Mobile entertainment site Cellufun has launched “The Mobile Ring,” a free mobile phone boxing game that puts Presidential candidates in the ring.
The idea isn’t completely new; boxing games featuring presidential candidates first surfaced in 2004, but the new game claims to take the genre to the next level by weighing the chance of success of each contender based on polling numbers, and also through the results of people playing the game. For example Hillary Clinton leading in the polls over Barack Obama, and knocking out other presidential candidates in the game would give Clinton a higher success rate in the game itself. It’s also claimed to be the first game of this type for mobile phones.
Users can vote on other characters for inclusion in later releases such as “dark-horse candidates” (Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich aren’t included in the game currently), cable television pundits or currently elected White House officials.
New York based Cellufun was founded in 2005 by two former Wall Street security experts Arthur Goikhman and Steven Dacek and offers a variety of ad supported free mobile games in a fast growing market segment. See our previous coverage here.
Will users really feel comfortable having Hilary fight men and them punching her?
You have to feel a little reluctance – it’s conditioning
Why does this matter? More web junk…
Resembles punch-out from the nintendo days
thats cool… but i guess no one will punch ron paul still
who (besides Bill) knew Hillary was so ripped?
Looks like we better fire up the Ron Paul SPAMBots and vote for him to be a character in the next release!
I am sure most would prefer to punch an incumbent President!
lame
This exact game has already been done:
http://www.modo...e_house_rumble/
Hillary, Obama, Gore, Bush, Chaney, Guiani, etc…
This site gets more like DIGG every day !
Where is Hillary? I am ready for a Mike Tyson like uppercut.
One should be able to state a one liner and deliver the blow…
“This is for sinking $400 on a hair cut” and POW!!!
Candidates may be able see what the users (voters) don’t like about them, their actions etc….
My 2 cents….
This was the “straw that broke the camel’s back” post for me and made me unsubscribe (after being in the first 2000 or so subscribers!). I will keep checking back each week or two on the Web site though when I remember, but.. will we ever see the old high-quality, low-quantity innovation-driven TechCrunch back?
Looking forward to it if so! Or is this just a reflection of how the industry has become..?
Someone please fire Duncan Riley!
i just played the game. it’s fun. cant beat the price tag either.
Man. You guys must be drinking Hater-ade. I think that’s kinda funny, and if you read the whole post, it’s also pretty cool how the game gets updated from the actual polls and how people do playing the characters.
So am I lame because I think this is cool? Oh, OK sorry, guess I can’t sit at the “Cool” table in the cafeteria anymore….
Heh, funny story. Back sometime in 2003 I think, a group of us made a game where you could box George W. It got virally distributed to about 100,000 people or so just by email. After a few weeks the fricking CIA called us!
We thought it was a joke, but looked up the agent in charge and sure enough she was in the Seattle HQ for the CIA, the same phone number and all. They made it pretty clear that it would be “trouble” for us if we didn’t take it down as the game, they said, could be construed as a “threat to the president”.
Ultimately, the guy whose name was on the domain name, I think it was smakbush.com, got worried and we took it down. I was stunned.
No…Not particularly.
Why did’nt you do Hellary!??
I was looking forward to that!
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