This Game Made You Crazy | Nostalgia Nerd
Get 20% off + free shipping @manscaped with code NOSTALGIA at https://mnscpd.com/nostalgianerd #teammanscaped ~ Back in the 1970s, the first arcade games as we really know them emerged, since then they’ve come a long way, but shockingly, it only took until 1976 for an arcade game to emerge that was so disturbing that it was removed from arcades around the world. The game in question was Exidy’s Death Race, and the newspapers, as you can imagine, had an absolute riot.
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@Nostalgianerd
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
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@DoubleRythym
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
“destruction-darby”💀💀
@stonent
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
The main question is, do monsters get a proper Christian burial?
@Nas_Atlas
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
I'm from Canada and I watch this at 0.75 speed with subtitles to keep up with the British wit.
@SasmakToy
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
Team17's Worms might be referencing the gravestones Destruction Derby/ Death Race arcade! Neat.
@WoodsPrecisionArms
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
Back in the late 70’s early 80’s arcade games were more adult driven – hell they used to sell pac man beer steins at Pizza Hut – yes those are beer mugs.
@na-ky8ou
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
Oh, so this is another woke channel? Too bad, some of its content was appreciable.
@أَلهِرّ69420
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
derby 😦 it's derby. I tried, but I could only make it 7 minutes before I couldn't handle hearing "darby" with "derby" on the screen any more
@The_ZeroLine
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
5:15 lol@“Speed Race.” That is literally the same as naming a fighting game “Violence Fight.”
@rekall76
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
nah, deathrace 2000 is a cinematic masterpiece
@FUGP72
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
"as a male presenting"
ugh. There is no way you ACTUALLY talk like that, let alone think like it. So why join a losing cause? Just say they were depicted as men.
@_The_Jim
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
i think the developers rely on the controversy as a way to stand out and get attention , then money. Wether its a game or music or a movie the difficult linr to walk is "how can we be offensive enough to make the newspapers without being outright banned." That must have seemes easier than just outright trying to make the best games they could.
@adamberndt4190
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
Dio, as in the God of Rock his wife was in Death Race 2000 also! She's the blond chick rubbing down Sylvester Stallone in the massage scene.
@Ilix42
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
Funny enough, China still requires killed players to be graves rather than corpses.
@TheLumpenMaoist
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
thats because we were invented by Joje Orwell in 1984 xd
@t4kpics431
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
I work for Coop funeral care thanks Nostalgia Nerd for the reference 🙂
@josephfranzen9196
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
We now know the origin of the Karen. The 1970’s.
@ZarathushtraHasSpoken
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
Table FooSballer, not FooTballer.
@coyoteartist
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
I never totally believed that they didn't know about the movie, which is great by the way.
@TheBeigeBox
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
Love a good Demolition Darby
@Remigrator
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
So a movie depicting running over actual human beings and in full resolution of a movie film gets a pass but a silly little game gets the piss. Okay, that does not make sense at all.
@fionanatalieholden5965
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
Did Boot Hill come out of Gunfight or was it just renamed? I have vague memories of playing this in an Arcade in Penzance.
Also are there any surviving Midway Sea Wolf 2 machines surviving out there. I hope so as we had great fun playing that one!
A thing alot of 70's arcade games had was playability and very addictive.
Another great blast from the past…thank you!
@Nucleite
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
I've been waiting for this to turn into a Polybius video for 26 minutes. I'm not disappointed though.
@JayAlfredoG
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
Evansville Press? Evansville Indiana?
@heggy_69
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
12:05 to skip sponsorship
@jimmio3727
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
It looks like you may be using an ad blocker. Video playback is blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled. Too bad, I bet this was a great video. Fuck you, YouTube.
@halfsourlizard9319
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
'Censorship makes sense.' NO, no, it does not.
@terminallygray
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
Ohhhh Nellly. Death Race !! Believe it or don't. In my fair town, we had an 8 (eight) player version of that game !! The screen would be littered with crosses when you were done playing.
@radiant_plus
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
I saw a news report about the 'infamous' Death Race in the day. I practically drooled to play it.
@MaxW-er1hm
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
3:13 well they founded Syzygy.😇
@necroflounder
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
Using the language of the new censorship to talk about the old censorship, not sure if self aware.
@EternalGamingNet
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
Very interesting video!
@gonzaloNMF
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
I'm not old enough to have played Death Race, but I'm old enough to have played Carmageddon. And I grew up to become not a murderer, but a bloody geek who works in a museum and enjoys watching all this kind of nerdy documentaries.
@Nightshft42
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
13:09 In the first moment I thought that's the young David Braben.
@johneygd
March 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm
No nintendo sheriff and no midway mortal kombat mentioned,that’s pretty sad.
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