Gaming in Communist Countries

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  • Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2024

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  • @Ginzie
    @Ginzie  Месяц назад +11

    BTW the Cuban indie game is called ‘Saviourless’
    Completely forgot to mention it in the video - my bad

  • @chaunguyenhuu320
    @chaunguyenhuu320 Месяц назад +12

    Other countries: restrictions and shits
    Vietnam: yeah we chill

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад +1

      Real

    • @Carbine64
      @Carbine64 Месяц назад +3

      Kind of... Steam being shadowbanned is a loser move, and no Konami games are sold in Vietnam because Konami are bitches. Other than that, yeah we're chill

  • @raccooncafe5689
    @raccooncafe5689 Месяц назад +20

    I love how you pronounce "Vietnam" like a 60 year old American.

  • @Penguin-gz9ko
    @Penguin-gz9ko Месяц назад +63

    Last time I was this early the USSR was still a thing

    • @utvm6748
      @utvm6748 Месяц назад +5

      Noob. Ussr was state capitalism

    • @boomboy1236
      @boomboy1236 Месяц назад +6

      @@utvm6748 maybe at the end

    • @TankMasterGo
      @TankMasterGo Месяц назад

      ​@@utvm6748
      That's modern day Russia

    • @utvm6748
      @utvm6748 Месяц назад +1

      @@TankMasterGo well, soviet was state capitalist/state communist because a hirarchy existed where the state had full power over direct democracy. Which doesnt make it economic left wing.
      What a waste that the bolsheviks ran it. Really tyranny government like hitler the same level of autotharianism.
      I prefer the anarcho communism / syndicalism

    • @hadookin47
      @hadookin47 Месяц назад +1

      Hell they barely ever left

  • @user-lw9yz
    @user-lw9yz Месяц назад +75

    Although Yugoslavia was socialist and not on good terms with the rest of the eastern block i will still share this story. I live in Slovenia, and because we are next to Italy and Austria a lot of things from the west came through and into the country. My father got a copy of doom and said he played it so much he had to stop because it was effecting his grades collage. Many other games came to Yugoslavia and most were played on either imported computers or pc manufactured in croatia, Serbian and slovenia. They say one of these computers were so good Americans coming here were shocked by how similar in power it was to a macintosh, but that could be just propaganda. sorry for the horrible english, loved the video and highly underrated channel

    • @somedesertdude1308
      @somedesertdude1308 Месяц назад +2

      nice

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад +7

      That’s fascinating actually, similar story with Hungary actually too. Your English is good don’t worry lol
      Also thank you I appreciate it

    • @ChristopherSobieniak
      @ChristopherSobieniak Месяц назад +5

      ​@Ginzie Not being a Warsaw Pact nation gave Yugoslavia a pass to do business with the west.

    • @prikolica3567
      @prikolica3567 Месяц назад +1

      @@ChristopherSobieniak of course, they just got freed by the Axis oppressors, why would they want to replace one with another?

  • @Bolt451
    @Bolt451 Месяц назад +32

    Half of the divergance is sanctions slowing adoption of gaming and the other half is people taking ages arguing on changing laws that hinder gaming once it gets past the sanctions

  • @vietnameseboi9855
    @vietnameseboi9855 Месяц назад +13

    If your communist government don’t want you to play game
    Go to Vietnam and enjoy unrestricted access to every gaming things you can dream off
    But you need money for those goodies

  • @redzeckez3346
    @redzeckez3346 Месяц назад +22

    A little fun Fact: One of the reason of isolation in communist country was because of Stalin, He was pretty conservative, nationalist and protectionist and fear foreign influence.
    Communist has expend the most during his era so that can explain a lots about all the mentality of their system.
    In North Korea they have a clone of the NES and no many games, but they have Street Fighter 2 and a lots of RPG inspire by Asian Folk (mainly Korean folk)

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад +1

      Had no idea North Korea had an NES clone, how did you find this out? When I tried to find info about North Korean gaming consoles I hit one hell of a brick wall lol
      And yeah Stalin really did a number on the USSR, not the best situation

    • @ariaownsyou
      @ariaownsyou Месяц назад +4

      Totally not because the entire world was incredibly hostile to the first ever socialist state. It was just all conservative stalin.

    • @misakayy1911
      @misakayy1911 Месяц назад

      @@ariaownsyou Yeah when you have an ideology that calls for violent civil war in other countries it turns out those other countries arent gonna like you that much

    • @doncorleone1553
      @doncorleone1553 Месяц назад +3

      @@ariaownsyou Well that nation is gone now. Get over it.

    • @ariaownsyou
      @ariaownsyou Месяц назад +3

      @@doncorleone1553 How dare i care about history

  • @davieuacho
    @davieuacho Месяц назад +19

    Really cool video, I appreciate a lot you giving the pure information available and not going for the cheap anti-communist stuff people usually say in this kind of video, very informative and straight to the point

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад +10

      Yeah that’s a big reason I added Vietnam at the end, to show that it’s not really about the political ideology of the country but more the restrictions enforced by the government regardless of ideology. Glad you enjoyed though man, hope you have a good day

    • @spaghetti0356
      @spaghetti0356 Месяц назад +8

      **talks about video games** "by the way guys, I really hate communism for ruining games, communists never made video games with any lasting effect, especially the USSR. As we all know, Capitalism breeds good video games, except the woke ones" - Some Video Essay guy or smth idk.

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад

      Thought you were talking about me for a second there lol

    • @spaghetti0356
      @spaghetti0356 Месяц назад +2

      @@Ginzie

    • @davieuacho
      @davieuacho Месяц назад +3

      @@spaghetti0356 Lol, that or the much more subtle and somehow more annoying "The games in North Korea, the place with absolutely no freedom, where the government starves it's population and people can't smile, and the Soviet Union, where you could go to a Gulag for having a pair of socks" type of bs

  • @fishypugbruh
    @fishypugbruh Месяц назад +15

    Gaming in the Stalin Years

  • @loserxylophone3986
    @loserxylophone3986 Месяц назад +10

    This video deserves more views it was really good

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад +1

      Aw man thank you

  • @_rinala
    @_rinala Месяц назад +8

    I live in Cuba... the real deal is getting internet access, the even bigger deal is being able to afford a decently speedy one. Then from that point you get every game for free - you will never be able to get them legally anyways
    Also if you don't have internet you can buy copies from people who run 'game banks'... basically guys with tons of cracked games on external drives - they put their own prices and so on

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад +3

      That’s really interesting actually, fair play

  • @FartoTheClown
    @FartoTheClown Месяц назад +4

    One of my earliest gaming memories is playing Dr Mario on one of those modified Sega Megadrives that played NES games

  • @space3828
    @space3828 Месяц назад +3

    I've never thought about how games are developed in communist countries until black myth wukong, this was very informative

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад

      Thank you thank you, had fun with this topic

  • @spaghetti0356
    @spaghetti0356 Месяц назад +9

    Imagine if Video Games took off in Communist countries and the Western ones were behind.
    God... Imagine Communist Touhou.

    • @Miraihi
      @Miraihi Месяц назад

      Touhou is communist already I gotta say. Pretty much the common intellectual property.

    • @csabaszabo6859
      @csabaszabo6859 Месяц назад

      Games could took off in these countries if it's wasn't have communist goverments in the first place. communisn is the exact reasone why gaming didn't took off here

  • @NevronDiav
    @NevronDiav Месяц назад +5

    Really cool video, It definitely deserves to blow up. Your editing and script is really high quality

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад

      Cheers man means a lot, been trying to use after effects a bit more

  • @alizeallen7398
    @alizeallen7398 Месяц назад +2

    Great video! Have never thought about this!

  • @KiLDELTA
    @KiLDELTA Месяц назад +4

    I am extremely thankful that even if I am born in a shitty country, I get to enjoy the amount of freedom that some parts of the world cannot.

  • @xertyo90
    @xertyo90 Месяц назад +3

    thank you ginzie gaming

  • @Romino94
    @Romino94 Месяц назад +7

    Age of empires was very popular in Vietnam in 2010s

  • @Long_cter_VN
    @Long_cter_VN Месяц назад

    Thank you Ginzie gaming 😊

  • @phamtien5659
    @phamtien5659 Месяц назад +3

    You should take a trip to Vietnam & China, it will open your eyes.

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад

      I’d love that actually, my dad did something similar

  • @gregatim
    @gregatim Месяц назад +4

    Should have talked about GDR they had arcade games.

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад +1

      Ah that would’ve been a good idea actually, could make a part two with countries I missed like Angola

  • @carryhandleguy
    @carryhandleguy Месяц назад +1

    I remember playing in the cuban intranet, fun times

  • @sztosikdang
    @sztosikdang Месяц назад +2

    How does this not have a couple thounsd views?

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад +1

      lol idk dog my contents kinda mid

    • @sztosikdang
      @sztosikdang Месяц назад

      @@Ginzie its rly cool and informative the editing is great too

    • @aayushdas19
      @aayushdas19 Месяц назад

      It does now

    • @sztosikdang
      @sztosikdang Месяц назад

      ​@@aayushdas19nice

  • @TheCurtainLift
    @TheCurtainLift Месяц назад +1

    Your editing on this is next level

  • @IscariotHeartwork
    @IscariotHeartwork Месяц назад +4

    using the phrase communist a bit loosely

  • @ВладимирВахтомов
    @ВладимирВахтомов Месяц назад

    I can say that Sega Master System was quite officially in the catalogs during the perestroika
    I doubt that anyone had the opportunity to actually buy the console in that era, much less cartridges, but I saw an officially translated into Russian manual for the console with all the copyrights listed
    In addition, in the late 80s, when cooperatives appeared in the USSR, it was possible to buy the first Taiwanese-made Famiclones, but again there was no opportunity to buy cartridges

  • @eljamaicano1
    @eljamaicano1 Месяц назад +3

    Lmao you didn’t even mention the name of the Cuban game

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад +2

      Lol no I didn’t did I, will chuck it in the description when I get home from work. Games called saviourless

  • @da_hexx
    @da_hexx Месяц назад +4

    in Russia we have piracy :D

  • @Bat-of-Sealand
    @Bat-of-Sealand Месяц назад

    you should credit some of the footage you used in this, i think any interested in this would be super interested in that cloth map video you used in the Cuba section.

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад

      I agree with the crediting footage thing, just thinking my channels so small that it doesn’t make a difference. What do you mean cloth map video tho?

  • @PaladinOfNerds
    @PaladinOfNerds Месяц назад +1

    So what's the name of that Cuban game?

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад

      Saviourless, completely forgot to say in the video. Will pin a comment now

  • @Average_Communist
    @Average_Communist Месяц назад +3

    Great video comrade, keep up and you can leave country.

    • @doncorleone1553
      @doncorleone1553 Месяц назад +1

      “Updoots for Le heckin comrade! Let’s play le Sino-Korean PC adventure game!”

  • @agramarten
    @agramarten Месяц назад

    Way to drop the ball with North Korea.

  • @gilbertjmarquez
    @gilbertjmarquez Месяц назад

    There is no such thing as a "communist country".

  • @utvm6748
    @utvm6748 Месяц назад +14

    Imagine how gaming would be if capitalism didnt destroy art with greed.

    • @cevatkokbudak6414
      @cevatkokbudak6414 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@Geo-Global-oz5klWhat it is then

    • @rabbidcrazy787
      @rabbidcrazy787 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@Geo-Global-oz5klThank you

    • @rabbidcrazy787
      @rabbidcrazy787 Месяц назад

      ​@@cevatkokbudak6414Greedy individuals

    • @cevatkokbudak6414
      @cevatkokbudak6414 Месяц назад +1

      @@NieProg But I asked what is world's problems. Maybe communism counts

    • @Konff
      @Konff Месяц назад +1

      @@NieProgyeah, keyword, POST Soviet, your life wasn’t made shit by socialism, it was made shit by the restoration of capitalism

  • @yumii155
    @yumii155 Месяц назад +2

    cool video awesome ❤

    • @Ginzie
      @Ginzie  Месяц назад

      Thank you man

  • @TheSammyspeeduk
    @TheSammyspeeduk Месяц назад +1

    thank you ginzie gaming

  • @gregtuna49
    @gregtuna49 Месяц назад +1

    thank you ginzie gaming