the PlayStation version had already been finished.
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Console Difference, Development, Male/Female Gender
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Company: Activision Blizzard
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In 2023, Activision Blizzard was ordered to pay $35 million by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its failures to maintain proper workplace disclosure controls and violations of whistleblower protections. The fine was imposed due to the company’s failure to ensure proper employee protections against workplace harassment and gender discrimination, which led to many women leaving the company. The SEC used a 2021 lawsuit by the state of California’s Civil Rights Department against Activision Blizzard to launch its own investigation meant to determine whether the firm’s handling of the situation constituted a breach of its fiduciary duty to investors. The proceedings were started after the company’s home state charged it with violations of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act in summer 2021.
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Complaint, Corporate Affairs, Financial Affairs, Legal Affairs, LGBTQ+, Male/Female Gender, Real Life
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Bakuretsu Muteki Bangai-O
Bakuretsu Muteki Bangai-O (1999)
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Originally Bangai-O was set to have a "woman planet" at some point in development, or the idea was at least thought of by developers. The map designer on the game, Koichi Kimura, specifically stated:

"It doesn’t appear in the game, but there is a 女星 (josei, “woman-planet”) too! But my image for it was like, everything’s colored in pink for some reason, and there’s some annoying melody going “pa-ra-ra, pa-ra-ra-ra~” always playing in the background… and well, I thought we might be getting into sexual harassment territory here if we included this, so I dropped it."
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Censorship, Development, Early Idea, Male/Female Gender
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