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Five purple computer screens and keyboards from the 90s/2000s are stacked on top of each other, each displaying an image from Purple Moon computer games. Purple Moon’s creator Brenda Laurel is sticking out of one screen. The Purple Moon logo is in the background. The words “CLOSE ALL TABS” appear in pixelated text in the lower right, with a mouse cursor next to them.

View the full episode transcript. Thirty years ago, video games were predominantly marketed to boys. Nintendo and Sega ran TV ads featuring boys proclaiming how “awesome” and “powerful” the latest system was. And the biggest computer games tended to revolve…