Thread by @dosnostalgic

Братья Пилоты. По следам полосатого слона/Pilot Brothers: On the Track of Striped Elephant/Pilots Bros: After the Striped Elephant (Windows 3.x/Windows 9x, 1997) #NotDOS #RussianVideogames

This short and (somewhat) sweet point & click adventure-puzzle game was based on a Soviet animated mini-series "Kolobkis Are On The Case" from 1986-1987.

If the animation style looks familiar to you, it's because animation direction was done by Igor Kovalyov, who later went on to work for Klasky Csupo where he worked on Aaahh!!! Real Monsters and The Rugrats Movie, as well as creating the title sequence for Duckman.

To this day the simple 4x4 flop flop fridge puzzle in the game makes even seasoned Russian gamers shudder. So much so that the modern edition of the game available on mobile and GOG has a quickly filling up meter that lets you skip the puzzle outright

There is actually a *very* simple trick to it. But back in the day I remember downloading a simple DOS text mode program that would let you set the switches, and then would give you the solution with minimal number of moves.

Gosh, I forget how much the studio milked Pilot Brothers in the 90s. Including this 1995 music video that no one saw. I've already given too much context for it to be one of my "no context 90s Russian music video" tweets 😄