Grand Theft Auto, Old School

Listening to Weekend America just now, a story came on mentioning that the newest Grand Theft Auto has just come out. They mentioned that it wasn’t the first game to feature wanton killing, though - way back in the 1970’s, the game “Death Race” featured cars just running people over, and when you ran them over a little grave marker appeared.

I never did get to recap my trip to San Francisco for the PCA conference, but one of the fun things we did while in town was visit the Musee Mechanique. And one of the games at the Musee Mechanique? You guessed it.

Death Race:

Perception can be a funny thing, though - when we first started playing, I thought that you were driving around killing zombies (maybe because I’ve been playing apocalyptic zombie games so much lately). I didn’t realize until half-way through the second game (we, uh, didn’t know how to make the cars *move* in the first round) when Colleen said something that you were steering your cars into people. Which is not to say, of course, that zombies aren’t people - if any zombies are reading, you’re certainly as much people as the living.

Digressions aside, I clearly killed it.* Har har.

* I do not condone motor-vehicle related violence, in Grand Theft Auto or anywhere. I just couldn’t resist am clearly a bad person.