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Rare East German Arcade Game Unearthed
Lancey writes "While hunting for work stuff I found this press release about an old Soviet games machine, apparently there are only three surviving units from a production of 1500 - most of them were destroyed after the Berlin wall came down. Thought you might find it interesting..." There are screenshots and photos in this BBC story.
Ill take pong over "crap booth" any day
A Beowulf-ski cluster of these
In soviet russia, the dots eat you.
So...In Soviet Russia polyplay plays you???
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I find it strange that the BBC would decide to host this article on one of the game machines in questions. Tis a pity.
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They both sometimes have joysticks. They both take lots of quarters to play.
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The Berlin wall was the largest official game of Breakout to have ever existed. They won.
"I think everyone is an agnostic but just doesn't know" - Frazz
But please don't take that to mean that bathing is optional in the US. It's your civic duty to practice good hygeine.
Your score is averaged with everyone else's scores? There are no high scores, only the people's score. For snitching on your neighbor's capitalistic views, you get an extra Blue ghost dot though.
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In the former East Germany... games pl^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H you play games!
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Proving once again if there's one thing you can say about East Germans it's that they really knew how to have fun.
Bratwurst-Time (The burgertime counterpart)
Soulkrauten (soulblade...but everyone looks like Sigfreid)
Aryan 51 (a shoot-em-up game)
Operation Wulf (a Taito port)
Building Castle Wolfenstein (Tetris clone)
And the yet-to-be-released:
Kaiser Gassem Forever (hey, it's about as bad as Nukem)
For those like me who are geographically challenged, Bath is in the United Kingdom, a couple of hours west of London.
Ah, but the museum is at the Swindon campus of the University of Bath. Swindon is between Bath and London, about 1.5 hours west of the capital. The glorious Eddie Izzard once described Swindon as being like Fresno without the charm. Which is about right.
Sailing over the event horizon
" So Pac Man was a communist?"
Not a chance. Else Pac Man would have stood waiting in line for hours to get one dot, and all the bonus items would been deemed decadent Western evils. Unless you entered the secret "Member of the Politburo" code, in which case see below.
No, Pac Man was purely a consumerism capitalist, endlessly gobbling up things, the faster the better in order to gobble still MORE things, all while dodging the tax collectors to the best of his ability.
Oh poo, you ruined all the fun...
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From the article: "The Poly Play videogame was Eastern Bloc's answer to the capitalist's Pac Man"
In short, the object of the game is for the ghosts to crush the despotic tyrant McPacMan. After voting two of the ghosts as their representatives in the socialist ghosts party these two ghosts share all the dots between them leaving one dot for the other two ghosts to share. The number of votes each ghost gets is based on the number of dots in their region of the screen.
The belief in a biblical god is an ignorant one
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RTFJ.
I wonder what you have to do to win at Crap Booth...
It's a First Person Shitter.
I can only guess that the oft repeated phrase "come out or I'll shit" was a rare source of humor for Germans during the final days surrounding the European theater.
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So would "Scheiss Schiess" be a crap shoot?
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
I guess that is the problem with central planning...
Ok, the latest extimate is that we have x people.
Figure we can let them go to the bathroom y times per day.
When they go we'll let them use z squares of TP.
As a result, annual production of TP shall henceforth be set at x*y*z*365 squares of TP. Success to our five year plan!
Remember - your TP belongs to the people. If you use z+1 squares you're stealing from the old lady down the street...
The pac man collects all the dots while the 4 ghosts wander aimlessly, pretending to work. Then when the board is cleared, they take pac man's dots and divide them equally... except for the highest ranking ghost who gets a larger share because he is more equal than the others.
"I before E, except after C or when sounding like A as in neighbor or weigh."
The full version of the saying is:
"I before E, except after C or when sounding like A as in neighbor and wiegh, or on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!"
From the mighty Brian Reagan, who is probably being chased by a flock of moosen through woodenses.
sounding like A as in neighbor and wiegh
:-)
Don't you mean 'weigh'?
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
For some strange reason that conjures up visions of Internet Explorer... "I before E, except after so many exceptions"... You may be onto something there. Are you implying people use Internet Explorer before they encounter too many unhandled exceptions, then switch?
On a more serious note, the version I learned was something along the lines of "I before E, except after C, and weird is weird".
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'