Made in Russia by Michael Idov, Rizzoli, 2011

"In 1974—five years after the arcade game Midway Sea Raider came out in the U.S.—Soviet kids got to wage naval warfare of their own," Idov says. "Not really a video game, Morskoi Boi was more like pinball with lights: flat cutouts of enemy ships crawled against a painted backdrop," and players tried to hit them with torpedoes. Today, gamers and history buffs can try their hand at rudimentary arcade warfare online at the Museum of Soviet Arcade Games.