Death race game review

The first controversial video game to feature the race car driver running over pedestrians to their grave to score points. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Add photo. Storyline Edit. It's fascinating! It's fun chasing monsters. Did you know Edit. Trivia The first video game to be banned taken off the market because of violence. When confronted about the violence, such as running over people to get points, due to the poor graphics of the game's day, the creators replied that the people were just skeletons escaping from the graveyard.

User reviews 1 Review. Top review. Great game but not based on the movie. This was my favorite video game back in the day. Avoid other deadly rally cars that might get in your way and be sure to collect bullets so you can shoot them down to get past! With over 30 death race cars to drive and Race along this endless, post apocalyptic highway!

With over 30 death race cars to drive and collect, keep playing until you collect them all! Pick your favorite death race cars and roam free on the open highway, shooting down cars and getting high scores. Critic Reviews. Score distribution:. Positive: 0 out of. Mixed: 0 out of. Negative: 0 out of. User Reviews. Write a Review. Essential Links. Current Switch Games Full List ». By Metascore By user score. Once you did, a tombstone would pop up.

Or at least, they were supposed to be gremlins. The graphics were so primitive at the time that what the developers called gremlins looked a lot like humans, since all that could be rendered was a blocky stick figure. Which didn't look too great.

Neither did the giant grim reaper on the flyer, or the skeletons all over the arcade cabinet. In a world and time where video games were seen as colourful blocks and children's toys, this was a very adult game, and the relatively conservative media of didn't like it one bit.

Combine all that with the fact it got out that the game's working title had been Pedestrian , making the "gremlin's" similarity to humans seem all the more transparent, and you've got the makings of gaming's first ever mainstream media controversy.

There was a story on 60 Minutes looking at the dangers of the game's psychological impact.