This made me laugh. Communist Mutants from Space was a video game made for the Atari 2600. It is a classic Space Invaders type shoot’em up game from 1982. Your mission is to shoot all the communist mutants and the mother creature. A remake was made in 2005 and the opening sequence is hilarious,
“In the year 3000, Earth is in the terrifying grips of the Space Cold War with the Union of Mutant Socialist Planets, a communist group which has been inflicting terror on peaceful, democratic, freedom-loving planets and turning their inhabitants into COMMUNIST MUTANTS! Their leader is the Mother Creature, a mutant who has been driven insane from years of consuming irradiated vodka. As Captain Harry McCarthy of Earth’s Anti-Communist Force, your task is clear: destroy the Mother Creature and the Communist Mutants before Earth falls victim to their evil, gift-economy ways!”
Do they still make games like this? Well apparently they were thinking of it. In 2000 a game was developed for the Sega Dreamcast. The story went…it’s 3050, the space cold war is over. With the collapse of the Union of Mutant Socialist Planets the 4 Super Capitalist Planets have won and they convene to plan reconstruction and restore order. However, they are unaware that the collapse of the Union of Mutant Sociaists Planets was a trick. With the help of the Mutant Peoples Republic of Chizna they plan to attack and destroy the capitalists once and for all. This time you get to decide who’s side you are on – the Anti-Communist forces of earth or the Glorious Peoples Army of Rooskee!
