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Tea
Party bloodbath computer game
Published: 08 September, 2011
Computer
gamers take aim at zombie Tea
Party members in this new online sensation.
Sayonara,
Sarah! Online gamers now
have the chance to aim an Uzi at the skull of Sarah Palin and some of
the Tea
Party figurehead’s Republican chums.
You
won’t be allowed the opportunity
to blow the brains out of Mrs. Palin, per say. No, no, no. “Tea Party
Zombies
Must Die,” a new game released by the creative minds at the viral
“advergaming”
group Starvingeyes, lets the users take aim at a whole slew of
right-wing
lawmakers. As you could probably guess from the title, however, Palin
and pals
have taken the form of the living dead and are flesh-craved and on the
prowl.
Using
an arsenal of weapons, the
protagonist in this first-person shooter game transverses a Tea Party
rally and
a torn-apart trailer park with the goal of protecting America from the
evil
wrath of Michele Bachmann and Fox News anchors. In this game, actions
take
place in an alternate universe where Koch Industries dispatches
lobbying zombie
pigs to buy their votes.
At
least, we think it’s at alternate
universe.
Starvingeyes
founder Jason Oda tells
Media Research Center that the game was just a personal project that he
didn’t
think would affect business for his company. Oda has been making games
since
2000 and has achieved underground notoriety over the last decade for a
string
of titles, including an Internet sensation back in 2003 that let users
control
indie musicians like Dashboard Confessional protect a fellow emo group
from
being anally raped by Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. A year later,
his
Bushgame title allowed Internet fans to attack members of the George W
Bush
administration with the help of Mr. T and He-Man.
Seven
years down the road, Oda is back
at it again, but instead of Dick Cheney as the demonized bad guy,
targets
include zombie versions of Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee and Rick
Santorum. Of
course those are only the big names in Tea Party Zombies Must Die.
There are a
whole slew of minor characters that must be chopped in half and shot in
the
head, including the “Pissed off stupid white trash redneck birther
zombie,” the
“expresses racist views anonymously on the Internet modern Klan zombie”
and of
course “factory made blonde Fox News Barbie who has never had a problem
in her
life zombie.”
Of
course, if the “factory made blonde
Fox News Barbie who has never had a problem in her life zombie” is just
too
generic for the avid gamer, there is a walking-dead version of Bill
O’Reilly,
Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.
See
the video (if you wish) at rt.com
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