In Russia, the game plays you! The Turnip Strength Tester and other thrilling Cold War arcade games discovered in Moscow basement

Westerners may have grown up playing video games like Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Pong but behind the Iron Curtain the pinnacle of arcade entertainment was ‘The Turnip Strength Tester’.

The hilarious arcade machine is one of the gems among a fantastic treasure trove of Cold War video games unearthed in a Moscow basement.

While games like Pac-Man thrilled youngsters in Britain and the US, in Russia the games were much more practical in nature.

From the late seventies to the early nineties, Soviet military factories produced around 70 different video game models, crudely based on early Japanese designs.

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