January 05, 2009

Poll: Some arcades are Army recruiting offices - Can you tell?

Discovering how much fun an airstrike on a village can be.

The "Army of One" stuff didn't quite work out, so recruiters are now trying to push the "Army of Major Pwnage." At a mall in Philadelphia the U.S. Army has set up a kind of video arcade, called "The Army Experience Center," where visitors can play first-person shooter type games or fly virtual helicopters. The arcade is intended to inform people about the army and hopefully to get them to consider enlisting.

How are people who stumble into this arcade getting tipped off that they might be in a recruiting center? Take our poll and tell us:

How could you tell that an arcade was actually an Army recruting center?

When Super Mario took one of the mushrooms, set it on fire, and threw it through the windows of a crowded Iraqi schoolhouse

I've played a lot of video games, and this was the first time I'd ever seen "Call Of Duty: Stay Away From Those Blackwater Guys."

Normally video games have an end in sight, and some sort of logic to the game. These games just seemed to drag on and on and the more you played, the less you were sure that you should have started playing in the first place.

The "Wii: Beheadings" game. That just wasn't right.

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"Urban Tool in Recruiting by the Army: An Arcade" -NYTimes

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Poll: Some arcades are Army recruiting offices - Can you tell?

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