![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Weapons like the laser-guided missiles showcased by CNN were disorienting to viewers at the time, who likened the images to digital landscapes and video games. Even Nintendo is aware of the link between gaming and the Gulf War: a burned-up but still-working Game Boy that once belonged to a soldier who survived a bombing is on display at the Nintendo store in New York City. YoutubeĪll of the the games are doubly ironic when you consider the first Gulf War was often itself described as resembling a video game, thanks to the high tech methods the US Army used to live broadcast the operation to viewers all over the world. If you're wondering that brown thing is a tank. Storm Over the Desert, seems to embody that cultural paradigm perfectly: Saddam is reduced to a cartoon mockery (at best), the Americans win with impunity, while the battlefield is a mostly featureless yellow and brown, cut and dry, representation of Iraq.Ī screenshot from Operation Desert Storm. With CNN broadcasting the war 24 hours a day, showcasing laser-guided missiles launched from American fighters and the infamous Stormin' Norman news conference, the war became a caricatured version of its actual events in popular media. ![]() Storm Over the Desert is a cultural time capsule and horrible recreation of a war that consumed the American popular consciousness of the day. The game is basically an Iraq war themed Frogger. Levels barely change as you advance from the desert to bizarre brownish location after the next. Hot pink tanks pursue you as noticeably pot-bellied Saddams in military garb march up and down as the player dodges enemy fire. Ant-like humans representing Iraqi troops march throughout the desert, which can be either rolled over or blown up with tank rounds while the giant Saddams are consumed into your tank. Judging by YouTube video captures of gameplay, the point of Storm Over the Desert is for your little tank to battle with the Iraqi army over a landscape that ranges from a lush green glade, to Iraqi encampments in the desert. Screenshot of a YouTube video of Storm Over the Desert. Notice the portly Saddam and hot-pink tanks. ![]()
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