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Midway's fighting game used photographed actors and unusually graphic finishing moves. It earned heavily in arcades, sold strongly on home consoles, and became the central exhibit in an American political fight over game content.
A single arcade cabinet forced an entire industry to answer for its content. The dispute produced a rating system, retailer policies and two decades of legislative attempts, and it set the pattern by which American political attention arrives in response to one popular product rather than a general trend.
