This may sound funny, but my first real interest in street art came from a video game. Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure was released in 2006 for the PS2 and put you in the shoes of a young kid in a future dystopian society protesting a fascist government and gaining notoriety among other street artists.
This game was largely overlooked by the gaming community, probably because the play control was pretty clunky and it was released for PS2 right around the time the PS3 came out. All that aside, the urban exploring sub-culture aspect and a killer soundtrack made this game a hit in my book. Not to mention cameo appearances from real life graffiti legends.
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