Are Browser Games Filling the Same Role As Political Cartoons?

Amazon's Game Room Blog is running a piece asking whether modern browser games are coming to occupy the same purpose as political cartoons. The article was inspired by the variety of shoe-tossing games that sprung up after President Bush's recent run-in with an irate Iraqi journalist, as well as the games satirizing aspects of the presidential campaign and candidates. Quoting: "The games are certainly no works of art, but they were not designed to be awe inspiring. They were instead designed to capture the moment, and immortalize it from a particular point of view that people in this particular time can appreciate, or at least recognize. ... just like the satirical editorial comics of our own past, these snippets of code will offer a window into the past, and the individually conceived past moments that it consists of."

Comments

What genius wrote this?

[VinylRecords]

Wow political cartoons being transposed to another medium? Go figure. I guess I needed it pointed out to me...

Satirical music, movies, short films, commercials, The Onion, Daily Show, Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonators, Dick Cheney himself....

There are nearly unlimited media for politics to be made into satire within. The day where print only occupied jocular political rhetoric in the media died nearly a century ago. Games having political satire are old news, look at the jokes in Fallout or Grand Theft Auto...those games are entire complex plays on society.

But I guess the shoe game made in flash or whatever is the new revolution...