The US presidential election, as viewed by Japanese video game developers in 1988

August 22nd, 2008 by Joe Jones
Joe

Have you ever wanted to be a candidate from the ‘88 presidential election in a world of manga characters and 8-bit graphics? Yes, you can. Screenshots here.

You can play the game through Firefox with the FireNES extension.

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  • One Response to 'The US presidential election, as viewed by Japanese video game developers in 1988'

    1. Kimberly Says:

      I remember reading about this in a ‘Games in Japan’ article in Nintendo Power.

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