POC (People of Color) in Video Games by @cappsoffgaming #BLKHistoryMonth #VideoGames #SegaGensis #StreetsOf Rage

Yes, it's the 80s/90s folks and I'm feeling anything that involves cartoons, comics, and of course, video games (still do lolz). To find people of color (POC) in both cartoons and comics wasn't really hard to find. Shows like for example, Thundercats, had a very strong, inventive POC (and he was!), Panthro. He built the Thundertank and also was an expert in martial arts, something that a lot of my peers were already into (Saturday kung fu flicks!). Later on, reading a comic book series called Spawn, which also had a HBO series, too. To see a black man have such a role in comic, next to Power Man aka Luke Cage, was a real treat, plus he didn't fit the stereotypes at the time (drug dealer/user, gangbanger, etc).

But through most of my early gaming (TRS-80, Nintendo, and Sega Master System), I rarely saw a character/protagonist that "looked" like me, thus why I created this video to explore the very first instants that I encountered POC in video games. Hope you like it, there's more to come so stay tuned! #cappsoffgaming

sincerely submitted, CappsOffGaming w/ Tecnish

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