"Laden vs. USA"

[Morgeruat]

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/24712.htm

[Charlie]

Umm, you have to sign up to the site and log in to read this article....at least that's what it's asking me to do. I declined.

What's the gist of the article?

[Morgeruat]

hmm, never asked me to, and I haven't signed up...

oh well, here's a snippet that captures the main thrust of the article.

June 2, 2005 -- Disgusted Brooklyn residents were up in arms over a video game that turns the horrifying events of 9/11 into child's play. A hand-held video holy war, called "Laden vs. USA," features digital planes flying into the World Trade Center. One furious family found it on sale for $4.89 on Coney Island Avenue.... The packaging claims it's a boxing game, but when The Post turned on the sickening toy, the object appeared to be to drop bombs on planes flying into the Twin Towers. Lucenti said the game was bought at a local corner store, called Oakdale Dairy, on Avenue H and Coney Island Avenue, in a Pakistani and Bangladeshi enclave of Brooklyn. The manager, Muhammad Malik, said the store buys games from a wholesaler in Manhattan and typically just fills a carton with random goods, rarely looking at what they are buying. "We hurry," he said. "If it was sold here, I don't know."... And the toy, which appears to have been manufactured in China, was apparently being offered at a bargain on Coney Island Avenue.

[ 06-02-2005, 12:50 PM: Message edited by: Morgeruat ]

[Legolas]

The gist of it is that there's a handheld game where you have to drop bombs on planes flying into the twin towers. It's about a year old already and sells for $6 and up, and one family was outraged to find it priced $5.

[Charlie]

Very sad...

[shamrock_uk]

[img]graemlins/idontagreeatall.gif[/img] Here's hoping that the manufacturer is found and given a clubbing.

[Aragorn1]

On the other hand, its just a game and you can tell that the makers will enjoy the publicity. They should waste ink on this stuff, its too trivial for words.

[Morgeruat]

So you're telling em that WW2 vets shouldn't be offended if they made the Chinpokomon video game from South Park (bombing Pearl Harbor) or that a "Surf the Tsunami, Dec '04" game would be a good idea?

The game is in poor taste, and it's offensive.

[krunchyfrogg]

Terrible.

Video games have always been an escape. Any relation to real life history shouldn't be there, including the WWII games.

[ 06-02-2005, 05:23 PM: Message edited by: krunchyfrogg ]

[Djinn Raffo]

Originally posted by krunchyfrogg: Terrible. Video games have always been an escape. Any relation to real life history shouldn't be there, including the WWII games.

That's ludicrous.