A British company has released a video game recreating the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy.
“A spokesman for the president’s brother, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., called the game ‘despicable.’ The Glasgow-based firm Traffic said “JFK Reloaded” was an educational “docu-game” that would help disprove conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s death. The game is due to be released Monday, the 41st anniversary of the shooting in Dallas. Traffic said the game challenged players to recreate the three shots fired at the president’s car by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald from the Texas School Book Depository,” The Associated Press reports.
“Traffic’s managing director, Kirk Ewing, said the game – available as an Internet download for $9.99 – would ‘stimulate a younger generation of players to take an interest in this fascinating episode of American history,'” AP reports. Full article here.
Players can win more than £50,000 if they replicate Lee Harvey Oswald’s shots, but they must be using Windows – there is no version for Mac OS X, Linux or other superior operating systems.
More info on the JFK Reloaded site here.
Our European friends at their best! Who needs enemies with friends like that?
Sick. MDN, what relevance does this have to Apple news? Am I alone in thinking this never should have been posted?
Wow, thats pretty sick. What happens if the kids don’t shoot Kennedy? Do they get scolded by the program?
Hmmm… I’m not sure what to think of this.
It’s sick alright, but no more so than America’s Army.
MDN, seriously? What is signifigance of this?
Well,
If these guys were really just after the money, they could have written a game about shooting GW Bush. You know, we (that is Europeans and most of the civilized world) really hate this guy and playing such a game could relieve a lot of the stresss generated by stupid decisions and bad attitute.
So, maybe this game really was about recreating history.
As John Kerry said, to be a leader you must have followers. Look beyond you Mr. Bush, there is nobody there…
Well, it certainly has been a slow Apple news day; as evidenced by this article.
One game you won’t hear the Mac community clamoring to be ported.
Comment:
From: Scott
Nov 22, 04 – 02:08 pm
Well,
If these guys were really just after the money, they could have written a game about shooting GW Bush. You know, we (that is Europeans and most of the civilized world) really hate this guy and playing such a game could relieve a lot of the stresss generated by stupid decisions and bad attitute.
So, maybe this game really was about recreating history.
As John Kerry said, to be a leader you must have followers. Look beyond you Mr. Bush, there is nobody there…
LOL hopefully there will be a mod out that will let you do just that…. we can only cross our fingers
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Anyone find it intersting the managing director of the game company is named Ewing?
The idea behind the game is very disrespectful.
Scott take a chill pill.
I downloaded the demo. Well steeped in assassination lore, I found the view from the sixth floor very powerful and emotional.
Heck of an easy shoot too btw, but the driver certainly helped by slowing down at the end.
Yeah, I definitely think that the Americans should introduce a Princess Di racing game, that would be in good taste too right?
Princess Di racing game. That’s fscking hilarious. There’d be a huge market for it in the UK.
I take it all back. I know I’m being a hypocrite, but I’m completely sick of the dead bitch STILL being in the news. You can have your wargames if we can have this. Please ?
Or how about ‘Beheaded’, the game where you can virtually behead an American?
Just my $0.02
AT LAST!
Proof that JFK was killed by WinDoze users.
Actually, all those games sound great. You don’t like a game? Don’t play it. Don’t buy it. Don’t make it. And don’t stand in the way of people who want to do any of those things.
Damn Puritan wannabe’s.
‘Beheaded’ is an interesting point. I think it’s fair to say that it wouldn’t sell in the US because nobody would stock it and the backlash against anyone who did manage to get a copy might be enough to get them killed.
But I can’t quite figure out how it would be actually be worse than America’s Army. Instinct tells me that it is, but I can’t actually figure out how. It’s perhaps because it is to close to the deaths of individuals rather than a whole bunch of soldiers or the careless collatoral damage slaughter of faceless and nameless innocents. In some ways it’s not as bad. In some ways the body count, where the dead are numbers, not sons and daughters, not people, is the more unpleasant because it makes it so easy to dismiss the deaths as necessary and even right.
This game sounds great. Revenge for Hollywood making war movies like Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbour, BlackHawk Down and U571 and changing history to make Americans look like they were actually useful. This game however goes 1 better. It sticks to the real story.
Gee, what a nice game and a nice reaction. I can’t wait for a French or Italian game like “The conception of Sophia Loren”, where you try to get her mother successfully pregnant.
Of course it won’t sell in the US, they woud rather make war than love.
What a bunch of prudes. Why is this any more sick than any first person shooter? You guys should get lives so you won’t have the oppportunity to be offended so much.
Superior OS? You people are probably the same ones who voted for the war deserter with the worst economic record since the Great Depression. This is not 1987. The OS wars were decided once and for all over a decade ago and their is a zero probability that OS/2 or Rhapsody or that joke open-source nonsense (or whatever you are claiming is technically superior this year) is ever going to make anything resembling a challenge to Winsupremacy XP. Get a clue. Get a life. Get Windows.
Scott-
Who appointed you the designated speaker for Europe & Civilized world?
Funny how you break out Europeans from the Civilized world.
Rule of thumb- never trust a statement labels a group of people or society under one dictum.
There one (historical) problem with creating a game such as this one… assuming the pov of the 6th floor book depository window..
The Zapruder film clearly shows the fatal shot, and most importantly… the first law of physics:
“….For every action, there is an <u>equal</u> and <u>opposite re-action</u>…”
This is the one thing “conspiracy de-bunkers” havent figured out how to explain away !
How bout a Waco Assualt mod for UT2004?
Oh, that happened under Clinton’s watch? Hmm. Well I guess Bush will be blamed for that as well.
I’m actually suprised this JFK game wasn’t made in the US.
Wait- Got one!
**Airwar Ivory Coast!**
Mission #1 Send in the French Airforce to Bomb the crap out of the tiny Ivory Coast Air Force.
Mission #2 Alienate the entire population of a small country (Race war).
Mission #3 Sit back and relax as national dbl standards allow French to do whatever they want while still whining about the US handling of Iraq (fuming over the loss of income/kickbacks from the UN Iraqi oil for Food program).
Bonus Mission- Ask America to pay Tehran not to develop nukes in a grand international extortion plot.
dear france,
i think i remember a few beaches around the normandy area where a few american soldiers died.
signed,
America
hey…i think we should have a game about Hitler that shows all the wonderful things he did for the people of Poland, Austria, G.B., France, and the like. Are you people nuts?
i don’t give a rat crap about the french or their president chirac. we should have stayed home and protected our own butts and taught japan a lesson. oh well…i guess hollywood’s version of pearl harbor made the suprise attack by japan not look like the bad guys and made painted american soldiers in a bad light.
peace…in America.
p.s. i’m sure john kerry was for and against the game about jfk. where you stand depends on where you sit.
Princess Di Racing Game. LOLOLOLOL!!!
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This game is a lot of work for an insult. Truly very impressive. This project will also most likely look very worth while on a resume in 5 years. Where can I get THAT thinking cap?
Dave H – I take it you don’t have the Princess Di memorial limited edition plate ordered from one of the Sunday supplements then ?
Me neevah.
As for America helping Europe. While it was splendid for Europe, it was also in US interests to do so. The Germans were developing rockets to target New York and beyond. They Germans weren’t intending to let a little thing like the Atlantic stand in the way.
America didn’t just save Europe’s ass, We saved your ass too. You just had the good sense to get stuck in while there were still allies to work with and while the fight was on foreign soil. Imagine how much harder it would have been if you didn’t have airbases in the UK.
GW Backer – when you are done bashing the French, why don’t you pick up a history book, look up the Revolutionary War and see which country was our ally … hmmm, could it be … FRANCE?!?!? and if you aren’t too stupid to continue reading, you’ll discover that France was one of the nations which helped the US after it declared independence.
you’re an idiot, and you don’t represent me as an American. the dumbasses you voted for (bush AND cheney) couldn’t even bother to fight in the Vietnam war. they are the ones who paint american soldiers in a bad light if they can’t even find the courage to fight along side them.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Nations ally with those that further their own ambitions (ideology).
Fact of life.
So was this posted simply as a way to say ‘other superior operating systems’? Since that’s pretty much what it seems like.
Everyone knows Kennedy wasn’t shot from a window…
Hywel
Absolutely not. You don’t have to be bulimic for all that crap to make you want to vomit
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As for the JFK game, yeah it’s sick, but no sicker than most of the blow-them-away type games currently on sale for all those disturbed youngsters to practice on before taking Dad’s rifle into school. Films have been doing this for a long time. Everyone should stop being so hypersensitive.
Doesn’t sound like a shoot ’em up game to me. The object seems to be to disprove that Oswald did the killing, assuming it turns out to be extremely difficult to replicate the shots (hence the prize). There’s a good number of people who don’t believe that Oswald did it. If so … who then? Should history be put to bed? Nevah!
Yeah it’s in somewhat poor taste. That’s why the developers correctly assumed little interest from Apple users
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The multiplayer version will be out in time for Christmas, and include a grassy knoll patch.