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A female video game pioneer was lost to history — until now

  • Her name is Van Mai, and the Video Game History Foundation has found her Video game historians Kate Willaert and Kevin Bunch have been searching for Van Mai for years.

  • Willaert and Bunch had been looking for Mai because of her involvement in Wabbit, the first video game for home consoles with a human female protagonist.

  • After a few months working on an Atari 5200 port of Solar Fox, she left the video game industry, making for a short but impactful career.

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Wabbit (1982) - First depiction of female protagonist in video games

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