Trump administration chickens out in face of the raw might and fury of Tetris

It’s not clear, though, what opportunities there are for other creators to do something similar with their own games that have been ripped off for Arcade.gov: Of the four still up there, the only one you can link to a specific creator is Flappy Bill, based off Dong Nguyen’s Flappy Bird,—and Nguyen has basically disappeared from the internet in recent years. (His last social media message, from a year ago, was distancing himself from a different Flappy Bird knockoff, that one propagated by crypto bros.) Flappy Bill is, at least, way less obnoxious than, say, Rio Run, where an immigration enforcement official who looks kind of like a geriatric goose rounds us “crossers” to deport; unfortunately, Snake has been ripped off and copied so thoroughly over the last 50 years that there’s not really any one creator who can take legal umbrage at that one.

The Arcade page currently promises visitors that “A new adventure awaits,” which presumably means some intern is sitting in a West Wing basement right now trying to figure out which four-decade-old games they can vibe-code cheap knockoffs next without the attorneys getting involved.