The Bailout Game
January 13, 2009 11:57 AM Subscribe
The Bailout game! (Flash)
What an awful game. Slowly make arbitrary choices about contentious issues in a way that has nothing but an opaque relationship to the outcome of the game.
posted by I Foody at 12:20 PM on January 13, 2009 [4 favorites]
posted by I Foody at 12:20 PM on January 13, 2009 [4 favorites]
What an awful game. Slowly make arbitrary choices about contentious issues in a way that has nothing but an opaque relationship to the outcome of the game.
Just like the real bailout! However, ironic statements and fun games don't always coincide.
posted by delmoi at 12:25 PM on January 13, 2009
Just like the real bailout! However, ironic statements and fun games don't always coincide.
posted by delmoi at 12:25 PM on January 13, 2009
I reloaded it just to hear the soft, shoom-chicka music again, and this time it played something different. They couldn't even get that right. Worst thing on the web.
posted by uncleozzy at 12:28 PM on January 13, 2009
posted by uncleozzy at 12:28 PM on January 13, 2009
Staggeringly dull.
Don't click! It's too late for me! Save yourselves!
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 12:31 PM on January 13, 2009 [4 favorites]
Don't click! It's too late for me! Save yourselves!
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 12:31 PM on January 13, 2009 [4 favorites]
The writing is pretty good, but the game itself does seem bad. The problem is that you have to make all those on-off decisions with almost no context about what they're supposed to do. (I guess players are meant to remember the timeline of bank failures in 2008 and plan their bailouts against that, but the mechanisms are still too obscure.)
I've been trying to think of good, simple game concepts about financial distress (I'm taking a bankruptcy class right now), but I haven't really come up with anything yet.
posted by grobstein at 12:44 PM on January 13, 2009
I've been trying to think of good, simple game concepts about financial distress (I'm taking a bankruptcy class right now), but I haven't really come up with anything yet.
posted by grobstein at 12:44 PM on January 13, 2009
You got your axe grinding in my little flash game.
posted by From Bklyn at 12:45 PM on January 13, 2009
posted by From Bklyn at 12:45 PM on January 13, 2009
Whenever I fail to prop up a failing enterprise with taxpayer money, nuclear bombs go off and everyone dies. Just like real life!
posted by yath at 12:56 PM on January 13, 2009
posted by yath at 12:56 PM on January 13, 2009
A few election cycles ago the NDP party in BC had a flash game where you played Liberal leader Gordon Campbell. You had to balance tax cuts, paying off your big business friends and still keep the government running. I'm not sure what their point was because with a little practice not only could you do it in the game, but it was remarkably easy to run a surplus.
The moral of the story is: let's play a fun game where a bear floats around with an umbrella.
posted by Gary at 12:57 PM on January 13, 2009
The moral of the story is: let's play a fun game where a bear floats around with an umbrella.
posted by Gary at 12:57 PM on January 13, 2009
Oh man, it sure is fun just driving around refusing to bail anyone out. Bye bye, AIG! Sorry, auto industry! Oh, I'm sorry Goldman Sachs, but you're in the poorhouse now. Ooh neat your building blew up!
The moral of the story here is that it's best to hang onto your money and only bail out the angry mob, but sadly that's not an option in this game.
posted by mullingitover at 1:04 PM on January 13, 2009
The moral of the story here is that it's best to hang onto your money and only bail out the angry mob, but sadly that's not an option in this game.
posted by mullingitover at 1:04 PM on January 13, 2009
The writing sucks.
It's not funny.
You can just click "Save" to every single bank and that's how you win.
There's no consequence to my decisions.
The graphics are not quite mediocre.
It manages to be dated somehow.
Not a single element is even remotely fun.
HAPPY FLASH FRIDAY EVERYONE
posted by Damn That Television at 1:32 PM on January 13, 2009
It's not funny.
You can just click "Save" to every single bank and that's how you win.
There's no consequence to my decisions.
The graphics are not quite mediocre.
It manages to be dated somehow.
Not a single element is even remotely fun.
HAPPY FLASH FRIDAY EVERYONE
posted by Damn That Television at 1:32 PM on January 13, 2009
Am I the only one getting motion sickness? *Must* we use Nausea-Cam?
posted by epj at 1:35 PM on January 13, 2009
posted by epj at 1:35 PM on January 13, 2009
Aww. Am I the only one to feel a little sad when the bear finally lands on the side of the road and has to watch the cars zoom by?
posted by Fruny at 1:41 PM on January 13, 2009
posted by Fruny at 1:41 PM on January 13, 2009
I said no to all the handouts and the game ended in a zombie plague.
I think I won.
posted by utsutsu at 2:38 PM on January 13, 2009 [1 favorite]
I think I won.
posted by utsutsu at 2:38 PM on January 13, 2009 [1 favorite]
"Wells Fargo is doing just fine. Do you want to give them money?"
No.
And then Wells Fargo was sold.
posted by Deathalicious at 5:42 AM on January 17, 2009
No.
And then Wells Fargo was sold.
posted by Deathalicious at 5:42 AM on January 17, 2009
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