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December 3, 2006

Salad Days Were Never So Green

by Nick Montfort · , 6:36 pm

Before this becomes stale or otherwise spoils, I’d better let you know that Bacteria Salad is the latest in The Arcade Wire series of newsgames by Persuasive Games, the studio of Water Cooler Games’ Ian Bogost. Sources of potential spinach contamination include not only otherwise-friendly bovines, but also agroterrorists. Safe for lunch.

One Response to “Salad Days Were Never So Green”

Thomas Devaney Says:
March 25th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Does life imitate video games, or do video games follow life? “Bacteria Salad” makes me reallize the age-old question is mute. Thank you for opening up a window onto a window revealing the many games and screens playing out in our lives: let us play and not be played.

-TD