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Title: NAme the first coin-op game designed by a woman?
Post by: GGKoul on May 03, 2004, 05:31:46 pm
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Title: Re:NAme the first coin-op game designed by a woman?
Post by: Tailgunner on May 03, 2004, 06:42:36 pm
Centipede
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Post by: Brax on May 03, 2004, 07:26:30 pm
That's my guess too. I remember reading an interview with her and she was saying she purposely designed the game with pastel colours. I guess the "boy" games clashed with her feminine sensibilities.  ;)
Title: Re:NAme the first coin-op game designed by a woman?
Post by: Magnet_Eye on May 03, 2004, 08:17:36 pm
Yes, Centipede was the first arcade game to be designed by a woman. Her name is Dona Bailey.

 ;)

Title: Re:NAme the first coin-op game designed by a woman?
Post by: Tailgunner on May 04, 2004, 12:22:14 am
Yes, Centipede was the first arcade game to be designed by a woman. Her name is Dona Bailey.

 ;)



The real question is whether any women designed pins or something else that'd qualify as an earlier type of coin operated game. ;)
Title: Re:NAme the first coin-op game designed by a woman?
Post by: Stormy151 on May 04, 2004, 12:32:53 am
What about the first coin-op video game designed by someone who later got sex changed INTO a woman?

There is one that I know of...
Title: Re:NAme the first coin-op game designed by a woman?
Post by: maraxle on May 04, 2004, 07:22:36 am
What about the first coin-op video game designed by someone who later got sex changed INTO a woman?

There is one that I know of...
I can't think of any in the coin-op world, but in the computer game world you've got Dan(i) Bunten (http://www.anticlockwise.com/dani/) who made M.U.L.E., among other things.
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Post by: abrannan on May 04, 2004, 08:38:43 am
What about the first coin-op video game designed by someone who later got sex changed INTO a woman?

There is one that I know of...
I can't think of any in the coin-op world, but in the computer game world you've got Dan(i) Bunten (http://www.anticlockwise.com/dani/) who made M.U.L.E., among other things.

And in the movie world you've got Larry Wachowski (Well, not yet, but he's having the surgery soon (http://www.suntimes.com/output/zwecker//cst-ftr-zp29.html))

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Post by: SirPeale on May 04, 2004, 09:58:54 am
It's the guy that created GORF, but I can't remember his/her name right now.
Title: Re:NAme the first coin-op game designed by a woman?
Post by: Stormy151 on May 05, 2004, 09:48:30 am
GORF is correct. :D  Jay Fenton was his name.
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Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on May 05, 2004, 06:52:04 pm
And in the cross-over worlds (no pun intended) of movie/music/video games...

Wendy Carlos (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDCASS80311131726070001&sql=Buyr9ke9t7q7m), electronic music pioneer and collaborator with Richard Moog (inventor of the Moog Synthesiser), composed the famous TRON soundtrack that we all know and love.

Known as Walter Carlos (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDCASS80311131726070001&sql=B4fdsa9tgy23h) before her sex change operation in 1967, she has created some of the most innovative music of that era, from such soundtracks as Clockwork Orange and The Shining to the ground-breaking electronic works of the "Switched-On (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDCASS80311131726070001&sql=Atx6xlf3ekcqo)" albums.
Title: Re:NAme the first coin-op game designed by a woman?
Post by: bigmoe on May 06, 2004, 12:41:00 am
They could do sex change operations in 1967?  

Wow.
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Post by: hulkster on May 07, 2004, 11:22:39 am
well i tried to find out by asking Gorf, but it kept nagging me and asking if it looked fat with this control panel.  plus it was THAT time of the month so it was "out of order".  HA!  im so funny, sorta.