12 Women that Changed the World of Gaming

From the very beginning, women have been at the forefront of gaming innovations. This women’s history month, join us in celebrating the trailblazers of video game history!

Meet the architects of gaming society: the women that history almost forgot.

“Computing is too important to be left to men”
- Karen Spärck Jones, Computer Scientist

Mabel Addis

Company: IBM

Game: The Sumerian Game

Addis was a teacher dedicated to her love of history. Before creating games, she wrote many historical articles and books. In the 1960s, she was elected to work with IBM to create an educational game for her students.

What resulted was the first-ever video game created for an electronic computer, making Addis both the first woman to design a video game and the first person to write a computer video game!

Click here to learn about her story!