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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!raven.alaska.edu!uaf-du-02-13.alaska.edu!user
From: ffjjd@aurora.alaska.edu (Clint)
Subject: Re: Doom: The Arcade Game
Message-ID: <ffjjd-0109940605110001@uaf-du-02-13.alaska.edu>
Sender: news@raven.alaska.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks
References: <ffjjd-3008942140080001@uaf-du-02-13.alaska.edu> <342f7o$7m0@search01.news.aol.com> <342nq7$c3r@news.service.uci.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 06:05:11 GMT
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In article <342nq7$c3r@news.service.uci.edu>, eapu290@rigel.oac.uci.edu
(Nanda `Peace Rules` Kutty) wrote:
> In article <342f7o$7m0@search01.news.aol.com>, SNUN <snun@aol.com > wrote:
> >In article <ffjjd-3008942140080001@uaf-du-02-13.alaska.edu>,
> >ffjjd@aurora.alaska.edu (Clint) writes:
> >
> >Just think of the detail they could deliver if the used the high powered
> >processors of todays arcade games. We're talking dismemberment, beating
> >hearts flying across the room, blood spattered on the walls, limbs
> >degloved of flesh...it could be so beautiful. Perfectly smooth animation
> >at very high resolution in very large rooms...monsters of high
> >intelligence... I think I would go broke in a week if this game were ever
> >released in the arcade.
> > But the sad truth is, the game would probably be banned by concerned
> >parents. Oh well -- It's fun to dream anyway.
>
> Gee.. Is that why Mortal Kombat is banned in all arcade joints ? :-P
>
> Looks like Doom the arcade game would generate FAR FAR too much revenue
> for am arcade shop owner to give even give parental whining a second look.
> Government cant do diddly except possibly restrict play of the game to those
> over 13 or such. However, this would require documented research that violent
> video games causes children to be murderers and rapists. As far as I know,
> there is NO evidence that points singularly to video games as the cause.
Actually I didn't write the above statement. My name was left in there
from a previous statement but it must have been snun@aol.com that wrote
these lines.
Clint