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Joe Versus Video Games

The day America declared war on Japan’s biggest game companies

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Matt Alt
Apr 02, 2024
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Hey, Joe, where you goin’ with that light gun in your hand?

Most remember Senator Joe Lieberman, who passed away last week at the age of 82, as the running mate of Al Gore in the hotly contested 2000 presidential elections, with all of their hanging chads. But I’ll always have a soft spot for his Quixotic jeremiad against video games.

To set the stage, le…

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