A friend of mine who works at a game publisher just gave me a copy Conflict: Desert Storm II - Back to Baghdad - which has to be said with a really bad southern American accent. I’ve not played it yet, but it occurred to me that the US hasn’t copyrighted any of the gulf conflicts. I’m sure they ought to, so they can make money off the IP, charge royalties on all the product licenses. It may not pay off the entire gulf war bill, but with all the gulf war spin off products it might go part of the way.
Maybe when people do get in to wars they will think twice… does it have a good marketing angle? Angola or the Balkans - not very exciting. Big desert battles, much more exciting. Books, movies, games, the works.
