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1. • In 1976 a game called “Exidy's Death Race” caused controversy as it was the first extremely violent game based on a movie
called “Death Race 2000”
• The movie is about competitors that mow down pedestrians for points.
• The game directly takes it plot from the movie.

2. • There were other violent video
games at the time but it cause
controversy because it did not
follow the culturally accepted
narratives of violence. (police,
military)

3. This cause the press to write story’s about the game, but this
did not slow the down the games sales, in fact, the opposite.
Death Race started a trend of violent and controversial video
games, which eventually led to the development of “GTA”
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Game Studies - The Agony and the Exidy: A History of Video
Game Violence and the Legacy of Death Race. 2017. Game
Studies - The Agony and the Exidy: A History of Video Game
Violence and the Legacy of Death Race. [ONLINE] Available
at: http://gamestudies.org/1201/articles/carly_kocurek.
[Accessed 21 September 2017].