Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games: Nintendo’s First Playable Female Protagonist Isn’t Female in Japan

2023-09-08T18:10:31-08:00August 21st, 2023|

Technically speaking, the first Nintendo game to feature a female protagonist is Clu Clu Land, but she’s only specified as being female in localizations outside Japan. Released for the Famicom on November 28, 1984, Clu Clu Land can be broadly described as a response to Pac-Man, though a good [...]