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The Year's 10th Most Offensive Video Game

Posted by Matt Peckham | Friday, December 21, 2007 2:09 AM PT

I couldn't find a decent screenshot for it because it's one of these ready-to-roll sealed-in-plastic monochrome handhelds made in China with publisher info MIA. So here's the "year's 10th most offensive video game" blog-side, along with the original story by Paul Koepp for the Jersey Journal.

(The other nine? Get 'em here.)

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Title: Bush vs. Laden
For: Standalone handheld
By: Unknown
From: Unknown

Let?s take a bunch of offensive imagery related to September 11, 2001 like the twin towers and the president of the United States as an anti-Semite squaring off with a pugilistic Osama bin Laden and cram it into a $39.99 plastic handheld (with a $39 discount!) and hey-presto, it?s a game! Okay, I?ve never set eyes or thumbs on ?Bush vs. Laden,? but it certainly has Jersey City residents in a tizzy. According to The Jersey Journal, the 99-cent handheld game includes an anti-Semitic caricature of Bush as a dove holding an assault rifle ready to blast a smiling bin Laden who?s holding an airplane in one hand and a bomb in the other. Said one shopper ?I wouldn?t let my child play that. Bush would lose anyway. He still can?t find [bin Laden].?

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