Do you have some pent-up aggression from the current economic morass and don't feel like forking over $99 for a smashable Bernie Madoff doll? Seems like that thing should come in a more modestly priced voodoo version, complete with stickpins the size of machetes. Anyway, there's a bargain alternative in the iPhone app store called Squash the $treet, where the object of the game is to beat the "crooked bankers, brokers and corporate frauds into a bloody pulp." (Digitally speaking, of course.) It comes from Last Legion Games, Santa Monica, Calif., which also created the massive multi-player game for the iPhone based on Warner Bros.' action flick, Watchmen.
Since you may feel like you're fighting for your financial life in the real world, you can transfer that to the Squash the $treet app, where bringing the hammer down on companies like Leave 'Em Bros., Shadygroup and Ferral Wench will keep you out of bankruptcy. The game won't replace all that lost 401K cash, but at least the vicarious thrill of obliterating various Wall Street institutions won't dent your pocket book much.
—Posted by T. L. Stanley
