In: Culture|Gaming News
28 Dec 2009As we’ve covered, the Soviet Union didn’t just have big tanks and long lines for potatoes. It also had video games. But those games didn’t just sell themselves! Like everything else, they needed to be advertised. In addition to actual arcade cabinets, the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines also plays home to a collection of [...]
In: Cosplay|Culture|Gaming News
6 Jul 2009Last month, at a remote disused air-defense base outside of Leningrad, upwards of 300 Russian Fallout fans recreated post-apocalyptic California in a live-action role-playing game based on Fallout 2. All of the information we have on the event is translated from Russian via Google, so it could be completely wrong. From we understand, a workshop [...]
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22 Jun 2009In Soviet Russia…they had video games. Not particularly special ones, mind you, but they had them. And those dusty old machines now have pride of place in a new museum in the Russian capital, Moscow. The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines (the Soviet ethic lives on in the place’s name, then) is home to versions [...]