Comments by "belstar" (@belstar1128) on "Most Popular Arcade Games in the Soviet Union #arcadegames" video.

  1. a lot of tankies ask older eastern Europeans about retro gaming because its one of their hobbies and the ussr was still around when video games existed .but they always get disappointed when the eastern European usually says he doesn't like video games and thinks its childish and it wasn't a thing in his childhood and thinks he is older than the first video game .like what an even older west Europeans or Americans may have said .but the guy they are asking is usually only 45 and a lot of men of that generation in the west are gamers you may get that reaction from a 60+ year old westerner. but what i am basically trying to say is that video games in the Ussr were so rare a lot of eastern Europeans think they were invented in the 90s but really video games were only a thing in richer countries in the 80s and even then it took Nintendo like 5 years to get the nes out in the uk and west Germany. imagine having to wait until 2025 for the ps5 and then imagine how long it would have taken these console to come out in 3rd world countries. this is a more extreme example. but in 2004 i went to Laos and Cambodia and i took my game boy with me and the locals literally didn't know what it was they had never seen a video game before. eastern Europe was way more advanced in this period. i saw a lot of them online and when they complained about being poor i said you aren't poor you got internet i can barely afford this. when i came back to south east Asia in 2011 a lot of the locals had cheap nokia phones were they could play games on and some even had low end computers that were only slightly worse than what i had. but there was still poverty less then in 2004 but it seemed like the country was progressing so fast some people got left behind . nowadays the technology is very cheap so you can probably find video games almost everywhere in some form but they came much later in certain regions
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  2. Tetris was only on expensive computers in laboratories and other work places it was more popular in the west than in the ussr when it was new apparently even pinball was rare. i know in a lot of places it was very popular and was usually the go to alternative if you didn't have the technology to make video games. and when video games were new they were often compared to pinball
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  3. dendy was made in china in the 90s Turnir was a pong console that they only made in very limited quantities
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