exploring the history of satire in games recently led me to this youtube from 2007
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzj9BJJ5aGw
 
 

...now while there is no doubt these are all classics of the genre, there is a glaring omission here that Surf Bum fails to address:
 
 
 
 
"Bushgame Dot Com: The Anti-Bush Online Videogame: A Fun And Fact-Filled Adventure About The Most Appalling Presidency In The History Of The United States. Brought To You by American Fear Clothing" was a 2004 outing for Jason Oda's action-adventure engine, originally developed for his Emogame series, which satirically dismantled a music genre
 
the plot is straightforward. a team of interchangeable protagonists are out to put a stop the antics of president george "double u" bush and his administration, first by confronting him on the white house lawn...
 
 
 
 
...then when this fails and he escapes, battling through a series of obstacles and bosses representing the policies and culture that the 43rd president gave rise to -- as well as that which gave rise to him
 


 
 
Oda effortlessly melds the then-popular comedy of rape jokes & references to childrens' pop culture, with fiery commentary on the administration
 
 
 
 
 
 
occasionally the game will come to a halt and trap you in a room while a brief powerpoint presentation plays out, explaining things in more detail
 
 
 
 
 
 
eventually of course, you reconvene to do battle with the man himself as he takes his final, monstrous form
 
 
 
 
...and in victory, get personally thanked by none other than john kerry himself
 
  

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the bushgame.com domain has long since expired, but the game has been preserved for us by the archive.org wayback machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060830152254/http://www.bushgame.com/