Regarding this topic, there's something people may not know:
Back in the USSR times, they already had a similar issue: due to the cold war, and also because back then the world wasn't that globalized and there wasn't internet, they had their own videogames industry. They had their own computers (and games for them), and also had their own arcade games.
In fact, they have small
Museums of Soviet Arcade Machines in Central Saint Petersburg and Moscow, Russia with machines they made since starting mid '70s, which in addition to videogame arcade cabinets also features pinball and electromechanical arcade games:
They also have there other related stuff, such as some of the
soviet NES and SNES console clones.
And well, they also had their own original Russian/soviet consoles and Game & Watch equivalents:
The most popular console back there was Dendy, a NES clone. It also had obviously their own games and bootleg clones (some of them being made today, as happens in the west), these are some of them:
Dendy vs Mega Drive and Super Nintendo. Mega Drive and local clones (even a portable/hybrid one) becoming the next cheap console in PS1 days and beyond for pirate and clone games:
New, current Russian games and conversions for Mega Drive (and via MD emulator for Dreamcast too):