Mario-a-Lago Kart , Anyone?
This week, the White House removed a Tetris -inspired game called Build the Wall from its recently launched arcade website after the Tetris Company publicly warned that it takes copyright law “very seriously.” Here are a few options the White House might consider to replace the game: Super PAC-Man Players direct a round creature with a constantly moving mouth through a maze as he munches on tiny coins.
Meanwhile, the ghosts of financial lawsuits past pursue Super PAC-Man—but consuming excerpts from favorable Supreme Court rulings allows him to temporarily devour these ghosts, too.
Once Super PAC-Man collects all the coins , he progresses, unsatiated, to the next level, where he sends out a single text and all the money starts flowing directly toward him.
Words With Enemies Players form new, hateful attacks in this Scrabble-like multiplayer game using letters cut from public-school textbooks, removed museum displays, and maps depicting the former Lake Ontario.
Highest-scoring insults include: SCUZZY, ZANY, and LOW-IQ JOKER.
Extra points are awarded for letters placed on various Random Capitalization Squares.
Mario-a-Lago Kart Up to four players race golf carts around a cartoonishly decorated beach club, crashing through boxes of classified documents to unlock power-ups including nuclear footballs and black markers for unlimited redactions.
Between races, players can refuel at the gas pump, assuming they have collected the requisite 175,000 coins per gallon.
The winner receives a golf trophy; second, third, and fourth place—as well as any observers or people simply standing nearby—get access to state secrets.
Grand Theft Crypto This game is all in the timing: Players must market their own cryptocurrency, then wait until just the right moment to cash out, crashing the currency and tanking other players’ life savings.
The Oregon Data Center Modern-day pioneers move into a covered wagon after an eminent-domain order for the construction of a data center displaces them from their hometown.
Drinking water is scarce, noise pollution is earsplitting, and morale is low as players try to survive the perilous journey to one of the few remaining corners of protected parkland.
Inevitably, all players die when artificial general intelligence bioengineers a new form of dysentery .
Goldeneye In this first-person interior-design game, players gild every nook, cranny, and free patch of wall space in their virtual home office.
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