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North Korea's Kim Jong-Un and Dennis Rodman join forces in Glorious Leader!

North Korea’s supreme leader and former Chicago Bulls player to star in a side-scrolling run and gun.

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North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un will star in his own video game called Glorious Leader!

American independent entertainment and gaming company Moneyhorse Games says Glorious Leader! is an epic tale that that will let you play Kim Jong-un as he takes on the entire American army in a retro-style side-scrolling run and gun reminiscent of Contra.

And just like Contra featured the deadly duo of Bill "Mad Dog" Rizer and Lance "Scorpion" Bean, Glorious Leader! pairs Kim Jong-un with his buddy, former Chicago Bulls player Dennis “The Worm” Rodman.

Moneyhorse Games CEO Jeff Miller told The Guardian in an interview the game hopes to "carefully walk the line of satire without being an apologist for the regime."

Glorious Leader! will release on PC and mobile devices “soon.”

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yet another gimmicky/cheesy flash in the pan humor game..

Yep I must be still in America.

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Being the North Korean dictator is basically the publisher of this game, there's not a chance in hell I'd buy it. Obviously a lot of people here don't have any morals or principles because they can't wait to play it. All this game is good for is to wipe my @ss with.

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If you add Lady Gaga, It will be the ultimate team.

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I think this game is what they really wanted to do with the Homefront game, but they just couldn't get Dennis Rodman and the leader of North Korea onboard. :)


However, I expect this to be a good prequel to the Homefront game, probably as good of quality as well.

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How did this developer get the rights to use the likeness of Dennis Rodman, and even more oddly the leader of North Korea? Seems like that would cost a heavy bundle, and that's if the contacts with these guys could even be made. Hard to imagine how an indie can work the economics of this deal, I wonder if the lawsuits will start to be filed.

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The North Korean lunatic is having the game made. He paid for it.

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Bring this to PSN and my money is yours.

I never knew the guys in Contra had names.

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if it were on xbox one this game would be better because of


kinect

cloud

improved matchmaking

skype

rumble triggers

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I googled North Korean government. Funny stuff: "North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea."

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@bluefox755 You should keep reading whatever material you were reading, North Korea gets even funnier with the more you learn (and sadder too...)

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I grew up with games like this, so I'll definitely buy it. Looks like great fun.

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I have to play this. Just to say I did. This is awesome that it even exists. Going to be better then Shaq fu 2.

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North Korea > USA

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@turok0 I don't know, I wonder if they have universal healthcare?

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Sure they do. If your sick, they will just put you in a camp for you to die.

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this will be fun war against 2 leaders nuclear anyone

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This should be interesting

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wow.............just wow........

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i HAVE GOT to play this. it looks like Shinobi on LSD.

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The game looks fun, but sadly I dont like the character

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@freedom01 CharacterS*

Fixed.

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No I only dont like one character so its correct

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might be a good old school game but why anyone wants to play as that NUT JOB is beyond me

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@mr_fantastic54 I do. He is not even that bad if you compare him to US World Bank owned presidents and their crimes.

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@WolfgarTheQuiet @mr_fantastic54 This is insulting and disgusting. There is something funny about conspiracy theories and the perceived evil of the capitalism, but using that to say that North Korean regime is "not that bad" is ignorant and ... well atrocious. Since you are clearly very uneducated on the topic - you should read up on it. Don't read American press, since you seem to be in anti-west camp. Read Al-Jazeera or even Russia Today.


NK government holds dozens of millions of people in concentration labor camps on political grounds, has an extermination program for newborns showing any disabilities or deviations from norm and their death by firing squad "program" is enacted upon thousands of people. Talk all you want about US World Bank, rigged elections and war profiteering (which all take place no doubt) but that's nothing to the Stalinist/Hitlerist state of NK.

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@mr_fantastic54 @youre_a_sheep Good point, mr_fantastic54, there are many people in the US that think absolutely nothing about making horrendous insults to the president of the US, whether to his face or in the press. That doesn't happen in brutal dictatorships, to even whisper dissent could mean death or misery to the speaker and his or her entire family.

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@youre_a_sheep there are people in America spouting hate about its own country and they don't end up dead, in NK u make 1 bad remark you moan once publicly and your taken away and shot killed, America isn't perfect but compared to NK its a freaking paradise

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@factory_666 @WolfgarTheQuiet @mr_fantastic54 Keep telling yourself there's a difference. The US uses drones instead of firing squads and is putting everything in place to legally imprison its own citizens should they threaten the oligarchy.

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@WolfgarTheQuiet @mr_fantastic54 Lol, you're not that bright, are you?

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@WolfgarTheQuiet don't talk such rot the US world bank has not had people killed by firing squad for differences of opinion

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@mr_fantastic54 I beg to differ. The US World Banks have been the financial spearhead of the U.S Military's conquests throughout the Middle East. I'm sure you know how many casualties have fell and how many countries left in ruins for the interests of these bourgeois one percent. I'm not defending Kim, but compared to the real bad guys: There's no comparison.

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Gotta love these contra/metal slug type games

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I'm disappointed because I thought this game was actually being created in North Korea.

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@notorious98 They don't really produce things over there, and when they do they don't trade with foreigners. There might already be tons of adventure games featuring the leader of North Korea, we just don't know about them :)

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Wow I just love retro graphics like this, totally worth my money in 2014! It really shows that this is an industry of innovation and forward-thinking developers, not just a cash cow being milked for every last drop of nostalgia. So awesome. Everyone who pays for this are really cool people.

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@001011000101101 Cool story bro.

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@Warlord_Irochi @001011000101101 Awesome meme my fellow gamer! I love memes like that! EPIC WIN

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@001011000101101 Of course! Goes well with sarcasm :D
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6541831424/hA34D2833/
(and with humor ^.^)

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@enoughofthis You are mistaking South Korea for North Korea :P

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Finally a game worth playing released this year.

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@makryu Child of Light!

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Shouldn't the title be " Grorious Reader"?

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@nomadsalt the japanese are the ones without L's, the chinese have plenty of them

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@nomadsalt That's Chinese.
Source: I'm Chinese.

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Brilliant.

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@jake44 http://www.peoplesniper.com/image/people/small/1302/brirriant-kim-jong-brilliant-people-pic-1360421816.jpg

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This will surely be a cheap, bad game used to make a quick buck off novelty alone.

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ZOMG must buy! going to camp out of the store a week ahead to make sure I get the first copy! TOTALLY WORTH IT GAIS!

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Oh gawd, my sides xD This game can't come out fast enough!

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