Article about old Soviet Arcade games

[esteban]

Well that was surprisingly enthralling. Makes me want more similar reading.

Estaban, any chance you can dig up the article you mention? I'd be very interested in reading that.

Yeah, I have to, because different pictures were in it. And they talked about all the old-skool mechanical-electric stuff.

Let me see...I might have an old bookmark (I love Soviet/Cold War stuff) on my old laptop....when I get home I'll check it out.

Hundreds of old links (95% probably broken) await me!

Me too!  Check out the book "Red Eagles" it's all about our secret stash of MIGs we used to test at places like Area 51.  I also once heard that when we dissected some of their jets and everything electronic was controlled by vacuum tube we were scared.  We feared that they set them up that way instead of microchips and such so they would be impervious to EMP attacks.  It turns out in reality their tech was just that far behind.

P.S.  Thanks for posting his article Bigus.  I love it!

Ok, I still haven't pulled my old notebook out, but I will.

Anyway, to build on your story: there was a Soviet scientist in the early 80's who helped pass a lot of secrets to the U.S.

The U.S. didn't know if MIGs had a radar that detected directly beneath the aircraft. The experts were divided...supposedly, this radar, which NATO planes lacked, gave Soviet fighter jets an advantage in combat. He passed along stuff about nuclear missile subs, too, I believe.

Anyway, this scientist risked his life passing along info like this...and, guess what?

A disgruntled CIA agent, who was demoted/fired, ended up snitching to the KGB (the scientist was killed) to spite his former bosses/colleagues.

Totally insane stuff.

[savageone]

Well that was surprisingly enthralling. Makes me want more similar reading.

Estaban, any chance you can dig up the article you mention? I'd be very interested in reading that.

Yeah, I have to, because different pictures were in it. And they talked about all the old-skool mechanical-electric stuff.

Let me see...I might have an old bookmark (I love Soviet/Cold War stuff) on my old laptop....when I get home I'll check it out.

Hundreds of old links (95% probably broken) await me!

Haha I hear ya, until a few years ago I was dragging around a bookmark file that had carried from Mosaic, to IE, to Netscape, to so many iterations of Firefox it'd be impossible to count. The html file was 6-7 megs, pretty ridiculous. I kicked the habit though finally a few years ago.

Good luck finding it. If not can you toss some hints it? Where/when you saw it or some key words. This isn't gonna need the way back machine or anything right? My quick dirty searches didn't have any luck.

[Punch]

the Russian attitude toward preserving play doesn’t involve keeping the machines locked up tight or preserved behind glass. “They are meant to be played,” curator Oksana tells me as she leads me upstairs, “not examined like specimens.”

“They are meant to be played,” curator Oksana tells me as she leads me upstairs, “not examined like specimens.”

“They are meant to be played,”



Soviet Russia: Collectivism, not collectardism.

[esteban]

the Russian attitude toward preserving play doesn’t involve keeping the machines locked up tight or preserved behind glass. “They are meant to be played,” curator Oksana tells me as she leads me upstairs, “not examined like specimens.”

“They are meant to be played,” curator Oksana tells me as she leads me upstairs, “not examined like specimens.”

“They are meant to be played,”



Soviet Russia: Collectivism, not collectardism.

Brilliant, comrade.