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Wednesday,
March 30th, 2022
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Guilty
Gear -STRIVE- Immortalizes Bill Clinton, Who Once Condemned PS1 Ad for
the Original Guilty Gear
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In
the mid to late 1990's, certain politicians made "video game
violence" a major talking point —
claiming these games were dangerous for the development of young children
and teens. While some violent games were questionable, other niche
titles were unfairly grouped into this stigma. The original Guilty
Gear, released in 1998 on PS1, had a somewhat uncharacteristic
North American print advertisement that read "Kill your friends guilt
free". In 1999, someone handed U.S. President Bill Clinton the
advertisement, who famously and publicly condemned this ad during a
speech. Two decades later, Arc System Works paid a tribute to Clinton's nearly-forgotten
speech, which circulated online earlier this year, immortalizing the
former president with a nicely framed photo in Guilty
Gear STRIVE's new Digital Figure mode!
Below is the video of
the former U.S. president giving a speech in 1999. Clinton is seen holding
the Guilty Gear PS1 print ad at the end of the video,
singling it out as one of the "most unbelievable of all". This
particular speech didn't make a big impact at the time, but eagle-eyed Guilty
Gear fans spotted the old school advertisement and circulated the
video on social media...
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Over two decades
later, Arc System Works immortalized this moment in Guilty Gear STRIVE
with an obscured-yet-recognizable mock photo of Bill Clinton that appears
in the "White House - Oval Office" environment within STRIVE's
Digital Figure mode. The other clever and ironic part of this? Clinton
makes his official Guilty Gear debut / cameo in the game's most non-violent
mode. Digital Photo mode literally has no violence at all.
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Here's a high-quality close-up of
the infamous Guilty Gear ad that President Clinton was
referring to. (A friendly reminder that the original Guilty Gear
was a niche game, not very popular at the time, and not actually very
"violent" compared to first-person-shooters and other video
games the president was
talking about.)
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The latest Guilty
Gear -STRIVE- update adds the new White House Reborn stage, new
playable character Testament, and Digital Figure mode where users can
place and pose character models and other objects into a variety of 3D spaces. Arc
System Works also confirmed Season 2 for the game will add 4
additional characters and an additional story mode. Stay tuned on
Fighters Generation for more Guilty Gear -STRIVE-
news.
~TFG Webmaster, Frank Joseph
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Sources:
Gamespot,
Howard
Mortman (YT) Related
Tweet: @Fighters_Gen
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