SUCK IT, TERRORISTS!

February 19, 2005 3:52 PM

Defend the twin towers from incoming planes with your laser of freedom! (flash)
posted by borkingchikapa (49 comments total)

I must get the high score or the terrorists have won.
posted by fleetmouse at 3:58 PM on February 19, 2005

Wow, that's in really bad taste. Shooting down passenger planes in a reenactment of the most terrifying event in American history.

I played the shit out of it anyway.
posted by recurve at 4:05 PM on February 19, 2005

Recurve: Like there aren't vietnam war sims anyway.
posted by taursir at 4:06 PM on February 19, 2005

I think this game does a lot to improve Franco-American relations.
Also, I suck balls at defending America. I probably killed more with errant shots than any terrorist in a plane.
posted by underer at 4:14 PM on February 19, 2005

The towers themselves appear to be laser proof... (I only shot them by accident, I swears it)
posted by Robot Johnny at 4:19 PM on February 19, 2005

Too soon.
posted by mikeinclifton at 4:31 PM on February 19, 2005

Pathetic...in so many ways.
posted by lobstah at 4:32 PM on February 19, 2005

the most terrifying event in American history.

give. me. a. break.
posted by quonsar at 4:34 PM on February 19, 2005

Connection Refused. Crap, I wanted lasers!
posted by neckro23 at 4:41 PM on February 19, 2005

Of course they were laser-proof (or at least laser-resistant) -- they had big mirrors on them.

I suspect that this is how our elected leaders envision the star wars missile defense system and other, related cockamamie defense proposals (Warning: Salon link, blah blah blah).
posted by casu marzu at 4:41 PM on February 19, 2005

Where did the terrorists get all those freaking planes?
posted by UseyurBrain at 5:06 PM on February 19, 2005

Too soon.

I know! Those microscopic pixelated Boeings dove into those buildings way to fast. I almost couldn't finish my book!
*A girl got a pet goat. She liked to go running with her pet goat. She played with her goat in her house. She played with her goat in her yard. But...*
posted by mr.marx at 5:08 PM on February 19, 2005

As a game, it's nothing special. Gets more difficult as you go along. That's about it.

But aside from that, maybe this FPP was meant to be about its existence as deliberate offence / provocation / whatever?

In which case, a website registered in Dortmund, Germany, promoting a French game of this kind, causes me to sigh at the waste of European-US goodwill since 9/11.

America, Bush sucky sucky. But me love you long time. Heh.
posted by paperpete at 5:17 PM on February 19, 2005

I aimed the laser at the pilot's eyes. Is that OK?
posted by davebush at 6:27 PM on February 19, 2005

Flash...the U235 of the Internet. It can be used for great good..or really, really bad ideas.
posted by ThusSpakeZarathustra at 6:37 PM on February 19, 2005

Man, I was kicking ass there for a little while, but as my wrist starting cramping up, I thought, why am I risking carpal tunnel syndrome to protect a bunch of little Eichmanns?
posted by John of Michigan at 6:57 PM on February 19, 2005

I dunno, it isn't very realistic. I mean, each tower takes two planes to take it down.
posted by graventy at 8:17 PM on February 19, 2005

Am I the only one who laughed when six planes started coming in at once? That's comedy, thar.
posted by fungible at 8:43 PM on February 19, 2005

Meh. The planes. So, so, so small. And quick too. If I've got lasers like that I'd expect to be able to get a little closer than three miles away.
posted by fenriq at 9:02 PM on February 19, 2005

Not fun.
posted by juggernautco at 9:13 PM on February 19, 2005

Ignorance alert: the game shows both towers with huge aerial antennas on top, when in real life, only one of them had an antenna.

I couldn't care less what the game makers had in mind, but just looking at old pics of the WTC depresses the hell out of me.
posted by BoringPostcards at 9:19 PM on February 19, 2005

645!

but i felt dirty playing it
posted by tsarfan at 9:34 PM on February 19, 2005

This is the funniest post EVER!

quarter to one in Boston on a saturday night/sunday morning. grain of salt and all that...
posted by Mayor Curley at 9:39 PM on February 19, 2005

Too soon, but apparenlty not for all of us.
posted by tomplus2 at 9:48 PM on February 19, 2005

Shit. Seeing it made me literally nauseous. Disgusting.
posted by davidmsc at 9:53 PM on February 19, 2005

I shouldn't have played it, but I did.. after one tower fell, and I was trying to defend the one remaining tower, I got a case of the heebies and quit.
posted by BoringPostcards at 9:55 PM on February 19, 2005

- There is no time-line for grief and it is an uneven process.

1470!
posted by Navek Rednam at 9:56 PM on February 19, 2005

Wow. This game is like three years old. It caused a small media furor back then.

Is the memory of the internet this short?
posted by aerify at 10:51 PM on February 19, 2005

This game is tasteless and disgusting.

1083. Navek pwns me.
posted by mosch at 10:55 PM on February 19, 2005

Shooting down planes piloted by fanatic Saudi terrorists only goes so far to protect America.

The sequel should let you shoot lasers to destroy the source of the terrorist funding: oil-gulping SUVs.
posted by Davenhill at 1:06 AM on February 20, 2005

Wow, this is practically a visual replica of my argument against a Laser Defense System.
posted by TwelveTwo at 3:55 AM on February 20, 2005

3285

..if you are bent out of shape about it, make one in return.
Paris metro could be an idea.

Call it "Vigipirate Vengence" or something.
posted by pwedza at 3:59 AM on February 20, 2005

3285

Good lord. I guess my heart just wasn't in it. Of course, there would have been substantially less loss of life had you just let the first planes hit.
posted by Prince Nez at 4:16 AM on February 20, 2005

aerify, yep it is. it's common for links to resurface after a little more than two years.
posted by dabitch at 5:21 AM on February 20, 2005

creeped me out!!
posted by lee at 5:41 AM on February 20, 2005

"Wow. This game is like three years old. It caused a small media furor back then.
Is the memory of the internet this short?"

aerify, that's funny, because I thought it was a double post myself.
In 2002, I remember not playing the game because it reeked of poor taste.
Now, I don't play it because it's boring.
posted by Busithoth at 5:56 AM on February 20, 2005

This needs a [nsfw] tag. If someone sees me playing this, I'll probably lose my job.
posted by koeselitz at 8:41 AM on February 20, 2005

Wouldn't that be true for playing any silly computer game at work?
posted by dabitch at 9:17 AM on February 20, 2005

1047 on the first try for me. But I will kill them dirty ayrabs next time!
posted by papakwanz at 9:17 AM on February 20, 2005

10,477! (The score seems to increase exponentially)

The trick is to *not* aim ahead of the planes. If anything, aim a bit behind. I guess the programming for the movement of the planes is pretty simplistic, perhaps the plane is drawn in its 'new' position before it's actually registered as being there.

The game was a bit creepy, in that it's reminiscent of video footage. But, sorry to say, I guess I'm pretty much immunised to bad taste in flash games...
posted by Drexen at 9:18 AM on February 20, 2005

> This needs a [nsfw] tag. If someone sees me playing this, I'll probably lose my job.

Yes, because the post's title was soooo ambiguous.
posted by tommyc at 9:28 AM on February 20, 2005

The trick is to *not* aim ahead of the planes. If anything, aim a bit behind. I guess the programming for the movement of the planes is pretty simplistic, perhaps the plane is drawn in its 'new' position before it's actually registered as being there.

You don't need to lead them because the laser pulse travels pretty fast. Speed of light, you know...
posted by c13 at 9:50 AM on February 20, 2005

This whole "defending America" thing would be easier if I had a comprehensive profile on every citizen....
posted by sourwookie at 10:33 AM on February 20, 2005

390. I lose the internet.

This'd be better if you could pick a famous landmark -- anyone up for the Space Needle and Big Ben?
posted by Amanda B at 11:54 AM on February 20, 2005

Thankfully, in a pixellated adjacent reality, the towers were saved by flash's overly crap collision detection based on squares rather than sprites.
posted by Sparx at 2:09 PM on February 20, 2005

If only the pork-barrel missle defense shield tests worked as well....
posted by Dukebloo at 2:55 PM on February 20, 2005

Agreed TwelveTwo
posted by CaptMcalister at 4:21 PM on February 20, 2005

..if you are bent out of shape about it, make one in return.
Paris metro could be an idea.

Been done already. Clearly you never saw this
posted by IndigoJones at 7:40 PM on February 20, 2005

Sorry, I work on Wall Street. That game made me cry.
posted by MotherTucker at 8:44 AM on February 22, 2005