'It was exactly like walking into any bustling arcade. Mr Hughes, who runs Cabbage Design Company, said: 'As soon as you walk in you feel like you've discovered some secret bunker of fun and we were like little kids who couldn't wait to start trying everything.
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One visitor from America, Connal Hughes, was full of praise for the museum. The museum only opens for three evenings a week and the entrance fee is 300 roubles - about £6. None of the games feature a high-score list because competition and the'high-score' culture of the West was discouraged. 'It takes the old man, the old lady, the granddaughter, the dog, the cat and finally the mouse to pull it out, so players are given a strength score, from a lowly 'mouse' to 'old man'.'įlashback to the seventies: The exhibits of old Soviet arcade games have been put on show in a Russian museum Katja Osipova said: 'The game is based on an old children's story about a family who plant a turnip which grows so large they cannot pull it from the ground. The biggest hit is 'Repka Silomer' (The Turnip Strength Tester), where players pull a lever as hard as possible to wrench a turnip from the ground. Located in a Stalin-era bomb shelter under a university dormitory, the museum is crammed with dozens of ugly arcade machines. Now four students have opened The Museum of Soviet Video Games and it's a world away from today's Xbox generation. While games like Pac-Man thrilled youngsters in Britain and the US, in Russia the games were much more practical in nature.įrom the late seventies to the early nineties, Soviet military factories produced around 70 different video game models, crudely based on early Japanese designs. The hilarious arcade machine is one of the gems among a fantastic treasure trove of Cold War video games unearthed in a Moscow basement.
Westerners may have grown up playing video games like Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Pong but behind the Iron Curtain the pinnacle of arcade entertainment was 'The Turnip Strength Tester'. Repka Silomer: A turnip picking computer game from Russia
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