The first video game figure with which I could identify myself was a monkey
A nursery in the 90s: two girls are sitting in front of a tube TV, Snes controller in hand, and argue, who is allowed to play Dixie Kong - and to whom the boring Didi is hanging. One of these girls I am, the other is my best friend. When we discovered Donkey Kong Country 2 \ - by the way one of my favorite games of all time - for us, we were completely fascinated: There was actually a cool female character. That this was a monkey girl, we did not bother us in the least. Why Dixie was a real milestone for me and what advantages I see in animal characters, I'll tell you here. I took what I could get As a primary school child in the 1990s, my gambling career was strongly influenced by a lack of money and information. I had to collapse video games from my pocket money and the Internet was not yet the inexhaustible and easy-to-access source of knowledge that is today. What I knew about Games was largely based on their own experiences with titles that I often scowled for covers or w...