Thirty years ago, Congress forced the video game industry to grow up

Congressional troubles, the birth of E3, and ‘Doom II’—1994 really had it all.

Every week, more than 212 million Americans play a video game for an hour or more. The average age of those players is 32 years old. It’s an industry that has won cases in front of the Supreme Court and whose collective annual revenues have surpassed those of the Hollywood box office.