Step into This Soviet Arcade Time Machine

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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. St. 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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@matthewk.5118 7 лет назад

America: Lets play Pacman, it seems fun. Russia: I want to join the army, lets go to the arcade.

@NSNova 7 лет назад

That was actually not the case, the narration is very misleading :/

@juantio7780 6 лет назад

Matthew K. Jjwikwkwk

@KarmaSkally 6 лет назад

*Soviet Union. Really is it that hard to understand the difference between the Soviet Union and Russia?

@spencervida4175 6 лет назад

Rspsand07 There are shootings games in the US.

@perojalenarddeniel5574 5 лет назад

420 likes

@maxridinsky997 7 лет назад

They were literaly filming this documentary while I was in the museum while on a student exchange.

@ZiggyCashmere 6 лет назад

wow! did you play Magistral? (the driving game with the man in glasses)

@chirp1500 7 лет назад

I would love to play these soviet Russia games.

@randomclips5978 3 года назад

Russian roulette

@Kelly-cd3gb 3 года назад

Well you could in internet but flash doesnt stopped supporting it so now only there i guess

@TheTwitchkid 7 лет назад

I wanna play that weird shooting hoops game with all those holes and numbers, looks different and interesting~!

@ComboMon- 7 лет назад

Some of these games look more fun than the games we have today. Arcade games Mostly consists of screens and nothing physical

@LuckyBird551 3 года назад

While everyone remembers Arcades with screen games, this wasn't the case in the west either. While the games with screens were all the rage by the time the 90s came along, in the 70s and a big part of the 80s other games could be found in Arcades too. Air hockey tables, for example, were one of my favorites. Foosball tables were also very popular too.

@paul3003mathew 6 лет назад

Knock knock.... Who is it? The KGB KGB who? WE ASK THE QUESTIONS!

@OmgTurtlezWasHere 7 лет назад

pull the turnip. this is really russia.

@maksphoto78 4 года назад

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@zawarudo271 4 года назад

They should've also added: Peel the Potato

@LuckyBird551 4 года назад

That one is based on an old Russian folk tale, in which a grandfather plants a turnip, which grows so large that he cannot pull it up himself. He asks the grandmother for help, and they together still cannot pull it up. Successively more people are recruited to help, until they finally pull the turnip up together. The specific ordering and set of people and sometimes animals varies.

@chengyong66 6 лет назад

In America, you play Game of war In soviet Russia, You play war games

@rynodigital 7 лет назад

In Russia, Turnip pull you.

@dylaninpieces2 6 лет назад

In America, You pull turnips. In Soviet Russia, Turnips pull you.

@Kobemane 6 лет назад

Dilly Mackey No its the opposite this time I wrote the word ''this'' and this next word suggestion came up this PiEcE oF this PiECE

@LuckyBird551 4 года назад

@giovannicervantes2053 3 года назад

From what i learned from the soviets was they had the exact SCIENCE down of making a lot out of a little with tecnology

@cyberyogicowindler2448 29 дней назад

Soviets e.g. had a systematic construction science of making inventions. This may look stubborn and uninspiring cookbook engineers stuff, but nowadays western AI algorithms need exactly such things and are considered progress.

@videosforpeople8197 6 лет назад

OH BOY, what could be funner than a nice game of PULL THE TURNIP?

@LuckyBird551 4 года назад

@tommcewan7936 12 дней назад

Eh, it's just a Slavic cultural variation on the classic "strength-o-meter" that has been embarrassing Westerners in front of their dates at fairgrounds for decades.

@evgenipetkov1631 7 лет назад

I used to like the game with the submarine, the hunting game, but the most fun was the basketball game. Those machines used to coexist with western arcades for awhile in Bulgarian seaside resorts, but towards the end of the 80's they just couldn't compete anymore.

@ChristopherSobieniak 7 лет назад

I'm sure the American/Japanese counterparts won in the end.

@LuckyBird551 Год назад

Wasn't Bulgaria considered the Silicon Valley of the eastern bloc back then?

@blinthepannkek6173 4 года назад

Western arcades: just for fun Eastern arcades: for fun and physical strength and precision *I LOVE THE EASTERN ONES*

@l0lLorenzol0l 7 лет назад

The AESTHETICS game of the soviets was on point. Vaporware remix of USSR arcade music when?

@stentor9579 6 лет назад

0:55 that game actually looks really fun

@robwilkinson8497 5 лет назад

i got one of those little boxes with 200 retro games, that plugs into a tv...feels like i went back to 1983

@evilpandakillabzonattkoccu4879 7 лет назад

from those arcade games to World of Tanks.... interesting progression.

@h8b1llg8ts7 7 лет назад

Great video, just in time for this weekends Portland Retro Gaming Expo

@fotppd1475 4 года назад

honestly i find these game more fun than the other because they seem to not only have fun but also train you in case of a war. fun and practical are my personal favorite combination. i wish one day i will able to play them.

@cyberyogicowindler2448 29 дней назад

Many US games were sponsored by military too.

@cyberyogicowindler2448 29 дней назад

1:25 Wow. That pixel face looks like a parody on Sega's Space Fury! Likely this one could not speak (unless by a built-in cassette recorder), but the big pixel art of this racing game is really stylish.

@AnimefeverXD 7 лет назад

this caught my eye, I like how they made games out of scratch wow!

@maksphoto78 4 года назад

They bought western machines, took them apart and tried to learn how they work. Because the USSR was technologicaly behind, they gave it to the military to build those machines, because it was really advanced electronics at that time.

@dmc11861 7 лет назад

What do you think the military and strategy games today are for?

@Miserea 5 лет назад

When I saw the guy on the rocket ride. I literally laughed really hard.

@scottpickering2382 2 года назад

Love the arcade mascot, flippin’ genius! 🕹

@MichaelNatrin 7 лет назад

This is ridiculous and amazing.

@xcr1mmortal297 4 года назад

I'm here right now its cosy af.

@Adam-ku3ij 5 лет назад

This looks fun for training for the army

@iuliancorun 7 лет назад

I played these things 20 years ago, all of them are war related, and that's not even strange.

@papasmurfsmurfy6360 6 лет назад

I think that these kind of retro soviet stuff is really interesting.

@LuckyBird551 4 года назад

You should see some of the home computers they had back then. Most were simply "clones" of western computers of the time like the ZX Spectrum or the Apple II, like the Hobbit home computer of the Agat. The Agat looked amazing. It was red and orange. Just look up "Agat computer" on a Google image search and you'll see what I mean.

@nixienooo 6 лет назад

1:19 Someone I used to know actually has the same arcade game which is still fully functional

@AGNNewsChannel 7 лет назад

These games look amazing.

@Omegajunior2658 3 года назад

Wow I've never seen any Soviet Russian arcade machines before in my entire life. They sure look very interesting. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

@anobody6234 7 лет назад

Ah my favorite, pull the turnip. Truly beyond it's time.

@Karkat 6 лет назад

I really want to go there now!!!

@__-fj3pq 6 лет назад

In Soviet Russia arcade plays you!

@michaelrobert7958 6 лет назад

I gotta try this out

@whyhellothere3471 7 лет назад

AWESOME

7 лет назад

Yo jugué la del submarino y era IMPRESIONANTE el efecto, claro tenia 8 años, pero aun lo recuerdo y quisiera tener una

@raiug1579 7 лет назад

in America you play games in Russia games play you

@cthulhuumaru9797 5 лет назад

And that 4 year old became a Soviet Premiere years later

@roidbot6579 7 лет назад

There were plenty of American video games that used the Cold War as a backdrop for "plot"...Rush N' Attack comes to mind. We were steeped in that culture. Movies like War Games and the TV movie The Day After bombarded us when we couldn't escape the call of the arcade. If we weren't fighting the Nazis, we were fighting the Russians, it's just how it went.

@UBdoritos 6 лет назад

Very gud komrad!

@Yourlocaltankgirl8375 6 лет назад

I like those Marksman games

@viviannemj5310 5 лет назад

*Added to "Bucket List"*

@TheHelltrasher 5 лет назад

Nice!

@enzobrown2368 7 лет назад

you should add more categories for your outro

@wucash5672 2 года назад

I saw some nexie tubes! omg.

@xboys_archive 7 лет назад

Wow

@TheFoonExperience 5 лет назад

Some of those games I think are actually better than some original arcade games.

@juggernaut6832 7 лет назад

Music at the beginning?

@capeewee 6 лет назад

NO TETRIS ?!?!

@gonzalocruz4234 6 лет назад

It wasn't arcade

@LuckyBird551 5 лет назад

Tetris was released on home computers in Soviet Russia, you would find them on arcades outside on other communist block countries, like Hungary or Bulgaria, for example.

@Wackymushrooms 3 года назад

Anyone knows what the music playing on this video is called like?? :D I've been looking for it for a long time so if anyone knows please tell me!!!!!!!! :D

@squirrele.1266 Год назад

The torpedo game had to be inspired from Sea Wolf 2

@cthulhuumaru9797 5 лет назад

I was expecting the Soviet Anthem when you put the coin in

@BELIVE114 2 года назад

Normal arcade: play and fun Soviet: blyat, we can train spy and conscript with our arcade

@muhammad5885 5 лет назад

Normal Country: iPhone Russia: OurPhone

@RafelJaggai 6 лет назад

In Soviet Russia, you don't play games, The games play you.

@mattaeusrudolph2849 7 лет назад

i herd korobeiniki in the background

@christophermontoya5526 5 лет назад

When you think about it this isn't very strange or unique. Who do you think payed for and developed first person shooters like Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein? Answer: the military. All of our American warfare games are for military training as well.

@placeh0ldr 6 лет назад

"pull the turnip"

@levlev4048 Год назад

Oh yes soviet arcade games are bussin

@el.k9776 7 лет назад

SPtB? OMG I was there

@stephanobarbosa5805 4 года назад

The video forgot Japan... a important videogame center.

@yurikyosov5484 5 лет назад

Now I want to go to Russia, for the sole purpose of this arcade

@LuckyBird551 3 года назад

Okay, not gonna lie, some of those would look right at home in a Chuck E. Cheese's.

@alex03819 7 лет назад

I've been here!

@dayofthedaleks1524 6 лет назад

My favorite game is pull the turnip

@fathermahler1078 5 лет назад

Whats the 8bit song for the 0:13

@stephanobarbosa5805 4 года назад

the videogame museum in Leningrad

@EmmettWolff 6 лет назад

I wish they had this in America!

@503WE Год назад

Gostaria de jogar esses jogos seria muito legal e diferente do que eu estou acostumado

@kimjongoof5000 6 лет назад

What's the Intro song

@BST-ri6gf 6 лет назад

Should be renamed to “Origin of the Rush B”

@user-eh5mp3zm9z 7 лет назад

it is in Moscow!!! 2:06

@jimmydnuttjr 7 лет назад

No, it's the Church of the Savior on Blood in St. Petersburg.

@jimmydnuttjr 7 лет назад

lol no I'm American, I just know the difference between the st basil's church and the church of the savior on blood.

@jimmydnuttjr 7 лет назад

I myself am not russian

@CannabisUseOnly 7 лет назад

No saved scores so you can't compete against the last player...communism at its finest

@JimTyphoon 5 лет назад

It wasn't until 1978 that Western games saved scores, either (the first was Space Invaders) and there was likely nothing stopping you from writing them down on a board next to the game, as was sometimes the practice here.

@anselmo4952 3 года назад

A big kid in action ! Please: Don't tell him nothing about Santa Claus.

@ad0b071 7 лет назад

At least these have purpose on life

@jebediahkerman9332 7 лет назад

I'm early. Those are old machine

@JSSQuelloAutentico 6 лет назад

There were arcades in the Soviet Union?

@aidenharris2952 5 лет назад

I just realized... I want one 😂

@shawbros Год назад

0:51 Nixie tubes

@Richard-ut2nu 6 лет назад

The narrator in the beginning sounded like Chadtronic.

@mirzak638 6 лет назад

Oow,They already trained in the young age too...

@Shipwright1918 5 лет назад

Tiltski!

@sdhubbard 3 года назад

What, no Tetris? :D

@sammyy1757 6 лет назад

In Soviet Russia you dont play the arcade THE ARCADE PLAYS YOU!

@TheKuritsa 7 лет назад

Cool episode, but narration is absolute rubbish straight out of cold war script. I grew up playing those arcade games the reason to have some military styled games was simply because military and war was a part of every boy's life at that time. USSR carried the heaviest burden during WWII with 25million dead. There was not a family during that time that was not directly impacted by it, so topic was very much alive and kids played and re-enacted greatest battles of the war and then played cowboys and indians and after we were done playing we would go read James Fenimore Cooper and Mark Twain. The themes in those games was marketing 101 satisfy demand to generate some profit not a thing to do with brainwashing the young generation. And just as a full disclosure I am an American citizen I've lived in this country for over 20 years my kids are bred and borne here and they watch this channel but this particular video they'lll skip because it is, unlike the arcade games of my childhood is brainwashing.

@Kitties_are_pretty 6 лет назад

What part of this do you consider propaganda? They said the arcade games were designed to have an educational and developmental benefit, how do you view this as coming out of a "cold war script"? How did this video manage to upset you? It seems that you find even the most minor deviation from Soviet propaganda unacceptable.

@conall9415 4 года назад

Your're whole agruement is that No.1, the curator of the museum, a Russian citizan and an expert in the history of arcades in the Soviet Union is lying in the intrests of the US government to slander a political union that no longer exists. Think through about this argument you have made, becaue it makes litterally no sense. No. 2, you are saying that they said in the video that this was all a propaganda effort to make young kids join the millitary, which they absolutley did not say. They said that the arcades were made to have an educational value, so that when people did join the millitary, they would already have some skills in hand eye co-ordination and decision making. All they were saying was that the games were made to have a somewhat educational value, not that they where made to "brainwash" the Soviet youth.

@user-xg8yy7yl1d 3 года назад

I think its simple. There were people in the USSR who wanted to make arcade machines and video games and because literally everything was state owned they had to justify their project to the state by saying doing things like making them military themed and saying they would do things like improve hand eye coordination. The creator of Tetris justified using the computer that was technically a state resource that he used to code it by saying he was trying to build a game to sharpen reasoning and pattern skills.

@cyberyogicowindler2448 29 дней назад

@@user-xg8yy7yl1d Interesting is that in German Democratic Republic the only arcade videogame machine "Polyplay" contained no wargames (only a shooting gallery and deer hunt), The official GDR propaganda rated western videogames as war and violence glorifying and boasted that theirs would be more "peaceful" (unless you were a deer..., but that was the animal that their president was firing at in official national hunting rituals).

@Viicious_ 7 лет назад

"Pull the turnip" Ded 🤣

@kimjongoof5000 6 лет назад

Tighe Dean Prod. Pull the trump

@frazking7002 6 лет назад

I got beat your high score on pull the turnip

@TPDManiacXC626 2 года назад

I would love to visit the Saint Petersburg arcade museum one day. Too bad that arrogant Gremlin in the Kremlin sabotaged and derailed my family’s travel plans that were later in this year’s summer!