Soviet-Era Arcade Games Crawl Out of Their Cold War Graves

June 7, 2007: Web (no longer updated).

Wired:

From the late ’70s to the early ’90s, Soviet military factories produced some 70 different video game models. Based largely (and crudely) on early Japanese designs, the games were distributed — in the words of one military manual — for the purposes of “entertainment and active leisure, as well as the development of visual-estimation abilities.”

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Mike Terry says:

June 7, 2007 at 10:32 am

Yis, I am pliying sofiet comandir at de raashun fersion of TILT and sascha varinslokaya valks in dor. i buy hir sofiet cola and vee pliy pac-comrad.
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