the failure of the Soviet Union during the birth of the internet has deprived the world of thirty years of video games made under socialist production modes
Man I really never thought of that angle. Not that I haven't thought of how much better games made under socialism could be, but the way the fall of the USSR (who gave us fuckin Tetris btw) came right when video games were really taking off.
This also goes back to my assertion that literally everything would be better right now if FDR was successful in normalizing friendly trade relations with the USSR. No cold war = may no climate apocalypse.
I don't know if they'd be better or worse but I'm convinced Soviet gaming would be different. My basis for this assertion is that there is a ton of late-Soviet cinema that only got made because the motives behind filmmaking in the late Soviet era were very different from Hollywood and projects often got green-lit because someone thought they had artistic merit or something rather than that they'd produce a huge financial return.
Man I really never thought of that angle. Not that I haven't thought of how much better games made under socialism could be, but the way the fall of the USSR (who gave us fuckin Tetris btw) came right when video games were really taking off.
This also goes back to my assertion that literally everything would be better right now if FDR was successful in normalizing friendly trade relations with the USSR. No cold war = may no climate apocalypse.
I don't know if they'd be better or worse but I'm convinced Soviet gaming would be different. My basis for this assertion is that there is a ton of late-Soviet cinema that only got made because the motives behind filmmaking in the late Soviet era were very different from Hollywood and projects often got green-lit because someone thought they had artistic merit or something rather than that they'd produce a huge financial return.