Arcade games of Soviet Union
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:05 am
http://www.15kop.ru/index_en.htm
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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One common feature among them all is a lack of a high-score list.
"That kind of competition wasn't encouraged," explains Alexander Stakhanov, one of the museum's founders and engineers. "If you got enough points you won a free game, but there was no 'high score' culture as in the West."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_f0pujSTY
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."
....
One common feature among them all is a lack of a high-score list.
"That kind of competition wasn't encouraged," explains Alexander Stakhanov, one of the museum's founders and engineers. "If you got enough points you won a free game, but there was no 'high score' culture as in the West."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_f0pujSTY
