I’m not sure if there’s a better title for this series, but basically I’ll be sharing unlicensed games that have political messaging relevant to the time the game was made. I was originally going to focus on console games but there’s exactly one old Windows game I wanted to include so whatever.
Terrifying 9.11 is a bootleg Game Boy Color game developed by Ruanxin (based out of Fuzhou, China) and released sometime 2002 (or possibly end of 2001). The game opens with a video montage of the planes hitting the twin towers while a chiptune rendition of Shir LaShalom plays. Pressing start brings up a little story crawl about 9/11 and the plan to send super soldiers into Afghanistan. Pressing start again opens a map screen and again into an exchange between Bush and Bin Laden. And then finally… Metal Slug. It’s a Metal Slug port. A surprisingly decent one!
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Yeeeah, i know. All i’m saying is, my friend group just kind of is like that, we gotta go and ask directly to know if all this super gay hotness is just the usual queerplatonic stuff that just happens between us when we develop a really close friendship or if it’s something else. Which i’m gonna do next time i see her. I’m already halfway there, the reason i posted this in the first place was that she posted about wanting to make out with her clone and i replied “relatable, i also wanna make out with your clone” and she took that pretty well.