Oh shit, you mentioned the Winnie The Pooh game and even showed it WORKING! I was just lamenting about this last month that no one had good pictures of it. Thank you.
7:15 A lot of Americans would be familiar with these brick game units too; they tended to get sold in Dollar Stores and similar discount shops for super cheap in the 90s and into the 2000s, like five or ten bucks. I used to have one myself. Also, I'm now really looking forward to a video about Soviet arcade games! 🙂
It’s surprising that those brick games were actually a Russian design in origin. It was interesting to see what could be accomplished with a very low-res monochrome screen with gigantic “pixels”. At the very least they get props for that.
Your videos are great, I'd like to thank you for making them and YT for recommending your channel to me, you are criminally under subscribed, only 5.11k with such great content.
If he's posting from Russia, he's being restricted by RUclips, I guarantee it. This site is FILLED with intelligence, and they are dead set on starting another cold war. Conflict is money, to these maniacs.
I knew of Dendy after watching videos of it years ago on Kinamania. As someone from the other side of the world that's been into gaming since grade school, it's always interesting to see how gaming went outside of Japan and the US.
pretty cool video, I am fascinated by soviet 80's technology and being a child of the 80's I can tell you we didn't need too fancy graphics to be entertained so I can imagine other countries like the Soviet Union having at least some form of video game entertainment to be quite amusing.
Man, I've been watching your channel since the first video, and I've gotta say your English pronunciation is only getting better, it's clear you've been putting a lot of practice in! Killer stuff as always
I just learned about the Russian Alf Spectrum console today, with games edited to work with only buttons 😮😮😮 crazy it's also in this video. Thats so awesome ❤
@@fuzzywzhe Consoles often have other requirements then computers. Like more focus on colors, speed, low loading time and focus on gameplay. Also consoles have mostly the same hardware (we do not talk about sega:) which made it more easy to optimize the games for a specific memory, prozessor and timeframe. Thisis why older consoles often have the best games late in they life. The programmers got used to the hardware and can use it to its full potential. While your common computers get update too - but usually only gets slower over the time. Granted nowadays the fronts are no longer clear defined with stuff like steam deck and engines like unreal and cry for PC allowing more efficient hardware use.
@@molybdaen11 Not really. I worked on the XBox360. They are basically PCs. I'm not under NDA now, I can tell you a secret, we initially sold them below cost, and made up the money on licensing for the games. You want to hear the weirdest thing about the console? The GPU controlled the CPU's access to memory. The CPU is the least important part of the machine. There were RUMORS that they were going to move to ARM on the next system, but they went with AMD instead. The PPC was over-powered. We didn't need it. Nobody could max it out, but the GPU was another story. Computers only "get slow" because the OS is designed to do that. Install a fresh operating system, it will be as fast as new. I run Linux. I are an enginerd after all. We've tried to tell you for 30 years, leave the standard operating systems. This system isn't just for nerds anymore, it's very simple to use, and it doesn't slow down over time. It was a good marketing tactic of Microsoft and Apple to make it appear that you need an IQ of 200 to use Linux. This OS will be the future, eventually, definitely in 100 years. We are at an interesting inflection point today by the way. We really can't make graphics any better, and if we do? Who would care? We have 8k displays, you don't have that many receptors in your eye so who needs it? And if you think you want VR - guess what? You don't. You'll try it, it will be a novelty for a few weeks, and you will get sick of being so abstracted from reality. We are at a pinnacle. You know how many books you can store on an SD Card that costs $10? More than you can PHYSICALLY read in a lifetime!
@@molybdaen11 Today a console is nothing but a computer with the CPU being a slave to the GPU. You could easily run Windows on a modern XBox - it would be impervious to viruses. Back in the day, consoles really didn't differ much from computers even then. People ported Linux to the DreamCast, the GameCube, they even got it working on the the first XBox. Of course, companies don't want this, because they don't make much (if any, sometimes losing money) profit on consoles. They make their money on taking a cut of the cost of the game. Computers ONLY "get slower over time" because the OS is designed to make it appear this way. Do a fresh reinstall, and you'll be shocked at how fast your "old slow computer" is. It's planned obsolescence at the software level. MS and Apple pull this crap, Linux doesn't. There will be no difference between a console and a computer in 50 years. Maybe as little as 10. Depends on how well Steam does.
Thanks for sharing! I always follow with much interest whatever I can get from life in the USSR and Russia in the 80s and 90s. For us ppl in the west is like and alternate dimension.
I collect Soviet stuff, most military and political items but I had one of those electonika game and watch clones, I didn't realize how many consoles where actually made cool video
Soviet Winnie the Pooh? As someone from Winnipeg, the city in Canada where the original “Winnie the bear” originated (Winnie was on loan to the London Zoo, where AA Milne and his son Christopher saw Winnie and thus AA was inspired to write the Winnie the Pooh books) I find this concept DELIGHTFUL! Glad I watched this.
The pong clone looks like an AY-3-8500 based system, including the lightgun aspect. As a West German kid of the mid 80s that was still my first videogame system (of course mine was from a West German brand but the internals are the same).
I am actually impressed with the build quality of many of these consoles! It seems like Soviet/Russian Engineers thought of quality and not cutting corners. I have a question, was pinball actually a thing in Russia? I remember reading that in Europe, Italy passed laws banning Western toys and entertainment devices. So like in Russia, very bright people "reversed engineered" the pinball machines left by Williams, Bally, and others and created Zaccaria Pinball. Spain did the same with Racal S.A. But love your video! Especially the glimpse into Soviet/Russian Arcade and handheld machines!!
I remember playing Dendy lol. But hell I reminder seeing the Genesis around too. I upgraded to computer games. I never had any of these Soviet handheld games though. I probably saw them for sale but never had one
in 1982 and 83 i only saw 2 russian arcades and both were clones...i lived in poland at the time first one was night driving and it had crylic alphabet instead of english...another one was a shooter cabinet with a crossbow as controller but it vibrated like machine gun it was not a light gun you had to shoot lines of targets ...it was also on a timer nd i dont recall it even having a scoring. in 84 in spotted that one fully operational and not neutered in west germany outside of frankfurt
As an atari 2600 addict (2600+) maybe someone will see the value in bringing alf to the world. I think machines like these are important to the world because they allow us to escape even if only for a little while. Im eternally greatful to games like Pitfall! And machines like my 2600.
The console clones of home computers have always impressed me, I love reading Russian emulation blogs with google translate and stay hours reading articles. But I must admit that all that world of non-IBM PC home computers in general is kind of mysterious and hard to fully grasp for me (ZX Spectrums, Atari ST, Atari-8, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Commodore 64, BBC Micro... so many architectures and operative systems)
It's cool that the consoles came with schematics and there were magazines telling people how to build computers xD Soviet consumer technology was truly the technology of the people. In capitalist countries, corporations would never do something like that because they would make more money not providing these things, which works against consumers.
Interesting... Did you know that we here in the United States of America would also get the schematics of electronics we bought at one time? During the 1950's through the late 1960's people could go to Radio Shack to get all the electronic parts they needed to build anything. When my dad was a kid, he had his own TV repair business and would regularly change out vacuum tubes in people's TV's all the time. He actually bought his first muscle car with the proceeds from that venture (1964 Chevelle 327 V8). Addendum- My grandparents helped him buy the car. They matched him dollar for dollar.
Started binging your stuff, it's damn fascinating. I've been doing a lot of stuff with SBCs like the Pi and its competition lately, I'm wondering if the kids in that part of the world are using them for gaming and general computing... or are there more powerful options available within the price range of most families?
@@Avrage_Welsh_Resident NOT At all. They Rivaled The USA. The USA has fallen a lot over the years & Post Soviet Russia fell so far it is nowhere near The Crumbling American Empire.
I dont consider back-engineering inventive. You didn't invent something if you cloned it. Making a circuit from scratch is significantly harder than having a working unit sitting infront of you.
Sorry I got a few questions, I mean No Disrespect when I ask. Was the Games consider underground or can you go to store. Was it smuggle in? Were the games filled with Propaganda? Was the guy who invented Tetris really from Russia? One more sorry, I grew up knowing folks called Russia "Mother Russia" do they still call your Country That? "I mean no disrespect, I love Retro Games. I bet it was kool building your own Consoles.
So the Soviet game makers couldn’t come up with any ideas of their own, copied everyone else’s ideas and managed to make them just as gray and boring as Soviet civil engineering’s aesthetic appeal.
Bro dnt be so hateful they ppl juss like us like we didn't do clone games of our own ...maybe be a shit wat of living out there but ppl are ppl eat and shit all the same gamin bring us together ❤❤
@@acidstain1058 Wasn’t trying to be hateful. Maybe it came off that way, if so that was unintended. But in Soviet Russia things like art and creativity that didn’t only glorify the state were discouraged. It wasn’t the people’s fault their creativity was being squelched but this is what happens when it is. Props to them for those little LCD block game devices though, or at least the concept, they ended up being surprisingly versatile pocket games capable of playing a wide range of simple games, almost like an Atari 2600 without the color. Oh, and Tetris of course!👍
@@2crude2crudeofficialband3creative and non creative works that don't fit with the woke racism ideology are discouraged in the west across all fields today and in future will be seen just as wrong as making people glorify the state, since all movies, science, art, television, history, sociology etc etc are all changed today to reflect the woke racist ideology rather than reality. Deliberately fostering an ideology against our own people and culture is much more bonkers than glorifying the state, and essentially is glorifying the state since it is achieving the goals of the economic fascism that all parties agree upon
@@jimbotron70 Not really, the Game & Watch games used printed LCD images and can only play one game. The block games use pixels to draw images and can have hundreds of games. The only thing they have in common is the fact they both have an LCD screen, but so do almost all handheld games, even to this day.
Oh shit, you mentioned the Winnie The Pooh game and even showed it WORKING! I was just lamenting about this last month that no one had good pictures of it. Thank you.
7:15 A lot of Americans would be familiar with these brick game units too; they tended to get sold in Dollar Stores and similar discount shops for super cheap in the 90s and into the 2000s, like five or ten bucks. I used to have one myself.
Also, I'm now really looking forward to a video about Soviet arcade games! 🙂
It’s surprising that those brick games were actually a Russian design in origin. It was interesting to see what could be accomplished with a very low-res monochrome screen with gigantic “pixels”. At the very least they get props for that.
Looking forward to this.
Fascinated about Soviet hardware. Also Soviet tech like synthesisers from that era
The synths were awesome. I have 15.
@@Ulf-qg1vd wow that's amazing . Always wanted a few for my collection.
@@djcactus Alisa 1377, Alisa 1387, Polivoks, and Aelita is a must!
Well Altair 231 too.
We have great speakers. If nothing damaged or degraded they sound better than most new modern stuff nowadays. This is some good vintage s**t
I really like the way electronics included schematics.
An AVGN style video series where you would review all the worst games for these systems would be great.
The games are extremely simple on many so wouldn't get much out of them, or are just russian releases of Spectrum titles.
"HEY, BORIS!"
- it's General Comrade Boris for you, Mikhail
i have no words. (if you know, you know) first time seeing this channel.
Your videos are great, I'd like to thank you for making them and YT for recommending your channel to me, you are criminally under subscribed, only 5.11k with such great content.
If he's posting from Russia, he's being restricted by RUclips, I guarantee it. This site is FILLED with intelligence, and they are dead set on starting another cold war. Conflict is money, to these maniacs.
This was extremely educational for me. As decadent westerner, I did not know of any of these. Thanks, man. 👍
I knew of Dendy after watching videos of it years ago on Kinamania. As someone from the other side of the world that's been into gaming since grade school, it's always interesting to see how gaming went outside of Japan and the US.
pretty cool video, I am fascinated by soviet 80's technology and being a child of the 80's I can tell you we didn't need too fancy graphics to be entertained so I can imagine other countries like the Soviet Union having at least some form of video game entertainment to be quite amusing.
"nu pogodi game" ржал в голос почему-то)))
Nu pogódy
Man, I've been watching your channel since the first video, and I've gotta say your English pronunciation is only getting better, it's clear you've been putting a lot of practice in! Killer stuff as always
I just learned about the Russian Alf Spectrum console today, with games edited to work with only buttons 😮😮😮 crazy it's also in this video. Thats so awesome ❤
Consoles always had the benefit of being faster, easy accessible, tolerant to errors and great for multi-player.
The problem with consoles is you cannot develop for them freely. Well, that WAS the problem. Today, a console is basically a locked down computer.
@@fuzzywzhe Consoles often have other requirements then computers.
Like more focus on colors, speed, low loading time and focus on gameplay.
Also consoles have mostly the same hardware (we do not talk about sega:) which made it more easy to optimize the games for a specific memory, prozessor and timeframe.
Thisis why older consoles often have the best games late in they life.
The programmers got used to the hardware and can use it to its full potential.
While your common computers get update too - but usually only gets slower over the time.
Granted nowadays the fronts are no longer clear defined with stuff like steam deck and engines like unreal and cry for PC allowing more efficient hardware use.
@@molybdaen11 Not really. I worked on the XBox360. They are basically PCs. I'm not under NDA now, I can tell you a secret, we initially sold them below cost, and made up the money on licensing for the games.
You want to hear the weirdest thing about the console? The GPU controlled the CPU's access to memory. The CPU is the least important part of the machine. There were RUMORS that they were going to move to ARM on the next system, but they went with AMD instead. The PPC was over-powered. We didn't need it. Nobody could max it out, but the GPU was another story.
Computers only "get slow" because the OS is designed to do that. Install a fresh operating system, it will be as fast as new. I run Linux. I are an enginerd after all. We've tried to tell you for 30 years, leave the standard operating systems. This system isn't just for nerds anymore, it's very simple to use, and it doesn't slow down over time. It was a good marketing tactic of Microsoft and Apple to make it appear that you need an IQ of 200 to use Linux. This OS will be the future, eventually, definitely in 100 years.
We are at an interesting inflection point today by the way. We really can't make graphics any better, and if we do? Who would care? We have 8k displays, you don't have that many receptors in your eye so who needs it? And if you think you want VR - guess what? You don't. You'll try it, it will be a novelty for a few weeks, and you will get sick of being so abstracted from reality.
We are at a pinnacle. You know how many books you can store on an SD Card that costs $10? More than you can PHYSICALLY read in a lifetime!
Multiplayer ❤
@@molybdaen11 Today a console is nothing but a computer with the CPU being a slave to the GPU. You could easily run Windows on a modern XBox - it would be impervious to viruses.
Back in the day, consoles really didn't differ much from computers even then. People ported Linux to the DreamCast, the GameCube, they even got it working on the the first XBox.
Of course, companies don't want this, because they don't make much (if any, sometimes losing money) profit on consoles. They make their money on taking a cut of the cost of the game.
Computers ONLY "get slower over time" because the OS is designed to make it appear this way. Do a fresh reinstall, and you'll be shocked at how fast your "old slow computer" is. It's planned obsolescence at the software level. MS and Apple pull this crap, Linux doesn't.
There will be no difference between a console and a computer in 50 years. Maybe as little as 10. Depends on how well Steam does.
Thanks for sharing! I always follow with much interest whatever I can get from life in the USSR and Russia in the 80s and 90s. For us ppl in the west is like and alternate dimension.
I collect Soviet stuff, most military and political items but I had one of those electonika game and watch clones, I didn't realize how many consoles where actually made cool video
I really enjoyed this. Thanks for the video.
As always great work!
Great video, never heard about those two last consoles - thanks for mentioning those.
Thanks for your work comrade!
Really good video, I had no idea you guys had these.
Very cool video, subbed. Can't wait to learn about the arcade games!
I love watching retro video game , thank you for showing me the Soviet side.
Soviet Winnie the Pooh? As someone from Winnipeg, the city in Canada where the original “Winnie the bear” originated (Winnie was on loan to the London Zoo, where AA Milne and his son Christopher saw Winnie and thus AA was inspired to write the Winnie the Pooh books) I find this concept DELIGHTFUL! Glad I watched this.
The pong clone looks like an AY-3-8500 based system, including the lightgun aspect. As a West German kid of the mid 80s that was still my first videogame system (of course mine was from a West German brand but the internals are the same).
RUclips recommended your Channel. Suscribed, very interesting content❤!.
Very interesting as usual thanks Viktor!!! My name is Victor as well 😋
I am actually impressed with the build quality of many of these consoles! It seems like Soviet/Russian Engineers thought of quality and not cutting corners. I have a question, was pinball actually a thing in Russia? I remember reading that in Europe, Italy passed laws banning Western toys and entertainment devices. So like in Russia, very bright people "reversed engineered" the pinball machines left by Williams, Bally, and others and created Zaccaria Pinball. Spain did the same with Racal S.A.
But love your video! Especially the glimpse into Soviet/Russian Arcade and handheld machines!!
I love stories on obscure tech from other countries
I thought Soviet kids were shooting AKs and being in the youth guard. And playing sports.
Thia to me is awesome as I never got to learn much about Russian gaming. So seeing this is a great way to learn about the scene.
оо, Уютный Подвальчик, давно тебя смотрю
I remember playing Dendy lol. But hell I reminder seeing the Genesis around too. I upgraded to computer games. I never had any of these Soviet handheld games though. I probably saw them for sale but never had one
Those Chinese LCD games mentioned were sold in Walgreens around the late 90's, early 2000's and i remember paying 10-12$ for them
Commodore supplied schematics for Amiga in the manuals.
I love this channel first video first day love it❤ 15:25
Nu pagadi! I played it when i was 4 y.o. first time. Ahh the memories....
in 1982 and 83 i only saw 2 russian arcades and both were clones...i lived in poland at the time first one was night driving and it had crylic alphabet instead of english...another one was a shooter cabinet with a crossbow as controller but it vibrated like machine gun it was not a light gun you had to shoot lines of targets ...it was also on a timer nd i dont recall it even having a scoring. in 84 in spotted that one fully operational and not neutered in west germany outside of frankfurt
Very interesting !
I wonder why the Belarus console was called Alf, was Alf a popular show in the USSR?
In the 90s Alf was really popular. Console from Belarus was actually Elf, not Alf in Russian. I have no clue why they spelled it Alf in English.
In Soviet Russia, games play YOU! 😮
The game cartridges also being the screens kinda reminds me of a Dreamcast VMU
As an atari 2600 addict (2600+) maybe someone will see the value in bringing alf to the world. I think machines like these are important to the world because they allow us to escape even if only for a little while. Im eternally greatful to games like Pitfall! And machines like my 2600.
Thank you for your history lesson
The console clones of home computers have always impressed me, I love reading Russian emulation blogs with google translate and stay hours reading articles.
But I must admit that all that world of non-IBM PC home computers in general is kind of mysterious and hard to fully grasp for me (ZX Spectrums, Atari ST, Atari-8, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Commodore 64, BBC Micro... so many architectures and operative systems)
It's cool that the consoles came with schematics and there were magazines telling people how to build computers xD
Soviet consumer technology was truly the technology of the people.
In capitalist countries, corporations would never do something like that because they would make more money not providing these things, which works against consumers.
I just figured you played Tetris and only Tetris. ;)
So in short, PC Master Race eventually extended to the USSR.
Those look cool!!
That would be awesome to have schematics for everything you bought come with them.
I wonder how a Soviet version of Rambo 3 would had been like. Doubt it would be a very long game, since it would be a whole army against one guy...
More than I expected with enough vodka could still make a fun night outta them
NOT HIM PRONOUNCING NU PAGADI AS NU POGODI BRUUUH
3:33 what a beautiful thing
AVGN take note! The shitty game library has not been defeated yet.
You can have any color Nintendo you want as long as it is gray and black lol
Interesting... Did you know that we here in the United States of America would also get the schematics of electronics we bought at one time? During the 1950's through the late 1960's people could go to Radio Shack to get all the electronic parts they needed to build anything. When my dad was a kid, he had his own TV repair business and would regularly change out vacuum tubes in people's TV's all the time. He actually bought his first muscle car with the proceeds from that venture (1964 Chevelle 327 V8).
Addendum- My grandparents helped him buy the car. They matched him dollar for dollar.
Started binging your stuff, it's damn fascinating. I've been doing a lot of stuff with SBCs like the Pi and its competition lately, I'm wondering if the kids in that part of the world are using them for gaming and general computing... or are there more powerful options available within the price range of most families?
I'm really surprised how channels like this, has only 4.6k subs; people are really idiots those days..... 😔
Thank you 👍 You can help to spread the word by posting the new video on your social networks. It can attract more new subs 😊
Was that the soviet video game museum that was also on a Game Center CX Russia Special?
A branch of it, yes.
@@RussianVideoGameComrade How many of these consoles are programmed to play Blue System songs? Lol
USSR Was so much COOLer than Perestroika Russia.
debatable
@@Avrage_Welsh_Resident NOT At all. They Rivaled The USA. The USA has fallen a lot over the years & Post Soviet Russia fell so far it is nowhere near The Crumbling American Empire.
Tetris is the greatest game to ever come out of Russia.
Only
15:53 Chilly Willy!
i remember exported rubins to poland the tubes...yes tubes would burn out fast
I dont consider back-engineering inventive. You didn't invent something if you cloned it. Making a circuit from scratch is significantly harder than having a working unit sitting infront of you.
That was about as sad as I expected it to be.
Your guys is video games were like cheap games.We would get for free in cereal boxes and Happy meals from McDonald's
Too bad my parents come from villages who were stuck in the 60s during the 80s 🙄 okay they had game&watch 😮💨 with nu pagadi
почему когда русские люди изучения английский все говорят тоже
как ты
квк тебе*?
Love the show! Very interesting content! I know the USSR has some sort of gaming back then but info on it is hard to come by in English. Subscribed!
What’s with the ALF? First I saw a unit called ALF TV and now there is a console with a PICTURE of Alf.
What's the name of the first MMO Russian game? It was just a project, and now it's impossible to find it...
Wasn't Tetris designed in the USSR?
"twice lower"??? LMAO u mean "half the price"? hahaha, no hate, just made me laugh
Денди. . .😊
Hey, do you have a Putindo?
When you say the average salary was 150 rubbles, I assume you mean monthly? Could be clearer.
Monthly
When you state that the price of a console is the same as an average salary is that annual, monthly, or what period of time?
Monthly
Sorry I got a few questions, I mean No Disrespect when I ask. Was the Games consider underground or can you go to store. Was it smuggle in? Were the games filled with Propaganda? Was the guy who invented Tetris really from Russia? One more sorry, I grew up knowing folks called Russia "Mother Russia" do they still call your Country That? "I mean no disrespect, I love Retro Games. I bet it was kool building your own Consoles.
So damn depressing
So the Soviet game makers couldn’t come up with any ideas of their own, copied everyone else’s ideas and managed to make them just as gray and boring as Soviet civil engineering’s aesthetic appeal.
Bro dnt be so hateful they ppl juss like us like we didn't do clone games of our own ...maybe be a shit wat of living out there but ppl are ppl eat and shit all the same gamin bring us together ❤❤
@@acidstain1058 Wasn’t trying to be hateful. Maybe it came off that way, if so that was unintended. But in Soviet Russia things like art and creativity that didn’t only glorify the state were discouraged. It wasn’t the people’s fault their creativity was being squelched but this is what happens when it is.
Props to them for those little LCD block game devices though, or at least the concept, they ended up being surprisingly versatile pocket games capable of playing a wide range of simple games, almost like an Atari 2600 without the color.
Oh, and Tetris of course!👍
@@2crude2crudeofficialband3creative and non creative works that don't fit with the woke racism ideology are discouraged in the west across all fields today and in future will be seen just as wrong as making people glorify the state, since all movies, science, art, television, history, sociology etc etc are all changed today to reflect the woke racist ideology rather than reality. Deliberately fostering an ideology against our own people and culture is much more bonkers than glorifying the state, and essentially is glorifying the state since it is achieving the goals of the economic fascism that all parties agree upon
@@2crude2crudeofficialband3 Even those LCD games were copied from the Japanese *Game & Watch* 😅
@@jimbotron70 Not really, the Game & Watch games used printed LCD images and can only play one game. The block games use pixels to draw images and can have hundreds of games. The only thing they have in common is the fact they both have an LCD screen, but so do almost all handheld games, even to this day.
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Please, make video about game Smuta.
Why can't you pronounce russian words right?
I unsubscribed because you deleted my comments. That's what I get for sharing your channel? Wow. 😂
You should pronounce "zed eks spectrum" instead of "zi eks"!
hi brother i am trying to contact you