 In April 1998 , three years after the game was released , the Kentucky Teachers Retirement System came under criticism for owning 435 @,@ 000 shares worth $ 9 million in Cendant , which by this point had purchased Sierra On @-@ Line , due to the violence in the Phantasmagoria and other Sierra games . Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell ; Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee ; Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad ; and Lamar Alexander , former governor of Tennessee ; all asked the system to sell its stock . McConnell was particularly critical of the rape scene . They suggested a link existed between recent student slayings in West Paducah , Kentucky , and Jonesboro , Arkansas , and the " increasingly violent world many American children enter when they sit down in front of a computer screen " . Pat Miller , executive secretary of the Kentucky Teachers Retirement System , said the system wasn 't aware of Phantasmagoria or Sierra 's products , and that it invested in Cendant because it 's part of an index fund of the 500 best stocks in the country . Miller added that , if the retirement system finds a problem with Sierra On @-@ Line , it would ask Cendant to cease ownership in the company , and that the system would divest its stock if it refused . Miller said : " We 're not going to continue to invest in some company that does something that will be detrimental to our children . We know that our membership would not want us to do that . " The same letter was also sent to heads of teachers ' retirement systems in California , Ohio and Texas . 
