Hooooo boy, this is incredible! I leave for Moscow in a couple days, what an amazing tip! Thanks!
Molly:
What are you doing there? I have been there in each of the past four decades, so if I can help you with anything, PM me.
The museum is about a ten minute walk from the baumansky metro stop on the green line. Exit the metro toward Baumanskaya street. You will exit onto it. Turn right and it will be about ten minutes up on your right hand side.
cool
did you get to play 'tank battle' or 'torpedo attack ' ?
Yes to tank battle but not torpedo attack. A game I liked was "IceBreaker." Simple but never saw the theme in a game before. A stationary boat sat above an illiminated rolling drum with seascapes of ice and water. You had to move the boat to the right and left to stay in the water and downshift to low for greater torque when you had to break through the ice.
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That's horrible! Communist torture! They should have something in the Geneva Convention about that sorta thing.
On a smooth floor, I could work with that. d Thanks for sharing. Good stuff. On one hand, I feel bad for the comrades. That's all they had? That upper flipper looks useless. On the other hand, I'm glad they had some coin op stuff. Didn't other formerly communist countries have more pins?
there was a different feel to the games since they sat very stable and heavy on the underside. It made me realize how the legs our games have always sat own are a superior design. I wouldn't think pins were produced anywhere else behind the iron curtain. People in Moscow were more worried about where food was available in the 80's especially ealier in the decade when there was nothing in the stores.
I've got one of those totally bad assed "Year of the White Rabbit" arcade posters in the mail the other day!
Although all the fine print is very Russian alphabet looking, I wonder why the main type is in English?
Cool. Glad it came intact.
English is quite prevalent in Moscow in restaurants, businesses, museums. Anything with English on it has always been widely sought after there by the everyday Russian. I think western things have always been sought in more closed societies.
Everything in English is also in Russian on the poster: address, hours, invitation to play the autorally game.
Russians have tended to be interested in literature and music. The White Rabbit reference could come from either. I will write Sasha and ask him why the white rabbit reference. That will interesting to find out.
There is a white rabbit restaurant in moscow http://www.whiterabbitmoscow.com/ and 2011 was the year of the white rebbit in chinese astrology, but I would think it would have more to do with Lewis Carroll or Jefferson Airplane.
Dan