Yesterday was published an article about a completely forgotten video game console released in the USSR in 1991 (!) called Alf
Article in French:
The d-pad is made out of metal!
But the console cost half a car and all the games suck
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that metroid looking game looks rad tho
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would love to read this, but the paywall ;-;
very cool, though.
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i’m such a nerd/my primary motivation to visit Russia is because my friend promises to take me to the Soviet-era games museum there.
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if you’re ever in Berlin you can visit the Computerspielemuseum and try Poly-Play, the first and only arcade cabinet developed in the GDR. Please check if my highscore in the deer hunting game still stands.
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Berlin is also a place i’d like to get to one day and is the most common “you haven’t BEEN?!” that i get from people.
Some bitcoin site shoddily translated the article about the Alf console and put it there for free
(I can send the french transcript to anyone too)
Here are the last pictures:
Where they made it:
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iirc, they reset the machines regularly?
i wouldn’t have gotten the highscore in the Space Invaders cabinet if they didn’t, tbh.
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apparently in the ff7 remake your bomb just disables the mako reactor and the president of shinra causes the big explosion to turn public opinion against avalanche so the remake is already dog shit
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false flag operation to put mako in the water turning the friggin mogs gay
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waaaaaaaaack
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My wife informs me the Cyrillic on the carts says Elf & the Latin on the body is probably a mistransliteration.
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into the trash it goes
the repeated central image of A Lighthouse as apparent goal and quite a bit of the vocabulary used by the attendant text(s) is, uh… liberally borrowed from said?
Annihilation (and its sequels) is just Roadside Picnic + Lotta Mushrooms + William Hope Hodgson anyway so whatever
yup
Strange Journey is just the anime remake of Roadside Picnic
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its a VR game and not a touring psychedelic multimedia experience hosted by lady miss kier but that’s ok you know whatever
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