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I find this quite fascinating. I always wondered what kind of games existed in the Soviet Union besides the few bootlegs of Japanese games I have seen pics of (and of course Tetris).
Here's an article and cabinet pics.
http://www.wired.com/gaming/hardware...6/soviet_games
I really hope as much of this stuff as possible gets emulated in the future.
Hah, "That kind of competition wasn't encouraged." I love how political philosophy dominated everything. I, too, would be interested to see these emulated or otherwise recreated, as well, but it sounds like a tough fight given their rarity.
I don't think most of these can really be emulated.
It appears that most of the machines use lights and moving parts to represent the action; much like the old shooting gallery games. I wonder if any of these games had a CPU either?
Clearly some of them do. There's one that looks like a sort of Wonderboyish game.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
Nicely dovetailing with the current MAME thread, one of the legal to download and play MAME roms is actually East German in origin. It's called Poly Play
The two dudes in the photo up top are named Alexander as is the author of the article. Not too creative, those Soviet mothers.
They probably had restrictions on naming conventions. So, no 'Georgi Washingtonski' or 'Ronald Reaganovitch'
:lol: :lol: :lol:
kopecks, lol, where the heck is Borat?Quote:
Every Soviet game costs 15 kopecks for one play.
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Originally Posted by g0zen
Nice. lol
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, vIdeogameS play YOU!?
No High-Score list = Communism. Literally.
lol, Thats what I actually played when i was a kid. :p Nice memories. Somewhere in 1980 - 1987 or so.
Later on, with more small private arcades started popping up, where you could play Atari, Commodore 64 and few others, with pay for the timer type of play.
And yeah, no high scores for ya :)
Over at digitpress, blue lander has an interesting thread on Soviet era computer games for the BK-0010. I couldn't find any emulators I could get to work but there are some screens of original games and not just clones of Western stuff.
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126878
Pretty interesting. If there are screens like that there has to be a working emulator...
I have a friend who grew up in the Soviet Union. He actually had a Nintendo clone, but every game he had was some creepy communist bootleg, so he never knows the legit names of any of his favorite childhood games.
I would LOVE a Soviet era NES clone with games.
In Soviet Russia, Rush'n Attacks YOU
Super Castro Bros was pretty dope though.
Oh, I have an emulator for that computer if you need it, Neo. I don't have any games for it, but it runs, I can see the bios and such
I'm interested in getting that emulator. Thanks. Hopefully we can find some roms.
Am I allowed to just post this? I assume it's ok to distribute to each according to his need, but I'm not familiar with soviet copyright law.
Fuck it, here goes. If Nick or the mods think this might represent a real copyright violation, please remove:
http://bk0010.org/
bk.zip contains the files you seek.
I doubt it's illegal. I actually already have that one but got an error message before so I assumed you probably had something different.
Fired right up for me. I'm going to ask my Ukranian friend to do a little googling and see if he can find some games for the thing.
This looks like a 50 pin amphenol used for phone blocks, or an old serial cable for a printer. They really did dig through the parts bin to make this computer.
Alright, here we go, Neo.
http://andygame.narod.ru/bk.htm
Choice of emus (the last one works very well) and three packs at the bottom with a whole bunch of games.
This thing is appropriately very... red.
These games are all terrible. Some of the more interesting moments.
The Castle That Make A Horror!
Sweet. I'm probably just a dumbass but how exactly do you get the games to load up? The only options seem to be "load state" and "disk Image manager", neither of which run the .bin files.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Yeah, it's kind of retarded, but after running the emulator, it'll associate bin files with itself, and then you can just click on your bin files to launch the emu running that game/app. I don't know why there's not a way to load them directly.
Also, I found this, and it reminded me of one of my favorite soviet-era games, Perestroika. It's an exact clone of it. I thought I might have discovered a long lost original version, but it says it's based on the PC one. I also learned that the music and speech in Perestroika doesn't work in DOSbox and that makes me sad.
The Castle that make a Horror! That's epic english right there. It even trumps the Japanese, which I didn't think was possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Most of the games on this system are clones, ports, or derivatives of existing western games, but there are some I can't place. That Pereval game looks like Freddie Hardest, but it actually plays a bit differently. The first screenshot I posted is from a game called Superman that looks familiar, but I can't figure out if it's a clone or not.
Found another pile o' games.
http://www.cplusplus.boom.ru/bk0010/bk.html
Some of the mutant versions are kind of hilarious.
These suck so much they're awesome. That Ms Pac-Man art keeps cracking me up. A lot of this stuff seems to be from the '90s, at the least the ones that list the years. I wonder which games came out during the communist era.
Most of them, I think. But it's generally pretty easy to tell, heh. The ones that look professional have later dates, but the clunky ones mostly seem to be 91 and before. UVL has a table of what games came out what year. Don't know if it's perfectly accurate, but it seems like a lot.
These are all products of the Gorbachev era which was legally kind of weird, I think. I think between 87 and 91 you could have a private company to develop games, but not any intellectual property rights, hence all the clones and rip offs and such. On the tail end though there do seem to be some more professional efforts with real licenses, like the Return of the Jedi game.
I was incorrectly remembering the collapse of the Sovier Union being 1990 instead of 1991. And that Superman game looks familiar to me too, at least the bubble reminds me of something on the Speccy.
It was the very end of 1991, too (Dec 26), which makes it nice and easy to tell when there is a date given.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...1&d=1233361747
Demon Stalker looks amazing.
play for two, man.