![]() ![]() The last couple of years haven’t been as fruitful for video game scolds. ![]() Rod Blagojevich sending a message to “the parents of Illinois” pointing out that “98 percent of the games considered suitable by the industry for teenagers contain graphic violence.” ![]() That same year, the Illinois Legislature (among many others) banned the sale of violent games to minors, with then-Gov. The “Hot Coffee” modification to Grand Theft Auto-which allowed players to (poorly) simulate intercourse with in-game girlfriends-left Lieberman and Hillary Clinton in a huff in 2005. Joe Lieberman and Ted Kennedy spoke out against 2004’s JFK Reloaded, a game that let you re-enact the Kennedy assassination. For a brief window in the mid-2000s, video games became politicians’ favorite piñata. ![]()
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