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There is a Bernie Sanders Video Game and it is Amazing
Imagine the delight in the Mother Jones DC office this morning when, exhausted from last night's marathon Republican presidential debate, we discovered a nine-year-old web-based arcade game starring Bernie Sanders. We started playing it, and you can too.
The game, Bernie Arcade, comes from the Vermont senator's 2006 reelection campaign and feels both very 2006 and very Bernie Sanders. It still lives online thanks to the Web Archive. The game features the candidate in an eco-friendly hydrogen-fuelled plane. Using the arrow keys, the player navigates the plane through unfriendly skies, dodging the "extreme right wing," big bags of special-interest money, mud from mudslingers, and literal fat cats. Wonky underdog that he is, Bernie fights back by shooting these objects with fact sheets as a jaunty bluegrass tune by a Vermont band, the Cleary Brothers, plays in the background.
The game, Bernie Arcade, comes from the Vermont senator's 2006 reelection campaign and feels both very 2006 and very Bernie Sanders. It still lives online thanks to the Web Archive. The game features the candidate in an eco-friendly hydrogen-fuelled plane. Using the arrow keys, the player navigates the plane through unfriendly skies, dodging the "extreme right wing," big bags of special-interest money, mud from mudslingers, and literal fat cats. Wonky underdog that he is, Bernie fights back by shooting these objects with fact sheets as a jaunty bluegrass tune by a Vermont band, the Cleary Brothers, plays in the background.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/09/play-2006-bernie-sanders-themed-arcade-game-tbt
https://web.archive.org/web/20061018180210/http://www.bernie.org/media/game/
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