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You Run the Smear Campaign

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the private-party-lines dept.

Zordak writes "I came across this amusing story on CNN about a new PC game published by UbiSoft that's hitting store shelves this week called 'Political Machine.' It's a strategy game in which you run a presidential campaign through speeches, ads, campaign stops, and good old-fashioned mud slinging. You can choose to be one of the current candidates, one of several contemporary political figures (like Hillary Clinton or Condoleeza Rice) or you can make your own candidate. The game attempts to be extremely realistic, including using statistical data from the various states."

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  1. Re:Could be fun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    "And if the game would be 2 player it would make it alot better."

    You should do your research...

    From politicalmachine.com

    "The game is both a single player game (against the computer) as well as a multiplayer game. "

    the multiplayer component supports online play...

  2. It's 1984 Again! by Quarters · · Score: 4, Informative
    COMPUTE!'S Gazette, a magazine dealing with the Commodore 64, published a program called "Campaign Manager" in their August 1984 (Issue 14, Vol 2, No 8) edition.

    And for you youngsters in the crowd the word "published" can be taken literally there. There were pages of machine code you had to enter into an editor called "MLX" to compile and run the game.

    I remember this because I had a broken leg in 1984 and had to spend most of the summer laid out on the couch. I typed that whole game in and played it incessently.

    You can get a .D64 file of the game (along with the other software in that particular issue of the magazine) for use in C64 emulators here.

  3. Floor 13 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're probably thinking of Floor 13, in which you ran a kind of MI-5 without moral or legal restraints.