TheZeldaZone👑🏳️⚧️🎮🎀<p>Been poking around at various retro games on my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/analogue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>analogue</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pocket</span></a> looking for something else to try.</p><p>It really is striking how many games back then let you name your main character...but made *absolutely certain* you were a guy and that they reminded you multiple times throughout the intro that you were a male and referred to with male pronouns.</p><p>I'm sure it wasn't even intentional but the expectations were simply that deep. Esp in Japanese games.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a></p>