Despite the great difficulty of acquiring computers in 1980s
Czechoslovakia, amateur enthusiasts still managed to do so – and produced
hundreds of computer games, some of which were politically subversive. They
frequently did this on jerry-built computer systems, while homemade arcade
games were also to be found. This scene is the focus of the book Gaming the
Iron Curtain by academic Jaroslav Švelch. When we spoke, Švelch told me
about his own first experiences with computer games back in the ‘80s.
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