[Arcade] In Soviet Russia, video game plays you

Wired.com published a fascinating article today about a group of guys in Moscow who are restoring Soviet-era arcade games. There's a gallery of pictures, mostly of the machines themselves, although there are a few shots of the games:

A creepy game of pool:


Russian Zelda:


I found one line of the article particularly amusing:

Quote:

One common feature among them all is a lack of a high-score list. "That kind of competition wasn't encouraged," explains Alexander Stakhanov, one of the museum's founders and engineers. "If you got enough points you won a free game, but there was no 'high score' culture as in the West."

Does anyone else have tales of unique arcade games that are only found in their home country (besides Japan of course)?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I saw these too. It'd be great to play some of these on an emulator. Games in other cultures fascinate me.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Lol, Canada has no video game legacy. Anything we've ever had came up first in the states. Hell, arcades don't even exist here anymore. I remember the ones i used to go to would have you pay for a certain amount of time up front, then you could go nuts, as long as you didn't run out of time.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Haha wow, thanks for the link. This is neat stuff.



Move over Daytona USA!

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