1. The phone numbers don’t work anymore!

   1. CatlinCustoms Nice!

2. I’m glad that the the pro-video games side of the debate was represented in this segment. Mitchell Robin’s perspective was certainly more logical than the alarmist take that Thomas Radecki (A clueless putz who also targeted horror movies and pro wrestling in the ’80s) presented. There are plenty of non-violent video games or games where killing enemies is not the object from the golden era – the Pac-Man series, Qix, Q*Bert, Pole Position (any racing game for that matter), Rally-X, Burgertime, Jungle King/Hunt, etc. 

   1. KaijuEigaMan88 Yes.  If I remember correctly, the segment ET did on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween Atari cartridges was not as fair!  Sadly, I don’t have that segment.

3. Those games sure were violent! Appalling!

   1. munchycrunchypancake I’m not sure how we got through the 80’s!

   2. Playing Combat, Outlaw, and Yars Revenge is the reason I’m such a badass from a “society of warriors”! haha

4. Irony on this is the US at the time and previous decade was filled with serial killers who never gamed at all lol The crack epidemic was a year or two away and the news was complaining about people playing frogger o,o

   1. adam tarver yes!

5. I saw a sweet Hill Street Blues jacket:)))

6. That’s a hot news woman

   1. +Hamlet32 Yes, Mary Hart. I had the major hots for her.

7. Amazing !! Thanks for sharing this

   1. No problem, glad you enjoyed it!

8. That’s awesome. Stuff like this is priceless. To get a genuine look at how people were viewing such issues way back then.

   It’s funny because those game aren’t even like mildly violent by today’s standards. Could you imagine if that dude saw today’s games? Ha

9. Toronto Maple Leafs jersey at 02:17.

10. People were saying this all the way back in 82?!

11. How much money did the news make off of those 1-900 numbers?

12. In 1999 to 2022………..I SAY YES !!!!

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