The year is 1999, and Bill Clinton is president of the United States of America. The ever-growing popularity of video games is causing a stir, and Clinton decides to highlight the potential dangers of our favourite hobby during a now much-memed speech. He presents a number of 'violent' video game magazine ads to onlookers, the most infamous being an advertisement for the original Guilty Gear.
Said ad reads "kill your friends guilt free". Needless to say, Clinton wasn't a fan. And with the popularity of Guilty Gear Strive, this speech has seen a serious resurgence, forming the basis for countless internet memes and references.
Of course, this all took place 23 years ago, and we never thought that Guilty Gear would cross paths with Bill Clinton again...but here we are. Strive's latest update, which adds what is essentially a photo mode where you can arrange character models and share creations with other users, has allowed players to pick out a familiar presidential figure.
In the game's new White House-based stage, a portrait of not-quite-Bill Clinton is visible in the background. The man himself once again finds his fate entangled with that of gaming's most hard-rocking fighter.
Obviously it's just a fun nod, but it still makes for an entertaining story when you put it all together. 1990's game advertisements really were something else, weren't they?
[source twitter.com, via gamespot.com, eurogamer.net]
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These days, Bill kinda resembles a haunted Muppet.
The figure mode - which is essentially a photo mode in a game where a regular photo mode would be kinda hard to apply - is pretty awesome, btw... but also this, lol:
https://twitter.com/milonssecretcat/status/1508568414008266764?s=20
@Voltan Incredible.
@Voltan That's superb!
I remember when Clinton was at the end of every Cruisin' game, LOL~!
@nessisonett That’s offensive to The Muppets!
But it's ok to get on the lolita plane and goto epstein island with underage girls and have your wife help cover it all up.
Wow what a hypocrite saying all that stuff about video games.
What ever next lesson's on master class or something.
23 years ago already? God damn where does the time go?
@RubyCarbuncle Lol I remember this was one of the first games I bought without being accompanied by parents or my older brother. can't believe that was 23 yrs ago.
@Royalblues don't I know it. humility seems to have been pushed down the stairs lately.
lately, it seems like a forgone thing of the past where video games got politically attacked. now its...many other things.
Other than that brief moment with Trump, do politicians ever talk about video games anymore?
Seems to me the problem was not with the game itself but with advertising standards. Bill should have gone after advertisers that push bad faith messages rather than games - but that wouldn't have been as easy a target.
He was flying to epstein's island and he had the audacity to criticize Guilty Gear?
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