9-11 Space Invaders

Digital artist Douglas Edric Stanley unveiled an exhibit at the Leipzig Games Convention on August 20, 2008, featuring a September 11th version of the classic video game Space Invaders. In the game, players control a cannon and fire it at invaders that blow holes in the two towers of a virtual World Trade Center.¹

Fast Facts

1. Unveiled: Leipzig Games Convention¹
2. Location: Leipzig, Germany¹
3. Designer: Douglas Edric Stanley¹
4. Created to commemorate 30th anniversary of Space Invaders¹
5. Object of game: To shoot invaders with cannon¹
6. Invaders destroy World Trade Center¹

Quotes

• "In his interactive large installation, the players must prevent the catastrophe by controlling the well-known cannon at the lower screen border with their bodies and firing it using arm movements... Like the original, this trial is ultimately unsuccessful, thus creating an articulated and critical commentary about the current war strategy."—From convention brochure¹

• "It's very, very distasteful... I think he's just using that as an excuse to help promote his game being it comes out so close to the remembrance of the attack."—Brother of firefighter who died in World Trade Center¹

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