A 12-year-old girl takes on the video game industry (UPDATE)

Planet Money

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🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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When Maddie Messer was 12 years old, she noticed an unfair dynamic in the video games she loved: playing as a man was often free, but she had to pay to play as a woman. So ... she decided to take on the video game industry. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:03.4	Hey Planet Money listeners, Jess Zhang here.
0:08.8	I'm an editor at the show and today we're bringing you an episode I reported back in
0:13.2	2015.
0:14.2	It's about discrimination.
0:15.8	The unfair treatment kind of discrimination, but also the economic concept of price discrimination.
0:21.2	We'll explain it in the episode and we'll also have an update at the very end.
0:25.9	Stay tuned.
0:27.4	Maddie Messer is 12 years old.
0:30.4	And like pretty much every kid, Maddie has a long list of things that she loves.
0:35.4	Science class, donuts, the color orange, and she also loves a good video game.
0:43.4	There's always a zip line that you have to jump to get on.
0:47.0	Otherwise you fell for cliff.
0:49.7	And this is one of her favorites.
0:51.6	Frankly, this is one of the most successful video games out there in the entire Planet,
0:56.1	Temple Run.
0:57.1	Maddie's character is running like mad through a jungle.
1:00.4	She's being chased by screaming skull-faced zombie monkeys.
1:04.4	If there are roots sticking out, you can just move from side to side to dodge those.
1:10.4	And if...
1:11.4	Oh, I didn't see the rock.
1:13.4	This game is pretty much perfect in Maddie's opinion, except for one small detail.
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