Throughout my college career, I am planning to go into the field of game design. As I have mentioned before on my previous posts, many parents organizations, senators, and politicians have blamed video games for everything including school shootings and riots. When Mortal Kombat and Night Trap were realeased, parents were outraged and politicians called for a ratings board in order to inform parents about violent content. The games industry was demonized as a monolithic collection of greedy, corporate overlords who were only concerned about profit instead of the welfare of children.
Noting the violence of the games Joe Liberman said "We're not talking Pac-Man or Space Invaders anymore." he said, "We're talking about games that glorify violence and teach children to enjoy inflicting the most gruesome forms of cruelty imaginable." he said. As a result of the controversy, the ESRB rating was established which exists to this day.
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