Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill
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| Developer(s) | Kaneko Co. Ltd. |
| Publisher(s) | Kaneko USA, Ltd. |
| Platform(s) | Super NES, Sega Genesis |
| Release date | Cancelled |
| Genre(s) | Platform Game |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Media | 8-megabit Cartridge |
Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill is an unreleased video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis. It stars Socks, the pet cat of 42nd US President Bill Clinton, and his family, in a platforming adventure in which he has to make his way past spies, crooked politicians and the media to warn the White House of a stolen nuclear missile. Scheduled for a release in the Fall of 1993, the game was complete and ready to be shipped to retailers, but was suddenly cancelled following the closing of publisher Kaneko's US branch.[citation needed]
The game's bosses were made out to be caricatures of former Republican leaders such as Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush. Nintendo's own censorship policies during the late 1980s and early 1990s condemned games that had "subliminal political messages" or "overt political statements".[1]
In a pre-release review of the game, Nintendo Power openly questioned the reason that such figures were in the game, and deemed the title as politically controversial.[citation needed] This, coupled with the fact that Kaneko's US branch was closing down, prevented Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill from ever being shipped, and no known ROM has been found on the Internet.[citation needed]
