Stamps Back: A Hungarian Computer Underground Legend (2022)

Stamps Back

From Commodore 64s smuggled across the Iron Curtain to cracked games on cassette tapes sold at flea markets, floppy disk swapping via postal mail, hacked phone booths connected to US BBSes, and copy parties packed to capacity, Stamps Back tells the story of how teenagers in Hungary ignited a computing revolution in the 1980s with illegally copied video games from the West, and began the Hungarian demoscene.

Stamps Back, the 5th episode of the Moleman documentary series, is a 144-minute film about the golden age of Hungarian video gaming and the formation of the Hungarian demoscene in the 80s and 90s, which you can watch for free on YouTube. More than 76 hours of interviews were conducted for the film, which is a true document of the Hungarian home computer life in the 80s and 90s. You can now get this 76-hour material with English subtitles together with the film in a special Blu-Ray edition + downloadable image file format. Furthermore, as the second part of Moleman, which shows the state of the demoscene in 2012, can be considered a sequel to the Stamps Back, we have also added this film to the special edition, which now represents 3 50Gb Blu-Ray discs full of video game and demoscene content. If we reach the stretch goal, a 4th disc will be added to the edition, which will contain a selection of the best Hungarian intros and demos of the past 40 years in video format.

Stamps Back: A Moleman documentary

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