SADDAM & THE PLAYSTATION 2: THE SHOCKING TRUTH!

2/4/2019

You may think you know the conspiracy theory about Saddam Hussein stockpiling PlayStation 2s... but the truth is even stranger. Digitiser presents a story of PlayStations, supercomputers and World War 3...

2 Comments

RichardM

2/4/2019 07:46:39 pm

I dunno why nobody comments on these here. Perhaps they just comment on YouTube instead. I am a traditionalist, at any rate.

I thought I remembered other novel computer clusters beyond the PS2 / PS3, but can’t find any. There are a couple of forum posts out there about a hobbyist C64 cluster, but I don’t think it came to anything.

Stuart

3/4/2019 01:49:04 pm

This was a great video, with both an in-depth look at the historical context and a personal reflection. I replayed Desert Strike last year and remember thinking how it began what Modern Warfare's gunship sequence continued. It's also interesting how critiques with overused words like 'jingoistic' levelled at CoD and Medal of Honor were originally thrown at Desert Strike, and by the Amiga press of all things. Not from an anti-war perspective or anything, but because they sought to denigrate what they saw as lowbrow: a console port.

I suffered from CoD and MoH fatigue and dropped out early on in those series, but still have a soft spot for the Strike games. They're not so po-faced and moody as those fps franchises. I was endeared by the end of Desert Strike where Bush Snr's dog does a big stinkus on the White House lawn in celebration of your victory.