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Rare East German Arcade Game Unearthed

Posted by michael on from the capitalistic-tendencies dept.

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.

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  1. literal translations rule by ack154 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Games include:

    Hirshjagd (Deer Hunt)
    Hase und Wolf (Hare and Wolf)
    Abfahrtslauf (Departure Course)
    Schmetterlinge (Butterflies)
    Scheissbude (literal translation "crap booth"!)
    Autorennen (Racing Car)
    I wonder what you have to do to win at Crap Booth... Get to the toilet paper on the other side of the river? Flush the toilet to avoid the evil crap monster? Or is it like whack-a-mole, but with turds? What's the objective?
  2. Re:MAME? by strictnein · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's been in MAME for quite some time.
    PolyPlay is one of the the (few) legal ROMs for MAME. From Mameworld.net:
    (C) 1985 VEB Polytechnik Karl-Marx-Stadt.
    Owing to the collapse of East Germany, there does not appear to be any copyright holder for this software.

    There's a link there to download the game. So go grab your favorite version of MAME and play the game! Interactive news! It's the future!

    --
    Casual Games/Downloads
  3. 3 in existance ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I had one of those. And I know about a dozen of other PolyPlays

    Its rare, but not that rare. there are more PolyPlays in Germany (east&west) than PacMans.

    There are several different cab versions of it (due to lack of rescoureces)

    And its really not worth anything........not really.

  4. Re:Screenshots of actual gameplay by Rob+Parkhill · · Score: 5, Informative

    But the TV in this thing is not a stripped down unit, it is a whole TV set, little legs and everything!

    --
    "Tomorrow's forecast: a few sprinkles of genius with a chance of doom!" - Stewie Griffin
  5. It is. by Gorath99 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Isn't that "Schiessbude" (shooting booth)? See Schiessen vs. Scheissen...
    It is. See an image over here (the text on the page spells it wrong though).

    Is it just me, or do a lot of native English speaking people seem to have a problem with the difference between "ie" and "ei"? I would understand if they always wrote "ei", but I see too many instances of "wierd" for that to be true. Odd...