Editing Running with Scissors (company) (section)

=== ''Postal'' ===
According to Desi, the RWS team wanted to make an original game, the most outrageous game they could.<ref name="Tucson Weekly" /><ref name="Retro Gamer 195" /> Inspired by the game ''[[Robotron: 2084]]'', which had been playable at the RSP offices, RWS began work on ''[[Postal (video game)|Postal]]''. The game saw the Postal Dude engage in [[mass murder]], and it was named after the slang term "[[going postal]]", referring to murders performed by [[United States Postal Service]] (USPS) employees.<ref name="Retro Gamer 195" /> In 1997, RWS filed a trademark for the word "Postal" in the area of electronic gaming. In response, the USPS counter-filed that trademark, alleging that it was moving into video games, and [[Marvin Travis Runyon]], the [[United States Postmaster General]] at the time, sent RWS a letter condemning the game's theme.<ref name="Tucson Weekly" /><ref name="Retro Gamer 195" /> The legal battle was eventually dismissed [[with prejudice]] in June 2003.<ref name="Retro Gamer 195" /><ref name="GameSpot: Postal case dismissal" /> The theme also caused wider controversy within the media and the [[video game industry]], to the surprise of Desi, who considered ''Postal'' to be more comical and "over-the-top" and stated that the game was not to be taken seriously.<ref name="Tucson Weekly" /><ref name="Retro Gamer 195" /> ''Postal'' was released in 1997 for [[Windows]] and [[Classic Mac OS|Mac OS]] as the first game of [[Ripcord Games]], a publishing label of [[Matsushita Electric]]'s Panasonic Interactive Media division.<ref name="GameSpot: Ripcord" /><ref name="Wired: Arizona" /> Following the release, the game was targeted by senator [[Joe Lieberman]], who labeled it as one of the worst things in America, while retail chains [[CompUSA]] and [[Wal-Mart]] refused to sell the game.<ref name="Tucson Weekly" /><ref name="Retro Gamer 195" /> In its first week, ''Postal'' was sold over 10,000 times in the United States, and sales in Europe (where the game was released by [[Take-Two Interactive]]) were expected to reach 100,000.<ref name="GameSpot: RWS coverage" /> Desi estimated that the game generated roughly {{US$|5&nbsp;million|link=yes}} in revenue.<ref name="Tucson Weekly" /> RWS followed up with ''Special Delivery'', an [[Expansion pack|add-on]] of four levels released in August 1998 that allowed the player to murder lawyers, homeless people, and [[American Red Cross]] workers, among others.<ref name="Retro Gamer 195" /><ref name="GameSpot: Postal add-on" /> A Japan-exclusive version of ''Postal'', titled ''Super Postal'', was released in 2000, and ''Postal Plus'', a bundle composed of ''Postal'' and ''Special Delivery'', came out in 2002.<ref name="Retro Gamer 195" />