I am not sure this is what Gee had in mind ...

Hmmm ... a Soviet-era arcade game based on the Russian folk tale of The Enormous Turnip.

Apparently, you pulled on something, and the stronger you were, the more likely you were to pull the turnip out of the ground.

Image from Dangerous Business on Flickr - used with a Creative Commons license

See more images from DB's Flickr set of Soviet Arcade Machines