Forget Mario. Forget Sonic. Forget White Guy With Short Brown Hair and High-Tech Space Armor. Forget Pac-Man. The most beloved video game character ever just might be Lara Croft, the tough-talking heroine of Eidos’ Tomb Raider series. Boys mostly remember her for her habit of wearing impractical, revealing outfits and wiggling her hips as she explored ancient ruins; girls mostly remember her for being a non-nonsense heroine in a medium laden with princesses in need of rescue: A woman who could pump every bad guy in sight full of bullets all on her own, thank you very much, skimpy outfits and sexy wiggle be damned.
