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War is hell, unless you're a 40'foot robot. This Atari ad for the Iron Soldier game illustrates the<br />

attraction of postmodern war to the technophilic prepubescent imaginary. Incredible power,<br />

bloodless death, mechanized embodiment, multiple lives are very attractive. At least Atari knows<br />

it is only a video game .his not an accident that the military now mobilizes science fiction writers<br />

and other futurologists to plan for the wars of tomorrow just as they consciously recruit<br />

video-game-playing adolescents to fight the same conflicts. Atari Iron Soldier advertisement from<br />

1995.<br />

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