JFK Reloaded

A Revisionist History of JFK: Reloaded (Decoded)

On: June 7, 2011

In my previous post on Play the Past, I looked at the way critics and scholars made sense of the videogame JFK: Reloaded (Traffic, 2004). The game lets players reenact the Kennedy assassination, the goal being to match the findings of the Warren Commission Report with as much accuracy asContinue Reading

Rebooting Counterfactual History with JFK Reloaded

By: Mark Sample

On: May 19, 2011

In: Articles

Traffic’s 2004 JFK Reloaded is a notorious example of a videogame that attempts to engage with real cultural heritage: the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Unlike pseudo-historical games such as Civilization or Age of Empires, which evoke the signifiers of History without actual history, JFK Reloaded is rootedContinue Reading