Category: Black NPCs
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Murder By Numbers
Developer: MediatonicPublisher: The Irregular CorperationRelease Year: 2020Platform: Stadia/Switch/WinGenre: Adventure, PuzzleTaxonomy: Black NPCs Actress Honor Mizrahi’s boss ends up dead minutes after he fired her. Teaming up with SCOUT, a reconnaissance robot, she will uncover a dark conspiracy by interrogating a wild range of characters. Find clues and solve cases with sudoku puzzles. interviews and other…
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Mike Tyson’s Punch Out
Developer: NintendoPublisher: NintendoRelease Year: 1987Platform: 3DS/Arcade/NES/PlayChoice-10/Wii/Wii UGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Black NPCs; voice acting/motion capture; fandom/community/reception; mechanics; Anti-blackness/ regressive characterizations Featuring a boxer named Little Mac, dreaming of being a heavyweight champion, he works his way through three main circuits before earning his shot at the championship belt. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Méwilo
Developer: Coktel VisionPublisher: Coktel VisionRelease Year: 1987Platform: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, DOS, Thomson TO7Genre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Development, Black NPCs, Black Cultural Traditions, Narrative Themes You play an expert in paranormal phenomena who arrives in Martinique in 1902 a day before a volcanic eruption destroys the town. You go to the home of…
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Major League Baseball (NES)
Developer: AtlusPublisher: LJNRelease Year: 1988Platform: NESGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; voice acting/motion capture; Black NPCs; mechanics Featuring all twenty-six teams, you both manage and play baseball, stressing the importance of choosing a well-balanced team. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Little Bug
Developer: Buddy SystemPublisher: Red Deer GamesRelease Year: 2021Platform: Linux, Mac, WIN, Xbox One, Xbox X|S, SwitchGenre: PlatformerTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, Black NPCs Nyah is walking home from school when she’s suddenly cast into an uncanny world where there are dangerous spirits. In a foreboding, atmospheric landscape she must find her way home. interviews and other…
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Insecure: The Come Up Game
Developer: Glow Up GamesPublisher: Glow Up GamesRelease Year: 2021Platform: Android/iOSGenre: Simulation/RPGTaxonomy: Development; Playable Black characters; Black NPCs; Narrative themes; Black cultural traditions; Intersectionality; fandom / community / reception In Insecure you navigate adulthood with a core group of friends and craft rhymes to help make decisions or to battle friends for clout. interviews and other…
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Half-Life 2
Developer: ValvePublisher: ValveRelease Year: 2004Platform: Android/Linux/Mac/PS3/Xbox 360/Xbox Series X/SGenre: FPSTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs; voice acting/motion capture You play as Gordon Freeman who, after an incident at the Black Mesa Research Facility, joins a resistance movement to liberate the Earth from the control of an alien empire called the Combine. interviews and other media…
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Hair Nah…
Developer: Momo PixelPublisher: Momo PixelRelease Year: 2017Platform: Browser BasedGenre: SimulationTaxonomy: Development; Playable Black characters; Black cultural traditions; politics/ ideology/history; Black NPCs, Narrative themes; Intersectionality; fandom / community / reception Showcasing one of the stresses that black women face, it is a response to the action of touching a Black woman’s hair without permission. You must…
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Freedom!
Developer: MECCPublisher: MECCRelease Year: 1992Platform: Apple IIGenre: SimulationTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, narrative themes, Mechanics, Black NPCs, Anti-Blackness/regressive characterizations Taking the role of an enslaved African American in the southern United States during 1830, the player must escape a plantation and get to one of the free northern states. interviews and other media scholarship Return to…
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Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness
Developer: Coktel VisionPublisher: Coktel VisionRelease Year: 1998Platform: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, DOSGenre: StrategyTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, Black NPCs, Development, politics/ideology/history You play as an enslaved person on a plantation who aims to incite a revolt, free the other enslaved people, and get revenge. Developed by Muriel Tramis. interviews and other media scholarship Return to…