/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6710616
Holy shit neat, I'm a sucker for East German stuff.

>>5165884
It depends. Yeah, from inside the US bubble it might have looked like what you described. But I made different and quite opposite experiences.

Most of the stuff I played during the 90s (not the 80s since I couldn't access a C64 or Amiga from behind the iron curtain and only played on the only east german home computer KC85 or the Polyplay Arcade machine) was almost exclusively european stuff. Either british, french or german games and there where hardly any US-made games among them. I started with the usual games on tapes on the C64 (at first using an old east german B/W TV-Set with a dying phophor layer) until I got a floppy drive. Later followed an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 1200 that I unironicaly used until 2008.

I hardly felt the need to buy a console, since the european marked was booming like crazy with a high output of titles (yes, there were also some stinkers among them) on oh so many platforms (not just Nintendo, Sega and PC). But of course I only used the aforementioned systems. My first console was the Sega GameGear but I only bought very few games for it and wasn't impressed at all, since console gaming was just so fucking expensive, while the home computer games were just much cheaper and most of the time much more complex.

So I pretty much held onto my home computers and furthermore ignored all consoles until the PS1 came out (but even the PS1 I bought pretty late in it's lifespan). Yeah, the console games from japan and the USA looked nice in magazines, but were just too expensive and quite frankly shallow compared to the games I was used to play IMO.

Same goes for computer gaming. I only played and productively used the C64 and the Amigas during the 90's... well my A1200 I used well into the 2010's and never owned a Windows PC. In 2008 I switched from an unaccelerated A1200 (expanded only with CD-ROM, HDD and extra RAM) to a Mac Book, despite also being very critical about Apple stuff.

>>4391515
Myth seems to originate from coinop.org owner Kurt Koller, most likely based on East German arcade machine Polyplay.

My reasons for believing that:
>all investigations trace myth to coinop.org:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7X6Yeydgyg
>Kurt Koller is a german name, meaning he pretty much MUST have at least some german ancestry
>Original myth uses a german word, Sinneslochsen
>Font for the fake cabinet logo is almost identical to font used for Polyplay cabinet
>Polyplay was actually designed in cooperation with East German secret police, which most likely inspired the myth of "men in black" checking on the cabinet
>Polyplay is pretty well known among european gamers because of its trivia status as only communist arcade machine, so a german arcade enthusiast like Koller would likely know about it