Super Obama World

Published 14 November 2008

Each weekend Iain Simons provides you with a game that'll help you while away a few hours. This time it's Super Obama World. Enjoy wisely...

A ludic footnote to a most networked of presidential campaigns has emerged in the form of Super Obama World. This lovingly assembled work pays solemn tribute to the man and his ideas through the medium of the browser-based flash game, itself perhaps the only form of digital communication the Democrats didn’t use during the election.

Unexpectedly, whilst nothing on the original, it’s quite good fun. Whilst not eschewing the satirical heights of ‘Super Columbine Massacre RPG’, the developers have instead delivered a series of pixel-art character jokes wrapped within a gentle pastiche of Super Mario Bros. The game borrows the map interface from the Nintendo classic although rather than bouncing around the Mushroom Kingdom, here you traverse the States of the USA. The action begins in the colds of Alaska with a level entitled, ‘I can see Russia from my House!’ Indeed, within moments you’re beset by lipstick-wearing pigs as you make your way to a showdown with Palin herself.

In a nice-touch (although one senses it may be one they come to regret) developers Zensoft have promised to continue updating the game with more States in the weeks to come,”…including Arizona, Illinois, and D.C. levels. Just because the campaign is over doesn't mean the excitement has to be!”

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2 comments from readers

nickpr53
16 November 2008 at 13:28

that's a fantastic game! isn't it crazy the impact oBama has already had , before even becoming the president proper? I think it just shows how much we can look forward to from the man in question:

http://www.spinwhip.com/obama

:-)

Joannah Whitaker
29 November 2008 at 15:32

Its like playing a sonic-fied alex the kid but on a PC, with

the president! I always die on the same bit. With the push

of money America is putting into gaming, do you think

possibly a few thousand went diffy to create this superb

new addictive little game? Thank you for the insight! Im

off to play.......again!

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Iain Simons writes, talks and tweets about videogames and technology. His new book, Play Britannia, is to be published in 2009. He is the director of the GameCity festival at Nottingham Trent University.