Tatyana Bokova-Foley

Iconic Soviet Arcade Game Reincarnated; Brezhnev Still Dead

Morskoi Boi, the iconic torpedo-launching simulator that introduced Soviet children to the world of coin-operated entertainment, is now available not only in the weird Moscow's Soviet Arcade Games Museum, but online, thanks to the Art. Lebedev Design Studio, which launched the free flash version of the game today.

The online Morskoi Boi is in Russian, but you need to know only one word, Пуск (Start), located near the red button, to start torpedoing the enemy ships, just like uncle Brezhnev wanted you to, twenty five years ago.

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Read about the Soviet Arcade Games Museum [Russia! magazine]


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