Live Magazine February Issue February 2014 | Page 68

RETRO 5 CONTROVERSIAL VIDEO GAMES Video games have been around for a long time now, with the first recorded electronic game being Tennis for Two created by the late William Higinbotham in [email protected] Since then so many different This could arguably be the first video game with graphic content. Based kinds of video and computer games have on the cult film starring the Sylvester Stallone and the late David Carembraced the market. Some that make radine. The objective of this game is to run over as many pedestrians as us laugh, some that make us cry, some possible before the time runs out. that educate, and some that are just mindless fun for all ages. Although this game predates Carmageddon, it has been a template that paved the way of violent video games even without any visible blood, Although there are many games that there was still the imagery and implication of death by running over ‘gremhave hit controversial levels pushing the lins’. boundaries of what some are deemed artistic, when others deem tasteless or containing unnecessary graphic content. This is not to imply that all controversial games were bad games and only questionable content used as a gimmick, but there are some that stirred enough attention and praise among gamers which unfortunately got thrown in to various categories. DEATH RACE (EXIDY ARCADE 1976) Here in order of release dates are 5 of many games out there that are worth mentioning that have pushed boundaries of censorship.