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Soviet

Soviet is an top-down arcade game in which our only occupation will be to shoot everything that moves across two phases in which you have to collect a certain number of hostages, that we have to rescue by…

31 December 1990

Soviet is an arcade developed by Opera Soft, released 31 December 1990 on Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, DOS and MSX.

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What Soviet is

Soviet is an arcade game developed by Opera Soft and released in 1990. It is available on Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, DOS, MSX and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The crisis provoked by the independent movements in the Soviet Union has reached a critical point; rebels from various republics have engaged in open warfare with Russian centralism. In these uprising zones, a strong aggression has also been unleashed against ethnic minorities, who are brutally massacred. Your rescue mission; equipped with an amphibious vehicle, you must go through four areas behind enemy lines, rescuing the hostages that come your way.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Soviet launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound and Colorado.

Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound, Colorado.

Official trailer

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When did Soviet come out?
Soviet was released on 31 December 1990 for Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, DOS, MSX and ZX Spectrum.

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