> What's that 1st game on the left? See who can get high score on a grinder/buffer?
I think it's a strength test, you pull on the handle and get scored based on how hard you pull. It's supposed to be a turnip, based on some Russian folk tale about pulling a turnip out of the ground. The have the same machine at the arcade museum in Moscow, there was a little more about it in the article here: http://35summers.org/2010/01/05/the-museum-of-soviet-video-games/
Come to think of it, I recognize most of those games from the Moscow museum, which makes me think that was probably pretty much all they had. It's kind of sad, SovietMAME would only have to support about 15 or 20 ROM sets.
IIRC, there were no high score tables on these games....remember, they were Communist, so to compete as such would mean one was better than another and those red's couldn't have that.
> > What's that 1st game on the left? See who can get high score on a grinder/buffer? > > I think it's a strength test, you pull on the handle and get scored based on how hard > you pull. It's supposed to be a turnip, based on some Russian folk tale about pulling > a turnip out of the ground. The have the same machine at the arcade museum in Moscow, > there was a little more about it in the article here: > http://35summers.org/2010/01/05/the-museum-of-soviet-video-games/ > > Come to think of it, I recognize most of those games from the Moscow museum, which > makes me think that was probably pretty much all they had. It's kind of sad, > SovietMAME would only have to support about 15 or 20 ROM sets.
No way TOM! I thought that last night laying in bed... where was Tetris in that soviet museum... I was gonna ask that when I awoke, but you beat me to it.
It's a serious omission in a "soviet" arcade museum... the one and only world wide block buster hit that derived from the soviet union itself. And the fact that the list of games in this museum as well as the other posted soviet arcade are almost to the individual title identical further raises the bar of suspicion on the legitimacy of the museum and supposed arcade as being representative of the overall "soviet" arcade scene. The fact that they, aside from having an identical inventory, also both lack this significant omission of Tetris makes me wonder if the games pictured in the "two" arcades aren't actually the EXACT SAME machines, just rearranged or relocated for whatever reason. What are the odds that two UNRELATED collections are identical, and yet both lack the most important piece. All the same, it's an awesome collection... would be kewl if MAME developed a contact there to get dumps for preservation.
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