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Creating Lara Croft - twenty years ago

On 25 October 1996 Lara Croft made her debut as the heroine of the classic computer game Tomb Raider. Heather Gibson was one of the original team responsible for the game's creation. She remembers the efforts made to create a genuine video game heroine, as well as the controversy over how Lara looked.

(Picture: Model Karima Adebibe as action heroine Lara Croft. Credit: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)

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