Soviet Money video: kzitem.info/news/bejne/ta6urptrjnSlpqw Soviet Children's street games: kzitem.info/news/bejne/pm2BsHqeqYSEaoI My name is Sergei Sputnikoff. I was born in the USSR in 1971. Since 1999 I have lived in the USA. The Ushanka Show was created to share stories and recollections of everyday life in the USSR. My books about arriving in America are available at www.sputnikoff.com/shop (Russian or English versions) or on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNQR1FBC?binding=paperback&searchxofy=true&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tpbk&qid=1688731325&sr=8-1 Don't hesitate to get in touch with me at sergeisputnikoff@gmail.com if you would like to purchase a signed copy of “American Diaries” Fan Mail: Ushanka Show P.O. Box 96 Berrien Springs MI 49103, USA You can support this project with SuperThanks tips, or: Via Patreon here: www.patreon.com/sputnikoff Viia PAYPAL: paypal.me/ushankashow Ushanka Show merchandise: teespring.com/stores/ushanka-show-shop Instagram: instagram.com/ushanka_show
@AN-cw6yg
3 ай бұрын
In Armenia, there is a place called the Soviet Club. They have some old Soviet Arcade games that they restored. It was really cool and the owner has been collecting items from the USSR for over 20 years. If anyone is in Yerevan, I recommend it. The owner is super cool.
@knightsofjupiter753
3 ай бұрын
I never thought about this topic but its still interesting
@captlazer5509
3 ай бұрын
In the 80s, a loaf of bread was around 50 cents or less, and 25 cents for video game. Funny the Soviet games were just copies.
@Soundofwindonsand
3 ай бұрын
$2.25 for a box of "cheap" saltine crackers.. yesterday
@ДмитрийШайтура
3 ай бұрын
В СССР хлеб стоил 16 или 20 копеек (точно не помню), а игра стоила 15 копеек.
@VigilanteAgumon
3 ай бұрын
I seem to remember seeing somewhere that the Typhoon-class (Proyekt 941 "Akula") submarines also had those type of arcade machines in them.
@T-90M
3 ай бұрын
I love this channel. All the smaller parts of life that you don't usually think about when thinking about the USSR. Just love it.
@maximshakhov284
3 ай бұрын
Yeo, the lamp Soviet Union
@82dorrin
3 ай бұрын
In Soviet Russia, arcade game plays YOU!!
@pertsonvelts1699
3 ай бұрын
One of the cheapest jokes known to man.
@eliotguerin192
3 ай бұрын
Feels like im in 2008 again with this old ass joke
@chuckdacon4797
3 ай бұрын
I used to play Sea Raider a lot in the early 70's. Loved that game.
@BullsDeepHook
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video Sergei. I was hoping that you'd make a video on this subject. It was great as usual. 👍🏻👍🏻
@busboy262
3 ай бұрын
I'm an avid gamer. I play for at least a little time almost every single day. I'm old enough to remember most of the games that you presented. As a matter of fact, I'm old enough to remember when Pong was just starting to be introduced. There were no arcades yet, so Pong was usually found in taverns. So kids walking into a bar alone to play Pong was a pretty common sight. It was a better time when "Karen" was a name and not a noun.
@waverider227
3 ай бұрын
Growing up as a kid in the late 70s to mid 90s the Mall Arcade ( or in Florida the beach boardwalk with an Arcade) was the place for kids to hang out in America, Home video games like Atari appeared around 1977 or 1978 but were costly and in high demand and short supply so the local arcade was still the place to go and play the latest games In addition to pinball, table hockey or football and my favorite Virtual race car games; the most popular electronic games I remember were Pong the first electronic tennis game then Space Invaders (later renamed Asteroids, ) Then in the fall of 1981 the king of all games PAC MAN debuted and its popularity exploded kids would wait up to hours in line while someone tried to rack up 100,000 points playing and they would go through a pocket full of coins just to play. Fun times . I love the part where the kid used his dads coin collection to get back at his fathers refusal to let him play 😁 I later got my first electronic pocket sized game red light- green light for Christmas in 1980 mu Cousin got Simon . Later i got ,handheld football Christmas of 81 . At Christmas 1983 came the handheld game Merlin and the popular Atari 2600. Later Nintendo in 1988 Great years and fun times indeed.
@HermitagePrepper
3 ай бұрын
Pavilion is the same in English. It just means a light or temporary structure
@SaraMarie41
13 күн бұрын
There's now a game called Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic, where you can recreate a Soviet Area
@HappySnoutHour
3 ай бұрын
I hope you make a video about the Soviet game consoles like the Dendy (Де́нди), the Turnir (Турнир), etc.
@jurisprudens2697
3 ай бұрын
Dendy was already a post-Soviet Russian thing.
@belstar1128
3 ай бұрын
dendy was made in china in the 90s Turnir was a pong console that they only made in very limited quantities
@redline1916
Ай бұрын
If I was in the USSR right now, I believe I would just be playing cards with the boys with brown-bagged bottles of Kvass over an arcade game.
@Soundofwindonsand
3 ай бұрын
So the Soviet Union was"Capatalizing" from US arcade technology? I thought the Sub game seem familiar..
@skuula
3 ай бұрын
Id never have imagined that a plan economy would have arcade games. After all, they are not really necessary for anything.
@kcraig51
3 ай бұрын
It's neat to use the camera with Google translate to see what the posters and signs say.
@Jedi_Pimp
3 ай бұрын
I always thought Tetrias game was a Soviet game and was pinball game popular in russia?
@Damien.D
3 ай бұрын
Tetris is in fact the most famous soviet video game. And one of the most iconic video game ever.
@belstar1128
3 ай бұрын
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
@Jedi_Pimp
3 ай бұрын
@@belstar1128 thanks for the info and feedback
@loganholmberg2295
3 ай бұрын
what your saying makes sense. If you what the Tetris movie about the exportation of tetris from the USSR to the world they talk about how games licensing worked. I see no reason it wouldn't work in reverse with the USS gov buying older arcade games from the west and rebranding them.
@SonGoku-mj5pq
3 ай бұрын
9:42 its funny, in russia theyre american hills, in spanish theyre called russian mountains
@jfrancis98
3 ай бұрын
0:42 Mike Eruzione shoots and scores!!!
@mercster
3 ай бұрын
Thanks much!
@SlickJim2
3 ай бұрын
You can play Morskoi Boi in Atom RPG Trudograd, they recreated the arcade machine really well if you stumble upon it
@kelvins.rodrigues6423
3 ай бұрын
Curious to see in USSR where rollercoaster ride was called "american ride" and in Brasil it's called "montanha russa" (russian mountain) and I dont know why of that name, never occured to me to find out why of that name. Also, I thought there would be some tetris game since the creator was a soviet man
@Svetlana-says-it-as-it-is.
3 ай бұрын
Oh poor dad, his kido used his commemorative coins to play games! Hey ho, he had his fun.
@showbizsam4440
3 ай бұрын
Wondering when home computing became a thing, and what the first machines were? Can't remember exact details, but I do recall reading an article in perhaps 1985(?) that the Poles had either imported a large number of Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K computers from the UK, or they were using them after signing a licensing deal. Part of me is thinking that the state itself may have been using them, rather than a home market springing up at the time, and this is why I do have a small incomplete memory of reading about it. The Spectrum was as capable as any other 8-bit machine. Sure, the Commodore 64 handled colour and sound in a far superior way, but the Spectrum was significantly quicker. However, it had a cash-conscious look to it, with the machine having a tiny keyboard and rubber keys. This is why it only found success in the UK as a gaming machine, because all of the businesses wanted a "proper" giant plastic keyboard, which looked more like a typewriter. I learned to code using my Spectrum when I was just 8-years-old, and when it had had its day, I tried both the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga. Sadly, I just couldn't love those in the same way that I loved the Spectrum as they didn't seem to be inviting me in to mess around in ways that you didn't have to, but could. The same could be said for the Fruit Machines (Apple), and I finally got back into computing when I got an hour with a PC and found those were more DIY, with far greater scope for just messing around. Now I'm thinking of getting a Raspberry Pi, but only once I've tested two machines that are about 20-25yrs old, to see if I can have those work with Linux.
@dzonikg
3 ай бұрын
I can tell you about Yugoslavia ,my parents bought me Commodore 64 in 1986 ,it was 700 deutche marks ,at that time ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 was most popular but few kids in my classrome had Amstrad CPC 464 which had own monitor. At first at i only had black and white TV in my room in which i connect Commodore and when my parents were at work i would connect it to color TV in living room . We did not have original games but there was pirated cassettes with like 30 games on one cassette and they were like "Sport complete 1 " so like similiar games on one cassete ,i had only one original game and it was Pirates
@showbizsam4440
3 ай бұрын
@dzonikg Yugoslavia was a more deluxe version of communism, wasn't it? I'm suspecting that'd be the first place to have anything modern. I know it had a thriving punk rock scene, for example.
@dzonikg
3 ай бұрын
@@showbizsam4440 @showbizsam4440 It had great music scene from punk ,new wave,rock,pop,electronic. We Had everything at home like in west but with maybe few years delay , i got computer in 1986 ,VHS in 1987. And large stacked stereo systems were also popular and everyone wanted them ,the bigger the better
@dzonikg
3 ай бұрын
@@showbizsam4440 It had great music scene from punk ,new wave,rock,pop,electronic. We Had everything at home like in west but with maybe few years delay , i got computer in 1986 ,VHS in 1987. And large stacked stereo systems were also popular and everyone wanted them ,the bigger the better
@showbizsam4440
3 ай бұрын
@dzonikg My father brought home our first VHS recorder in 1979. I believe it was a JVC HR 3330. There's a video on KZitem of someone mending one, and it's deceptively heavier than it looks! Had a listen to a Yugoslav punk compilation years back. Was very good, but one song really stood out on it - Plastika by Idoli - magnificent. I'm glad to see a video turned up for it.
@gwc656g
3 ай бұрын
at 1:13 [and again at 11:25] is a game called танкодром. Do you know anything about it? It looks like two player but what is the goal?
One person. Driving tank around and somehow making "kills"
@gwc656g
3 ай бұрын
@@UshankaShow thank you, looks like a game I would have liked.
@yayfly7349
3 ай бұрын
hey dude you should do videos in Russian and videos in English separating them out makes the videos more watchable for both demographics. You could do the exactly same video but put (Russian) or (English) in the titles.
@UshankaShow
3 ай бұрын
What both demographics? Most of my viewers are from the US, Canada and the UK.
@franciscovillanueva4365
3 ай бұрын
Or maybe sonic
@davidjernigan8161
3 ай бұрын
It makes sense that the Soviet Union would just copy western arcade games rather spend resources to design them.
@UshankaShow
3 ай бұрын
Yes, just like it makes sense to steal money than work and earn money. What a waste of resources!
@andershansson2245
3 ай бұрын
Like the atom bomb
@showbizsam4440
3 ай бұрын
I'm sure that there was a huge black market in Nintendo game systems in the USSR which were about as legit as an East German women's athlete!
@JTA1961
3 ай бұрын
If they had made one it should have been "Pole Position", themed about overrunning the county of Poland.
@killerkab1141
3 ай бұрын
Thanx buddy can't believe how expensive arcade games were in the user
@pottedcactus2788
3 ай бұрын
9:36 This is funny considering the first rollercoasters originated in St. Petersburg and were known as "Russian Mountains". They are still called that in many places today.
@timmmahhhh
3 ай бұрын
Thats pretty wild that the workers could keep any money over the 8.10 ruble quota. It's no wonder people would want to work here.
@UshankaShow
3 ай бұрын
They shouldn't but they could 😄😄😄
@intel386DX
3 ай бұрын
@@UshankaShoweven without that money it is cool to work with arcade games 😊
@radiorob7543
3 ай бұрын
I'm old enough to remember the days before Pong, so I enjoyed this very much. Thank You.
@davidhudson5452
3 ай бұрын
Scamed by your own Govt.
@olgajoachimosmundsen4647
3 ай бұрын
Your content and presention is steadily improving. I liked the Moskva-surprise. Molodets
@FlintIronstag23
3 ай бұрын
I was surprised not to see any Soviet pinball machines. Maybe they were harder, or more expensive, to replicate than the other arcade games.
@Damien.D
3 ай бұрын
I do collect pinball machines and I'm a bit interested in the history of the silverball, and as far as I know, none were ever produced at all. Very strange because it's as complicated as these electromechanical arcades games, so... And also in Poland, there were no pinball machine to be seen anywhere, at all, until the 2000.
@Mei-wk5mt
3 ай бұрын
My dad tells me they were quite popular in yugoslavia
@BoSmith7045
3 ай бұрын
I recently watched a technology KZitemr showing how old pinball machines worked. They were surprisingly complicated for what they were.but nothing a Soviet manufacturer couldn't replicate. Maybe the people in charge didn't think they were entertaining enough to bother with.
@mxev9626
3 ай бұрын
I guess there simply wasn't much interest in them, neither from manufacturers nor from the public. Pinball isn't popular now also, I struggle to think when I last saw a pinball machine in Russia.
@ДмитрийШайтура
3 ай бұрын
Был пинбол в конце 80х в Бресте (Белорусская ССР), оформлен был на тему цирка.
@zeppelinboys
3 ай бұрын
I LOVED the Silent Hill gun shooting game that was at the local bowling alley when I was a kid. they had an incredible South Park pin-ball game for years and years too. Sadly the games disappeared about 15 years ago. now it's just an empty room.
@gate7clamp
3 ай бұрын
theirs a soviet video game museum in Moscow at the all Russian exhibition center. That was something me and the boys wanted to visit maybe someday
@JenniferinIllinois
3 ай бұрын
Comrade Pac Man was eating kopeks like he was eating dots. 🤣🤣🤣
@HydeSkull
3 ай бұрын
The best game to come from the USSR is easily Tetris.
@gagamba9198
3 ай бұрын
Great topic. I too loved the submarine and the sharpshooter games.
@tikimandude112
3 ай бұрын
Great Video!!! Thank you!!!
@pablodelsegundo9502
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for that EXCELLENT nod to Ukraine! 😂
@UshankaShow
3 ай бұрын
👍
@MattBellzminion
3 ай бұрын
And not just the added 2022 war memes ("Russian warship, go fuck yourself" & the Moskva's sinking), but that naval warfare game cabinet was decorated with the UA trident symbol, near the coin slots.
@nickadams2451
3 ай бұрын
Sergei did you ever read about the Nintendo copy they sold in Soviet Union just before collapse? Surprisingly Nintendo was ok with it after finding out and allowed them to be produced.
@UshankaShow
3 ай бұрын
I read about Nintendo stealing Soviet game console )))
@steliosarvanitis5606
3 ай бұрын
The dendi? These nintenclones where manufactured en masse in china, they flooded the Balkans also, And Greece obviously, still have mine.:)
@jurisprudens2697
3 ай бұрын
It was not before, it was immediately after the collapse. In December 1992, "Dendi" was released. It was a "copy of the copy", it copied the Taiwanese clones of FamiCom - the Japanese version of NES. Indeed, Nintendo, after learning about the thing, did not sue them, but demanded in return, that they try to promote the SuperNintendo in Russia. Which they did very actively, I remember the TV advertisements. But it was a failure: SuperNintendo was too expensive for Russians. For 16bit games, the 90s Russians preferred clones of Sega MegaDrive.
@andrefiset3569
3 ай бұрын
I work with a guy whose father worked in an amusement business. He hooked an extension cord from the house to the truck full of machines and he was the most popular kid in the neighborhood. His father also gave him rolls of special tokens the size of 25 cents.When the business closed down he wanted to buy a machine but the owner asked a crazy price.
@dzonikg
3 ай бұрын
Arcade game i mostly play was "1942" We had 3 places around my primary school with arcade games , 2 were smaller places with like 10 arcades but there was one big with like 50-60 arcade games ,they died in like 1990/1991. I had that hockey game at home my self ,i must say it was very fun ,we spend so much time playing it ,i really can remember was it import or domestically produce but when i broke it was so sad i and i look everywhere to buy it again but could not find it
@thegamer_dued6650
3 ай бұрын
Hi 👋
@b213videoz
6 күн бұрын
0:54 Actually it's a pavilion in English. Yes, word "павильон" is NOT even ruZZian - it was "Zaп-Zapaп"ed like most of the arcade machines in this video 😁
@belstar1128
3 ай бұрын
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
@joaoonda
3 ай бұрын
Curious, in Portugal we call roller coasters "Russian Mountain" (montanha russa). I always wonder why...
@MxArgent
3 ай бұрын
MAME emulates a East German multigame called Poly-Play! Kind of crude, though there is a Pac-Man clone themed around Nu, Pogodi!. A while ago I also came across another title called "S.O.S.", from a company called Terminal. It had a sort of aiming mechanic I found pretty inventive.
@solarflare623
3 ай бұрын
You had one job socialism! ONE JOB! And you failed! (And you also fell victim to classic Russian corruption so I can’t entirely blame you)
@mr.pavone9719
2 ай бұрын
8:30 I did something similar, stealing money from my dad's coin collection. Oh my god the trouble I got into for that...😮
@skajuoker23
3 ай бұрын
We have a "Kremlinka Show" on the Polish KZitem...about current collapse of russia
@johnpruittpruitt4677
3 ай бұрын
I'm very blessed to be born in America! The Nintendo entertainment home system taught me strategy,Loss, Rewards with out physical Harm.From America with love.
@matthewmccourt2164
3 ай бұрын
Sergei, I just had a terrible experience with a moving company and it got me thinking. Did the Soviet Union have small side hustles of moving belongings from city to city or apartment to apartment? Or was there a centralized company that you could hire to move belongings? Thank you and always a pleasure.
@harryhole5786
3 ай бұрын
I'm actually the same generation than you, Sergiy (1965, ups, that's more or less): Please continue These are important historical notes. I'm sorry, but you'd merrit a "Red Star" for it but I doubt that they'll ever distribute one to you.
@Rock-xn3sp
3 ай бұрын
Hey I was wondering if you could make a video about traveling to the Soviet Union as a tourist from America/the West? I know you've made a lot of travel videos specifically about Soviet citizens, but I'd be interested in what it'd be like for a westerner to visit the USSR as a tourist. I know they had the state-owned company Intourist for this purpose, but I'd be interested in the fine details. Also, did you ever encounter any western tourists in the USSR during your time growing up there?
@wilco3588
3 ай бұрын
I remember as a kid in the early 1980s? 4 loaves of bread on special for 1 dollar at Osco's supermarket in West lafayette, indiana. I don't remember us ever buying it because Mom would only buy whole wheat bread because it was better for you, thanks Mom!
@Segafishy
3 ай бұрын
I remember seeing years ago now a rare case of one being a Soviet design from the ground up, outside was like one of those old Sideboards but inside was like military grade shielding, they couldn't run it purely because they couldn't get the Roms off the chipset to replace anything if it burned out, was via an exhibition called Game on so no idea if it'll turn up elsewhere in the world at somepoint. Absolutely love finding old electro mechanicals in the wild, the arts amazing (usually hand painted or silk screened) and they way they work can be quite fascinating.
@Obrez1
3 ай бұрын
Sergei, where did you find those black & white photos of generic people? I mean, I'm not a photographer or something like that but, those photos feels like more than photos, I feel like almost I took those photos myself; i.e. I feel like I was there when the photos were taken.
@BalshazzarWastebasket
3 ай бұрын
what a cool post sergey. i wonder if TETRIS was ever turned into an arcade machine, or a home game? did russian TVS coe with the same kind of plug to connect it to some kind of game( i remember we had a game taht we plugged to the TV using the same cable as the antenna lead...
@realtsarbomba
3 ай бұрын
In 1986 I was in a hotel in Leningrad and played some shooting game there with a rifle attached to it, just cannot remember whether it was any of the ones shown in this video.
@jameslockard6956
3 ай бұрын
I am amazed at the simular games I played in US were played in USSR 😊
@Volros64
3 ай бұрын
memory unlocked, i had completely forgotten the names of these games
@franciscovillanueva4365
3 ай бұрын
I want to play retro arcade games like donkey Kong or super Mario so much
@NauerBauer
3 ай бұрын
Get an emulator
@NewReflections-pw8xm
3 ай бұрын
Kind of random, but have you ever been to any victory day or a similar military parades?
@UshankaShow
3 ай бұрын
Just a May Day parade once. My family usually went planting potatoes on those holidays.
@Nothing-fp7jg
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for the thorough video. I'm glad they set up those museums. Maybe one day I'll check one of them out.
@BeachTypeZaku
3 ай бұрын
Dude, I'd totally set up an arcade with American and Soviet vintage arcade games! They need to make copies of Soviet game so we can get them over here in America!
@BennysBenz
3 ай бұрын
Great video and topic per usual thank you!
@daniellemuaddib8016
3 ай бұрын
awesome!
@joeljrdevera1255
3 ай бұрын
Hello Sergei, thanks for sharing about arcades in the Soviet Union.. I was waiting for that topic because, as myself working in the amusement, I thought this is more different than western arcade machines.. I have a question, is tokens are common when you played these machines or not?? Thanks..😊😊
@@UshankaShow Thank you for guiding me to that video....I assume the objective is to "destroy" all the vehicles?? Is the tank controlled by magnets underneath the playing surface?
@UshankaShow
3 ай бұрын
@@christianpethukov8155 Yes, a magnet is moving the tank under the surface. You are supposed to park your tank in the right position and "shoot". Destroyed tank will have its light going off
@christianpethukov8155
3 ай бұрын
@UshankaShow We are of similar age so I know I would have thought that game was the best. Tank nerd then, tank nerd now!
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