Black representation has come a long way, but there is so much further to go.
reframed Blackness from the tracks and fields to the streets and alleyways, which was not really a positive leap.
Still depending on popular stereotypes of the time—facilitated by the mainstream co-opting of hip-hop culture and a Reagan’s race-based conservative War on Drugs—the creation and upholding of “value systems and hierarchies of one constituency,” as Murray wrote, still holds true. Games were an extension of belief systems around American race relations. But it gets better, don’t worry.
From their inception, fighting games have continued to draw upon cultural and gender diversity when it comes to character selection. gave us South Side Jim.in a fighting game, which would lead toBy far, the most impactful titles in the fighting game genre would be used as the stamp of approval for diversity to come:. Both games would lead the mainstream charge in terms of casting a variety of genders and races.
On the Commodore 64 in 1986, now-defunct London-based developer Computer Rentals Limited released one of the first Black-led single-player games,in 1987. The game put players into the metal shoes of the titular Black character Cyborg, who must reestablish communication with an earth expedition team that has gone dark. Another Commodore 64 title,, was one of the first games to feature an all-Black setting: Funkytown .
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