Step into This Soviet Arcade Time Machine
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Sep 16 2020 at 1:26 PM GMT
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- While American teens in the '80s were obsessing over Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, their Soviet counterparts were playing arcade games meant to prepare them for war.
- At the time, video games weren't easily accessible in the Soviet Union.
- So the government fashioned them from refrigerators and calculators with the goal of training young Soviets for combat.
- Petersburg resident Alexander Stakhanov remembers those games fondly.
- So he did what any nostalgic gamer would do'he opened the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines.
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- Published Sep 16, 2020 1:26 PM GMT