“Video game violence and glorification must be stopped - it is creating monsters!”
That’s a twitter quote straight from his…well, I guess fingers?
Shame he feels that way, because no other world leader has starred in as many video
games as Donald Trump.
While the current US president may be breaking records in other, well, highly debatable areas,
one thing we can all agree on is how satisfying it is to play as the real estate tycoon turned
45th president of the United States of America.
Some of the games on this list will piss you off if you’re a Trump supporter.
Trigger warning.
And if you’re not, well, get ready for a list of games you’ll likely be downloading
pretty soon to help with the existential anxieties the current political state of the world’s
most powerful country is enduring.
But no biases here friends!
Just games.
Let’s get down to it.
10 Donald Trump’s Real Estate Tycoon Let’s start off this list with a game approved
by Trump himself, Donald Trump’s Real Estate Tycoon.
Released in 2002, the game actually features Donald’s voice throughout.
Essentially, it’s a single player game in which your objective is to beat Trump by becoming
the most influential business magnate out there.
The PC version gives you an option of choosing the best real estate location in five levels,
or rather cities, those being NYC, London, Paris, Atlantic City and LA.
After those levels are passed, you enter into a business competition with Trump, trying
to force him into bankruptcy.
The game got decent reviews, but ultimately critics said it was barely any different than
other tycoon games.
9 Trump Castle series Now let’s look at the oldest game that Trump
has starred in.
Or rather, series.
The Trump Castle series released games between 1988 and 1993, and were considered to be simple
gambling simulation games.
The very first game, which was available on the Atari ST and Commodore 64 among other
early consoles, let you play BlackJack, Craps, Keno, Poker, Roulette and slots.
The second game that dropped in 1991 was a bit more advanced, allowing players to explore
Trump Castle and talk to people staying at the hotel, which carried over into the third
game, but this time it incorporated a third person view.
8 The Apprentice: Los Angeles Ah, take a look at the box on that one.
Both Trump and his daughter Ivanka.
So, this game developed by Legacy Interactive in 2007 was based entirely off of Trump’s
reality show, The Apprentice.
And you have to find a business star, all by managing store and restaurants.
7 Punch the Trump Getting into satire land now, here we have
one of the many online games that have sprung up in the past year starring the Donald.
And needless to say, he isn’t really portrayed in the kindest of lights.
While there was a plethora of online games to choose from, this (and our next number)
were the highest rated, cream of the crop.
So, in Punch the Trump, a game created by a developer that focuses specifically on crafting
celebrity brawl games, your objective is pretty simple.
Punch Trump.
6 TrumPinata A simple but effective game in terms of getting
it’s point across, TrumPinata is quite simple.
And most immersive, considering it’s VR.
You hit Trump, who is hanging from a tree, with a baseball bat, and he says one of multiple
lines made infamous from his election campaign.
While nuclear explosions go off in the background.
And eventually you decapitate him.
5 Leader Strike Another online game from the same site as
our last number, crazygames.com, Leader Strike is a little more morbid.
It’s a first person shooter with, I quote, “a political twist!”
The threat of war is escalating, and you take on either Trump, Kim Jong Un or Vladimir Putin
and choose to either start your own game or join an existing server, and then shoot up
as many politicians as you can.
The more you progress, the more weapons and characters you unlock.
4 Make America Great Again: The Trump Presidency Compared to most of the other games on our
list, this one is generally viewed as Pro Trump.
And was inspired by the sub reddit The Donald.
It’s essentially a simulator that lets you play as Trump as president, taking care of
your day to day presidential tasks.
These very presidential tasks include invading china, shooting ISIS militants while hanging
from a helicopter, cultivate love and building the wall at the US Mexico border.
Pepe even makes an appearance.
3 Make America Great Again So, that makes two video games and counting
that have adopted Trump’s campaign slogan, which probably isn’t much of a surprise.
But despite sharing a title with our last number, it’s a very different game in terms
of genre.
A 2D side scrolling platform, you play as a stout little Trump taking care of ISIS.
It’s been critiqued for having super sensitive controls, and only giving you one life - if
you’re shot or hit barbed wire, you’re immediately dead and have to start over.
2 Trump Simulator VR Another VR game, this one puts you in Trump’s
shoes as he’s backstage, right before he’s meant to give a speech.
You’re given a to do list of things to take care of in the room, with objects you interact
with while the clock ticks down.
And if you beat the game, you’re treated to a bonus game.
The game’s description goes on to say, “We are passionates about finding ways to engage
our peers with our political system, and we thoughts a virtual reality game would be a
novel, entertaining medium to learn more about the the Republican candidate.”
And as you can gander, it’s very much a satire.
1 Mr. President In this game, you play a body guard - who
is apparently bullet proof - and must protect president Ronald Rump.
Essentially, all you do is jump in from of bullets as people shoot at the president during
speeches.
As the game describes, “Liberal media has rigged the election and tarnished his glowing
public image.
Now they are trying to end his life.
You need to leap, flip, fling, roll and many other verbs to get in between Rump and certain
death.”
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I’ve been Kelly Paoli and this has been top 10 gaming.
I’ll catch you all in the next one.