Actually, the whole history with the study of Soviet plagiarism reminds me of watching some crime Comedy when a detective in the process learns that the Bank robbery was itself a Bank staff, police officers, and half the population of the nearby town — so it was serious and ambitious). And here — by the way, are all new and new layers of plagiarism, no end in sight. In the end it may be that the Soviet Union was to create only screws GTF-16 and the book “Buildings of the XI five-year plan”.
02. “U Drive it”, 1974 and “the wheel”, 1977. Game “driving” was in my childhood — the body was blue and white steering wheel, the ignition key didn’t work — my brother and I just launched the game from the rectifier is connected to 220 volts. The game principle is the following — disk drive with roads and bridges is rotated by the electric motor, and under the disk is strap driven wheel. The strap is magnetized to the machine, and when the disk starts rotating machine can be controlled. Play is quite interesting.
All anything, but the Soviet game “Behind the wheel” was fully copied poyavivshiesya three years Rania of the game “U Drive it”. There is a slightly different design that is on the disk, but the principle is identical — rotating disk, car magnets, steering wheel and transmission (which regulate the rotation speed of the disk).
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03. “Tracer Gun”, 1966 and a gun, 1988. Remember this blue Soviet pistol, shooting discs? The children of the late eighties-early nineties it was very trendy toy. Inside the gun was a spring that when you press the trigger “spit” plastic disks that were charged in the clip on the side.
As it turns out — this fashionable Soviet gun was fully scopion with appeared 20 years earlier, “Tracer Gun” that was released in honor of the TV series “star Trek.” The design of the guns Identica very similar, and the design:
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04. “Tonka Tractor, 1967” and a tractor “Parsley”, 1984. Another toy from my childhood — so traktoria was great to play in the sandbox — however, in the ribbed wheel quickly stuffed the stones, then they had to clean Popsicle stick or a match. As you can see, the toy was completely copied from “Tonka Reactor” that came out already in the seventies, moreover, in contrast to gun above (there is at least the design has changed) here, stripped of all “zero” — the layout of the invoice metallic parts, wheel design, seat and radiators, arrangement and number of parts, etc.
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05. “Tomy Waterful ring-toss”, 1976 and “the Juggler, 1986. We pass to water procedures. Remember such an unusual game called “Juggler”, in which the Foundation of the gameplay was liquid properties of water? The game had one button that worked like a pump pushing it with different strengths, you can adjust the flow of water and toss floating inside the bulb rings. The goal was to put as many rings on the two vertical pins plexiglass.
As you can see in the photo below, the “Juggler” was skopiowa with appeared a decade earlier Western counterpart, and here, as in the case of traktoria — completely copied everything, including design.
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06. “Tommy Aqua Action”, 1983 and “Voting”, 1989. Another water toy. There is nothing special to comment on — to a year it is clear that the Soviet game was released 6 years after the original.
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07. Basketball. Another ton of attention right now Soviet Board game, having a foreign prototype. Pictured right — the Soviet table “Basketball”, the photo on the left is his Western counterpart. Game slightly different design, but the principle is exactly the same.
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08. “Sea Devil”, 1970, “Sea battle”, 1974. Well, you say, Board games that is, but that slot machines in the USSR was their own! The very — large, tube, pyatnadcatiletnij, with the periscope that menacing smelled gas rubber. Alas — many machines were also copied from foreign counterparts. All of you favorite “battleship” that came out in 1974 — it is almost an exact copy of the “Sea Devil” that was released in 1970.
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09. “Nintendo EGG”, 1980 and “Well, pogodi!”, 1984. And for a snack my favorite handheld game “Elektronika” that was all the rage in the late Soviet Union (or the “last mouse squeak” Soviet technology) — known to all of you game “Nu, pogodi!” was cleaned lapped with game from Nintendo called “EGG”.
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10. A rare and interesting game “ocean Mysteries” (1987) (I recently bought one in perfect condition) was copied from the game from Nintendo called “Octopus” (1981).
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