Unrelated to Germany, East or West: back when I was a kid with a C64 and every game was pirated -- note: we didn't even know there was another way of getting games; we bought pirated tapes from stores with clerks! -- "Raid over Moscow" was a puzzling game to me because it looked cool and intriguing enough but I couldn't take off with the damn plane! I didn't have a manual or any sort of instructions, and I thought I was supposed to fly through what looked like a narrow horizontal gap in the hangar door, and obviously crashed time and time again because that's not what you're supposed to do -- there is no gap and you're supposed to open the hangar doors!
I still remember how thrilled I felt when I finally figured this out. It turned out the rest of the game wasn't as good as its opening scene and setting promised. In a way, taking off the with plane in Raid over Moscow was like figuring how to exit from vi.
