I knew something was wrong when I found myself doing doughnuts in a fully loaded slave ship off of Ivory Coast.
During the past week, an educational game aimed at elementary and middle school students titled "Playing History 2 — Slave Trade" has been the subject of online controversy over a brief segment that involved puzzle-stacking the bodies of cartoon slaves inside a ship. This earned the game the nickname "Slave Tetris."
Part of a series of educational games by the Danish company Serious Games, "Playing History 2 — Slave Trade" was released in Europe in 2013 but didn’t provoke outrage until it was added to the online gaming store Steam late last month.