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How Mortal Kombat invented the ESRB
A moral panic that changed the video game industry
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During a joint hearing before two Senate committees in 1993, Sen. Joe Lieberman called for a bulky TV to be wheeled in so he could show a video excerpt to illustrate a point. It was a brutal scene from
Mortal Kombat blood splattering from Sonia’s head before Kano rips out her heart. In a second clip, Sub-Zero finished Raiden by ripping his head off, spine still attached.
Gruesome fatalities, sure, but nothing I’d bat an eye at now, after seeing how the Mortal Kombat franchise has evolved in almost 30 years since. Think of Baraka tearing off his enemy’s face, layer by layer, before skewering their brain and taking a big ol’ bite out of it. Or maybe D’Vorah vomiting insect larvae into an opponent’s mouth; a spider eventually bursts from their body, their entrails dangling like jewelry.
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Archivists are trying to chronicle Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ unforgettable first year
The challenge of documenting a virtual world
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“The serendipity of the time [
Animal Crossing: New Horizons] came out is ridiculous,” says Lex Roberts, curator of the UK National Videogame Museum’s
Animal Crossing Diaries. The project aims to capture “the cultural phenomenon that followed the release
of Animal Crossing … in March 2020, just as the world was transformed by the pandemic.”
New Horizons has been inextricably associated with COVID-19, with early reviews making mention of how much we all needed an escape as lockdowns and quarantines suddenly became our lives. As it became apparent that social distancing would be around for a long time, the game became the location of weddings, memorials, protests, and political campaigning, to name just a few.
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