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TPB:


--- Quote from: patrickl on February 08, 2008, 02:06:29 pm ---BTW talking about eastern block arcades: Soviet Arcade Games Museum

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Interesting ...

So the folks in communist countries (Russians, Poles, East Germans, etc), WERE playing arcade games back in that era.

I wonder if they were bootleg versions ... I can't imagine a U.S. company, such as Atari, in the era of Ronald Reagan, having a distribution agreement with Breshnev's U.S.S.R.

Ronald Reagan once famously described the U.S.S.R. as the "evil empire".

It appears the communist countries were "far more liberal" than we, in the western countries, were led to believe by all the cold war propaganda.

I even read in the news, that Germany is introducing naked plane flights, as apparently in communist East Germany, communal nudity was allowed, and indeed practiced and enjoyed :

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3094108,00.html

http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,3094108,00.html


TPB:

ark_ader,

Are you an American who grew up living in England, or an Englishman who's now living in America ?

I had to laugh when I read this  :laugh2:  ... although if this is happening, it's a sad situation indeed :


--- Quote from: ark_ader on February 08, 2008, 04:49:38 pm ---the councils want the playing fields converted into Tesco supermarkets.

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... sometimes those councilors have their pockets greased by "donations" from property developers.    :(

BTW, my post was a bit tongue in cheek ... we like having a gentle jibe at the Poms when the opportunity presents itself, especially when it comes to sport.   ;)


ahofle:


--- Quote from: txtworld on February 08, 2008, 05:17:49 pm ---So the folks in communist countries (Russians, Poles, East Germans, etc), WERE playing arcade games back in that era.

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http://www.wired.com/gaming/hardware/news/2007/06/soviet_games

patrickl:


--- Quote from: ark_ader on February 08, 2008, 04:49:38 pm ---In the US its completely different, and shows as the number of Gold Medals Britain won or any medals were a lot less than in the 80s versus the US or any other country like Kenya.
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Let's check the number of gold medals of the US and GB won in the Olympics since the eighties:
  US  GB  Total1984  83  5  6891988  36  5  7381992  37  5  8151996  44  1  8422000  40  11  9272004  35  9  929
Funny how especially lately the US seems to be getting less gold medals while Great Brittain is getting more.

Since the US has 5 times the population of GB it's clear that, per capita, the GB is actually outperforming the US in the last 2 Olympics.

danny_galaga:


--- Quote from: patrickl on February 08, 2008, 09:08:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on February 08, 2008, 04:49:38 pm ---In the US its completely different, and shows as the number of Gold Medals Britain won or any medals were a lot less than in the 80s versus the US or any other country like Kenya.
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Let's check the number of gold medals of the US and GB won in the Olympics since the eighties:
  US  GB  Total1984  83  5  6891988  36  5  7381992  37  5  8151996  44  1  8422000  40  11  9272004  35  9  929
Funny how especially lately the US seems to be getting less gold medals while Great Brittain is getting more.

Since the US has 5 times the population of GB it's clear that, per capita, the GB is actually outperforming the US in the last 2 Olympics.

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new zealand. they normally have the highest medal count per capita...

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