Infinite Lives

• Vintage Computing and Gaming – Prodigy Lives! Play MadMaze On the Web
  Dude, awesome: Benj Edwards and I both got Prodigy on Christmas Day, 1992. Benj! What was your handle? Mine was EGRP77B.
• Christian Gaming Zone – Minecraft
  (via reddit)
• Opposable Thumbs – Oral arguments in violent game case focus on nature of violence
  An overview of today’s Supreme Court battle.
• Rock, Paper, Shotgun – Judges Say The Funniest Things
  Justice Kagan: Do you think Mortal Kombat is prohibited by this statute?

  Morazzini: I believe it is a candidate. But I haven’t played the game and been exposed to it sufficiently to judge for myself.

  Justice Kagan: I am sure half of the clerks who work for us spent considerable amounts of time in their adolescence playing [it].

  Justice Scalia: I don’t know what she’s talking about.
• The Progress & Freedom Foundation – Fact and Fiction in the Debate Over Video Game Regulation
  "’Even the most vehement critics of contemporary popular culture would be hard-pressed to find anything in today’s mainstream mass entertainment as alarming as the gore-drenched, gun-worshipping fantasies that Spillane and his publisher dished out for the delectation of millions of ordinary American readers in the supposedly halcyon days of the 1950s,’ argues Schechter. He also recounts the extraordinary gore of ‘pulp’ comics during that decade, which were often replete with macabre, masochistic scenes."
• Truthdig – Nigel Warburton on Why Video Games Are Good
  "Received middlebrow opinion is that the frissons such pursuits produce are distinctly lower pleasures. Video games—unlike chess and bridge—are deemed escapist, and at best distractions from what really matters in life. At worst they are turning a generation into pale antisocial creatures with repetitive strain injury and a propensity to engage in real violence."
• Above the Law – The Hacking and Slashing of Free Speech: To Protect Children of Course
  Legal tabloid explains it out for armchair law enthusiasts
• The Atlantic – In the War on Violent Video Games, Arnold Has No Clothes
  "California’s rule would allow censoring not just video games but films and even books aimed at young people. It’s a venerable impulse: since the time of Plato’s Republic, human beings have imagined that if we could just stop our kids from seeing or reading anything bad, they would grow up to be perfect."
• 1UP – The Videogame Industry’s Day in Court
  "The Supreme Court will soon be hearing the most important case in gaming history. Here’s what it could mean for you."

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