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A history of violence

Whatever happened to videogame scare stories? You know what I’m talking about, “Nintendo killed my son!”… “Videogames brainwash children!”… “Epidemic of youth violence!”

Every time there was a new , or… I dunno… , our elders would clutch their pearls and shriek that we were all doomed unless they banned this sick filth. Or words got dragged into the general air that gaming was causing society to crumble, when an episode of the cartoon was alleged to have caused seizures.

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