Bush Shoe Tossing Games Sells Big On eBay
After the rather odd, very amusing incident where an Iraqi reporter hurled his shoe at President Bush, inspiration/imitation struck a whole bunch of Flash programmers. Online games popped up everywhere that parodied/mocked the event. Some had you throwing shoes at the widely criticized president, others had you defending him from flying footwear. Some undoubtedly earned their creators a few dollars here or there from advertisements on their sites.
Alex Tew, a Brit who created SockAndAwe, has made a lot more money from his creation than anyone would expect. They put the game up on the Monday following the incident and in a short time their servers were overloaded with hits. They spent a few days trying to keep things going, but since they were supposed to be working on a new startup site, they put the domain and game up for auction on eBay. It was quickly purchased by British media firm Fubra for 5,215 Pounds, which translates to $7,818.
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
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December 23rd, 2008 at 7:52 am
Shooting Bush with shoes: http://www.newy8games.com/games/Shooting-Bush-With-Shoes.html
December 26th, 2008 at 10:59 am
these shoe throwing games are too funny