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White House Joust

by Ian Bogost April 1, 2004

categories: Political Games

New from KewlBox, White House Joust. Like Joust, but with Bush and Kerry (and Limbaugh and Blair and...)

Comments (8)

Wow, that was... not that great. I guess it shows that, not only is making a game hard, but that making a good game is really hard, even if you are copying a known format!.

bryan-mitchell young on April 1, 2004 5:29 PM

I thought the game was funny.

gig'em on April 2, 2004 5:09 PM

Ha ha that was pretty funny

William Hung on April 2, 2004 8:16 PM

This is excellent -- a version of Joust, played with various political figures in and around the Bush/Kerry race! You can pick either side, but either way, the figures shout hilarious little one-liners that are composited from statements that were act...

collision detection - Joust with Bush and Kerry on April 9, 2004 2:37 AM

Liked the game. Thought it was funny. Pretty good take on a known game engine.

Mr Hand on July 22, 2004 2:19 PM

Yo Bryan, take a chill pill. The game was obioulsy a political parody. It made everyone in my office laugh. the cool part which you missed was the scoreboard system that shows how people played the game. More people play the Bush version than the Kerry version. Not scientific but interesting.

Den on July 22, 2004 5:27 PM

Best site for Poker

Online Poker on February 16, 2005 11:51 PM

Funny Serious ;-) game!

Pete on May 25, 2006 3:10 PM

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