FROM THE ARCHIVES: RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
If your mother ever told you not to run with scissors, then she would certainly have warned you against playing a violently anarchic, boundary-shifting murder romp starring a gunman rampaging through a town. After all, killing people going about their daily life tends to be something that ends up on a rolling television news channel rather than something you do for fun. Yet that was the premise of Postal, Running With Scissors’ long-running series. And, as you can imagine, it got the studio into heaps of trouble from the start.
Blamed for the stabbing of eight people in a Moscow synagogue? Sure. Banned from New Zealand? Absolutely. Dubbed “digital poison” by US Senator Joseph Lieberman who also sought to have it ripped from shop shelves? That, says Vince Desi, the CEO and founder of Running With Scissors, piqued the interest of the media and the game began to be pulled by CompUSA and Wal-Mart. But Vince is adamant his company wasn’t seeking such adverse publicity. “Controversy was never part of the plan,” he says.
Rather, the idea behind Running With Scissors
