In December 1993, the US Senate put Mario and Sonic on trial. Led by Senator Joe Lieberman, politicians launched a moral crusade against the video game industry, citing two games as evidence of the corruption of America's youth: the bloody fighting game "Mortal Kombat" and the B-movie vampire trap "Night Trap." They threatened federal regulation if the industry didn't police itself."The Senate vs. The Joystick" takes you inside the courtroom drama where executives from Nintendo and Sega, instead of uniting, turned on each other. Nintendo, projecting a "family-friendly" image, happily threw...