The woman who brought female representation to games

[@therexbellator]

Great work finding the developer of Wabbit and covering the history of Apollo Games. There's so many interesting stories that have been coming out of the early days of video game development. It was truly a pioneering time for computer science and programming. Someone ought to make a series (or two) like Halt and Catch Fire but centered around early video games development.

[@BERSERKERDEMON1]

Her history is a very beautiful story. I wish some "video games" award ceremonies were more about honoring such people than a demonstration of how much drug an human being can absorb....

[@karyotesnyan7265]

I came from Polygon having read the article about finding the woman who created the first playable female character, and the article about having finally found her. Glad to see this end on a happy note!

[@Nomadnetic3]

She should return to it, there are plenty of resources to help her and free dev environments. Even as just a hobbyist it would be interesting to see what she would make.

[@play_history]

Great work team! Glad to have helped.

[@patrickholt8782]

Every 2600 game is so wild to me. You simply never know what the game will be like. Just like the Commodore 64.

[@NintendoForceMagazine]

Billie Sue for Smash!

[@videotape2959]

I don't have the cartridge, but every time I see footage of the game online I think that the art looks really good.

[@RemnantCult]

For an Atari game, that's a very pretty and well detailed game. Can't believe I haven't heard of it and the dev until now.

[@Mrshoujo]

Apollo was making pretty good games and I'm glad to say I own a cartridge of Wabbit. I would love to see her try an 8K game for the 2600!

[@DIASTCartoons]

This is an interesting documentary. The sprite of the game's main character looks more like an early NES/Famicom character sprite than an Atari VCS/2600 one.

[@LiamRproductions]

Brilliant work!

[@StarLightNow]

Thanks for rediscovering this lost legend in our industry and also giving people another aspirational person to look up to.

[@chrilz1498]

Thank you for the work you all do at the VGHF! This was so very well done, and a story necessary for preservation. I’m a lover of the podcast and hope the foundation continues to grow, cheers everyone 🙂

[@Crushertalos]

Really interesting video. Thanks so much for your hard work!

[@Pixelman546]

Really interesting video! I had no idea about this game or the developer but their importance to today's games industry is clear. Thanks for recording her story!

[@punzai72]

I love stories like this. Great stuff 🙂

[@BringMayFlowers]

Hey, she could always get back into the groove of things by putting out a game for something like the IBM PC or Amiga.

[@Tapioca7S0]

I'm happy about this finding ,hope you guys find more gems related like this one ,it's heart warming to hear this story.

[@hanchiman]

I always thought Ms Pac-man was the first female videogame protagonist

[@AFGiant]

Love the stories that come out of deep research like this!

[@KlenDool]

There is a spelling mistake at 6:53 - "they seamed to like it a lot" should be "they SEEMED to like it a lot". Anyway, great work and really good video!

[@b.o.4492]

I had this game. So cool you found her! Loved the video!

[@drafrokid8464]

Amazing, great work!

[@shanebarnes4622]

Love this story! Thank you for putting this together! ♥

[@PersonaSama]

Blessed work. Great job, all!

[@Sankis]

This is a nice story. Thanks for sharing it!

[@moonymachine8125]

Amazing work, all around!

[@CommonSense-hy2sn]

Lovely video, great that you guys found her. Could *Commodore's Greenhouse* have preceded Wabbit? the C64 was released in January 1982 with the game have no date or information online in the database and magazine archives other than it being from 1982, could be a launch game.

[@ACriticalHit]

Hi there, here's what I was able to dig up: - C64 was released August 1982 - According to the Dec 1983 issue of a newsletter called Turtle News, Greenhouse appeared on a demo disk that contained a couple other unreleased games as well as a number of games officially released in 1983, suggesting the disk itself was released some time in 1983. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a photo or any more info about this demo disk.

[@dylan.t180]

Fantastic video thanks to all involved

[@ajp12]

Wabbit really does look extraordinarily good by Atari 2600 standards.

[@levilukeskytrekker]

What a cool video! Well done, folks!

[@lecapitaineisonyoutoob]

Oh shit, they did find her. Glad this ended well. Gamers sure be seething in here though.

[@uphilliceskater]

No they aren't. Quit exaggerating.

[@AsteriskDatBoi]

She will and should return her video game job for the video game industry now. People wanted her now.

[@stevenwilgus8982]

Great history! Another example of women being PEOPLE first and then women: her intelligence and ability showed through first. This is the "lesson" if you will that this proves (again). Glad to see this!!!!

[@33v4.]

what in the world are you talking about

[@outkast978]

This is a really stupid lesson to learn.

[@RoloTonyBrown]

Women being valued for their work, intelligence and ability perhaps? I mean the VG industry has been a pretty closed shop to women over the past 50 years.

[@Sinn0100]

​@@RoloTonyBrown This is false. The video game industry has had many women working inside of it for years. One of the greatest video game developers of all time was a female. Her work was so prolific that if you were a gamer from 1998-2012 you absolutely played at least one of her games. No matter your console of choice or if you belonged to the PC master race (Amy Henning). The only real gatekeepers in the industry are the woke that push "the message." It's all a lie...

[@RoloTonyBrown]

@@Sinn0100 my comment should have been in ironic quotes really. Women have had a massive part to play in computing and VG history, but their visibility and involvement has always been ignored. Don’t really understand what ‘woke’ has to do with it?

[@karakenio]

why so many unlikes?

[@willuigi64]

people see the word "woman" and can't help but hate

[@videotape2959]

6:25 Are you Canadian? Your television has the "dot" channel.

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

Could you link the two peoples channels

[@hesterprim200]

Interesting and enjoyable.

[@bowi1332]

👏👏👏

[@johnsimon8457]

Why 4-6 months? And the I realize Atari released no SDKs for the 2600 so any 3rd party folks had to reverse engineer the system to do anything. ~Those where the days~

[@MaximumHeresy]

Wow

[@bretscofield]

Watch out for the bigots in the comments!

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

I made the mistake of looking. Someone should tell the incels how Space Invaders actually plays, since they're too stupid to tell the difference between it and Wabbit.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

@Paul X Good job changing the subject to your obsession with race.

[@Vulpas]

"Oh cool, I just watched a neat Sonic 2 video on this channel, I'm gonna subscribe and see what else they've go--" Marksist junk, bye lol (misspelled on purpose)

[@sillyandjoyus]

kick rocks right winger!

[@Vulpas]

@@sillyandjoyus kick the bucket left winger!

[@lewistowers698]

Pixels have no gender.

[@slimetank394]

So Mario, Peach, Samus, Link and Zelda were all Non-binary in their first debut?

[@Jason-fv4rg]

Leisure. Suit. Larry.

[@videotape2959]

?

[@ExtremeWreck]

Non-binary people will make you change your mind lmao.

[@pqribber]

what is and isnt 'history' has become inane. how does this matter to anything? (hint: it doesn't)

[@user-cj4fu8qq9b]

it's still history tho

[@biz0unc3]

(to you)

[@Leinad44]

It's interesting

[@HowManyRobot]

I wonder if you'd make this same comment on a video about the first Australian video game programmer. Or the first British video game designer. No? Curious.

[@youtubesuresuckscock]

@@HowManyRobot I wonder if anyone would make a video about the first Australian game programmer. They wouldn't? Curious. (not really--it's because it's boring and means nothing)