First Famicom Game with Female Main Character?

[JC]

There aren't very many games I can think of with a female main character. Does anyone know what the first one is? Metroid? Layla? Marusa no Onna?

[Jedi Master Baiter]

Athena? Valkyrie from Macross? Nana from Ice Climbers? I wish I had more.

[Doc]

Maybe the Dirty Pair series?

[satoshi_matrix]

Ms. Pac-man? Malon from Binaryland?

[JC]

Ms. Pac-man?

There's no Ms. Pac-Man for Famicom, right?


EDIT:

Ice Climber = 01/30/85
Macross = 12/10/85
Binary Land= 12/19/85
Metroid = 08/06/86
Layla = 12/20/86
Dirty Pair = 03/28/87
Athena = 06/05/87
Marusa no Onna = 09/19/89

[kite200]

Hitomi Kobayashi's Shocking Tennis.

[JC]

Hmm. The only thing I could find on the lists is Hitomi Kobayashi's Hold Up by Hacker. Is that what this is, kite?

[kite200]

nope, there's a shocking tennis game, kris had it, it's....tennis.....


http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=526.0

[satoshi_matrix]

It wasn't the first, but probably the greatest game to feature a female lead in a Famicom game is Samus from Metroid, even though that's techincally the FDS.

[Jedi Master Baiter]

It wasn't the first, but probably the greatest game to feature a female lead in a Famicom game is Samus from Metroid, even though that's techincally the FDS.

I was disappointed when she wasn't a candidate for best female character in a certain GamePro poll. Out of what they had there, Chun-Li was first, followed by Lara Croft, followed by someone, then Ulala was last.

This was before Metroid Prime.

[Doc]

To be honest, I wouldn't count Ice Climber, since it's male AND female. And if you pick one player, you get Popo, automatically. Nana is on in two player mode.

[JC]

Yeah, you're probably right, JL. That's like saying Luigi is equal to Mario. I don't think so. Anyway, there have got to be more female main characters.

[Jedi Master Baiter]

I think Metroid was great; you're controlling this robotic looking thing & then find out all this time it was a female person. The manual is also good in keeping it a mystery.

[Jabra]

The Little Mermaid

[JC]

Haha. Right. I should have noticed that since I just put screenshots on the Little Mermaid page.