Today while our obese, unhealthy children, listen to their parents tell stories starting with ” When I was your age, videogames…” they laugh, shrug it off, and walk away, seemingly uninterested in 2-D tales of videogame past. What today’s fast-food generation fail to understand is that in a way, the Atari paved the way for today’s videogames. In fact, if there was no Atari, we’d still all be playing pinball machines, two-up and god forbid, recreational sports.

The Atari-History website even referred to it as the “Big Bang Explosion” of video games. True to the theory, videogames came out like cheap semi pornographic B grade movies of today. Although there were a couple of classic gems, such as Pac-man and s

Fast food, J-Lo and Nintendo – Conclusion

Much like popcorn is with a good movie, or like peanut butter with jam, Videogames and censorship come hand in hand. None can exist without the other, and for a good period of time they had learnt to co-exist with each other, without too much complication.

At present, the Office of Film and Classification control what we watch, read and listen to in Australia. They also rate videogames. At present there are four different classifications for games: G, G8, M15 and MA15.

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