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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. Sigh by FriedTurkey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the purpose of this slashdot story is to start a flame war.

    To reply to this story just insert into the blanks:

    Can we {insert political dirty trick} like {politician}?

  2. Topical gaming by tod_miller · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is this game going to be updated every election? New dirty tricks?

    I don't know who would buy such a game, but whoever does, shouldn't be allowed to run a campaign!

    I just know that both sides will buy a copy and even 'playfully' see what tactics might influence the voters.

    It is so stupid and unlikely that you just have that feeling it *will* happen.

    Graphics look quirky.

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    #hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
  3. I have it by Mukaikubo · · Score: 4, Funny

    And it appears I'm the first poster to actually have played the game. Well, here goes, any questions about it ask me...

    Overall, it's a fun game to play a few times, but it gets old with astonishing speed.

  4. Ultimate Strategy by SightlessMind · · Score: 5, Funny

    This game should be easy, just build your candidate around honesty and fairness and the political machine will bow down to you, right? ...right?

  5. 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.