The parents of today’s youngsters used to enjoy arcade games when they were kids just as their children do now. But 30 years ago there were different playing machines on offer. In a Moscow museum you can see, touch and even play the soviet entertainment r

About two years ago Aleksandr Stakhanov and his friends came up with the idea of finding an old soviet game machine which they used to play as kids.

“I remember when I was a child my father and I used to go to the cinema. And there was an arcade game Sea Battle. And I remember it so distinctly, how I was shooting, and missing,” recalls Stakhanov.

What started as a nostalgic memory soon turned into their work and passion.

The restoration work is very complicated. The museum’s hosts have to track down two or three similar machines to make one working game out of them.

They have already gathered almost 60 game machines, around 40 of them are in working order, and the collection is still growing.

The enthusiastic collectors have big plans: “In 2009 we are planning to arrange an exhibition in Berlin. We also want to start producing old-style game machines in a Moscow factory,” shares Maxim Pinigin, museum's host.

In comparison to modern devices, old Soviet game machines are primitive, but they used to awake the same emotions. And modern game machines might also become museum exhibits in the future.