Baghdad Gamer Discusses Iraq's Videogame Past

Posted by simoniker on Monday January 19, 2004 @08:38PM from the larry-laffer-fine-role-model dept.

Thanks to Salon.com for its article [ad click-thru required] profiling the videogame-playing, Baghdad-based owner of the 'Healing Iraq' weblog, as previously referenced in Slashdot Games articles. The weblog author, Zeyad, explains how he "started playing Sierra adventure games" like Leisure Suit Larry when he was 11 or 12, and "learned a lot about American culture from these games." He goes on to note that the Iraqi secret police had agents "whose jobs were to play and finish these games to find out if there was any mention of Iraq or Saddam", recounting the rumors that "there was a specific code or combo [in Mortal Kombat] that would spawn Saddam Hussein and his bodyguards to finish the opponent." Zeyad also criticizes the realism of some Iraq-based games such as Conflict: Desert Storm, pointing out that "the voice acting was terrible - the Iraqi soldiers talked in an Egyptian accent."

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2nd post! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-19 20:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:He learned all about the US from *what*? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-19 22:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You're the one who's fucking naive you moron.

Where the fuck do you get the idea that American's hate Iraqi's? Most people that I know want to see people like the Iraqi's become a free, self-governing, self-dtermined people that do not have to suffer under a dictator and can produce a future for each of them, individually, based on their own choices and interests.

Based on your logic, because we hated Hitler, we therefore also hated the german people that he controlled and dictated.