The first real moral panic about how violent video games were going to transform America’s youth into hordes of blood-craving murderbots happened quite early in the history of video games, way back in 1976, and focused on a game called Death Race from a company called Exidy.

As you can guess, Death Race involved both death and racing. Well, sort of racing, if you count driving at blocky little humanoid figures called “gremlins” racing, which I’m not sure many do.

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