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You see the remnants of this in the older congress critters, who still think the left holds the “caring” and moral high ground.īut then the revolution came, and it wasn’t what the left expected. Meanwhile the right was also sure the left would win, thought it was a bad thing, but isolated and demoralized, all it had left was “not so fast.” Everything in the news and entertainment indicated by were on the side of angels. The left was confident in its certainty of winning “come the revolution” because all the indications were that it would. I mean, after all the paper continuously told us that everyone was leftist, and assured us that all the honest politicians were on the left too. Because the press had been taken over by the left long before I was born, I might know other non-leftists (though most of us called ourselves center-left to avoid outright purges) but I also knew we were an irrelevant minority. Remember, for those of you who are young or have really short memories, this was before the internet. b) the future was communist.įor people like me, who had actually studied the history of the countries that went fully communist, and read accounts of what was going on behind the curtain, this was not happy-making and we denied it, even though at times we weren’t sure we believed our own denial. “Waiting for the hammer to fall” and “come the revolution” and other such phrases told us that a) nuclear war would happen. Preserved on this site for historical value as 'abandonware' - proceed at your own risk.I grew up in the shadow of the cold war. The 'educational value' of the game, in my opinion, is questionable, but it does try to do more than simply shock and titillate. And no matter how you try to cloak it, the game's moral dimension still looms large and has a real impact I am not American, yet I still felt my heart skip a beat when looking through the rifle scope in the game, seeing JFK's face squarely in the crosshairs.įor conspiracy buffs, though, it is an interesting 'tool' that tries to prove the feasibility of the 'magic bullet' theory, and therefore they are probably the only ones who will have 'fun' with this game that we can all do without. After the event, you get a ballistics reports that tell you how your bullets traveled, and how closely they match Oswald's shots.Īs a game, JFK Reloaded falls short mostly because its objective and context are far too narrow: your only objective is to recreate that tragedy.
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The graphics, while not state-of-the-art, is more than adequate: all passengers of the fateful limo, from JFK to his wife, driver and everyone else, are recognizable. You can replay as many times as you want.Īs a simulation, JFK Reloaded is quite good: no matter how I shoot, I see bullets behave in ways that one would expect: smashing glasses, bouncing off the limo, etc. The perfect score of 1,000 is awarded if you can replicate the three bullets' trajectories perfectly. The 'official goal' of JFK Reloaded according to Traffic is ".to debunk assassination conspiracy theories by buttressing the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and fired only three bullets." Accordingly, the game places you in the exact spot that Oswald stood, and offers you the chance to re-create his three shots (the last of which was the one that caused "the fatal wound"). While I do find the game morally questionable, the designers deserve credits for shying away from focusing on pure "shock value" (which would be extremely easy to do, given the circumstances) - focusing instead on the physics behind the vent. Anyone who finds such games offensive is advised to stop reading now.
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Let me say here first that I was concerned about whether this 40-year-old event is still 'fresh enough' in the minds of Americans for them to find the game offensive - that's why I asked people's opinions about whether they think it's a good idea to upload the full version before doing so. Perhaps due to intense backlash, the game was removed from circulation in 2005, and the $9.99 shareware game is no longer sold or supported. Released on the 41st anniversary of the assassination in 2004, the game not surprisingly provoked a huge public backlash ranging from Ted Kennedy (who called it "despicable") to scores of media criticisms. No doubt one of the most controversial games ever made, JFK Reloaded is a shareware game made by a Scottish company called Traffic Management that lets you recreate the assassination of President John F.