10 Video Games That Got History Wrong

3. Killer7

Assassin's Creed III
Capcom

Suda51's games tend to be chock-a-block with nonsense at the best of times, so it's perhaps not the world's greatest surprise that he wasn't exactly dusting off the history books when it came to writing their plots.

Killer7 takes the biscuit a bit in this regard, however. One of the major plot points suggests an alternative history in which Coburn Elementary School in Seattle, WA has been covertly electing US Presidents dating back to their former headteacher, George Washington in 1789.

Even accepting this as fiction, there is just one little problem: Europeans didn't visit the area that would later become Seattle until three years after Washington became President all the way on the other coast. When they arrived, the Elliot Bay was mostly populated by villages of the Duwamish tribe. They certainly didn't have any elementary schools, let alone ones ran by a man who the state was named after.

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Benjamin was born in 1987, and is still not dead. He variously enjoys classical music, old-school adventure games (they're not dead), and walks on the beach (albeit short - asthma, you know). He's currently trying to compile a comprehensive history of video game music, yet denies accusations that he purposefully targets niche audiences. He's often wrong about these things.