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AndrewJ
24-03-2009, 03:17 PM
I'm working through my old Slashdot mail and came across this:

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| On Game Developers and Legitimacy |
| from the not-there-yet,-and-most-box-art-doesn't-help dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 10, @21:25 (Games) |
| http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/11/0042259 |
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Gamasutra is running a feature by game developer Brian Green on how he
and his colleagues are still [0]striving for legitimacy and respect as
part of a medium that's still commonly thought of by many as "for kids"
and "potentially harmful to kids." He notes that while financial
legitimacy is no longer in question, artistic and cultural legitimacy are
taking more time. Green makes some interesting parallels to the early
movie and comic book industries, and points out that moral outrage
against comic books did significant damage to the medium's growth in the
US. "... in the United States there was a 'moral panic' about the
corrupting influences of comic books on children, as there often is with
many 'new' media. The government threatened to enact laws to censor comic
books, for the good of the children. (Does that sound familiar to game
developers?) The industry reacted by enacting their own regulations, the
Comics Code Authority (CCA). The Comics Code Authority heavily restricted
the content that comics could contain. For example, the words 'horror'
and 'terror' were not allowed in the titles of comics. Werewolves,
vampires, zombies, and similar creatures of the night were forbidden."

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0. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3925/legitimacy_for_video_games.php

Ramperkash
29-03-2009, 11:12 PM
Ok, I'm not sure what you're trying to say, since you just quoted the letter, but:

I think we're already past some of that by now. When you look at games, they do have regulations to a certain extent. All (I think all) games have age ratings (PEGI age rating system) so it does limit the 'morally corrupt' material children would see.