I thought it was gonna be about the guy who actually made Tetris, but no they cover that in 2 minutes at the beginning and the rest of the movie is about the American copyright lawyer trying to get the rights for Nintendo.
It's literally all about how bad the USSR is and how good corporations like Nintendo are. When the American arrives in Moscow they take his passport down to an evil KGB bunker and the whole movie shifts to being tinted blue and grey.
There's literally a scene where the Russian programmer says to the American "we want to be free, we want your coca cola and Levi's jeans". If it wasn't so boring this would read as satire of American media in the Cold War.
REAL Soviet historicans would know that Pepsi was their capitalist soft drink of choice.
porky doesn't even remember their own victories anymore to propagandize about them later. Truly capitalism is in decline smh
Vita Cola, Club Cola, and dozens of local brands in the GDR, Kofola in Czechoslovakia, Cockta in Yugoslavia (and Polo Cockta in Poland, which is derived from the Yugoslav recipe), etc. (I don't know about Hungary, Romania or Bulgaria)
There were many domestic brands in AES states, of which many still survive to this day and actually taste slightly different (and better or worse depending on one's taste) to Coca Cola or Pepsi.
Also, there's soft drinks like Baikal (Russian SFSR), which is actually quite good and I used to get at a local big supermarket's import goods aisle until the whole ordeal of sanctions. Now I can only get inferior American root beer there or decent (but easy to find) Turkish drinks.
American root beer is such a minefield. You might get something delicious with honey and vanilla and something that tastes like sassafras but doesn't cause cancer, and then the next brand you try tastes like pine needles and sadness and 1950s cough medicine for no justifiable reason what so ever.
We always hear about soviet programmers who want to be american programers, but do soviet peasants want to be american peasants? Do we ever hear about a longing to join America's underclass?
Yeah, this has occurred to me, too. I like to ask libs "Do you think citizens of communist countries are jealous of the child slaves mining coltan and harvesting chocolate in Africa?"