VOGONS


First post, by SquallStrife

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22028329

'A time machine into Soviet childhood' is how the creators of the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines describe their project.

Packed with some of the first arcade machines ever created in the USSR, visitors are flocking to the palace of fun to get a nostalgic gaming fix.

So kitschy and awesome!!

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Reply 1 of 8, by sliderider

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Is it any surprise that a lot of the Soviet era games are shooting or military themed games?

Reply 2 of 8, by Malik

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sliderider wrote:

Is it any surprise that a lot of the Soviet era games are shooting or military themed games?

🤣

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Reply 3 of 8, by TheMAN

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in soviet russia, you don't play games, games play you!

Reply 4 of 8, by robertmo

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yeah they even release war games for free like USSR Army... or was it US Army.. America’s Army.. 😵

Reply 5 of 8, by TELVM

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I bet back in the day while I was 'sinking' the whole WARPAC fleet playing 'Red Storm Rising', some Soviet tovarich was 'sinking' the whole NATO fleet through that 'scope 🤣 .

Let the air flow!

Reply 6 of 8, by RacoonRider

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Just listen to their voices, no wonder people abroad are afraid of russians. We do not all sound like that 😀

Reply 7 of 8, by vmunix

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TheMAN wrote:

in soviet russia, you don't play games, games play you!

I saw that one coming.

I remember reading on /. an article regarding this, a guy reviewing soviet games, (now I see that was in 2004)

http://games.slashdot.org/story/04/07/13/1862 … -game-unearthed

http://games.slashdot.org/story/07/06/07/1919 … es-from-the-70s

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/features/polyplay.shtml

http://games.slashdot.org/story/04/07/13/1862 … -german-arcade-

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