Did you know that the first Mexican video game dates back to 1972? Or that Mexicans have produced a total of 1,406 video games to date? All this data is the result of the work of a researcher known in the video game world as Cataxis.
![Victoria Hugo Pérez Arteaga in the video “WOMEN GAME JAM 2023 [Testing some of the jam games]” on her YouTube channel Cataxis. Youtube,2024.](https://mexicanpressagency.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Cataxis-1024x576.webp)
Women in Games ambassador, tester, developer and researcher, Victoria Hugo “Cataxis” Pérez Arteaga is an unparalleled figure in the Mexican video game space, particularly for non-binary women and the LGBTQ+ community.
In an interview with Mexican Press Agency (MxPA), Victoria, originally from Michoacán, revealed her life’s experience dedicated to video games and the process of creating the largest Mexican video game database to date.
Exposure to Mexican video games, like Pato Box, sparked the researcher’s curiosity about games created in her homeland. This triggered an effort that continues to this day: cataloging and recognizing Mexican developers.
“I committed to doing it, and in fact, several developers donated various things like money or video game books to encourage its creation because it was voluntary, free, and for journalistic purposes,” Cataxis said.
Efforts like this are essential to preserving the history of the digital industry in Mexico. Otherwise, as Mexican video game developer Antonio Uribe Fáyer would say, “We are writing our history in the sand.”
Not only is Victoria’s effort a valuable recognition of Mexican talent, it is also a source of knowledge and information for future researchers.
Like Atlas, Victoria bears the responsibility of updating this list, but unlike the Titan, she does so out of love for an entertainment medium that is as much art as it is a technological marvel.
The researcher also commented that with the celebration of the Mexican Entertainment System, the list had grown even more in recent days.
Video games are for everyone
Victoria is also an ambassador for Women in Games and Women in Gamex. The former is an international organization that seeks to promote the presence and work of women in the video game industry, while the latter is a Mexican community that seeks to foster women’s participation in the video game industry in Mexico and Latin America.
These organizations are responsible for organizing the Woman Game Jam, an event in which female developers are challenged to create a video game within a specific timeframe; it’s both a celebration and a competition that attracts the attention of companies. Victoria tells us that “this event is so good and so successful that several girls from there end up working in the video game industry at companies.”
In an environment that is misleadingly portrayed as predominantly male, efforts like Cataxis’s and all the women who make the Women Game Jam possible are a beacon for more women to navigate and find a path in an industry that should be for everyone.
Victoria is not just a spectator of the industry, she is also a developer and you can play her game Breakout Epilepsia, free and Steam.
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