Not to tick off any of my computer gaming fans - happy to have you here, guys! - but I’m not a big fan. Video games in general are mildly entertaining. I may get whooped up in a good game of Madden on my XBox 360, but I sure run a lot more DVDs on [...]
So, just the other day I was playing my Madden ‘09 on my Xbox 360 and thoroughly enjoying myself and I thought back to the glory days of the first Madden I ever played: Madden NFL ‘94.
It caused a firestorm of controversy when it was released. Everyone knew about it. Kids salivated over it. Parents woke up in cold sweats from nightmares of their kids playing it. In 1992, Mortal Kombat did exactly what parents feared it would: it promoted blood and gore in video games, it desensitized kids to violence, and [...]