JFK shooting game 'despicable'

[emad]

Guardian

Press Association
Monday November 22, 2004

A controversial new British-made computer "docu-game" recreating the assassination of John F Kennedy has been described as "despicable" by aides to the late president's brother.

Glasgow-based firm Traffic, which launched JFK: Reloaded 41 years after the president's death in Dallas, Texas, on November 22 1963, is offering up to £53,800 to the first person to most accurately recreate the three shots fired by Lee Harvey Oswald.

The game - which can be downloaded from the web - recreates JFK's last moments. According to Traffic, it challenges players to help disprove any conspiracy theory by recreating the shots fired from the sixth floor of the Dallas book repository.

David Smith, a spokesman for Edward Kennedy, told the Associated Press that the Massachusetts senator's office had begun receiving calls about the game on Friday. "It's despicable. There's really no further comment," he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1356959,00.html

[zbdent]

1. What, the Repukes haven't declared 11/22 a national GOP holiday?

Or, given the "morals" of this country, a national "holy day" for the GOP?

[skooooo]

2. What's next? The WTC game??

I can see the advertisement now, "You're in the WTC on 9/11, the first plane just crashed into your building. You can either high-tail it down the stairs and make it out -- but you'll have to push people out of your way to make it. Do you go for survival, or do you try to help your fellow man? You decide!"


What about the Ronald Reagan Assassination Attempt Shooting Gallery?

[The Stranger]

3. You beat me to it. If that imbecile Reagan's assassination were at issue,

then they would be declaring crusade/jihad on the video game world.

[emad]

4. Busting Poppy for Dallas '63 would make an even better game....

Feds arrest Bush Sr, charge him with trwson, murder, racketeering, moneylaundering, etc etc etc, straight to the gachamber/electric chair/lethal injection palor/choose your fave method of execution....

[chiffon]

5. Utterly disgusting!

The lows just keep getting lower.

[ladjf]

6. Plainly put, it's a sociopath's game.

[The Animator]

7. I'm currently developing a game that will cause the GOP to jihad.

A couple actually, but they are still in the concept stages, and are Top Secret.

[Moderator]

8. Duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1010962