A Scottish company called Traffic Games released an online video game today that attempts to re-create the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In "JFK Reloaded," Lee Harvey Oswald wannabes attempt to assassinate the President in the exact way game developers believe the events took place.

"We've created the game with the belief that Oswald was the only person that fired the shots on that day, although this recreation proves how immensely difficult his task was," a company spokesman said. He’s offering $100,000 to the first person who uses it to duplicate the shots which killed the president.

The game, retailing at $9.99 has sparked much controversy already, even from JFK’s brother Edward. “It is despicable,” his spokesman commented.

This is definitely not the first time a video game has caused such an uproar and it probably won’t be the last, but one can’t help but wonder what happened to the good old days when gamers could revel in the success of spitting a fireball at a winged turtle or perfectly piecing polygonal blocks together… man that sounds really boring now that you think about it.

Nevertheless, one can’t help but wonder if Traffic Games’ next project will be an Al Qaeda flight simulator or maybe Paperboy: Unabomber Edition.

P.S. - Congratulations to Ron Artest, the very-first-ever recipient of Bob Vila's Craftsman Tool of the Week.