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Many of us have a special place in our hearts for games from the late '80s and early '90s. This era brought us classics like Tetris, Super Mario Bros, and The Legend of Zelda. But perhaps the biggest thing to happen in this time concerned a very different type of game. For the first time, developers decided to explicitly market to girls. This was known as the Pink Games boom. But where did Pink Games come from? And how did they impact the world of games for the better?


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ASSET LINKS:

0:51 "No Girls Allowed" article on Polygon
http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/12/2/5143856/no-girls-allowed

1:48 What Does it Mean to be a Gamer?
http://www.bigfishgames.com/blog/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-gamer/

1:48 What is a Gamer?
http://gamersdecrypted.com/what-is-a-gamer/

1:49 What is a Gamer? How do you define it?
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/what-is-a-gamer-how-do-you-define-it-1458161/

2:27 Update of my Nintendo DS Lite (pink!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLSMJBhgAo8

2:33 Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer - with Noodlerella (Nintendo 3DS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phnf1jcVPPA

3:25 The Awfulness and the Importance of the Dress-Up Game
http://killscreendaily.com/articles/articles/feature/awfulness-and-importance-dress-game/

4:31 Girly Video games: Rewriting a History of Pink
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/05/girly-games-history-of-pink-rachel-weil


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MUSIC:

"Oh Damn!" by CJVSO
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"Digital Sonar" by Brink

"Mindphuck" by Known To Be Lethal
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"After Hours"

"Lakes" by Chooga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8hns...

"Beautiful Days" by Extan
https://soundcloud.com/extandnb/beaut...

"Spectrum Subdiffusion Mix" by Foniqz
https://soundcloud.com/subdiffusion/f...

"Good Way Song" by Electronic Rescue

"Alice y Bob" by Javier Rubio and Parsec
https://archive.org/details/escala19_...

"Sleet" by Kubbi
https://soundcloud.com/kubbi/kubbi-sleet

"Toaster" by Kubbi
https://soundcloud.com/kubbi/toaster

"Patriotic Songs of America" by New York Military Band and the American Quartet
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/New...

"Lets Go Back To The Rock" by Outsider
https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/440...

"Run" by Outsider
https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/440...

"Fame" by Statue of Diveo
https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/352...

"Freedom Weekends" by Statue of Diveo
https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/352...

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