/vr/ - Retro Games

the greatest video game of all time was made in a communist country.

>>1894239
The seller also included on a separate sheet of paper, a note. I had some trouble reading his cursive handwriting, but it said, “I hope you enjoy this version of Tetris. I picked up this in 1997, when I was working for the US embassy. It just showed up on my desk one night, and-“ and then the note abruptly ended. Shrugging, I uploaded the game, and ran it.

I can’t read Russian, so figuring out the menu required some repeat visits to Google Translate. Eventually, I started playing. It didn’t have the flair that non-Russian companies had added (no Soviet and Russian landmarks, no background music), but it did have blip sound effects when pieces turned, fell into place, and when lines were cleared. The graphics were very simple, but not without their quaint charm.

I must have been playing for quite some time, cause when I paused to go out for a cigarette, I noticed that at least four hours had gone by. I was alone in the house, as my girlfriend had left for a girl’s night out in Wisconsin with her college friends. She wouldn’t be back until that Sunday. After feeding the cat, I went back to playing.