JFK Reloaded: A Video Game

[CrimsonTide4]

Today is the anniversary of JFK's assassination, but it is also the day that JFK RELOADED is released. This game allows the player to shoot JFK.


http://news.bostonherald.com/localRe...rticleid=55220

Article excerpt:
A British firm seeking to capitalize on the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's murder today is issuing "JFK Reloaded,'' a purportedly educational "docu-game'' that lets players fire the fatal shots from the Texas Book Depository over and over again.

The Internet release of the game - $9.99 per download - takes place today, the 41st anniversary of Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald.

A spokesman for the slain president's brother, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy [related, bio], called the game "despicable.''

Presidential historian G. Calvin MacKenzie of Colby College said, "Aside from being in incredibly bad taste, the idea of marketing it as an educational tool seems to stretch the notion of education beyond belief.''

The Glasgow-based firm Traffic said "JFK Reloaded'' would help disprove conspiracy theories about Kennedy's death. Traffic said the game challenges players to recreate the three shots fired at JFK's car from the Texas School Book Depository. Managing director Kirk Ewing said the game would "stimulate a younger generation of players to take an interest in this fascinating episode of American history.''

"We've created the game with the belief that Oswald was the only person that fired the shots on that day, although this recreation proves how immensely difficult his task was,'' Ewing said.

Has the video game industry gone TOO far?

[lil_sunshine]

I saw info about this game this morning on GMA and I was highly appalled!!!! I was telling people about that today and the girls were more appalled than the guys. The guys (who looooooooove video games) felt that this game will get lots of publicity, despite people's objections to the game. They think that the sales of this game will go through the roof, being that when people tell you not to do something, no matter what it is, they'll do it anyway, as well as the fact that curiosity always kills the cat. All this to say that there will be someone out there (either in the US or elsewhere) who will buy this game just b/c they're curious to know what the hoopla is all about.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

This is just disgusting.

[honeychile]

I think the Official New Low for Poor Taste has just been reached.

[Proverbs31]

I read about this in the paper today. People just take things too far.

[ladylike]

How morbid. What's next? A video game re-creating the assassination of Dr. King? Will this be the sequel?

[Honeykiss1974]

I saw this on GMA too. How disgusting and vile!

[PhiPsiRuss]

This is about as cynical and amoral as you can get.

[sageofages]

Originally posted by honeychile
I think the Official New Low for Poor Taste has just been reached.

I think that the bottom of tasteless was hit, and they just kept digging!

[STL_Lady]

I think that game is totally disgusting and disrespectful. It is disrespectful to the Kennedy family. That is not something you should go around making a video game about. That is totally sick. Since they want to go around making video games like that why don't they recreate the death of Adolf Hitler.