![]() ![]() That makes Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion, from HerInteractive, more than just a computer game aimed at girls ages 10 and up. Boys get shooters, sports games, war games and role-playing games, and girls get Barbie. It is easier to create action games for boys than to answer a question Freud would most likely pose were he still alive: What kind of computer games do little girls want? The best answer the game industry has come up with is Barbie. ![]() They believe girls just don't like computer games, much in the way it was believed girls didn't enjoy playing sports until equal financing of girls' sports in schools put girls on an even playing field. That has produced a male population comfortable with and knowledgeable about computers and a female population that is popularly thought to be a little behind the technological curve.įor the most part, game companies do little to attract girls. WHILE it's common for computer games to hold sway over boys all through adolescence and into adulthood, it seems that girls tend to lose interest much earlier, preferring such low-tech activities as playing with their friends or reading. ![]()
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