<a href="http://www.wired.com/gaming/hardware/multimedia/2007/06/gallery_soviet_games?slide=21&amp;slideView=9" target="_blank" title="21.jpg"><img src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/21.jpg" title="21.jpg" alt="21.jpg" align="top" border="0" height="305" vspace="8" width="406" /></a>

Great <a href="http://www.wired.com/gaming/hardware/multimedia/2007/06/gallery_soviet_games" target="_blank">photo set,</a> and a brief <a href="http://www.wired.com/gaming/hardware/news/2007/06/soviet_games" target="_blank">article</a>, at <em>Wired</em>. Two Russian geeks are rescuing old arcade games from the scrap heap and putting them on display in a bomb shelter.

I don't know how representative a sample this is, but it's striking how, compared to a Western European or US arcade, so few of the games involve killing and violence, especially as they were built by the military – for "entertainment and active leisure, as well as the development of visual-estimation abilities."

They do have a Duck Hunt though...