9/11 Video Game Causes Outcry

January 3, 2008 by Roy Sencio
Filed under: News

Have you heard about that 9/11 Video Game? The one where you try shoot jet planes from crashing into the Twin Towers, these jets are supposedly piloted by terrorists and well… you know the story. Your game objective is simple, shoot down the jets before they crash into their targets.

While there many who are in uproar over what they call an insensitivity of the game creators about the plot of their product, there are also those who defend it saying it is just a game, no different from any other video game created such as video games about WW II, Desert Storm, etc.

The 9/11 Video Game is called New York Defender, and goes by catch phrases like ” For those of you who wish we had a chance to defend ourselves on 9/11″, and “Go Beyond Your Powerlessness, and Use Your Mouse to Fight Back”. Evidently, it is indeed based on 9/11.

I checked it out and found it really silly; but to many people it is more than just simply silly, but tasteless and disturbing how someone can create something that made trivial a disaster that took many innocent lives.

Here is how the 9/11 video game looks.

9/11 Video Game

I am not going to post the URL to the game because it will only make them benefit from it, in the form of website traffic that could even generate revenue for the website owner or game owner. But you can easily find it if you do a search on a search engine. It is out there… the question is, do you want it to remain out there for people to find, and play?What do you think?

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Image Source: http://gothamist.com/2008/01/02/new_york_offend.php