The Tetris Company Could Take Action Against the White House’s Online “Arcade”! [VIDEO]

Some interesting games have appeared on the White House website, and it seems that The Tetris Company wants to take action against one of them.

 

The White House, the seat of power of the most powerful nation in human history, launched a new online game room on its website. As you might expect, it’s racist, repulsive, and creatively bankrupt. In Flappy Bill, you guide a bald eagle through the National Mall. It’s unclear if the bird’s name is actually Bill since it’s carrying a bill of legislation. It’s a boring Flappy Bird clone—harmless but about as entertaining as tying your shoelaces.

The tone takes a sharp turn to the right with the next game: Build the Wall: Zombie Border Siege, a Tetris knockoff in which you defend the border from an approaching horde of zombies. Set against a retro-futuristic backdrop with the sun setting over a barren desert, the game provides an obvious hint with a sign that reads “Southern Border.” Unlike in real Tetris, the rows don’t disappear when complete. Instead, they simply pile up until they reach the top. At that point, it’s game over. A slowly moving “zombie horde” passes across the bottom of the screen. If you haven’t built your wall high enough, they can get through. “High enough” literally means two stacked tetrominoes; after that, nothing can get through.

The third game in the White House Arcade series is Rio Run, which depicts border patrol along the Rio Grande and is based on the classic game Snake. Playing as an aging white man in a suit, you pick up brown-skinned people one by one. Each person is in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit and joins the train traveling behind you. When the game ends (either when we run into a wall or when our train of prisoners reaches the end), they are all deported, and we are encouraged to try again.

In the fourth game, Supply Line, we are tasked with sorting school lunches so that America can be healthy again. We move the “good” foods along the conveyor belt into the school lunchbox while tossing the “bad” foods (anything containing artificial colors, additives, sealed packaging, or seed oils) into the reject bin. The simple graphics make it difficult to distinguish the good foods from the bad ones, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. envisioned. But what’s truly bizarre is the muscular Black man in boxing gloves standing in the background. Each time we let a bad food item through, he punched the back of the monitor. After four punches, the game was over—though, strangely enough, he was the one who actually got hurt.

The fifth and currently final game in the White House Arcade series is Trump Savings Tycoon. The goal is to fund our children’s “Trump accounts,” which are essentially retirement savings accounts created for children and funded by ultra-wealthy individuals like Jensen Huang and Michael Dell. They may or may not benefit from this high-stakes brown-nosing. The point of the game is to click on various money-like objects with the mouse as they fly across the sky. This is perhaps the simplest game mechanically, but the clicking is imprecise, so you’ll miss three objects quickly and lose. In the background, you can see the Reflecting Pool in a perfectly beautiful shade of blue (unlike its real-world counterpart) and a massive construction crane dominating the Washington, D.C., skyline. This presumably signifies optimism regarding the president’s planned ballroom/bunker. There’s even a small convoy of flying police cars that occasionally flies across the sky.

These games are bad in every respect, both conceptually and execution-wise. If they’re going to copy the world’s most famous puzzle game to promote their racist agenda, they should at least make it playable like the original. This is an incredibly sloppy attempt, and we can’t shake the feeling that these games were created using AI or with the help of a DOGE fan found hiding in a bathroom.

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Nevertheless, the White House’s tweets promoting its new gaming page feature animations that use the Xbox, Nintendo, and SEGA logos. The latter was likely chosen because it transforms nicely into “MAGA.” The Tetris Company has hinted that it may take more aggressive action. After posting on Instagram that the company believes in the power of connections and bringing people together rather than dividing them, The Tetris Company clarified that it was not involved in creating the “Build the Wall” game. The company added that it takes copyright infringement very seriously.

While all of this is pathetic, it seems there’s more to come. The sixth game slot on the White House Arcade page is currently empty and promises a new adventure, encouraging interested followers to keep an eye out for it.

Source: PCGamer, White House, Wikipedia, CNN

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