Soviet Video Games Industry

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Just for laughs I'm imagining something like Douglas Adams' Bureaucracy but directed more pointedly at the West. Like a game where you walk into an American hospital with no money and try to get treated before you bleed to death.
 
Ive been wondering, in a timeline where rhe Soviers are around to the present day, how would their video gaming industry be like? Would it have a similar level of state support to Soviet film or animation?
Think Hoi4, but where being Communist gives you huge buffs. That’d be Soviet Games.
 
An aspect not yet explored is the likelyhood that eastern block countries would have used computer games as valuta cash cows the way they used their TV shows and films. There might have even been export versions of certain games, where the propaganda is toned down enough to make them palatable to western gamers, i.e. where the Wehrmacht can gain at least tactical victories. Such export mods would of course be highly sought after in the USSR and traded on a black market. On the other hand heavily propaganda laden titles might also attract its' own fanbase in the west, if for nothing else than their entertainment value by being involuntarily comical.
 
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An aspect not yet looked into is the likelyhood that eastern block countries would have used computer games as valuta cash cows the way they used their TV shows and films. There might have even been export versions of certain games, where the propaganda is toned down enough to make them palatable to western gamers. On the pther hand heavily propaganda laden titles might also attract its' own fanbase in the west.
There Tetris, maybe historical strategy games as you're figthing till the death with nazis? the slavic folkore might like because that, exploring the russian and slavic folkore and mythologies
 
Imagining a Late '80s Witcher game for the Elektronika EK3000, MSX, and various East Bloc Sinclair, Tandy CoCo, and Apple II clones, licensed by Spectrum Holobyte and/or Microware for the Amiga, Acorn Archimedes, Atari ST, and Sharp X68000.
 
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