Debates about video game violence seem perpetually new as the specific technologies used to depict violent acts are endlessly retooled with an eye toward interactivity, immersion, and realism. The fetishization of novel media technologies in industrial and public narratives of video gaming help obscure the medium's cultural history. In the United States, debate over the alleged social ills of video gaming has a lengthy and colorful history. EMA, the justices note that, "this country has no tradition of specially restricting children's access to depictions of violence," and hold that "California's claim that ꞌinteractiveꞌ video games present special problems, in that the player participates in the violent action on screen and determines its outcome, is unpersuasive" (Brown v. 1577 (2010), which "held that new categories of unprotected speech may not be added to the list by a legislature that concludes certain speech is too harmful to be tolerated" 2 (Brown v. These cases include landmark decisions which helped deregulate film screenings and cable television broadcasting, and the court's 2010 decision in United States v.
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Entertainment Merchants Association that video games qualify for the same free speech protections that cover other forms of expression in their ruling, the justices cite a rich history of prior free speech cases 1. In July 2011, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Brown v. Keywords: arcade, videogames, history, moral panic, Exidy, violence This bond has persisted and led to the development of several similar games, including the controversial Grand Theft Auto franchise, which is the progeny of Death Race in both narrative theme and reception. Discourse surrounding Death Race forged a strong tie between video gaming and violence in the public imagination, ensuring the development of similarly violent games. Public disapproval of Death Race did not squelch distribution, instead driving sales and vaulting Exidy into the national spotlight. This suggests the game triggered outrage not only because it was violent, but because it depicted violence which questioned the state's monopoly on legitimized violence and did not follow culturally accepted narratives of violence, such as military or police violence, or the western. However, Death Race was distributed in a market filled with numerous other violent games. Context, including the game's cabinet graphics and the film, contributed to moral guardians' perception that the game was celebrating violence. The chase-and-crash game invites players to strike stick-figure "gremlins" with on-screen cars. Although the filmmakers did not authorize the use of their concepts for the game, the game relies directly on the film's narrative. The game is based on one of these films, Death Race 2000, in which competitors in the Annual Transcontinental Road Race mow down pedestrians for points. Exidy released Death Race in the midst of changing cinema production codes and distribution regulations that led to the emergence of films featuring unprecedented displays of violence and sexuality. Public outrage not only fueled sales of the game and made Exidy a household name, but established a pattern by which controversial games receive a high levels of press attention, which in turn drives these games' marketplace success. In 1976, Exidy's Death Race triggered the United States’ first video gaming moral panic. The Agony and the Exidy: A History of Video Game Violence and the Legacy of Death Race by Carly A.
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