Very disturbing having wannabe christcucks coming in here and completely denying history.
Yes, right-wingers and Christians try to censor everything. D&D itself was almost banned because of them.
In the '80s and '90s, Dungeons & Dragons products were sold in mass-market chain bookstores and in toy stores. The phrase "almost banned" implies some push for government suppression of D&D, and aside from the fact that this suppression would be unconstitutional and never occurred, this was also never a significant political issue. The most achieved by those ranting about D&D being "satanic" was that TSR decided to replace terms referencing extant religions, such as "devils" and "demons", from AD&D 2nd edition (and therefore from the later Planescape campaign setting) in favor of made-up fantasy-sounding terms such as "baatezu" and "tanar'ri".
They are responsible for the ESRB and other garbage. Denying this just makes you look stupid. And it's a real problem.
In 1993, with the Democratic Party having gained control of the presidency after 12 years and also having control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives, three
Democrat Senators (Kohl, Lieberman, and Dorgan)
held hearings to discuss content in videogames considered problematic by supposed experts giving testimony. Although the Senators justified their hearing by claiming negative effects of videogame violence on children, the expert testimony from that era of "political correctness" was broader in its criticism and prefigured our current era of "wokeness", with two experts in particular condemning games for being "sexist", "racist", "homophobic", "fascist", and so forth.
These hearings resulted in the establishment by the videogame industry of a common standard of ratings - the ESRB - as a defense against these political attacks, which largely succeeded in defusing them for the remainder of the '90s.
