Follow-up to
Gorbochev's 1984 initiative to restructure the
Soviet state and recover its economy, came an 1990 Russian computer game also called '
Perestroika'.
In this game, you controlled a frog which jumped from one pond lilly to another, in order to collect money, while the lillies would constantly shrink and sink under water. You had to keep moving in order to keep earning money (score) and avoid sinking. In addition, you had to avoid bureaucrats - malicious black creatures which followed the same rules you did, except that they killed you upon contact.
The game was immensely popular in Russia at that time, when computers could only be found in work offices and hardly anyone had a PC at home.