Russian 70’s-80’s arcade games

June 14, 2007 by Santaduck.

Tetris may be the best-known gaming export from the USSR, but before western exports of arcade games poured in after the fall of communism in 1991, there were indeed arcades in Russia. I was reading an interesting article in PC World about a new arcade museum in Moscow that is attempting to resurrect cold-war era cabinet arcade games from the 70s and 80s, from periscope sea battles, pinballs, and more. Check out the museum’s official site (named after their version of the quarter, the 15 kopek coin), and especially its exhibition page gallery, which stirs a nostalgia we never had in the west.

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