Poly-Play
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Poly-Play is an arcade cabinet developed in East Germany in 1985; it is the only such machine to originate in the GDR. It was created by VEB Polytechnik and contained a number of games, including a Pac-Man clone. A total of about 2,000 units of the cabinet were manufactured.
Poly-Play is an arcade cabinet developed in East Germany in 1985; it is the only such machine to originate in the GDR. It was created by VEB Polytechnik and contained a number of games, including a Pac-Man clone. A total of about 2,000 units of the cabinet were manufactured.
Games
The machine allowed to play the following games, chosen from a selection screen: The eight aforementioned games were made available to be playable with the emulator MAME in 2000. Additionally, the names of four other games were found in the source code: Der Gärtner (The Gardener), Im Gewächshaus (In the Greenhouse), Hagelnde Wolken (Hailing Clouds, a Space Invaders clone) and Der Taucher (The Diver, a game where malicious fish attack a diver). All four games have been installed on at least some machines, the same goes for the games Im Irrgarten (In the Maze), Der Lindwurm (The Lindworm), Fly and AFU. Another game titled UFO is actually the original version of Hagelnde Wolken, but was edited due to being deemed too martial by the authorities.
External links
Andy's Arcade page with many internal views of the surviving cabinets. RetroGames e.V. German Club with two working Poly Play machines. BBC article about Poly Play PolyPlay.de - German Website about Poly-Play, here you can play the Poly-Play-Games. Poly Play at robotrontechnik.de (in German, with images of all known 17 games)
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