Anti-Disney shooter game locked and reloaded

In football, the move might be called taunting, subject to a 15 yard penalty.  In the video gaming biz, such moves are called publicity.  Damn good publicity.   In this case, after a nearly 10-year hiatus, the cult classic and highly controversial video game Los Disneys is back and nastier than ever if you believe the hype.   In a nutshell the first-person shooter game invites you to infiltrate Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom, kill Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy,  killer clowns, and a variety of  tourists in an attempt to seek and destroy the cryonically frozen head of Walt Disney. The unauthorized game only ran on Macs when it was released in 1998, it now has updated artwork and sounds and is ready to go on Mac, Windows and Linux machines.  According to the release announcing it’s re-arrival: “The year is 2015. Steeped in national debt, the United States reluctantly allows the Walt Disney Company to purchase the entire peninsula of Florida in the largest geographic acquisition since the Louisiana Purchase. Under its new president, formerly-ousted CEO Michael Eisner, the newly-sovereign state is renamed Los Disneys. Your job is to infiltrate the Magic Kingdom, blasting your way through animatronic pirates, holographic ghosts, tourists, security guards and even Mickey himself in an attempt to seek and destroy the frozen head of Walt Disney. However, doing so inadvertently triggers Eisner’s doomsday device… unless you can stop it.” Rochester, N.Y.-based creator Jason Kristopher Huddy, 23, defends Los Disneys as the big-budget movie he’ll probably never get to make. Certainly not at Disney, which is threatening to take Huddy to court, according to the Entertainment Weekly.com site. ”For several weeks we talked but were unable to come to a mutually agreeable decision,” a Disney spokeswoman told the site. She would not however say how soon the company intends to file a suit.  Los Disneys has been in the public domain long enough, however, that eradicating it could be as difficult as completing the game’s final level — in which the player learns that he’s been working for the power-hungry Eisner all along, says the EW site.   Los Disneys is no “Pirates of the Caribbean,” a game  Disney has been touting all year.  “Technology advances provide a tremendous opportunity to engage consumers with more breadth and depth. To every screen within reach we are witnessing an explosion. Disney is a catalyst to that explosion,”  Robert Iger  chairman and CEO of Disney told attendees of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.  Indeed.