Yes, you read the headline right, former UK Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was pictured playing a Doom mod called Thatcher’s Techbase, which tasks you with killing former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , who rose from the dead.
After the Doom mod was released last year, creator Jim Purvis announced on Twitter that a Techbase arcade cabinet edition of Thatcher would be at The World Transformed, an annual festival that aims to “reinvigorate the left’s presence in the Labor Party conference” and bring together radical politics, art and culture.
One thread shows the build of the Doom mod cabinet, followed by footage of Corbyn playing the game with the caption “liked the game” from Purvis (via indy100). Corbyn isn’t the only public figure to interact with Thatcher’s Techbase, either, as Doom creator John Romero even decided that he, too, would give the Doom mod a try.
The world has heard a mysterious broadcast, a threat of revenge in the sinister voice of the late Baroness Margaret Thatcher,” reads the mod’s description. Faced with the return of one of humanity’s greatest threats, you have no choice but to head to the 10th Circle of Hell – the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – and investigate the underworld fortress known only as…Thatcher’s Techbase.”
He liked the game 🙂 pic.twitter.com/fD9VuNVvYZ
— Jim (@lethugbro) September 25, 2022
The World Transformed was also run in conjunction with Living Rent, which works to secure the future of tenants’ rights in Scotland. You can learn more about Thatcher’s Techbase Doom mod and play it for yourself here.
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