Fun story about a Soviet arcade museum.

[BASS!]

A story about a underground Soviet arcade, really cool stuff!

http://gizmodo.com/#!5800012/the-extraordinary-underground-museum-of-soviet-arcade-games

[alfonzotan]

"In Russia, Pac-Man eats YOU!"

[Bloinkxp]

I love interesting reads like this.

Thanks!!

[DataWest]

Cool article. Fascinating bit about the lack of hi scores.

[tommyinajar]

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=106472.msg1129045#msg1129045 

[scofthe7seas]

"In Russia, Pac-Man eats YOU!"

Haha So, in the US we eat pacman? I suppose we do, in Chef Boyardee form..

[BASS!]

Sorry about the repost:) been a bit absent for the past year, just thought I would share.

[RandyT]

Sorry about the repost:) been a bit absent for the past year, just thought I would share.

Heh, I didn't see it the first time, so I'm glad you dredged it back up.  Definitely an interesting read.  The funniest part to me was the basketball game that I know I played in an amusement park at some time in my youth.  Definitely a cool piece of engineering, but I wonder if it was really a soviet game, and if not, why it was in the collection.  Did that one look familiar to anyone else?

[Necro]

I've seen something like it.  Prob. just the russian version/copy.  I mean, they didn't invent Bubble Hockey either but they have them there.

[RandyT]

I've seen something like it.  Prob. just the russian version/copy.  I mean, they didn't invent Bubble Hockey either but they have them there.

Yeah, SEGA invented that in the 70's.  But the basketball game got some attention in the article, whereas the bubble hockey game didn't.  It also seems identical to the one I remember, other than the color scheme.  Makes one wonder how many of the "soviet" games were just machines made elsewhere and re-dressed /  re-marketed inside through a soviet company. 

[Necro]

Well, not like that didn't happen in the US (e.g., PacMan ) - get your point though.  My first thought was 'There are that many russian made arcade games?'

[DataWest]

I wonder if these games represent true soviet arcades until the state collapsed in '91? Were they 10 years behind us in terms of mainly mechanical games? That would explain why through the 80's they were playing games we had in the 70's. Just a thought. Am I wrong in saying that the 80's were characterized here in the states by games that had monitors and no moving parts?