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9/11 - The Video Game
Just when you think itâs safe to cut back on the French-bashing, maybe have a nice Haut-Medoc with dinner tonight, the French go all French on you.Families of Sept. 11 victims are outraged by a French Internet video game in which players shoot down passenger jets before they hit the World Trade Center towers. A video game. Yeah, letâs make a game out of the people who burned to death in the planes or fell to their deaths from the Towers. Good, clean fun. This gameâs been around for a while. "New York Defender" has been played more than 1.5 million times since it was launched on the website Uzinagaz.com one month after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. One whole month? Really hit you guys, didnât it? Jonathan Pitcher of Paris, who runs the website, said heâs not trying to make fun of the killing of 2,752 people. "After the attacks, we felt there was nothing we could do," he told the New York paper. "But with the game, you could pretend to defend the World Trade Center." But the thing about this "game" is, you canât win. Players shoot at the planes as they attack the towers, but the jets keep coming at a faster pace, and when a few strike the buildings the towers collapse. Because dudeâs trying to make an Important Political Point™. Pitcher said he and his colleagues "wanted to show there isnât any way to win against terrorism. Because it doesnât matter how many planes you shoot. There are always new planes." And all kinds of new targets. The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Musee dâOrsay, the Invalides, Notre Dame, the Ile de la Cite, Montmarte, the entire Left Bank... Posted by: Christopher Johnson 2003-12-06 |
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