The Long-Lost Developer Of Wabbit, An Early Groundbreaking Video Game, Has Been Found
The Video Game History Foundation has finally found the developer of Wabbit, which is believed to be the first console game to feature a playable human girl as the lead.
In 2021, Polygon ran an article about the Video Game History Foundation's search for Wabbit's developer in conjunction with Kevin Bunch, a video game historian who maintains the Atari Archive, and A Critical Hit's Kate Willaert.
However, all that they had on the developer at the time was that she was a Vietnamese woman named «Ban Tran,» which turned out to be a fairly common name in Texas, where she developed Wabbit and another unreleased game.
As Bunch put it when talking to Polygon, soon after working on these projects, Tran became «something of a ghost,» making her particularly difficult to track down.
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