The Cold War couldn’t stop gaming from thriving in the Eastern Bloc. From the late 1980s through the early 1990s, a generation of young people living behind the Iron Curtain designed and released their own video games and arcade cabinets. Now, you can play English translations of some of these lost classics of early gaming. One is a text adventure where a Soviet military officer hunts and kills Rambo.

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You Can Now Play Video Games Developed Behind the Iron Curtain

Experience the collapse of Soviet-style Communism by playing the video games designed by angry teenagers living under it.

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