/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5882583
"Hase und Wolf" (hare and wolf) east german Pac Man clone based on some russian cartoon series (Nu, pogodi!), that was very popular among the whole eastern block (the series not the game of course). The game came out for the east german home computer KC85 and also the Polyplay arcade (among other games on the same machine), which was the only east german Arcade cabinet.

Playable here:
Polyplay: http://polyplay.de/?m1=play
KC85 version (as well as most other east german games): https://lanale.de/kc85_emu/KC85_Emu.html

>>5719226
Also even in east germany some people somehow managed to score a C64 somehow (maybe an Amiga too?). But this usually did cost lots of money and you needed some connections to get one (or smuggle it). I wasn't one of them of course. But I guess to get disk drives was equally hard. But the prizes for a pack of 5 1/4" floppies were equally absurd anyway.

The whole set of KC85's at my school (not all were working btw.) only used tape decks, only the teachers computer had a floppy drive.

>>5719137
AFAIK most games were just hobbyist, school and academic projects. Some got published later in packs, but usually they were copied around and shared. Some programs even were broadcasted via radio. Beside the Polyplay Arcade I doubt that there were any actual commercial games made in the GDR. That Polyplay Arcade you could usually find in youth camps or at occasion when the GDR celebrated something. And in terms of games, as far as I remember most of them were clones of western games like Sokoban, Boulder Dash, countless Lode Runner and Pac Man clones (the later called "Hase und Wolf" (hare and wolf) here after a russian cartoon going by the name of "No Pogodi")
https://youtu.be/zTG6g-ffjco

Many of the original academic or games from school projects were usually simple Quiz games with a heavy socialist and communist edge written in Basic.
https://youtu.be/zTG6g-ffjco

I still remember getting into trouble by a teacher (they thought they lost me) since I stayed to long at the KC85 stands and the Polyplay machines at the last convention of east german youth organizations in 1988.
https://youtu.be/TsFRC_sp5Cw?t=194

Some schools had stands with those typical KC85 computers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC_85
(but the other east german Robotron computers like the older Z 9001 too) showing of their work (and of course playing games). On a sidenote. most of the east german computers (and Polyplay as well as some russian computers) used an unlicensed Z80 clone as main processor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U880

At one of the occasions at that convention I even unintentionally met our first lady (a really despicable old hag) who was visiting one of the events.

btw. most of the KC85 games are playable online:
https://lanale.de/kc85_emu/KC85_Emu.html
as well as the Polyplay Arcade (also playable via Mame)
http://polyplay.de/?m1=play

>>5701265
Try it yourself, almost the whole library of this east german computer system is playable online, that game "Frosch" that I played at school back in the day at around '87 two '89 is among the list.
https://lanale.de/kc85_emu/KC85_Emu.html

Not actually owned one of those east german computers (KC84, KC85), but I guess this game and some other clones of western games was the first games that I played on a computer.
http://lanale.de/kc85_emu/KC85_Emu.html

Before 1989 I (or my famiily) couldn't effort a computer, nor was it possible to get one in east Germany without certain connections before the wall came down. Even the GDR home computers like KC84 or KC85 you could hardly find in peoples homes. They usually only could be found in schools for educational purposes. But of course there were a lot of games out for these machines too. Usually clones of western games like Pac Man, Lode runner, Boulder Dash etc.
And of course the first games (hare & wolf, Digger (a boulder dash clone) and some Sokoban clon as well) I played was on those machines in IT-class.

The east german version of Pac Man was called "Hase and Wolf" (hare an wolf) inspired by a russian cartoon going by the same name (original Title Nu Pagadi!/Hy,пoгoди!) and this is the game I fondly remember.
Online Emulator for the home computers of the GDR with lots of software:
http://lanale.de/kc85_emu/KC85_Emu.html

The only east german arcade machine was called Polyplay. And ports of most of the above mentioned games were playable for just 50 east marks. Certainly I played this a lot, but again these machines only could be found in youth camps or at special events. And in one of the youth camps I also played my first round of Pong too. Back than this machine already was outdated.
Online emulator for Polyplay here:
http://polyplay.de/?m1=play

The first game I bought and played for myself maybe around '91/'92 was Sailing for the C64. I bought this tape even before getting the C64 btw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4haPmBqvLQ