Twin Towers in Video Games
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Twin Towers in Video Games
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Here is a list we've compiled of the Twin Towers in video games. The Twin Towers were important cultural and symbolic landmarks, not only representing America and NYC, but also as a symbol that represented the idea of "American exceptionalism" (whatever that means) and were a huge cultural part of ourselves, so it's only natural that the Twin Towers would see MANY appearances in video games, just the same way they see MANY appearances in any art form such as movies, books, paintings, music and stories. In today's video we explore some of those appearances of the Twin Towers in video games. 🇺🇸 🎮
If you know of any we've missed, please post in comments! 😃
Our video features these instances of Twin Towers in video games:
TetraStar: The Fighter - Nintendo Famicom (Taito, 1991)
The Combatribes - Arcade/SNES (Technos, 1990)
Aero Fighters 2 - Neo Geo (SNK, 1994)
Parasite Eve - PlayStation (SquareSoft, 1998)
Driver - PlayStation (GT Interactive, 1999)
Midnight Club - PS2 (Rockstar, 2000)
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs - Arcade/Sega CD (Capcom, 1993)
Cobra Command - Arcade (Data East, 1984)
Rampage 2: Universal Tour - N64/PlayStation (Midway, 1999)
Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro - PlayStation (Activision, 2001)
Hybrid Heaven - N64 (Konami, 1999)
Thanks also to the helpful people in the comments for pointing out these additional instances of the Twin Towers in video games that we missed in our video:
Tekken 2 - Arcade/PlayStation (Namco, 1995/96) "Paul Phoenix's Stage takes place in New York where you can see the towers in the near Manhattan skyline." -@ShinyMoltres
Urban Strike - Sega Mega Drive/Genesis (Electronic Arts, 1994) "there's a mission where you can blow up the twin towers and the creepy thing is that the game takes place in 2001" -@oldandnewgamer
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - SNES (Bandai, 1994) "you can see them at the background." -@elbarry7016
Max Payne - PC/PlayStation 2 (Rockstar, 2001) "There is WTC in Max Payne's loading screen." -@ahmetalperengunes
Agent USA - Apple II/Atari 8-bit family/Commodore 64/IBM PCCommodore/Atari computers (Scholastic, 1984) -@fghg4905
Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA - N64 (Midway, 1998) "Rush 2 USA for N64 have a track with WTC" -@diogosilva2011
Driver Parallel Lines - PS2/Xbox/Wii/PC (Atari/Ubisoft, 2006/07) "It was in Driver Parallel Lines as well. That game is from 2006 so has the best quality of them. You can only see them when the games in 1978. When it goes to 2006, it just has fences around where they should’ve been then." -@Ben_Mayall and "That was specifically why I bought the game" -@ziggypop79
Driver 76 - PSP (Ubisoft, 2007) "It was in driver 76 on PSP too" -@vladimirlong7125