Death Race (Exidy, 1976) Death Race was one of the first arcade games to gain media attention due to gratuitous depictions of violence (or as 'gratuitous' as two colours and a handful of pixels can get). The object of the game was to run over fleeing pedestrians in your car, with each collision accompanied by a scream and tombstone animation. The game's publisher attempted to avoid controversy by calling the vanquished roadkill 'gremlins', but the press were far from appeased. In the US, numerous newspapers ran negative stories about the machine and it was eventually covered by the top-rating news program 60 Minutes. In an attempt to make amends, Exidy released a revised version which featured motionless, pre-killed pedestrians. If anything, this made the game even more morbid. Factoid: The game's working title was reportedly Pedestrian, which kind of flies in the face of the whole 'gremlins' assertion.
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