The Tetris section has now been removed from the game, which aims to educate kids about the slave trade.
A Danish video game company has amended an educational online game about the slave trade to remove a section in which users stacked slaves in a ship like a game of Tetris.
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"Travel back in time and witness the horrors of slave trade firsthand," reads the description for the "Playing History: Slave Trade" game, which is targeted at kids aged 11 to 14.
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"You will be working as young slave steward on a ship crossing the Atlantic. You are to serve the captain and be his eyes and ears. What do you do, when you realize that your own sister has been captured by the slave traders?"
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The CEO of the gaming company, Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, said the "Slave Tetris" section of the two-hour game lasted only 15 seconds or so.
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