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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.

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.

> 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.

"Dean Siren" <d...@iu.net> wrote in message
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> On 9/14 Coke alread had ads about it.  What gives them, instead of
Nintendo, the
> right to capitalize?

Since when has Coke ever been held to any ethical standards?  I mean, it's
Coke for God's sake!  They're above the LAW!  How DARE YOU QUESTION THEM!

Ah... Refreshing!

"Dean Siren" <d...@iu.net> had the moxy to write:

> If Nintendo wants to prove that Gamecube is for mature players, they
> should make a game that lets players be the New York Fire Department
> and help people escape before the World Trade Center collapses. Then
> it would let the player be other fire departments, or any sort of
> rescuer, healer or builder in other crises. The point of the game
> would be saving saving lives, and while it would portray realistic
> death it would also penalize it. 

That would bore me to tears. 

-- 

Knight37

"Tsk, tsk, tsk.  Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life."
-- Blonde, from "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"

I think the idea is a bit dumb, but not only that...

> it would
> promote the "good guys" and not murder like Mortal Kombat or Perfect Dark.

Murder in Perfect Dark? Sure you can go and kill innocent people in Perfect
Dark (the rest is basically self defence) just like you can probably hurl
people off the twin towers to their death, or watch them burn to death.
There's "bad" stuff in every game (trying to splather the dolphins in wave
race for instance), no reason to attack a master piece like Perfect Dark.

> Though why I'm wasting time on something that uses phrases like
"towelhead"...

Ding Ding Ding....