Only a year before the game’s release, director Paul Bartel created the action movie opens in a new window Death Race 2000, starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone. Exidy responded that, despite the gremlins’ humanoid shape, they weren’t meant to represent people, but several flaws exist in this explanation. Though the game featured minimal graphics, protestors soon claimed the title promoted excessive violence. With each kill, a player gained a certain number of points. The driver attempted to run over the gremlins, which let out high-pitched screams and turned into tomb stones complete with crosses. A player of the game navigated a white car across the black screen as white stick figures, which developers called “gremlins,” ran back and forth. Released by Exidy in 1976, Death Race became the first arcade game to spur a national controversy over violence in video games.
Recently, ICHEG added the controversial arcade game Death Race to its collections.
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