In Soviet Union ...

[llennhoff]

Talking with my project leader and a couple of guys at work this morning the topic of old (1980s vintage) computers and computer games came up. They're all from the fSU, so our memories are somewhat different with respect to software, although it turns out they are big Amiga and Commodore 64 fans. Anyway, we were talking about text games, and I

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[psychohist]

Coal mine management sounds much more fun to me!

[llennhoff]

Actually I was imagining it as an economic game, but with Soviet style economics. So the goal is to make quota, not maximize profit, and opposition includes "capitialist propaganda", "equipment shortage" and so forth. When I'm done having fun with this I may ask him what the game was actually like.

[psychohist]

Okay, that would make it not so fun.

I would make it more like Leather Goddesses and Lounge Lizard, though. Well, it would for me, anyway, since I'd likely be playing it for humor value.

[sethg_prime]

If your coal mine produces more than 200% of its its quota, then you get to spend a weekend with the Leather Goddesses.

[lucretia_borgia]

Would there be any limit to the number of comrades you could kill by having poor mine safety standards?

[sethg_prime]

You mean, of course, "the number of comrades who could die if you failed to arrest counter-revolutionary saboteurs and parasites".

[devrose]

Is it sad that my father's atari (computer) was video-game-system-of-choice until I was in fourth grade? Sigh. I wish he hadn't thrown that away...