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  5. Posted · Edited by Sinyavin

    If you were a karateka and/or a rock musician in 1970's and early 1980's in USSR you were under permanent risk to be arrested and imprisioned.

     

    There is a link to the Zemlyane band's video clip above.

    The chorus of the song is:

     

    Stuntmen, stuntmen!

    Let's romance lives in our hearts.

    Stuntmen, stuntmen!

    We are the guests in the house of the wonderful fortune,

    Stuntmen, stuntmen!

    Because the danger is a trifle in it's nature.

    That is our fate - 

    We are not able to live our lifes in another style.

     

    In USSR rock musician was a "guest in the house of the wonderful fortune" and he had despised the trifle-like danger.

  6. Posted

    42 minutes ago, zzip said:

    Of course,  but back in those days there wasn't the internet so smuggling in the records would be much harder, no?  Or were the Beatles authorized?

    If a Soviet person could be imprisoned for practicing Karate, this does not mean that the Soviet person did not practice Karate in the forest or in the basement.

     

    Soviet era of 60's, 70's, 80's was not an unambiguous and consistent time. Jazz was allowed then banned, then allowed then banned and so on and again: sometimes allowed - sometimes banned. Sometimes officials thinked Jazz is the music of poor western people, then allowed; sometimes they thinked Jazz is the music of rich western people, then banned.

     

    Rock was almost always banned. Often person was imprisoned for performance of Rock, especially Punk or Metal. Very rarely did individual bands seek the right to play Rock.

     

    Zemlyane band

     

    Only Perestroika legalized Rock music.

     

    Before Perestroika, there were almost no authorized recordings of Western rock bands in the USSR. Very rarely one or two Western Rock songs could be released as part of a authorized collection. All albums were illegal and sold on the black market, there was criminal responsibility for that.

     

     

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  7. Posted

    12 hours ago, Cebus Capucinis said:

    The later ones you posted (Snow Queen and Humpbacked Horse) really have a Bally/Sente feel to them in their art style!

     

    Please write the links to the videos of the games, you are meaning, if the videos of the games are presented. It is interesting.

  8. Posted

    4 minutes ago, zzip said:

    I've always wondered about this.  On one hand they seemed to want to block western influences.  On the other I watched a concert/documentary of Paul McCartney in Russia,  and seemed like even older military officers from the Soviet era were huge Beatles fans

    The attempts to minimize the influence or block and deny something - adds additional value to the denied thing.

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  9. Posted · Edited by Sinyavin

    11 hours ago, Cebus Capucinis said:

    That's really interesting! You always hear about other areas where Perestroika allowed creativity to blossom, typically written prose. I'd never thought of Perestroika allowing creators to make unique arcade games!

    Yes, before Perestroika, there were restrictions on the performance of Jazz, Rock and other modern western music in the Soviet Union. Karate, Wushu and other traditional martial arts were banned by law. Things started to change since 1985 (the start of Perestroika). In 1991 the USSR collapsed. Some parts of the ex-USSR now is the beautiful independent countries with good level of democracy: Georgia (not the American state with the same name, the other Georgia in Transcaucasia region), Ukraine, Lithuania, Armenia, Estonia, Moldova and Latvia. Some other ex-Soviet countries are facing difficulties in democratic process for now.

     

    There was also an earlier partial liberalization period in the USSR - the Khrushchev Thaw, late 1950s - early 1960s - after death of Stalin. There were a new forms of poetry and self-expression, etc, but Khrushchev suppressed freedoms in other countries of the Eastern Bloc outside the USSR (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc).

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  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, zzip said:

    What were the pre-Perestroika games like?

    In 1971, the Soviet government decided to improve the leisure of Soviet citizens. Almost all early Soviet arcade machines were bootleg clones of American, Japanese or Western European arcades: electro-mechanical or electronic. There was no copyright law in the USSR.

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  12. Posted · Edited by Sinyavin

     

    "The Little Humpbacked Horse" game or "Konek-Gorbunok" or "Konyok-Gorbunok" game ("Конёк-Горбунок" in Cyrillic Russian alphabet). Based on fairy-tale poem written by Russian author Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov in 1830's and first published in 1856.

     

     

     

     

    "Snow Queen" game or "Snezhnaya Koroleva" game ("Снежная королева" in Cyrillic Russian alphabet). Based on fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen in 1844.

     

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  13. Posted · Edited by Sinyavin

    On 12/27/2020 at 4:07 AM, Cebus Capucinis said:

    I think they're the ones that have that turnip pulling game for kids based on a folk tale. I've always wanted to play/see these games in action first hand!

    Yes, that "turnip pulling" game ("Repka" or "Turnip". Or "Репка" - in Cyrillic Russian alphabet) is a power meter, very hard thing and very similar to Deadlift. I saw that game in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2017. To tell you the truth - it is not good thing for kids. It is mostly intended for adults and strong teenagers and requires compliance with some simple safety rules.

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  14. Posted

    On 12/27/2020 at 2:53 AM, BDW said:

    The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines has a very impressive collection of Soviet-era electromechanichal games. I'd love to visit someday if I ever find myself in St Petersburg.

     

     

    Another one Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines is presented in Moscow, Russia - not only in Saint Petersburg.

  20. Posted · Edited by Sinyavin

    In 1991 and 1992 were released "Power Blade" and "Power Blade 2" games exclusively for American NES.

    Now, in 2020, the game inspired by that NES titles has been released at December, 25, for ZX Spectrum, ZX Spectrum Next 8-bit European home computers and modern Windows computers. Title of this game is "Delta's Shadow". The game can be seen as a loose continuation of Power Blade 2 with the same hero as a protagonist.

     

     

    The genre of the game is 'metroidvania' or 'castleroid'.

    Please don't think it is a spam. I really love this game. The game is true old school and 8-bit.

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