Soviet Arcade Machines.

[IG-88]

To go along with the North Korean pics already posted...Makes me appreciate what I have.

http://tinyurl.com/4khz86

[delta88]

A lot of these look like Atari games. Espesially the dual steering wheel game. Maybe they imported games back in the late 70's and then nothing since?

[Malenko]

A lot of these look like Atari games. Espesially the dual steering wheel game. Maybe they imported games back in the late 70's and then nothing since?

got dreamcast? heh

[patrickl]

Good to see some soviet arcade machines again.

There were a few other threads about machines from the old USSR:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=67532.0
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=67552.0
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=67877.0
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=68526.0
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=76441.msg795755#msg795755

[Turnarcades]

It's almost as though they were designed by someone who had never seen cabinet design before, or decided to bring cold war defiance to the arcades, not wanting to replicate anything the Americans were doing.

In their defence though, lets not forget commercialism was a foreign concept for them until fairly recently, so it's a wonder they got to see videogames at all. This is the country who started a government Vendetta to obtain the rights to Tetris to block it's commercial release.

Based on thir government secrets, I half expected to see a 'Polybius' machine tucked away in the corner amongst those snaps.......   

[(+_+)]

Holy crap, some of those things are ghastly. To imagine having to miss the wholesome goodness of our North American arcade heritage. Childhood would have never been the same.

[TOK]

Holy crap, some of those things are ghastly. To imagine having to miss the wholesome goodness of our North American arcade heritage. Childhood would have never been the same.

I think they're really cool. Such a different take on the same idea. I'd love to see what some of the games are.
I didn't really recognize any of the cab shapes like the other poster said. One looked vaguely Taito-ish, but was still obviously not.

Thanks to OP for the cool link. 

[pinballwizard79]

Are you sure that isnt some ruskies personal collection?

I mean what arcade has exposed door framing with a hammock bolted on the wall?

Heh, for a lot of us we are in this hobby due to arcade games we played in the 80's................we should all watch Red Dawn & play Contra tonight in homage