“I feel my family and I are more at risk from gamers than we are from outlaw motorcycle gangs who also hate me and are running a candidate against me,” Mr Atkinson told ABC TV’s Good Game program last night.

Mr Atkinson says his electoral office email has been spammed, and written threats slid under his door at 2am.

However, Gamers4Croydon president Chris Prior says the party is not involved and does not encourage in any criminal or borderline activity and was surprised by Mr Atkinson’s comments.

“It’s really quite absurd and it trivialises the lives that have been ruined by cruel motorcycle gangs,” he said.

“We are a party formed to challenge Mr Atkinson publicly, civilly, and within the rules of South Australia's democracy.”