Dozens of neglected Commie games being resurrected...

[nikoniko]

Sorry, couldn't resist. The title above is accurate, if a bit misleading.

Wired has an interesting little article today regarding the efforts of four friends trying to rescue Soviet-produced arcade machines from disappearing into oblivion.

Here's a snippet:

Packed into two rooms are dozens of Soviet-made video game carcasses in various states of repair. Some work perfectly; others last for a few minutes, then fade. 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."

[Stephane Richard]

This sorta comes in contradiction with another saying that goes:

"When the americans when into space they spent millions and millions of dollars trying to make a pen that could write in anti gravity environments.  The Russians brought pencils.  ;-).

But yeah, what can I say, there are things I would fight to keep as well.  C-128, if I had one, they couldn't prye it off my dead fingers. ;-).