Finally, a Video Game for the Rest of Us

I have a hard time believing this is going to be a real video game.

General online consensus is that this is a trolling PR stunt of some kind. But I can reveal, as a trusted insider, some of the surprise features of this “game.”

• You have to spend cash to keep the ships clean or else typhoid breaks out and kills the cargo and most of the crew.  Although it is fun to feed the sharks that pursue your slave ship.
• As more and more of the slave markets close due to anti-slavery movements, you have to bribe politicians and fight other slave traders for turf.
• You eventually form the Democrat party in the only remaining territory that allows slavery-  the US South
• After slavery is abolished in the US, gameplay does not stop.  Instead you continue to terrorize africans using the Klan and Jim Crow laws.
• You finally consolidate power and secure the African vote with a system of free handouts, affirmative action and aggressive jailtime for the males.

But even if this does turn out to be a real game- Rockstar games made Grand Theft Auto where you bitchslap prostitutes- would this really be any more exploitative than that?

And with so many other empire-building strategy games where growth, success and ultimately, victory, relies upon resources and commerce- usually gold, lumber, oil, land, etc… Why not include the realistic ultimate commercial good? Human trafficking?

And just so we don’t forget who started slavery and perpetuated it for a thousand years, and in some cases, are still practicing it today- Click here.