[Kelamir]

> I remember how Mortal Kombat and DOOM were going to cause the fall of civilization.

redisman, could you tell more about this?

[bcrosby95]

Probably referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_congressional_hearings_on...

Keep in mind when these games were released there was no rating system for video games. The ESRB came about because of these hearings.

[rchaud]

And yet by 1995 Bill Gates was appearing in a video promo for Doom on Windows, wearing a trenchcoat and carrying a shotgun. For obvious reasons, this kind of nerdy frivolity wouldn't really be palatable after 1999.