Article - Soviet-Era Arcade Games (And now Commie Computers)

**NeoZeedeater** · 09 Jun 2007, 08:51 PM

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.

**Frogacuda** · 09 Jun 2007, 08:58 PM

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.

**gamevet** · 10 Jun 2007, 12:05 AM

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?

**Frogacuda** · 10 Jun 2007, 12:27 AM

Originally Posted by gamevet

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.

**bVork** · 10 Jun 2007, 01:25 AM

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