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Athena
SNK
June 30, 1986
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June 30, 1986 (38 years and 11 months ago)Publishers
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Athena is a platformer arcade game, also released on a number of consoles. It was developed by SNK for the arcade, and was ported to the NES by Micronics, and a number of other platforms by Ocean Software. The game featured a female protagonist, although explicitly utilizing the female body as a selling-feature for the game.
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