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My arcade blog website. General info about arcade collecting and other topics.

One of the great arcade blogs for repairing your games with in depth photo tutorials and information about where to buy supplies, as well as story like instructions on how to implement a repair. Not spoken like a tech head, but for those of you out there who are just repairing your first favorite arcade game like a Pac-man or Donkey Kong.

Death Race Dr251 In 1976, a company called Exidy released a game loosely based on the 1975 movie Death Race 2000 (Sellers 88). Death Race put the player into a car; the goal was to run over stick-figure skeletons ("gremlins," the design team called them) that ran around the racetrack. "They called them gremlins, the rest of the world thought they were stick people, real people, and the idea of the game, of course, was to kill them," said former Exidy employee Eddie Adlum (Kent 91). Death Race was the first game to raise concerns about video game violence (90). Exidy employees maintained that the objects in the game were monsters, but the stick figures were open to interpretation and many interpreted the game to be a primitive hit-and-run murder simulation. Death Race touched off a fire of controversy. It was covered in magazines such as the "National Enquirer" and "Midnight," and was criticized for being sick and morbid by the National Safety Council and NBC's "Weekend" news show. "60 Minutes" even did a show on the psychological impact of video games (Deuel). Many arcade owners simply would not buy Death Race machines because of the controversy, but Exidy still did well, selling over 1,000 machines. "The end result was that Exidy sales doubled or quadrupled," said Adlum (Kent 91). "It seemed like the more controversy…the more our sales increased," said Exidy president Pete Kauffman (92). In fact, arcade games in general actually benefited from all the coverage being given to Exidy and Death Race. "Death Race was released at a time when the arcade circuit was floundering, and everyone's machines started selling better due to the attention" (Deuel).

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