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Article #66131Re: Nintendo should make a 9-11 game
From: Dean Siren
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 20:58
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 20:58
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> Such a game will not be appropriate for a long time--certainly the > lifetimes of people who lost loved ones in the tragedy. No matter how > patriotic or well-intentioned, it would inevitably be perceived as > capitalizing upon loss and tragedy. On 9/14 Coke alread had ads about it. What gives them, instead of Nintendo, the right to capitalize? > But I can imagine that it might be a good time for fire-fighting games > (Burning Rangers, anybody?) so long as they are carefully designed so > as not to appear to be making specific reference to 9/11, simply > because the heroic and hazardous aspects of fire-fighting were so > recently highlighted for all of us. Yeah. How good could a firefighting game be now? Could they show fire creep realistically, puddles stop fire and boil realistically, smoke rise and buildings collapse realistically? Lots of physics there.
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