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Bush Backrub
by Ian Bogost August 4, 2006
categories:
Newsgames
, Political Games
A new little newsgame over at AddictingGames.com, this one taking on the much-publicized impropmptu backrub Bush performed upon German chancellor Angela Merkel. The game, Bush Backrub, is simple enough: move Bush around behind cleverly selected world leaders. Click rapidly to offer a "Texan backrub." Keep the comfort meters full or you lose.
As with many of these little games, not really political in content, but an adequate and rapid interpretation of a news event that got a lot of media attention.
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