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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an animal rights organization based in the United States; has released a number of browser games on its website that have parodied existing video games. Various PETA parodies have taken on games such as ''Super Mario Bros.'', ''Cooking Mama'', and ''Pokémon Black'' and ''White''. PETA creates these games to spread attention about real-life animal rights and animal welfare concerns and advocate vegetarian and vegan diets. ==History== Some of PETA's earliest forays into gaming include Flash-based games such as ''Make Fred Spew'' (2001)〔(Original ''Make Fred Spew'' game page ). Internet Archive. Archived 4 June 2001. Retrieved 15 May 2014.〕 and ''Save the Chicks'' (2003),〔(Original ''Save the Chicks'' game page ). Internet Archive. Archived 7 February 2003. Retrieved 15 May 2014.〕 which were included as part of PETA's anti-dairy and Kentucky Fried Cruelty campaigns. These games received some coverage in academic and news sources,〔Frasca, Gonzalo. ''(KFC Cruelty Game )''. www.bogost.com. 18 February 2004〕〔Jackson, Rachael. "(PETA dials back diatribe, edges into the mainstream )." ''Orlando Sentinel''. 11 May 2008.〕〔Smith, Wesley J.. ''A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement''. (2010) Encounter Books, ISBN 978-1-59403-346-9〕 and PETA's head of online marketing, Joel Bartlett, identified their 2004 ''Revenge of the PETA Tomatoes'' and the ''Frogger'' parody, ''Lobster Liberation'', as some of the organization's earliest released games.〔"(An Interview with PETA: Game Developer )." ''Gameranx''. 21 October 2013.〕〔(Original 2004 lineup of 4 games ). Internet Archive. Archived 10 September 2004. Retrieved 13 May 2014.〕 However it was not until 2007 that PETA began to attract wider attention within the gaming community with its release of ''Super Chick Sisters'', a parody of ''Super Mario Bros.''〔 Controlling two female chicks named Nugget and Chickette, the player sets out to rescue vegetarian actress Pamela Anderson, who has publicly revealed animal cruelty endemic to KFC's food production, from KFC's mascot Colonel Sanders. In 2009, the game was met with a sequel, ''New Super Chick Sisters'', an homage to ''New Super Mario Bros.''〔 In this game, McDonald's mascot Ronald McDonald kidnaps Anderson with the intent of using her as a Happy Meal ingredient, and the Chick Sisters must rescue her again. In 2008, PETA released an adaptation of the cooking simulator ''Cooking Mama'' called ''Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals''.〔 In it, PETA encouraged users to write to ''Cooking Mama'' developer Majesco Entertainment to create a version of the game with only vegetarian recipes. ''Mama Kills Animals'' consists of minigames related to the preparation of animal carcasses. Edmund McMillen from Team Meat, the developer of the indie game ''Super Meat Boy'', created various accounts on PETA's official forums to try to get his game parodied by PETA. PETA developed ''Super Tofu Boy'' and released it in December 2010.〔 It stars Tofu Boy, an anthropomorphic cube of tofu whose goal is to rescue Bandage Girl, the girlfriend of the original game's protagonist Meat Boy, from Meat Boy. It plays as a standard platformer〔 and is peppered with inter-level pro-vegetarian messages and facts about meat consumption and the livestock industry. After releasing ''Mario Kills Tanooki'', a parody of ''Super Mario Bros. 3'', PETA released a statement that the game was "meant to be tongue-in-cheek, a fun way to call attention to a serious issue, that raccoon dogs are skinned alive for their fur." The organization also stated that "by wearing Tanooki, Mario is sending the message that it's OK to wear fur." It is an action game in which the player controls a skinned but living raccoon dog that chases Mario to retrieve its fur.〔 PETA took on the ''Pokémon'' series with ''Pokémon Black and Blue'', a parody of ''Pokémon Black'' and ''White'' that focuses on animal fighting and experimentation.〔〔 In role-playing-style battles, the player controls a Pikachu who escapes its Trainers, Cheren. Pikachu first fights Cheren and then moves on to other Trainers in order to rescue their Pokémon from ownership. Pikachu recruits these Pokémon to its cause, as well as the sympathetic Nurse Joy. A sequel, ''Pokémon Red, White, and Blue'', followed in 2013.〔 The game suggests that Nintendo's continual releases of ''Pokémon'' games reduce humans' empathy for animals. Also a role-playing game, it stars Pikachu and Miltank, who battle McDonald's characters like the Hamburglar in a crusade against the rare but ongoing practice of meat production in the Unova region. Also in 2013, PETA released ''Cage Fight: Knock Out Animal Abuse'', a beat 'em up game in the style of ''River City Ransom''. The player controls vegetarian mixed martial arts fighters Jake Shields, Aaron Simpson, and Georgi Karakhanyan and attacks animal testing practitioners to rescue confined animals.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PETA satirical browser games」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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