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For non CZ/SK people reading this. This story is an extremely niche example of "anti" communist games. For example, transgoogle this article https://gaudeo.sk/
by laviroman 5y ago
For non CZ/SK people reading this. This story is an extremely niche example of "anti" communist games.
For example, transgoogle this article https://gaudeo.sk/jaro-filip-online/ https://gaudeo.sk/jaro-filip-online/ and watch the video posted there, which is from 1986 and it was airtimed in the state television as an 8-episode-long series.
Jaro Filip, the guy from the '86 video is openly saying that he is playing Alien 8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv6yLoibUS0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv6yLoibUS0 and he is joking about it quite casually.
By the way, Fuxoft - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWfQH6o8T9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWfQH6o8T9I nowadays a crypto-millionaire (part of Golden Triangle, together with the guy mentioned in the OA, https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Triangle https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Triangle ) did some nice text adventures like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1P56S5vdW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1P56S5vdW0.
By the way, the first official games/programs distributor for CZ/SK and even UK/US titles was probably Ultrasoft. These games in the article were not official games, well, there wasn't a market for this thing in the 80's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasoft Maybe you will know titles like Quadrax, Jet-Story or Tetris 2.
- stephenhuey 5y agoPretty fascinating niche. On one of my trips over there a Czech cousin told me how they had to be careful even dubbing Michael Jackson tapes in the 80s since American media was not allowed at all. These games seem a lot riskier. Edit: Thanks to the comments on this it seems things weren't so dire in the 80s. My cousin was a kid then--perhaps he was recounting more 70s era stories from his older sister or something! In any case, it's fun hearing about all of your memories since my first visit over there was in 1990. :)
- Tade0 5y agoIt wasn't banned per se - it was just that with a non-exchangable currency getting hold of a copy of anything was difficult. Some western productions would make it through the iron curtain, but they needed to be checked and usually censored beforehand. Politically correct (in the original meaning of the expression) poster art was a genre in and of itself: https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/collecting/star-wars-posters-soviet-europe/ https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/collecting/star-wars-poste...
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoWoa. Those posters are really good. Totally different aesthetic than the film, but I think they draw from the Eastern Block's long tradition of Sci Fi that was more artsy and less action, far as I understand it.
- Tade0 5y agoIronically because of the political system back then - censors did only a cursory check whether the work meets the guidelines (no gore, nudity, positive depictions of "imperialist" America) and there obviously was no push to make the poster "sell" the movie - authors had a lot of artistic freedom, so they experimented.
- laviroman 5y ago50s yes, 60s maybe, But in the 80's? Nah. 80s especially were the very best, my friend ;). Think of it like a more prosperous Cuba of 2021. Check this out: Gumení chlapci (Rubber Boys) 1984 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFnmy6q9d8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFnmy6q9d8M 1987 Diskopríbeh (Disco story) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pac_Uabo-hY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pac_Uabo-hY 1988 Kamarát do dešte (A friend through the rain) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-DC7GJIe8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-DC7GJIe8 I mean, unless your friend was into politics, it wasn't so tough in the 80s. At lest for the more commercial music. Punk or Metal people have it hard, but Jazz or Pop/Rock was ok. This is one rock band from 1985 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz_y401AFOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz_y401AFOo Paradoxically they made an anti communist anthem a few years later, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJucQNdBJo4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJucQNdBJo4
- rebolek 5y agoDon’t forget 1987’s Bony a klid which had Frankie goes to Hollywood’s "Relax" as a main music theme (legaly) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg2w5uE-814 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg2w5uE-814 And then there are also Návštěvníci (The visitors) which is basically Daft Punk, just 30 years earlier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSjda4QF9wI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSjda4QF9wI
- laviroman 5y agoYeah, of course: https://youtu.be/BxIxvQgdR7Q?t=62 https://youtu.be/BxIxvQgdR7Q?t=62
- dvh 5y agoThe visitors soundtrack was done by Karel Svoboda, my favorite piece from him is this: https://youtu.be/TexUnMWTk04 https://youtu.be/TexUnMWTk04
- _0ffh 5y agoI really liked those Czecheslovakian-German coproduced kids movies quite a lot!
- rebolek 5y agoThat must be some kind of joke on their side because e. g. Michael Jackon’s Thriller was released in CS in 1984 by Supraphon (LP monopoly at the time). Access to the west music was certainly limited but not impossible, due to proximity to Austria and Germany it was very easy to watch and listen to their stations and as described above, some LPs were even released in CS. I remember drooling over Depeche Mode’s Music For The Masses back in cca 1988 but it was above may pocket money-grade. But I’m talking about the eighties when the gerontocracy was unable to deal with people’s desires, the regime was certainly much tougher in 70’s.
- adamnemecek 5y agoHe’s not a USD millionaire, only CZK millionaire.