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Video games made in the USSR (2020)

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Re: Video games made in the USSR (2020)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't realize the article was from 2020. Anyway, it is true this website is state owned and the other articles have heavy propaganda vibes.

But is there anything wrong with the linked article?

The article looks neutral (besides for spelling of city names using Russian notation).

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There is a joke about how Tetris has been the most effective soviet weapon against the US, causing more damage in productivity losses than anything else the USSR did during the cold war.

One could say similar things about the differences between tiktok algorithms in the US vs China.

As long as you don't care about the duty cycle concept, and the value of human expression, everything on TikTok looks like a silly waste of time. A lot of tech content included.

Fortunately the Party sees humans as cogs in a perpetual motion machine, so their machinery will break down soon, moreso the more they FakeTok...

Re: Video games made in the USSR (2020)

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Compare what happened to the creators of these games with the creators of popular titles in the USA and Japan.

Tetris is an especially interesting one; Tetris was a worldwide phenomenon, a huge hit in the US that sold a huge number of copies. The creators of Tetris saw none of the profits from their creation. Their game was seized by the state as soon as it became popular and they never really profited. Compare to similar Western or Japanese game developers who became rich and famous, started world-renowned companies, and generally had amazing careers that created an industry.

Good example of why communism sucks, in my opinion.

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Compare what happened to the creators of these games with the creators of popular titles in the USA and Japan. Tetris is an especially interesting one; Tetris was a worldwide phenomenon, a huge hit in the US that sold a huge number of copies. The creators of Tetris saw none of the profits from their creation. Their game was seized by the state as soon as it became popular and they never really profited. Compare to si…

What is your opinion on FOSS?

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There is a joke about how Tetris has been the most effective soviet weapon against the US, causing more damage in productivity losses than anything else the USSR did during the cold war.

Microsoft’s Solitaire might compete, being bundled with windows itself.

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Compare what happened to the creators of these games with the creators of popular titles in the USA and Japan. Tetris is an especially interesting one; Tetris was a worldwide phenomenon, a huge hit in the US that sold a huge number of copies. The creators of Tetris saw none of the profits from their creation. Their game was seized by the state as soon as it became popular and they never really profited. Compare to si…

What is your opinion on FOSS?

Has FOSS produced a popular game that isn’t a copy of an existing one?

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Compare what happened to the creators of these games with the creators of popular titles in the USA and Japan. Tetris is an especially interesting one; Tetris was a worldwide phenomenon, a huge hit in the US that sold a huge number of copies. The creators of Tetris saw none of the profits from their creation. Their game was seized by the state as soon as it became popular and they never really profited. Compare to si…

>The creators of Tetris saw none of the profits from their creation. Their game was seized by the state as soon as it became popular and they never really profited.

Wiki tells a different story

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Compare what happened to the creators of these games with the creators of popular titles in the USA and Japan. Tetris is an especially interesting one; Tetris was a worldwide phenomenon, a huge hit in the US that sold a huge number of copies. The creators of Tetris saw none of the profits from their creation. Their game was seized by the state as soon as it became popular and they never really profited. Compare to si…

The creator, Alexey Pajitnov, was eventually able to see some money from his creation after emigrating to the US and cofounding The Tetris Company. The Gaming Historian channel has a great documentary video on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fQtxKmgJC8

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The soviets made a pretty good go of turning a theistic feudal monarchy largely with an economy focused on agriculture into the second biggest industrial power in the world for almost a hundred years. Certainly not perfect, and horrible to live in in many ways, but better at building an economy than a lot of other similarly sized places.

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Tetris creator Aleksey and few of his company were bought out and borught to Seattle in early oughts by Microsoft and they made a bunch of games for MSN Zone. There was one called Hexic that I remember him posting into a Russian email alias with an offer to take whoever got 5 black pearls first to dinner with him, which I think took out od a good portion of Russians on that channel out of circulation for a day or two (I got up to 3 of those pearls but could not make it past that).

I had dinner with him at his house later via connections through my incredibly sociable and connected mother, he was a delight, very, very clever, and had lots of physical puzzles that he invented and made himself. I am glad he made money off it eventually.

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