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Article: JUST FOR GIRLS BORED BY GORE, GIRLS FIND WIDE ARRAY OF NEW COMPUTER GAMES GEARED SPECIFICALLY TOWARD THEM.(Business)(SoftWARE page)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- November 24, 1997
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Byline: Rachel Beck Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Those slash 'em, shoot 'em and kill 'em computer games simply won't do for 11-year-old Susan Grossman.
``They're boring and gross, and I don't like playing them,'' she said.
So Susan, a sixth-grader in Westport, Conn., is excited about the new computer games now on the market that pair her interests - fashion, friends and fun - with adventurous computer play.
Behind these new girl games are industry giant Mattel and multimedia upstarts like Her Interactive, Girl Games and Purple Moon.
``Finally, the computer industry has awakened to the fact that girls have lots of money to ...