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15 maj 2012 · Released by Exidy in 1976, Death Race became the first arcade game to spur a national controversy over violence in video games. A player of the game navigated a white car across the black screen as white stick figures, which developers called “gremlins,” ran back and forth.
The game attracted a great deal of controversy over the content of the game which was centered around killing humanoid figures. In July 1976, newspapers and civic organizations began to attack the game for facilitating violence in virtual form.
1 wrz 2012 · In 1976, Exidy's Death Race triggered the United States’ first video gaming moral panic. Public outrage not only fueled sales of the game and made Exidy a household name, but established a...
24 kwi 2015 · By the early '90s, controversy would be generated by a very unlikely game: Night Trap, which originally entered production in 1987 for the unreleased, VHS-based NEMO system.
31 sie 2010 · The controversy eventually culminated in a piece on 60 Minutes that investigated the psychological impact of video games. Anti-Death Race demonstations were held and there were reportedly even cases where protestors pulled the machines out of the arcades and set them on fire (although I'm still looking for documentation of that).
16 paź 2023 · Violent video games (VVGs) are a source of serious and continuing controversy. They are not unique in this respect, though. Other entertainment products have been criticized on moral grounds, from pornography to heavy metal, horror films, and Harry Potter books.
22 lis 2020 · The 1990s also saw controversy over “first-person shooter” video games in which the player's primary objective was to use weapons to search and kill other characters, with critics labeling these games “murder simulators” (Silverman, 2007).
