Communist Game Created 18 years ago2005-11-04 15:30:16 UTC by satchmo

And I thought the U.S. government is stupid. I can't believe this story was real. It's an excerpt (short) from an article in the Los Angeles Times:

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By Ching-Ching Ni
Times Staff Writer

November 4, 2005

BEIJING ? Fed up with what it sees as the corrupting influence of computer games on youth, the Chinese government plans to introduce to the online world a new cast of characters based on old-fashioned Communist values.

Instead of heavily armed superheroes licensed to kill, the new game will highlight the likes of a model Communist soldier famous for helping other people. To advance in this game, players won't gun down their enemies. They'll mend socks, lots of them, and gain points by getting appreciation letters for doing good deeds such as helping old ladies home in a rainstorm and stopping people from spitting on the sidewalk.

The prize is a signed virtual copy of Mao Tse-tung's Little Red Book.

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Why not make a game to have the player wash dishes all day? I'd rather shove a pineapple up my nostril than play this game.

Sounds boring, and a very few will play it. Unless they force people to do so.

Why not make a game to have the player wash dishes all day?

The Sims

Edit:
Contradiction!
http://www.interfax.cn/showfeature.asp?aid=4907&slug=INTERNET-ONLINE%20GAME-JAPAN-POWERNET

Well, the chinese governments views on gaming are just.. crazy.

If that really represents the chinese army.....

makes a note in his 'how to take over the world in 1 day' notebook.

What? I cant shoot someone for looking at me wrong? What a lousy game.

Why not make a game to have the player wash dishes all day?

Hehe

http://www.crazymoocow.net/~temp/MaoTrailer.wmv

That trailer: Pure pwnage.

Agreed.

Why not make a game to have the player wash dishes all day?

because :

[X] nobody will like it
[X] nobody will buy it
[X] nobody will play it
[X] nobody will talk about it (with positive words)
[X] no developers team will be desesperate enough to make it
[X] no publisher will be crazy enough to produce it
[_] a dog

A game where you was dishes all day? My dream come true !

Sims is exectly like that, I never liked it. :

Anyone else notice that if you have snarkpit forums in one tab and TWHL forums in the other, you can get Satchmo surround sound?

But continuing more or less from my comments in the Aphex twins thread, its really only videogames that really reach people nowadays, so its not that shocking that the propaganda machines of america and china should cash in too.

Just because OUR cultures dictate that pretending to be a cowboy or whatever is cool, doens't mean that this is some universal truth. I'm sure some countries laugh at fat spotty people playing AA.

Anyone else notice that if you have snarkpit forums in one tab and TWHL forums in the other, you can get Satchmo surround sound?

This from the SnarkPit Google Map member locator poster?

Yar boo to China.

I think we're verboten in China now.

This from the SnarkPit Google Map member locator poster?

Owned.

I've yet to make a thread about the snarkpit frapper on here sir. Your comparison is flawed. And you smell.

Owned.

Silence, you Knob Jockey!

Heheh.

You stop Frapper from here, though.

OMG THIS IS THE PERFECT GAME!

You stop Frapper from here, though.

I never once mentioned frapper here, let alone stop it.

on here sir.

With misquotational skills like those, you should be in fleet street habboi.

I never once mentioned frapper here, let alone stop it.

Guh. Was too early. I think I meant "stole".

This is wandering off-topic.

But isn't it ironic that there are many professional gamers in China who play games for a living? they typically make ten times the salary of a government worker. In fact, a teenage boy makes more money playing in tournaments than his father, so he bought himself a BMW while his parents cannot afford to buy a car.

God damn.

Thats one fucked up economy...

Indeed Luke. Ironically, the communist state has a far bigger rich poor divide than the capitalist pigs of the west. Animal farm was right, damn it.