Friday, October 01, 2004
Playing the political game
I clicked on one of those Google ads just now. You know the ones, they're tailored to the search criteria you've entered (or in my case, since I'm using an Opera browser, typed into the address bar). I was looking at the ABC election site.
Anyways, I clicked on this ad saying "play the 2004 oz election game" or something like that. I clicked thinking that it was probably some dodgy site that lists everything in the hope you'd visit them. But no... it's actually a game. You can even download a trial version for free.
http://www.80soft.com/pmforever/info/aus/index.htm
I'm waiting for it to download at the moment. I hope it's fun.
And it says you can play any of the four major parties. Yes four. Liberal, Labor, National or Green. Yes that's right, a Canadian computer game company thinks the Greens are a major party. They have three members of parliament! The Nationals probably couldn't be considered a major party either but they at least form part of the government and hold more than three seats (13 in the HoR to be exact).
I wonder how many other things they've got wrong. Watch this space.
--UPDATE--
Three things:
- The game lets you choose Peter Costello to be leader of the Liberal Party. If only the 'real' election gave us this choice.
- I tried playing the game as Bob Brown and realised just how little power he has in influencing the outcome of the election.
- The trial version stops 3 days before the election and you will have to pay for the full version to actually get any meaningful use out of it.
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