Donald Trump's White House staff is once again using Nintendo games to promote its political agenda, this time focusing on the Wii Sports franchise to drum up support for Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing military conflict in Iran. New unclassified military footage has been released on the White House's social media accounts featuring clips of bombings mixed in with images and sounds from Nintendo's classic sports simulation series.
Released in 2006 alongside the Nintendo Wii console, Wii Sports is widely considered one of the best multiplayer Nintendo games of all time. The innovation of motion controls mixed with a variety of sports attracted a lot of players, and since it was bundled with the console in most regions around the world, it's also instantly recognizable to almost anyone who ever owned a Wii.
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The newly released video posted to the White House's official Twitter account opens with Wii Sports' theme song and a mock-up of its title screen, but with the title replaced by the words "Operation Epic Fury." What follows is a mash-up of Wii Sports series activities like boxing, tennis, golf,...
