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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.
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Scalpel, scissors and Game Boy
by Gonzalo Frasca December 11, 2004
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Health & Medicine Games
According to an anesthesiologist at University Hospital in Newark, Game Boys are better than tranquilizers before surgery. They tried first with PSPs, but it ran out of batteries way before the surgeon was ready ;)
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