VIDEO GAMES ARE DANGEROUS!!! WATCH OUT!!!11!!!

Like yesterday's article, this report from Channel 4 in New York from the early 90's is about video games (of course) and their effects on childresn. However, UNLIKE yesterday's video, which was certainly much more optimistic in tone and outcome, THIS one was designed to leach off the fears psrents had about the games their children played. Mentioned here were primarily fighting games like Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat.

As this was around the time that the industry and US government were starting to consider the ratings question, which culminated in the enstatement of the ESRB. It's amazing to consider the fact that the over-protective ideas of a super PC generation still affect us video gamers today, more than 20 years after all this!


Source: News 4 New York

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Imagine if you will...

"Imagine if you will sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read the day's newspaper. Well it's not as far-fetched as it may seem."

Yeah, Imagine that.

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The Console Wars -- Christmas 1990

Just to show you youngins just how hot the console wars got, look no further than this vintage news report from Good Morning America from 1990 to tell you.

Nintendo versus Sega. NES versus the Genesis.

And not to mention some very interesting market insights of the time... such as Nintendo console sales slowing because EVERYONE ALREADY HAS ONE.

Just watch.

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VINTAGE News Segment on PlayNET

And continuing the PlayNET discussion, here we have a vintage news segment from WRGB Channel 6 in Schenectady, NY from 1983... and most interestingly, uploaded by someone who was working there at the time!

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VINTAGE VIDEO GAME DOCUMENTARY! - Valley of the Space Invaders

I love watching documentaries on video games, particularly of the late seventies and early eighties. I ESPECIALLY love watching vintage docs like these, made IN THAT ERA!

This is called Into the Valley of the Space Invaders, produced in 1982 by Field Communications, broadcast by KBHK Channel 44 in San Francisco. These wonderful pieces of historical ephemera were uploaded to to YouTube by FuzzyMemoriesTV or the Museum of Classic Chicago Television, who are known for uploading lots of classic TV, mainly from the aforementioned Chicago area.



For More on Space Invaders, Check Out:

- Aitsu Wa Invader (1979) by Maki Ueda, Pro-Wrestler!

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Parents Upset Over New Nintendo Console - Super Nintendo - Circa 1991

In this AWESOME find from 1991, we get another example of what we gamers had to deal with when we were younger.

My thoughts on this:

-  "Where should the anger be directed? Not the parents, but the manufacturers."
   Ok... anyone who knows me and my other works (Sledgecorp Productions) knows I am no champion of any particular big company... but I do think that PARENTS should take repsonsibility for what they buy their kids.  This is ridiculous.

- "Nintenpendant"
   Really??? NINTENPENDANT??? Why not something equally inane, like "Independo?"

- They constantly refer to graphics as "pictures." Wierd.

- The F-ZERO clip.  Good God that was creepy.

Did you encounter stuff like this when you were younger?  Let me know!

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