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"The question is how to design a home video game which would teach a great deal of astronomy in a context as exciting as most violent video games."

I'm curious as to what "most violent video games" he might be referring to? Asteroids?

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I got lectured a bit by dad when I showed him a cool "violent" video game in 1987 or so. I think it was a C64 game, maybe Commando. He told me it was neat but he'd much rather see my brother and me creating things and learning. We would later leverage that little fact into our its-an-education-system arguments when we asked for an upgrade to a Commodore Amiga.

galaga, bomberman, ultima, texas chainsaw massacre

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