Comments on: NeoGAF: serious political business http://infinitelives.net/2008/07/09/neogaf-serious-political-business/ Exploring the value of games-as-iconography in art, literature, and popular culture Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:33:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ben Freeland http://infinitelives.net/2008/07/09/neogaf-serious-political-business/#comment-104 Ben Freeland Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:37:09 +0000 http://www.infinitelives.net/2008/07/09/neogaf-serious-political-business/#comment-104 I've seen that advertisement on several gaming related websites lately. I think it was Destructoid.com, but I can't recall exactly where. It seems funny to me that the McCain campaign is ad targeting video gamers. Gamers as a whole seem to have little political motivation for much else than defending videogames from the likes of Jack Thompson. I've noticed that several video game blogs have speculated from a comment of Obama's that went something like "Put down the gameboys and hit the polls" that he is anti-video games, which I don't think is true at all. Never the less, perhaps these ads are meant to try and further that notion and push the videogamer demographic toward McCain. I’ve seen that advertisement on several gaming related websites lately. I think it was Destructoid.com, but I can’t recall exactly where. It seems funny to me that the McCain campaign is ad targeting video gamers. Gamers as a whole seem to have little political motivation for much else than defending videogames from the likes of Jack Thompson.

I’ve noticed that several video game blogs have speculated from a comment of Obama’s that went something like “Put down the gameboys and hit the polls” that he is anti-video games, which I don’t think is true at all. Never the less, perhaps these ads are meant to try and further that notion and push the videogamer demographic toward McCain.

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