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Surgically remove the Bush Administration to win Ice Cream
by Ian Bogost August 12, 2006
categories:
Casual Games
, Political Games
Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry's fame)-created TrueMajorityAction has created a cute little web-based political game. Operation: Cure the Cabinet is a reskinning and digitization of the popular board game Operation. Instead of removing body parts, the player extracts key components of the Bush administration, which have been cleverly mapped onto Bush's own anatomy (brain: Karl Rove; voicebox: Scott McClellan). The game features very high production value, and the core Operation mechanic is nicely implemented.
As a bonus, the fastest player of the week will be entered into a drawing to win a 1/2 year worth of ice cream (up until the end of August at least).
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