Arcades are hard to find nowadays, but they have a tendency to appear in the most unlikely places: Basements in Brooklyn, run-down shacks in Afghanistan, and now, tourist traps in the former Soviet Union.Armenia’s northwest capital city of Gyumri was called Leninakan during the height of Soviet power. It was during that time that this Soviet game room, the only one of its kind known in the country, was built.This is no museum exhibit or curated gallery. The arcade and its contents, having survived a deadly earthquake that destroyed many Brezhnev-era monuments and buildings and the turmoil following the collapse of the Soviet Union, remains intact as it originally was, a living time capsule from the odd culture of video games that existed under Communist rule.READ MORE
