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Video Game Characters to Get Out the Vote

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday October 6, 2004 @03:00AM from the vote-mario-in-2004 dept.

Thanks to Gamasutra for the heads up about a political music video starring video game characters that is to start airing on MTV today. The newest "Choose or Lose" video will feature characters from popular video games such as The Sims and BloodRayne and is intended to encourage youth voters to show up at the polls. The video will air for the first time on MTV today on TRL, and afterwards can be seen on the MTV Choose or Lose site. This follows closely on the heels of MTV2's Video Mods series, which uses video game footage for the visuals in music videos.

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Yeah.. thanks to Gamasutra by iceT · 2004-10-06 03:14 · Score: -1, Flamebait

...for the link to a members only resource...

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Re:Halo Vote by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 04:23 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I dangled your sister's participle, if you know what I mean.
Re:Do we want to encourage these voters? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 06:55 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Good for you and the rest of the Floridians. Once you get the coloring of circles down, we'll let you use scissors.
Re:If it takes video game characters by mpaon · 2004-10-06 08:00 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I found it amusing that in your list of 'political issues' you mentioned Iraq and Homeland Security, but didn't include Osama bin Laden or Afganistan. It's interesting how they seem to be drifting out of the public eye recently...