Videogame Nasty: The Media vs. Death Race

The story of a violent video game, and how the media's reaction to it established a template that would last for decades.

Want to know more? Read the accompanying article at the Video Game History Foundation: https://gamehistory.org/media-vs-death-race/

Sources

• The Agony and the Exidy: A History of Video Game Violence and the Legacy of Death Race by Carly Kocurek
• The All in Color for a Quarter blog by Keith Smith
• Cash Box magazine
• Retro Gamer magazine
  
  

Media

• Valley of the Space Invaders
  The Museum of Classic Chicago Television
  www.fuzzymemories.tv
• Exidy logo by THK from the HyperSpin forums
  http://hyperspin-fe.com/forums/
• Clips from Death Race 2000 © 1975 New World Productions Inc.
• Video Game History: 1982 30 Minutes segment
  uploaded by duncanfbrown
• Newspaper Story
  by Encyclopedia Britannica Films, Inc.
  Public domain
• Playing to Win: Inside the Video Game Industry
  uploaded by Grooveraider
• Washington: The Nation’s Capitol
  Public domain
• G4 Icons Episode #2: Nolan Bushnell
  uploaded by G4Icons
• Violent Video Games On The local News
  uploaded by K. Huntington
  
• CNN Headline News - Grand Theft Morality Pt.2
  uploaded by ward0g25
  
• CBS News with Katie Couric Looks at Manhunt 2
  uploaded by GamePolitics
  
• 1993 Senate Committee Hearings on Violence In Video Games
  uploaded by K. Huntington
  
• All other footage captured by Chris Chapman
  

Special Thanks

• Additional voice recordings by Draz
  You might like their channel: http://youtube.com/DrazGames
• The National Safety Council
  http://www.nsc.org/
• Members of the VGHF Discord
  http://gamehistory.org/donate/

Music

• Zebra Bike by Willbe
  http://willbe.bandcamp.com/
  CC BY-NC-SA