Rob-Jo

I just got off the phone with a girl who's from the Soviet Union. She started mentioned something offhand about arcade machines they in the USSR, and I pestered her into telling me everything she could remember about them. She could only remember one game, which she remembered because she said when she came to the United States she got a VCS and had the exact same game on it (she also had some kind of Atari computer, so it's possible she's confusing the two). She said the game she had on the Atari looked exactly like the one she played in the arcade. I figured it was one of the old 70s Atari arcade games that got ported to the VCS. But she described the game to me, and the game she described was River Raid. I asked some more questions. At first I figured maybe it was just a VCS that was hooked up for people to play, but she said you had to put money into it to play. I asked if the machine worked on a timer, she said she wasn't sure but she thinks it worked on how many lives you had. She said she saw this game around 86'-87'. Anyone have any ideas of what this thing is? Did they have some way to rig a VCS into something like a Player's Choice? Or is there some sort of arcade game out there that is very very similar to River Raid where she may have been confused? Has anyone ever seen or heard about something like this?