White House rips off Nokia Snake to gamify the deportation of immigrants

The White House has revealed a “.gov” website featuring a library of classic arcade games with a MAGA twist.

The United States government released a trailer for “Arcade.gov,” a gaming library featuring 5 classic arcade games, from Tetris to Snake.

The teaser trailer is a direct rip-off of Xbox’s boot-up sequence, just replacing the “X” with an “A.”

Another trailer featuring the SEGA boot-up sequence was also posted by the White House. Instead of SEGA, the word “MAGA” is displayed using similar typography.

Alongside the trailer, there’s a link to the White House arcade, hosted on an official government domain.

Rio Run and Build the Wall

The arcade features classics such as Rio Run, where you play as “border patrol along the Rio Grande.”

This game is a take on Snake, created by a Finnish developer specifically for Nokia’s earlier phones.

Instead of the snake getting longer with the more food it eats, the game features an older white man who seems to be collecting people of color.

The colors used in game and the way the immigrants remain in an unbreakable chain is reminiscent of a scene in the final installment of the horror franchise Human Centipede.

Human Centipede 3 is set in a prison and a sadistic doctor plans to stitch 500 inmates together to form a human centipede.

If the train of “illegals” hits a boundary or snakes in on itself, the game ends, and it shows you your score, which is based on how many people you deported.

Other games include “Build the Wall,” which requires players to “protect the border from the coming horde.”

Users have to build a wall using Tetris mechanics while the border is being bombarded by zombies.

White House rips off Flappy Bird

Another game, “Flappy Bill,” is almost a total copy of Flappy Bird, a mobile game that went viral in 2014.

Like Flappy Bird, players must help the bird fly through obstacles, avoiding any collisions.

The only difference is that the bird is a bald eagle, and the eagle is holding a government bill, which must be kept “in the air while flying through monuments.”

There are even games that let you clean up the school system by sorting “the school lunch,” help to “Make America Healthy Again,” or a Trump savings simulator that lets users “fill up…kids’ Trump Accounts.”

Is the White House in for another lawsuit?

The Trump Administration has been burned for using copyrighted content without the property owners’ consent a few times before.

In his second term, Trump has been ordered by Issac Hayes’ estate and subsequently sued for using the artist’s music without explicit consent.

Artists and groups such as ABBA, Beyoncé, Neil Young, The White Stripes, and Celine Dion have also taken legal action against Trump’s unauthorized use of their music, according to NBC News.

Could the same be said for the creators of Tetris, Snake, and Flappy Bird?

While the games’ mechanics are identical, the assets used are different, and as of now, the games on Arcade.gov are non-commercial, meaning that they may fall under fair use,

This doesn’t mean that the games’ developers can’t sue the White House for intellectual property theft or copyright infringement.

If they did, it would be up to the court to decide how fair the use is and whether the Trump Administration had violated copyright laws, according to US government guidelines.