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Re: Nintendo should make a 9-11 game

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From: Dean Siren
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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