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0 pointsKelamir5y ago0 comments

> I remember how Mortal Kombat and DOOM were going to cause the fall of civilization.

redisman, could you tell more about this?

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Probably referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_congressional_hearings_on...

Keep in mind when these games were released there was no rating system for video games. The ESRB came about because of these hearings.

rchaud5y ago

And yet by 1995 Bill Gates was appearing in a video promo for Doom on Windows, wearing a trenchcoat and carrying a shotgun. For obvious reasons, this kind of nerdy frivolity wouldn't really be palatable after 1999.

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