Legal Niches

IRS Pilot Inspires 8-bit Game

By pete_gallagher

Joe Stack, the man who crashed a plane into an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Austin, Texas last week, has certainly made an impact on society as well, with many debating his manifesto in the wake of the incident

Whether you see Stack's final message as the ramblings of a madman, or as the ramblings of a madman tinged with perhaps a vein of lucidity, Newgrounds has a very short and simple 8-bit styled game up on its site that will allow you to walk—and fly—a few feet in Stack's shoes.

Entitled Tax Time!, the game begins with users burning their house down before jumping in a plane to their final destination. Along the way, news items converge and users can crash their plane into a car to earn an 'Auto Recall' medal. Upon reaching their final destination, the game displays the message 'Justice is Served' and awards the player another medal for 'Sticking it to the Man.'
 
The title was created by Newgrounds member Falcon who says that he enjoys 'making stupid games in 24 hours or less.' The game was submitted on February 18th, the same day Stack flew his plane into the building.

|Via PrisonPlanet|

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).