Video games loosely based on historic wars are nothing new. But the recently released “October War,” which invites children to “fight the Israeli Air Force starting from Swais [sic] til Barliv [sic] Line,” offers a new twist to the genre: it is available exclusively on the Anwar Sadat website’s “Kids Corner,” thus making it the first war-themed video game to be released on the official website of a former head-of-state. Indeed, dedicated gamers will be disappointed to find that the Harry S. Truman Library’s kids page lacks similarly inappropriate atomic bomb video games, while other typically dry former head-of-state websites won’t even arouse their curiosity.What else would you expect from the website of a Nobel Prize winner?
Speaking of Nobel Prize winners, for real excitement, there is Jimmy Carter's Diplomacy Challenge, featuring challenges like this:
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But be careful how you choose, lest you encounter the dreaded...
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