At a Labour party conference-adjacent event in September, The World Transformed, Jeremy Corbyn was pictured waving an arm in front of an arcade cabinet bearing the words Thatcher’s Techbase. The game – a modified version of 1994’s famous infernal shooter, Doom II – sees players hunting down a resurrected, cyborg version of the former prime minister in a labyrinthine fortress.
The images kicked off a minor media storm. “Pictured: Jeremy Corbyn plays video game that lets players kill Margaret Thatcher,” said The Telegraph; the photos were featured in the Daily Mail, the Express and the Times. They even appeared on Have I Got News for You.
