Gamazon: The Iron Burka - by Arinn Dembo

      Posted 09/06/10 08:50:00 pm  

Recently the subject of gratuitous nudity (or semi-nudity) in gaming has come up, both on my company's discussion forums and in the comments of my earlier blogs.  The majority of gamers and developers have noticed that there is a double standard in the approach toward the human body in gaming:  women show a lot more skin.

While going through a stack of old Computer Gaming World magazines recently, I stumbled across a cover from 1993 which illustrated the double standard for male and female characters perfectly...and hilariously.  Here's the image:

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