And of those, only eight feature a main character who is explicitly pre-written as queer as opposed to them being queer as a character creation option. Of those 179 games, only 83 have queer characters who are playable characters. In 2018, Gamesradar's Sam Greer pored through thousands of gaming titles and found 179 games with any LGBT representation.
However, more efforts were found to make more diverse and less one-dimensional characters. In the 1990s, games (often Japanese ones) continued to use stereotypical LGBT characters which did not reflect the diversity in LGBT communities. During the 1980s, characters that can be argued as identifying as LGBTQ+ were rarely shown in a realistic or non-stereotypical context and were often the objects of ridicule or jokes.
