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For the Pinball game:

  • Harsher in Hindsight: The game includes Soviet MIG jets shooting down Air Force One, a gunfight outside the Capitol Building, and the player has to repeatedly take shots at the White House. Just imagine how that would come across in a post-September 11th America...
  • Serial Numbers Filed Off: Steve Ritchie claims that Secret Service is a plagiarized copy of his earlier games Flash and High Speed, from when designer Claude Fernandez worked for Williams Electronics.
    Steve Ritchie: "If you want another example of total similarity (plagiarism), check out Secret Service, it's Flash and High Speed combined. Even the posts were in exactly the same positions as the original games. Claude struck again."

For the video game:

  • Complete Monster (Ultimate Sacrifice):
    • President Geraldo Deldago Vargas is the vile leader of Costa Sentava, who took control of the country by overthrowing the previous President in a Military Coup. Starting off his tyrannical rule by oppressing his own people, Vargas used deadly CVX gas to horrifically slaughter the resistance to his rule, having over 100 people killed in a single attack. Hating the US, Vargas orchestrates a series of terrorist attacks upon his own people, not caring when his own aunt got killed in one of them, to frame the Americans for them and convince the people of Costa Sentava to join his cause. Using Senator Davies to smuggle CVX bombs into the US Capitol, Vargas hoped to destroy Washington, D.C., solely to kill off the President of the US and take over America, wanting to make it "the second Sentava".
    • Senator Davies is a treacherous member of the "inner circle", who decided to betray his country by joining Vargas's scheme. Assisting Vargas in organizing the attacks upon people of Costa Sentava to make them join Vargas's attack on the US, Davies helped Vargas's men to smuggle CVX bombs into the Capitol, which threatened to wipe out D.C. When Agent Pierce foiled their attempts to kill the President-Elect, Davies took the President-Elect hostage and tried to force Pierce to let him escape by threatening to detonate a CVX grenade, which would kill over 1,000 innocent people, including his own men.

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