we all know that microgenious was a taiwanesee conpani, dont know if this little history migth interest you, 2 years ago in my house we had this big room filled to the sealing with stuff, and wile cleaning i found my dads old pegasus console, sure it doesnt sounds weird, but we live in México, so i was wondering, how a console from taiwan ended up in México
Might I suggest Bulgaria for your next Adventure. I got a load of bootleg games from there. Same goes for Turkey, bit you would probably be putting yourself at a bit of a risk traveling there.
Bardzo fajny kanał.Natknąłem się kiedyś przypadkiem. I teraz uwaga-mówie oczywiście o kanale Michała:):):)Pozdrowienia i wszystkiego dobrego w Nowym Roku:)
Such a cool video! My wife is Polish. When we were dating she had mentioned to me about this console. Her brother and her had it (still do) when they were kids. The console still works, it's kept in the attic in her hometown Łódź, not far from Warsaw and they've got a bunch of bootleg cartridges. She says she would like to show the console and the games to our future kids, coz it was part of her childhood. Greetings from a Brazilian living in the UK.
I still love Sega's nonchalant attitude towards international distribution, "we're too lazy to make and distribute ourselves so you can pay us a fee to sell third party clones or even make your own clones"
Wow, what an accurate and well-researched video about a piece of hardware that is virtually unknown outside of Poland. This was my first console (got it for Christmas back in 1992). One thing about the Pegasus that most people rarely mention is that back then, we didn't call it Pegasus - to us, it was "Super Nintendo" and that's the name practically everyone used. We vaguely knew there was a NES and a SNES but we had never seen them, and we had no way to compare the Pegasus to the real thing. It didn't really matter - it played games, and good ones. The first pack-in cartridge was the now famous "168 in 1" that included some 35 unique games, including lots of Nintendo classics, like Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt (the zapper could be purchased separately but was kind of hard to find), Ice Climber, Balloon Fight, and also third party games like Contra, Pac Man and many others. Good times.
Zapewne zależy to od regionu jak ludzie wołali te konsole bo u nas na lubelszczyźnie nie słyszałem aby ktokolwiek nazwał pegaza "Super Nintendo" ani nawet w ogóle Nintendo.
So glad this channel is covering non-US and non- Japanese history. While these two markets are obviously huge focusing on them ignores the fact that so many of the supposed "classics" like Earthbound didn't even come out in PAL regions.
Pegasus was my first gaming console. My father got me one when he went to Poland. It had games like Contra, Super Mario Bros and Ice Climbers on its memory and it could take cartridges too.
Even befor the fall of communism, the ZX Spectrum and it's clones were quite popular in Poland, as they were the only *relatively* affordable microcomputers at the time, at around 3-4 monthly salaries. The very first Polish computer game, the Pandora's Box, was created for the Speccy in 1986. Also, a radio station run by the Polish Boyscouts' Association would sometimes air Spectrum games and programs for people to record on tapes. And in 1985 a member of the democratic opposition "hacked" a public television programme with a contraption made using a TV set and the Speccy (basically he managed to synchronise his transmitter with the one of the TV station and superipose a computer-generated Solidarity logo over the video signal). Post 1989 other machines, like the C64 (and then the Pegazus of course) dominated the market, but the Speccy certainly played an enormous role in these formative years.
Was it Spectrum that was popular or Unipolbrit? I had Unipolbrit 2086 and it played Spectrum games given you had special cartrigde which was never removed because there was never need for it :)
@@e8root I would say that Unipolbrit still qualifies as a Spectrum clone, thought significantly improved over the original. I don't know the exact numbers to make such a comparison, although personally I know only people who owned the rubber keyboard version Speccy (that's anecdata of course).
The only time I heard about the Pegasus was when a developer for an NES emulator on the PSP mentioned it as part of his childhood. I didn't knew there was much history behind it. I hope you can do videos on the Dendy and the Family Game from Russia and Argentina respectfully.
You make some of the most unique retro content. I'm in the US but worldwide history like this is awesome. Can I ask if maybe some year/timeline mentions, maybe on screen during your dialogue to not interior flow so we can keep track of when various things are happening? Thanks for the awesome content! :)
Brilliant video! Thank you for creating a bigger awareness for how all gaming-related things were like in our country. I hope your video will keep getting more and more views.
Another amazing video! This has easily became my favorite channel on RUclips. The great information on obscure gaming from around the world is fantastic.
Wow, your content is killer. It’s comprehensive and provides a really well rounded look at the history - which is the part I’m most curious about. Thanks for taking the time to make such detailed videos!
God I love your channel for not only bringing up but also giving us a deep look into stuff you heard or saw mentioned in websites here and there over the years. We've needed a channel like this forever.
Great video, I have a giant soft spot for that era in gaming and it is nice to see any new information about other markets and how they got their 8 bit fix. Looking forward to the next one, keep up the excellent work!
This is the first video I've studied history while listening to Famicom music. I would have loved the class if I could have learned like this when I was a student.
So happy to see you here enjoying a history video about gaming in Poland, Mr. Koshiro. I hope everyone will learn something from it. The people who made this video did exceptionally thorough research and I'm glad I could personally contribute to it.
Thank you Lady Decade! I love hearing historical items with video games to get context of what was happening and why things happened. I'm subscribing because you have done very well thought out videos. Thank you so much! =)
I had a Pegasus when I was young. My grandmother bought it for me. Everybody in Poland knew what a Pegasus was. It was more well known than Nintendo there. Nobody talked about Nintendo. Pegasus was it.
Dla nas to te konsole z bazaru były bootlegami Pegasusa który był "oryginalny" ;) Chociaż w sumie to kiedyś wiedziałem że nie ma czegoś takiego jak Pegasus i że to klon jakiejś konsoli z firmy Nintendo tylko nie były znane żadne szczegóły... a te jak się zagłębić tak bardziej technicznie są dość fascynujące bo myśmy w zasadzie nawet nie grali w gry PAL tylko NTSC :)
This is so interesting, I knew bootleg and other clones consoles exist but I didn't know there so many history behind them so thanks you Lady Decade ^^ greetings from Belgium !! ^^
I like the fact that you know actual history not just the history of games. Makes it more interesting. Love the videos. I’ve never even heard of half of the systems that you mention.
Thank you so much for your work on these topics. It brings so many memories and it also helps to know more about what could have been and we didn't know much about. I'm looking forward to watching the next videos! :-)
Here in Argentina we had the Family Game System (Famicom clone) so I know what you mean about the respect for clone systems ❤ I love all the hard work and investigation you make on your videos, it´s really a very interesting and entertaining channel so keep up the good work! 😎
This is what I love about you and your husband's channels. I get to see a global perspective of gaming history instead of focusing only on the American and Japanese sides of things. Interesting to see how Europeans, mainland Asians, and other countries did gaming in the old days.
Thanks for the video, I love the back history on this stuff. Would love to know more, you should make a series of videos for each country and there start into the Home consoles.
Excellent video as always! In the middle 90s Poland has lack of official brand distributors. As mentioned in video - Bobmark was not only a Pegasus seller but also Sega Saturn. Until 1997-1998 as far as I remember there were not official seller of PlayStation even there was Sony Poland already. The company called Lanser distributed PlayStation on polish market and provide even warranty and support. They have imported some of PlayStation consoles directly from Japan with very high price - roughly around 2000PLN when average salary were around 400-500PLN (!). First reviews of PlayStation games in local computer magazines such as Secret Service (most popular polish game magazine!) based on Japanese versions due to the lack of official distribution. Mentioned in video HOOP brand is still on polish market and HOOP as company officially produce original Coca Cola brand drinks - even they produce they own Cocacola similar drinks. Pegasus was the most popular and wide spread game console in the beginning of 90s. Even famous Rambo (Atari VCS clone) wasn't such popular as Pegasus - they have appeared on the market but already outdated - most gamers that time could afford to buy C64 or even Amiga . As far as I remember most of Famicom clones were called Pegasus even they weren't strictly connected to any Bobmark imports. Sega Megadrive and clones in my memories were totally absent on polish market such as SNES. Some of popular console titles released for Megadrive or SNES where reviewed in magazines but in late 90s where both systems where obsolete.
Thank you for the enlightening context. It's always good to be reminded of the history classes i slept through... Or, come to think of it, current events. God I'm old.
I find it so weird that bootleg consoles were actually big business in parts of the world. I used to assume clone consoles were just sold on the black market by fly by night companies that would pop up and disappear in a matter of months.
I love your coverage of Museum of Gaming, every time I go to buy some electronic components (in same subway some of best small electronic shops in country are), but never had time to visit it.
The closest thing I've had to game collecting in over 15 years was picking up every famiclone bootleg cart I could find, Dendy Pegasus and the whole lot. Should be dirt cheap compared to other consoles when a $5 game in 2019 is $50 now if you find the right shop, but it's game only and scratched and burnt. So much fun even with the bad games. Even landing on the carrier in bloody Top Gun. If you find a Pegasus with carts or something similar, go for it. Pick up a good little capture box or cheap CRT/LCD with good timing and the right plugs and play it and relish the past. Right blessed it was.
I travelled to Poland from the UK on family holidays during this era. These bright game cartridges were for sale everywhere! Fascinating at the time, but only after watching this video do I have some context of what was going on. A few friends and family had the actual consoles. Seeing and playing 100 games on one cartridge was frankly witchcraft and so different to what I was used to, how could they all fit? Although more powerful consoles were available in the UK my mindset was that every game is precious and expensive (£24.99 each and maybe got as cheap as £10 if you really scraped the bottom of the secondhand barrel of potential disappointment, as I often did when £10 was all the money I had!). Scrolling through a list of 100+ games and loading them at will really did feel special in a way that is hard to udnerstand now. In some ways better than my NES. I do remember quality issues/dupes but you did experience a lot of games and got a good sense of what you liked best.
There was no cart with 100 actually different games at that time because it was all fake. Usually these cards with suspicious amount of games had dozen simplest mapper 0 games on them, some times with hacks like unlimited lives or starting at different level. Today you can easily get famicom cart (in Poland they call it Pegasus carts of course :D) with even more AAA games (or just get flashcart and put thousandths of games) but in the 90's when you got your games in open air markets you got single games or at most few games where you should expect it might be level select rather than different games. Price-wise around middle of 90's games costed about 10 breads and you could get cheapest console for about 50-70 breads.
You're right about the iron curtain suckin balz. I was born behind it in a small Easter European country right before the fall of the Soviet Union. The misery and destruction over 50 years of communism dictatorship is something I wouldn't wish on an enemy and it's like time stood still while the rest of the world advanced with prosperity and innovation. Everyone equally poor with one TV station. Once the 90's hit we got bootleg Nintendo consoles (as if anyone could afford the real thing) with games built in. It was than I fell in love with gaming as a little kid and it remains a hobby I love today and don't take for granted. Can't imagine if communism had won and the Western world was communist. We'd be entertaining our selves with sticks and all be equally poor.
Not all clones were subpar imitations of what others had at the time, and being able to have this kind of thing in places that were overlooked for whatever reason probably meant a lot more than we can appreciate today. Not being all that far behind the rest of the world (unlike some regions who had new Atari clones when the NES/Master System were made available, if not stuck there later when the SNES/MegaDrive were new) certainly had to help. Sounds like BobMark had picked the right company to work with at the right time, lack of copyright laws notwithstanding.
lovely ady, lovely video. Poland was never Soviet satelite country. We were only independent allies with soviets. Pegasus, my friend got it when it was NEW on the market. I was one of the first to try it. It blow my mind, 100 in one. Contra, etc, 100 games in one felt like a dream anf Contra just couldnt get me too sleep. His grandmother started to show up 10x more on hisnhous, because she wad Maniack of tetris and she destroyed our fun. Old lady played TETRIS 10 hours a day, and we couldnt play. Also, Pegadud had that Quality feeling, shiny, masive plastic, that thing was beauty and built like a tank. It never broke, all models of Pegasus were reliable and quality products.
fun fact (and a good excuse for you two to come here to Canada) - in pre-NAFTA times, sometimes a company would license their product to another for distribution, and in Canada in the early 90s, Irwin Toys, who also did everything from DBZ figures to Etch-A-Sketch products (with some items actually MADE in Canada) also distributed Sega products. If you have a boxed Sega Genesis of Canadian origin, it will have a small Irwin Toys logo on the box, i believe. Also why the Canadian version of Sonic The Hedgehog on the SMS is so valuable, it had a sticker added to conform to canadian standards.
This puts clone consoles in a different perspective. I guess I never took the time to understand why there are so many floating around out there. The first time I recall seeing one for sale was at a kiosk at our mall while Christmas shopping about fifteen years ago or so.
Thank you for this video. I'm Polish but I've never had Pegasus. I grew up with Sega Genesis (I don't know how my parents got this version instead of mega drive). A lot of my friends had Pegasus, but I don't know much about it, so it was interesting to watch. Also I really appreciate short history in the beginning of this video. Very informative and interesting.
Not only is this a fascinating video about a largely unknown piece of gaming history, it also makes fun of communism and John Cena. I wish I could like it twice ❤
Travel protip: Just book one of those super cheap all inclusive holidays to Portugal and just travel about as you like and maybe just use it for the cheap as chips flights / accommodation.
I think you're awesome for giving a bit of a history lesson w/ the video. I'm a bit of a war history nerd, and I wish that here in the US we did much more to find entertaining ways to educate kids about history in an engaging way. Thanks!
Somewhere in late 90's I got my hands on that Pegasus and crtiridges were accessible at my local bazar like ham or potateos. At the time I had no idea about the originals.
So it's a video about a Polish famiclone brand. In Russia, there was Dendy. The company behind it (Steepler) has a somewhat similar history, down to becoming the official distributor for SEGA very rapidly, and then even for Nintendo.
Actually, the story of Pegasus Bobmark is even more interesting, as there were even now really rare things like Pegasus Gameboy and Power Pegasus, which was the clone of MD/Genesis. When the antipiracy law kicked in they gained the rights to distribute sega saturn, but we all know how it ended up, so they changed Bobmark to soft drink company called Hoop, which is actually really popular
I never knew about any of this!! My mom's distant family emigrated to the US in the early 1900's and and if they hadn't, and I ended up being born in Poland instead of the US I would have learned how to game on a Pegasus instead of am NES. Now that's interesting!
I'm Polish and Im so happy to see it brought up. Here Pegasus was considered the more premium console as the common or more broke homes rolled with rip-offs of Pegasus. First versions of the clone clone were named terminator and were black with blue buttons and they had noticeably worse quality. They came with pads that resembled snes/mega drive mix pads. They ran the same 8bit games. Later those would copy any new console, laptops or just keyboards. Games were most often demasters of snes games or other mutated creations from God knows where. There were however a few cult Pegasus cardridges such as the golden 4, the golden 5 (with codemasters games i believe, like dizzy and micromachines) and 168 in 1. Most of the time at the local market you would never know what game you got until you got home.
I love your videos! I can totally relate to these stories because it was the same in Serbia. When they (west) were playing genesis or snes, we only began to play "ending man" aka "terminator" a nes clone from the flea market, because nes/snes/mega drive/genesis were too expensive for us! And these are still being sold here!
As Promised a Link to the Warsaw Museum of Computers & Games ! - wmkig.pl/
Something tells me, you have Asian-Indian ancestry.
Was it for the masses , not the classes!
we all know that microgenious was a taiwanesee conpani, dont know if this little history migth interest you, 2 years ago in my house we had this big room filled to the sealing with stuff, and wile cleaning i found my dads old pegasus console, sure it doesnt sounds weird, but we live in México, so i was wondering, how a console from taiwan ended up in México
@@shaunglindon6547 THE NESS FOR THE MASSSESS (NOT THE CLASSESSSS)
Might I suggest Bulgaria for your next Adventure. I got a load of bootleg games from there. Same goes for Turkey, bit you would probably be putting yourself at a bit of a risk traveling there.
Wow, I've never thought that I will see Pegasus covered in a foreigner's video. This is great ♥️
Nie spodziewałem się, że jeden z moich ulubionych yotuberów również ogląda Lady
@@nivelen13 I never thought I'd see a photo of my village where I got my name
@@nivelen13 a ja się spodziewałem w sumie
@@nivelen13 odkryłem jak miała mniej niż 10k subów, przez kanał Top Hat Gaming Man :)
Bardzo fajny kanał.Natknąłem się kiedyś przypadkiem.
I teraz uwaga-mówie oczywiście o kanale Michała:):):)Pozdrowienia i wszystkiego dobrego w Nowym Roku:)
Such a cool video! My wife is Polish. When we were dating she had mentioned to me about this console. Her brother and her had it (still do) when they were kids. The console still works, it's kept in the attic in her hometown Łódź, not far from Warsaw and they've got a bunch of bootleg cartridges. She says she would like to show the console and the games to our future kids, coz it was part of her childhood.
Greetings from a Brazilian living in the UK.
What a amazing story!
Ha! Snap! 😂👌
Love the context story! Keep the context coming!
Happy 2022, Lady Decade! You're just AWESOME. Please, keep being yourself.
Thank you! Will do!
@@LadyDecade happy new year 🙃
I'm so happy you decided to tackle this subject, not many people outside Poland talk about this. Thank you and that was a great vid.❤️❤️
I still love Sega's nonchalant attitude towards international distribution, "we're too lazy to make and distribute ourselves so you can pay us a fee to sell third party clones or even make your own clones"
Wow, what an accurate and well-researched video about a piece of hardware that is virtually unknown outside of Poland. This was my first console (got it for Christmas back in 1992).
One thing about the Pegasus that most people rarely mention is that back then, we didn't call it Pegasus - to us, it was "Super Nintendo" and that's the name practically everyone used. We vaguely knew there was a NES and a SNES but we had never seen them, and we had no way to compare the Pegasus to the real thing. It didn't really matter - it played games, and good ones. The first pack-in cartridge was the now famous "168 in 1" that included some 35 unique games, including lots of Nintendo classics, like Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt (the zapper could be purchased separately but was kind of hard to find), Ice Climber, Balloon Fight, and also third party games like Contra, Pac Man and many others. Good times.
Zapewne zależy to od regionu jak ludzie wołali te konsole bo u nas na lubelszczyźnie nie słyszałem aby ktokolwiek nazwał pegaza "Super Nintendo" ani nawet w ogóle Nintendo.
Cool so your poland
Not so true, most people used term Pegasus or Pegaz. At least in the Mazovian region, no one even knew what Nintendo was.
So glad this channel is covering non-US and non- Japanese history. While these two markets are obviously huge focusing on them ignores the fact that so many of the supposed "classics" like Earthbound didn't even come out in PAL regions.
Pegasus was my first gaming console. My father got me one when he went to Poland. It had games like Contra, Super Mario Bros and Ice Climbers on its memory and it could take cartridges too.
Even befor the fall of communism, the ZX Spectrum and it's clones were quite popular in Poland, as they were the only *relatively* affordable microcomputers at the time, at around 3-4 monthly salaries. The very first Polish computer game, the Pandora's Box, was created for the Speccy in 1986. Also, a radio station run by the Polish Boyscouts' Association would sometimes air Spectrum games and programs for people to record on tapes. And in 1985 a member of the democratic opposition "hacked" a public television programme with a contraption made using a TV set and the Speccy (basically he managed to synchronise his transmitter with the one of the TV station and superipose a computer-generated Solidarity logo over the video signal).
Post 1989 other machines, like the C64 (and then the Pegazus of course) dominated the market, but the Speccy certainly played an enormous role in these formative years.
Was it Spectrum that was popular or Unipolbrit? I had Unipolbrit 2086 and it played Spectrum games given you had special cartrigde which was never removed because there was never need for it :)
@@e8root I would say that Unipolbrit still qualifies as a Spectrum clone, thought significantly improved over the original. I don't know the exact numbers to make such a comparison, although personally I know only people who owned the rubber keyboard version Speccy (that's anecdata of course).
The only time I heard about the Pegasus was when a developer for an NES emulator on the PSP mentioned it as part of his childhood. I didn't knew there was much history behind it.
I hope you can do videos on the Dendy and the Family Game from Russia and Argentina respectfully.
Great video, i appreciate the effort to add such indepth historical content to tell each console/games story and relevance in gaming history
I... genuinely feel nostalgia seeing your show ma'am. It has the feel of something from the 90's.
Thank you.
You make some of the most unique retro content. I'm in the US but worldwide history like this is awesome. Can I ask if maybe some year/timeline mentions, maybe on screen during your dialogue to not interior flow so we can keep track of when various things are happening? Thanks for the awesome content! :)
Brilliant video! Thank you for creating a bigger awareness for how all gaming-related things were like in our country. I hope your video will keep getting more and more views.
Another amazing video! This has easily became my favorite channel on RUclips. The great information on obscure gaming from around the world is fantastic.
I love your content because it's different and your not just regurgitating gaming stories or news, keep up the good work.
Always interesting and informative LD!
Keep up the good work lass and stay safe!
Wow, your content is killer. It’s comprehensive and provides a really well rounded look at the history - which is the part I’m most curious about. Thanks for taking the time to make such detailed videos!
I love your context, keep it up! I find it really interesting to know how and why gaming has developed in different places
God I love your channel for not only bringing up but also giving us a deep look into stuff you heard or saw mentioned in websites here and there over the years. We've needed a channel like this forever.
Great video, I have a giant soft spot for that era in gaming and it is nice to see any new information about other markets and how they got their 8 bit fix. Looking forward to the next one, keep up the excellent work!
This is the first video I've studied history while listening to Famicom music. I would have loved the class if I could have learned like this when I was a student.
So happy to see you here enjoying a history video about gaming in Poland, Mr. Koshiro. I hope everyone will learn something from it. The people who made this video did exceptionally thorough research and I'm glad I could personally contribute to it.
Happy new year Mrs Decade! ✌️
Happy new year!
Thank you Lady Decade! I love hearing historical items with video games to get context of what was happening and why things happened. I'm subscribing because you have done very well thought out videos. Thank you so much! =)
I can't believe how much I've learned from only a few of your videos ! Please keep up the awesome job!!
I had a Pegasus when I was young. My grandmother bought it for me. Everybody in Poland knew what a Pegasus was. It was more well known than Nintendo there. Nobody talked about Nintendo. Pegasus was it.
Dla nas to te konsole z bazaru były bootlegami Pegasusa który był "oryginalny" ;) Chociaż w sumie to kiedyś wiedziałem że nie ma czegoś takiego jak Pegasus i że to klon jakiejś konsoli z firmy Nintendo tylko nie były znane żadne szczegóły... a te jak się zagłębić tak bardziej technicznie są dość fascynujące bo myśmy w zasadzie nawet nie grali w gry PAL tylko NTSC :)
Just love your videos and all the great information you give us, love your humour too.
This is so interesting, I knew bootleg and other clones consoles exist but I didn't know there so many history behind them so thanks you Lady Decade ^^
greetings from Belgium !! ^^
Love this. Please keep up the deep dive gaming history!
I like the fact that you know actual history not just the history of games. Makes it more interesting. Love the videos. I’ve never even heard of half of the systems that you mention.
Really well made video and I loved your humor in it and shot taking. :D
Thank you so much for your work on these topics. It brings so many memories and it also helps to know more about what could have been and we didn't know much about. I'm looking forward to watching the next videos! :-)
I love your content, Lady. Just keep up the great work. Your content is so fascinating.
Here in Argentina we had the Family Game System (Famicom clone) so I know what you mean about the respect for clone systems ❤
I love all the hard work and investigation you make on your videos, it´s really a very interesting and entertaining channel so keep up the good work! 😎
Family game system es un Clone de Nintendo
It is cool how other countries have their own versions of well known consoles.
This is what I love about you and your husband's channels. I get to see a global perspective of gaming history instead of focusing only on the American and Japanese sides of things. Interesting to see how Europeans, mainland Asians, and other countries did gaming in the old days.
Just discovered your channel! Informative and I chuckled a lot at your brand of humor! Well done and keep up the good work! X)
Thanks for the video, I love the back history on this stuff. Would love to know more, you should make a series of videos for each country and there start into the Home consoles.
Excellent video as always! In the middle 90s Poland has lack of official brand distributors. As mentioned in video - Bobmark was not only a Pegasus seller but also Sega Saturn. Until 1997-1998 as far as I remember there were not official seller of PlayStation even there was Sony Poland already. The company called Lanser distributed PlayStation on polish market and provide even warranty and support. They have imported some of PlayStation consoles directly from Japan with very high price - roughly around 2000PLN when average salary were around 400-500PLN (!). First reviews of PlayStation games in local computer magazines such as Secret Service (most popular polish game magazine!) based on Japanese versions due to the lack of official distribution.
Mentioned in video HOOP brand is still on polish market and HOOP as company officially produce original Coca Cola brand drinks - even they produce they own Cocacola similar drinks.
Pegasus was the most popular and wide spread game console in the beginning of 90s. Even famous Rambo (Atari VCS clone) wasn't such popular as Pegasus - they have appeared on the market but already outdated - most gamers that time could afford to buy C64 or even Amiga . As far as I remember most of Famicom clones were called Pegasus even they weren't strictly connected to any Bobmark imports. Sega Megadrive and clones in my memories were totally absent on polish market such as SNES. Some of popular console titles released for Megadrive or SNES where reviewed in magazines but in late 90s where both systems where obsolete.
Lady Decade Happy New Year I like your videos keep up the good work
Amazing stuff, thanks lady decade
Thank you for the enlightening context. It's always good to be reminded of the history classes i slept through... Or, come to think of it, current events. God I'm old.
This is the most detailed back story I've ever seen on a video game documentary 👏👏👏
Another great video on gaming history!
I find it so weird that bootleg consoles were actually big business in parts of the world. I used to assume clone consoles were just sold on the black market by fly by night companies that would pop up and disappear in a matter of months.
I love your coverage of Museum of Gaming, every time I go to buy some electronic components (in same subway some of best small electronic shops in country are), but never had time to visit it.
fantastic story , and awesome story telling Thanks
I really wish these videos were around when I was doing History in school! Much more engaging
This is the video I've been waiting for ever since I saw that you visited Poland. Thanks for revealing Pegasus for the English-speaking peeps.
Wow, a true Lady who likes gaming. I salute you. Great channel. *subbed*
The closest thing I've had to game collecting in over 15 years was picking up every famiclone bootleg cart I could find, Dendy Pegasus and the whole lot. Should be dirt cheap compared to other consoles when a $5 game in 2019 is $50 now if you find the right shop, but it's game only and scratched and burnt. So much fun even with the bad games. Even landing on the carrier in bloody Top Gun. If you find a Pegasus with carts or something similar, go for it. Pick up a good little capture box or cheap CRT/LCD with good timing and the right plugs and play it and relish the past. Right blessed it was.
I travelled to Poland from the UK on family holidays during this era. These bright game cartridges were for sale everywhere! Fascinating at the time, but only after watching this video do I have some context of what was going on.
A few friends and family had the actual consoles. Seeing and playing 100 games on one cartridge was frankly witchcraft and so different to what I was used to, how could they all fit? Although more powerful consoles were available in the UK my mindset was that every game is precious and expensive (£24.99 each and maybe got as cheap as £10 if you really scraped the bottom of the secondhand barrel of potential disappointment, as I often did when £10 was all the money I had!). Scrolling through a list of 100+ games and loading them at will really did feel special in a way that is hard to udnerstand now. In some ways better than my NES. I do remember quality issues/dupes but you did experience a lot of games and got a good sense of what you liked best.
There was no cart with 100 actually different games at that time because it was all fake. Usually these cards with suspicious amount of games had dozen simplest mapper 0 games on them, some times with hacks like unlimited lives or starting at different level. Today you can easily get famicom cart (in Poland they call it Pegasus carts of course :D) with even more AAA games (or just get flashcart and put thousandths of games) but in the 90's when you got your games in open air markets you got single games or at most few games where you should expect it might be level select rather than different games. Price-wise around middle of 90's games costed about 10 breads and you could get cheapest console for about 50-70 breads.
Thanks for the interesting video game history video this made my morning ☺️@LadyDecade
You make everything sound so exciting
Fascinating as always. Knew there was a hidden purpose behind your frigid Poland adventure!
This is one heck of a history lesson for a retro gaming video.
You're right about the iron curtain suckin balz. I was born behind it in a small Easter European country right before the fall of the Soviet Union. The misery and destruction over 50 years of communism dictatorship is something I wouldn't wish on an enemy and it's like time stood still while the rest of the world advanced with prosperity and innovation. Everyone equally poor with one TV station.
Once the 90's hit we got bootleg Nintendo consoles (as if anyone could afford the real thing) with games built in. It was than I fell in love with gaming as a little kid and it remains a hobby I love today and don't take for granted. Can't imagine if communism had won and the Western world was communist. We'd be entertaining our selves with sticks and all be equally poor.
Never heard of it before today. Lady D you are really spoiling us. Great episode .
Not all clones were subpar imitations of what others had at the time, and being able to have this kind of thing in places that were overlooked for whatever reason probably meant a lot more than we can appreciate today. Not being all that far behind the rest of the world (unlike some regions who had new Atari clones when the NES/Master System were made available, if not stuck there later when the SNES/MegaDrive were new) certainly had to help. Sounds like BobMark had picked the right company to work with at the right time, lack of copyright laws notwithstanding.
I love that her an Top Hat hit you with back to back retro greatness!!!!
lovely ady, lovely video.
Poland was never Soviet satelite country. We were only independent allies with soviets.
Pegasus, my friend got it when it was NEW on the market. I was one of the first to try it. It blow my mind, 100 in one. Contra, etc, 100 games in one felt like a dream anf Contra just couldnt get me too sleep.
His grandmother started to show up 10x more on hisnhous, because she wad Maniack of tetris and she destroyed our fun. Old lady played TETRIS 10 hours a day, and we couldnt play.
Also, Pegadud had that Quality feeling, shiny, masive plastic, that thing was beauty and built like a tank. It never broke, all models of Pegasus were reliable and quality products.
fun fact (and a good excuse for you two to come here to Canada) - in pre-NAFTA times, sometimes a company would license their product to another for distribution, and in Canada in the early 90s, Irwin Toys, who also did everything from DBZ figures to Etch-A-Sketch products (with some items actually MADE in Canada) also distributed Sega products. If you have a boxed Sega Genesis of Canadian origin, it will have a small Irwin Toys logo on the box, i believe. Also why the Canadian version of Sonic The Hedgehog on the SMS is so valuable, it had a sticker added to conform to canadian standards.
Thank you / I enjoy your historic exploration into different regions of the world _:)
You and THG are both great! Phenomenal content!
I still have Pegasus model presented in this video Pegasus IQ502. So many great memories...
Excelent video. I totally aprove the historic background.
I enjoy your channel and your videos it is great to see your interest in gaming and the UK and Europe side of gaming as a US viewer
I absolutely LOVE your deep dives into consoles of yesteryear. Cheers~
Thank you for your service
Very informative! Nice to have commentary from such a talented woman!
This puts clone consoles in a different perspective. I guess I never took the time to understand why there are so many floating around out there. The first time I recall seeing one for sale was at a kiosk at our mall while Christmas shopping about fifteen years ago or so.
Amazing documentary as always!!
Yes! I love U girl I am from Poland and I've been waiting a long time for this video! THX
Pegasus, wow ! Greet from Poland :)
Great work as always, thank you Lady D!
Thank you for this video. I'm Polish but I've never had Pegasus. I grew up with Sega Genesis (I don't know how my parents got this version instead of mega drive). A lot of my friends had Pegasus, but I don't know much about it, so it was interesting to watch. Also I really appreciate short history in the beginning of this video. Very informative and interesting.
You've explained history better than any history teacher I've ever had.
you are wonderful! love your channel!
my question:
what 80’s-90’s consoles were popular in france?
Nice one Lady, teaching us proper History simce 2020
Very entertaining and educational!
Not only is this a fascinating video about a largely unknown piece of gaming history, it also makes fun of communism and John Cena.
I wish I could like it twice ❤
Travel protip: Just book one of those super cheap all inclusive holidays to Portugal and just travel about as you like and maybe just use it for the cheap as chips flights / accommodation.
Personally, I love the context and backstory. Thank you so much.
Some fantastic context to such an obscure system!! Also I'm sure I've heard your voice somewhere before???
I think you're awesome for giving a bit of a history lesson w/ the video. I'm a bit of a war history nerd, and I wish that here in the US we did much more to find entertaining ways to educate kids about history in an engaging way. Thanks!
Somewhere in late 90's I got my hands on that Pegasus and crtiridges were accessible at my local bazar like ham or potateos. At the time I had no idea about the originals.
Well researched !!!
Greetings from Lithuania!😄
What a lovely surprise.
In my country, dominated ZHILITON I guess, but I love to hear Your investigation about that too❤️
Cool for all the history lesson!
this was a real fun one!
So it's a video about a Polish famiclone brand.
In Russia, there was Dendy. The company behind it (Steepler) has a somewhat similar history, down to becoming the official distributor for SEGA very rapidly, and then even for Nintendo.
Actually, the story of Pegasus Bobmark is even more interesting, as there were even now really rare things like Pegasus Gameboy and Power Pegasus, which was the clone of MD/Genesis.
When the antipiracy law kicked in they gained the rights to distribute sega saturn, but we all know how it ended up, so they changed Bobmark to soft drink company called Hoop, which is actually really popular
I never knew about any of this!! My mom's distant family emigrated to the US in the early 1900's and and if they hadn't, and I ended up being born in Poland instead of the US I would have learned how to game on a Pegasus instead of am NES. Now that's interesting!
I'm Polish and Im so happy to see it brought up. Here Pegasus was considered the more premium console as the common or more broke homes rolled with rip-offs of Pegasus. First versions of the clone clone were named terminator and were black with blue buttons and they had noticeably worse quality. They came with pads that resembled snes/mega drive mix pads. They ran the same 8bit games. Later those would copy any new console, laptops or just keyboards. Games were most often demasters of snes games or other mutated creations from God knows where. There were however a few cult Pegasus cardridges such as the golden 4, the golden 5 (with codemasters games i believe, like dizzy and micromachines) and 168 in 1. Most of the time at the local market you would never know what game you got until you got home.
The "The video starts now" part killed me 😂
Great video on some nestalga that I didn't know existed, I enjoyed it TY! 💌💌💌
This brings me so many memories. This was also sold in Yugoslavia.
Thx for this video :)
I love your videos! I can totally relate to these stories because it was the same in Serbia. When they (west) were playing genesis or snes, we only began to play "ending man" aka "terminator" a nes clone from the flea market, because nes/snes/mega drive/genesis were too expensive for us! And these are still being sold here!
Kosovo je Serbija bracie.