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Witnesses argued that games such as Mortal Kombat and Night Trap desensitize young players to real suffering and promote degrading violence. The senators urged companies Sega and Nintendo to voluntarily reduce violent content, warning government action if they did not. 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 \nKids 7-13 who wantedvideo games forChristmas:91%All-time top sellinggame:SUPER MARIOBROS.3(7 million soldits first year—1989)Homes with boysbetween 8 and 18owning a video-gameplayer:85%  \ncontinued from page one  \nMA-13 for players 13 and over;and MA-17 for players aged 17and over.  \n## Misleading Commercial\n\nSenator Lieberman also crit-icized Sega in particular for  \nimendoof Amie lie  \n## VIDEO GAMES\n\nFamily enjoys a new video game  \none of its TV commercials.Hesaid that the commercial pro-moted violence and targetedkids under 13.The TV com-mercial shows a boy gainingthe respect of his friends afterwinning Mortal Kombat.Atthe end of the commercial,theboy angrily knocks over a trayof cookies given to him byfriends now frightened by theboy's fighting ability.The boyroars,\"I said I wanted choco-late chip!”  \nBill White,vice president ofSega of America,said thatSega had aired the commercialbefore it established a ratingsystem,and that the commer-cial was taken off the air.  \nRealistic Violence  \nVideo-game players havebeen zapping aliens and wiping  \nout bad guys for more than 20years.So why have critics onlynow mounted a serious attackon video-game violence?  \nThere are two reasons,saycritics.The first reason is thattoday more violence seems to  \nALSO IN THE  \nimage,today's video gamerstry to kill realistic-lookingcharacters—and that,say crit-ics,tends to teach children thathuman life is cheap.  \nNew Defense  \nChief.In a surprisemove,President Clintonhas replaced Les Aspinas Secretary of Defense.Taking over that post is62-year-old BobbyInman,formerly secondin command at theCentral IntelligenceAgency (CIA).Inman isan admiral with longexperience in U.S.spyagencies.He calls him-self an\"operator.\"  \nVideo-Game Defenders  \nOf course,not everyonethinks that video-game vio-lence is harmful.Many peopleargue that the concern overvideo-game violence,like theconcern over TV violence(CE  \n4)is much ov","cbCaiosXlInlGCrI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiosXlInlGCrI","pdf",2784786,"English","# Senators Urge Government Action to Curb Video-Game Violence\n## Too Much Violence\n## Critics Zap Video Games\n## Video-Game Facts\n## Misleading Commercial\n## Video Games\n## Video-Game Defenders","[{\"question\":\"Which senators led the U.S. hearings on video games?\",\"answer\":\"The hearings were headed by Senators Joseph Lieberman and Herbert Kohl.\"},{\"question\":\"What was the main concern about games like Mortal Kombat and Night Trap?\",\"answer\":\"Witnesses testified that the violence teaches children to be insensitive to human suffering and has a desensitizing impact.\"},{\"question\":\"What action did the senators ask video-game companies to take?\",\"answer\":\"The senators told companies to voluntarily cut back on violence; 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