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Male protagonist

Creatures theme

Player controls apparently male character.

1604
games
83
platforms
Cyber Dreams (Windows 3.1)
Cyber Dreams
W31 1994
Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark (Windows)
Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark
WIN 2003-12-02
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (PlayStation 2)
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
PS2 2001-12-03
Holy Umbrella - Dondera no Mubo!! (Super Nintendo)
Holy Umbrella - Dondera no Mubo!!
SNES 1995-09-29
The Legend of the Condor Heroes (MS-DOS)
The Legend of the Condor Heroes
DOS 1993
The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak (Nintendo Entertainment System)
The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak
NES 1994-08
In Search of the Most Amazing Thing (MS-DOS)
In Search of the Most Amazing Thing
DOS 1983
The Romantic Blue (MS-DOS)
The Romantic Blue
DOS 1994
Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir (Windows)
Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir
WIN 2008-11-18
Front Mission Evolved (Xbox 360)
Front Mission Evolved
X360 2010-09-16
Boris the Bold (Dragon32)
Boris the Bold
D32 1984
Cliffhanger (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Cliffhanger
NES 1993-11
Contrast:
* Female protagonist
* Neuter protagonist
* Gender neutral

Related:
* Gender choice
Should be primarily used when player controls characters of more than one gender but has no real gender choice. This is mostly due to male protagonist being the norm currently, but can be still marked for games for sake of completeness.

"Apparently male" is there to cover transgenders and non-biological entities. People who think they should be male but appear something else as such do not count for this tag. There's some exceptions to this rule however.

Popular tags

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Parent group

Genders

Games by year

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The first Male protagonist video game was released on January 1, 1974.

Choice of Games, Activision and Sierra On-Line published most of these games.

Platforms

Linux 398
Windows 382
MS-DOS 222
PS2 55
NES 53
Mac OS X 48
PS4 29
Win3.1 28
SNES 23
Apple II E 22
X360 22
PS3 21
Amiga 21
Xbox One 18
N64 18
Mac OS Classic 16
Nintendo DS 11
GameKing 9
GB 9
Wii 8
PS 8
Tandy Coco 8
BSD 8
Switch 7
Xbox 7
C64 7
Unix 6
Amiga AGA 6
Arcade 6
3DS 6

Most common companies

Choice of Games38
Activision30
Sierra On-Line25
Konami24
Capcom21
Paradox Interactive21
Ubisoft18
Electronic Arts18
Nintendo17
SSI15
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment14
Atari14
Deep Silver12
Beamdog11
Irem10