JFK Reloaded

[ercarta]

This is an outrage! Can you believe how far left video games have gone? What happened to Pac-Man, Tetris, & Super Mario Bros?

These days there are prostitutes in car games and now this! What a sadistic thought that was to create a game like JFK Reloaded. :Tara.badi

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6885991

[ercarta]

So no one shares a view on this new video game JFK Reloaded. I posted a link for those that don't know what it is.

The children of this country and others are playing a video game right now that simulates the assassination of our former president of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Is everyone like sleeping? This doesn't effect anyone?

The concept of the game sounds sick and brutal to me. I was taken back by the fact that this was allowed to be sold. There is actually a point system for shots taken at JFK's head. A player loses points if they shoot Kennedy's wife in the car. Sick sick & utterly sadistic, for sure. :(

[zipbow]

If my source of info is correct, this game is not made by US based or any of those big gaming companies, nor are they sold on market. It's made by one of those "underground" individual development team.

I think it's morally wrong to produce a game theme of this nature, and is completely disrespectful to the families of JFK. I am pretty sure Kennedy's family can take some legal actions towards whoever released this game to the public.

That being said, this is not the only game out there that people may find outrageous.

[sanity]

Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and free enterprise means that you have to take the good as well as the bad.

I caught half of an interview with these guys who claimed that the original point of the program was to scientifically model and prove that one gunman shot Kennedy. Of course, then they decided to make a few quick bucks with their software.

Remember how these games started? Wolfenstein said it was ok to blow up Nazis. In Doom, DukeNukem, and Quake, it was zombies and aliens. Halflife introduced corrupt government and military targets in addition to the aliens. CounterStrike pitted allowed players to play as terrorists killing police...

It was only a matter of time.

[Gaga]

what's the big surprise? nothing hollywood havent done..

[Juli B.]

Gaga,

Not for anything, but I think the video game is different from movies or documentaries about the assassination because the vid is interactive. It simulates the shooting. I have to wholeheartedly agree with Ercarta/Eric's outrage. I didn't respond at first because I felt there was nothing to add; he'd said it all as far as I was concerned.

Though I understand what Sanity is saying about freedom of speech and expression, I feel instinctively that this game (created by Brits, I believe) exceeds the limit (because we know there is a limit, since freedom has responsibility attached to it, whereas anarchy does not) on a number of levels, not the least of which is how hurtful it must be to the surviving Kennedys. (I feel upset because I remember how traumatic it was to me at the time as an 8-year-old kid and how it changed the country. Even my street name changed from Millbank St. to Kennedy Dr.)

That this game was released here in the United States also irks me because if we're going to apply the principle of freedom of expression, then it should be done fairly. How, for instance, can the FCC justify on the one hand fining Howard Stern for stuff he's been saying for 20 years yet on the other allow this game to be sold. I'm not sure that vid games are the FCC's bailiwick, but you get the idea.

I realize that each generation is freaked by some of the culture of the successive generations, but there does seem to be a distinct erosion of the qualities and characteristics that make a civilized, evolved people.

Maybe that's just old lady talk, but I don't think so.... I'm so glad I don't have children.