The title screen

During the game

End of the game statistics

Perestroika (also known as Toppler) is a Russian language computer game released by a small software developer called Locis in the Soviet Union in 1990/1991, and named after Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of Perestroika. Its welcoming screen shows Gorbachev and the Kremlin. Russian ( , transliteration: , ) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. ... Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: ), surname more accurately romanized as Gorbachyov; born March 2, 1931) is a Russian politician. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Moscow Kremlin in the 19th century. ...

The game consists of controlling a small frog which jumps from one lily pad to another, trying to reach a certain pad in the right-top corner of the screen. The lillies constantly shrink and disappear only to appear in other places. Higher levels also feature one or more evil creatures called "bureaucrats" which would follow the frog and try to eat it. The frog dies if the lily on which it is standing disappears, the player moves it to a place where there is no lily or if the bureaucrat eats it. Genera Barclaya Wall. ... A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy, usually within an institution of the government. ...

Perestroika runs under MS-DOS and it was written in Borland C++ using the Borland Graphics Interface and has a resolution of 640×350. Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ... Borland C++ is an C and C++ programming environment (used to be called an Integrated Development Environment) for DOS, Windows, and Windows NT. Although it can be used to program DOS applications, it does not include a stand alone DOS IDE. DOS applications must be edited, browsed, and compiled from... The Borland Graphics Interface, also known as BGI, is a graphics library bundled with several Borland compilers for the DOS operating systems. ...

External links

• Perestroika at Home of the Underdogs