Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!rick From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Jenny of the Prairie Message-ID: <551@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 18:49:21 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.551 Posted: Mon Dec 10 18:49:21 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 04:27:42 EST References: <1857@sun.uucp> Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) Distribution: net Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 29 Summary: (A review of a game, Jennie of the Prairie was posted. JotP is a non-competitive game put out by a software company aiming at providing games that will appeal to their conception of what "women" play like. The review was posted without comment; it isn't clear whether we are supposed to approve the company for publishing non-violent games or condemn them for their outmoded picture of women...) Actually, my favorite games are non-competitive. Atari Skiing is my idea of the perfect video game. Role-playing games, although often containing elements of conflict, cannot be considered to be competitive. Role-playing games are one of the most popular "growth" areas around. How is "Trivial Pursuit" competitive? All the women I know of who can play Rogue, (1) do, and (2) do it to excess. In general, the assertion that there is some difference in how men and women play, and particularly in how their tastes for video games runs, would appear to be ill-founded. I suspect that you can still find a difference in the number of adolescent males and adolescent females in video arcades, but that this is due more to the unease between the sexes that exists at that age than to any difference in preferences. -- "Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore." -- John Prine Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick