Shortly after 9/11, a handheld electronic game appeared called Laden VS USA. A knockoff of Submarine Battle, a Casio game from 1983, it gave players “Ages 5 and Up” the chance to gun down jets before they reached the Twin Towers, with the primitive gameplay taking place atop an actual 9/11 photograph.
Popular with children in Pakistan in the early 2000s, it’s one of the many pieces of strange ephemera collated in Never Forget: Souvenirs from the Gulf War & The War on Terror, soon to be published by the independent imprint Lock Books.
