FEMICOM

Yesterday’s post had a link to FamiBro, and while trying to balance male and female representations of gaming websites equally is subjective and doesn’t make much sense (especially since FamiBro doesn’t seem very bro-y), it does allow me to make a largely meaningless introduction to a blog post about the website FEMICOM. There, done! Rachel Simone Weil’s FEMICOM is museum and repository of information on overtly girly gaming paraphernalia. They also publish research and a sporadically-updated blog on related issues. UmJammer Lammy (all images here from FEMICOM) One of the more recent additions to their collection is Parappa side-game and Set Side B fav UmJammer Lammy. Another is on Idol Hakkenden, for which you may remember we’ve written about a translation patch before. Idol Hakkenden They found a manga introduction for girls to assembly language programming, a topic so baroque that I don’t think I’ve seen any such guides directed to boys, unless you count standard non-gendered…