Water Cooler Games served as the web's primary forum for "videogames with an agenda" — coverage of the uses of video games in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment.
The site was maintained at watercoolergames.org from 2003-2009, where it was edited by myself and Gonzalo Frasca. It is now archived here in full.
The toy is simple but effective. Basically, you click on the clouds and make the Pope talk. But the really neat game is Memory Reloaded, the Game of Historical Revisionism. At first, it looks like a simple memory game, but suddenly it changes its own rules. For example, one card shows Pinochet as a ruthless dictator, but if you wait too long, the matching card shows Pinochet, the gentle nice old grandpa. It's in Italian, but if you don't speak the language, just shake your arms and raise the tone of your voice (that usually makes the trick). And while you are at Molleindustria, well, try their other nice little games and toys (the Orgasm simulator is a good one. If you were shocked by Janet Jackson, please be aware: it involves full frontal penetration, penis, vagina and all those things. But if you feel too dirty after playing with it, you can always catch up with the Pope simulator.
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