I’ve Been Playing Homebrew Video Games Made By Soviet Teens In The 1980s

How Czechoslovak students smuggled dissident ideas in amongst the pixels

The opening screen of “P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A” by Miroslav Fídler

How do I get into this bathroom?

I’m playing “P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.”, a text-adventure game from 1988 that has me crawling around inside a dingy abandoned warehouse somewhere in Czechoslovakia. I’m…