The game is called New York Defender and can be found on the French-based Web site Uzinagaz.com (no link from us!), listed under the "Chaos" category. It is also available on numerous other videogame sites.

The background of the game’s welcome screen shows a digitized cityscape, with buildings consumed in orange and brown smoke.

In the game itself, two gray Twin Towers stand tall among the city skyline as white airplanes try to crash into them from all angles.

As the player, you use the computer mouse to move about a red target sign, with two green laser-like lines taking aim at the airplanes each time you fire. A loud shooting noise designates the firing of your weapon.

If one plane hits a Tower, the building shows damage and begins to smoke.  Should a second plane hit a Tower, the building collapses in a pile of rubble.

Both video game renderings and the sound effects are reminiscent of eerie, horrifying images embedded in the psyches of Americans — reminders of how 2,749 people perished when the towers were hit by aircraft and crumbled to the ground more than six years ago.

In a 2002 Denver Post article, the French game designer said there is no way to win the game. The purpose is to illustrate the ultimate impossibility of fighting terrorism — a fight the Unites States is still waging in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere throughout the world.

In another Uzinagaz.com game based on the events of 9/11, called New York Defender II, the player operates a fighter jet above New York City’s airspace, which is shown as a flight map. There are also three designated airports — Newark Liberty International, Teterboro and John F. Kennedy International.

The goal is to shoot down hijacked airplanes before they crash into five city landmarks — the Brooklyn Bridge, Wall Street, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty and the United Nations — and the city is destroyed.

Both versions of the game appear to have been created sometime after 9/11, with New York Defender II bearing a 2002 copyright.   Just Stupid says it’s time to take these games down you idots!

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