“Chicken Sam” to “Kill the Jap”

An arcade game where one tried to shoot a chicken thief was repurposed, after Pearl Harbor, to a game where one sought to nail a Japanese soldier.

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Posted By: Paul - Wed May 03, 2023
Category: Ethnic Groupings | Games | Stereotypes and Cliches | War | 1940s

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I'm not interested in the repurposing so much as in how it worked in the first place.

Posted by Richard Bos on 05/06/23 at 06:59 AM

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