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Funny, I visited the Moscow museum just a couple weeks ago. What I especially enjoyed was was this solenoid based basketball game. Two player, about 15 places on the playing field where the ball could land. Each player the to hit the right button first to engages a little solenoid that would “throw” the ball towards their net and eventually score a basket. It was a reminder that for me, sometimes the simpler games are more fun that the complex high tech games.


Yes! This is a great game and existed in ice rinks and other places in middle America while I was growing up in the 1980s and early 1990s.

EDIT: Ah, here it is! Turns out TFA says specifically the Moscow game is an exact clone of Sega Basketball:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wv2hqhh2Zc


Which came out two years after Midway's Basketball... ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0HCOOra_qs




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