I remember being at friends' home watching neighbor playing Tanks. You could pick up the signal, because these consoles were plugged in as antenna and, amplified by the TV itself, emitted some of the signal to the area around- so you just tune in and watch. So yeah- Eastern Block invented Twitch .
I had one chinesse clone of Dendy,that called "Haili 777" in my childhood and it wasn`t necessary to connect through antenna input, because it has a small antenna inside of it and broadcast reciver, so you just need to tune your tv and find your broadcasting console. Just magic:)
I live in Iran and this was the first console my father bought for me when I was 5 years old. I remember my whole family playing with it. My brother and my sister and my father. Many times the adapter burned out and my father had to buy a new one. I remember that for this reason I put the adapter in the refrigerator every few hours so that it does not get hot. :D
I think it sounds more like he want kids to play video games instead of starting drinking alcohol hehe :P Vodka is also a capitalistic venture as well :P
@Cactus Jack Well..I mean we know about the country, but not many people knows about the whole culture of Russia compared to the nearby countries, and we generally only knows russians as "The Fighting Nation". Yeah, no offensive though.
I'm from Brazil, and I owned a Russian Famiclone called "Mega Power" back when I was a kid. I eventually moved on to an original SNES, but that console is what started my long lasting love for video games that persists to this day. I played tons of those bootlegged "100 in 1" cartridges in it. While most of the stuff on those cartridges was crap, I did own one with Super Mario Bros and Contra, so it wasn't all that bad. Oh, there was also one with Hogan's Alley and Duck Hunt. Both contained Battle City, if I recall correctly. All in all, I had a lot of fun playing tons of bootlegs as a kid, and I have some weird nostalgia for those days nowadays. The idea of getting a cartridge without really knowing what you're getting into, and playing a console that's literally just a bootleg Famicom clone. I dunno, I kinda miss it. Oh, and we also refer to copying machines as "xerox" here in Brazil.
Released for the patriotic comrade with games such as: - Super Markov Comrades 1, 2 and 3 - Marxist Man 1-7 - Kirbev's Adventure - Bunkervania - Contra-revolution - Tetris (with original soundtrack from Red Army Choire Korobeiniki
I've also watched Kinamania's series on Dendy called "Curse of the Grey Elephant". I find it hilarious that on TV shows like Novaya Realnost Dendy, the host would say things like, "Joe and Mac is just a rip off of Super Mario 15", since there had already been released earlier in Russia a pirated version of Joe and Mac, with Mario and Luigi sprites swapped in. When the ACTUAL game Joe and Mac was finally released in Russia, the original version was accused of being the pirate copy! Comedy gold!
Pavel "Kinaman" Grinjov made a lot of good content about 8-bit, 16-bit games and consoles in russian reality. Now he making serial "One day of childhood" about consoles, gum stickers, comicses, toys from 90th in Russia. Also, he streaming every friday old games on his live channel.
@@CallieMasters5000 yea me too, bald needs to get some new content already and have a million sub video. I used to like Harald baldar, but he's turning into a complete douche, his old stuff is so much better than what he's doing now. Still a sub, but idk for how long. BALD is my absolute favorite RUclipsr.
"Itsa me!!! Stalino!!!! Here we go!!!" (Jumps on the heads of Nazis, Political Dissidents, and Ukrainians) Stalino has to save his daughter "Princess Svetlana" from the clutches of King Czar Nicholas. While Stalino sidekick Molotov who has slippery feet and can jump higher will aid him in his quest!
@@Yes_Fantasy_419 it is conveniently not mentioned in game that molotov cannot in fact jump higher than stalino, lest molotov be forced to serve a ten year term in ice world for subversion
My wife grew up in the Soviet Union, and they had a Sega Master System in the 80’s that was an illegal European import. Lots of people who were the Soviet equivalent of upper-middle class had access to this stuff through the gray market, even before the Denny’s started flooding in.
We had the "Pegasus" model here and let me tell you, it was the HOTTEST SHIT in my city. Nobody else even heard about it, so when I told my friends to come by and play some games together, they were so blown away by the console we literally had kids from my school coming to play something every single day. One might say, my parents were angry with that... but they were super cool with it, since both of them were playing Battle City (Tanks) or Contra, OG Mario Bros, Donkey Kong and other games together. It was even decided who will clean the dishes or takes out trash by who will loose in 1v1 in some of those games (ofc who had the higher score) Man I love these memories, when we finally had a PC, my parents were playing all kinds of games (esp. RPGs) and the most popular game here was Might & Magic 6. My mom drew a map of every location and even drew a map of all the locations connected together. My dad then wrote all the potions effects, all the trainers and skills, all the quests and to this day we have that huge book of maps, potion recipies and quest guides in my parents living room stored right next to the VHS when me and my sister were born and our family photos. All thanks to my uncle who went to Poland BY MYSTAKE and needed an excuse for the travel so he bought Micro Genius IQ-502 (Pegasus) as a gift for us (because it was not possible to get your hands on it in my country at the time) God Bless
Comrade, your head is there. FOr every one PS One owner in Nigeria, there were about 200 #EndingMan console owners and maybe 50 Sega Genesis owners to boot.
In Brazil we had Famiclones too, the original NES was overshadowed by clones because the NES AND the SNES had the same price, so most people wanted the SNES. Those who couldn't afford the SNES had Famiclones, and sometimes the Master System and the Megadrive. (Our first NES clone was made in 1989, the design is pretty bizarre to be honest http2.mlstatic.com/nes-dynavision-3-com-1-controle-e-pistola-8-jogos-72-e-60-D_NQ_NP_730956-MLB31755909241_082019-F.webp )
White all-caps text over a red rectangle. I guess Supreme also ripped off many news headliners, Nintendo's logo, exit signs, TLC channel's logo, mall sales graphics, rejected stamp, Uniqlo, Monopoly board game, many tabloids like Sun Tabloid and News World, Life Magazine, Colgate toothpaste, Marvel Comics, JVC technologies, Velux, Diesel. . Man, Supreme sure did stole their logo from lots of companies. Crazy.
It’s pirated NES , gaming videos are the same as s NES or famicom with a few exceptions like rescue rangers 3 and handful more other games that were messed up by pirates, go to kinomania RUclips channel to see it in details.
I know this is an older video, but I discovered you thanks to Bald and Bankrupt recently and I am really loving your videos! You give such a good insight to Russian life and culture and it's nice to know people on the other side of the world are just as "normal" as me, lol, regardless what the media says. I also started on youtube by watching avgn and can relate. Hopefully this message finds you well and keep up all the great content!!
@Gui And in the end Sega remained the most popular console in late 90's in Russia and Nintendo is still trashed to this day for different reasons - the main being their overpriced shit that looks like something out of steam greenlight.
Wow, thats pretty sad - the Pegasus in Poland pulled out when copyright laws became a thing and jumped into legal Sega sales. They got burned on the Saturn fiasco and moved on to making a knockoff cola. The original owner is still doing well :)
My 7 years old was born and growing up in America where I’ve lived for close to 20 years. We started talking about game consoles and for some reason I felt the need to do some research in the Denny that I grew up with. So many childhood memories with this thing. I can’t remember my exact age when parents caved in and bought one for me. We had this archaic Russian made tv and I remember my disappointment when after hooking everything up the image was black and white. Luckily parents ponied up some more right away and got us a modern by those days some Asian country made TV with a remote. It was great fun playing it with buddies. Shopping for cartridges on open air markets prevalent in those days. Maybe I’ll get one for nostalgic reasons to ruminate about the country where I was born and grew up, and has changed so much.. awesome video by the way
"Entertainment System" sounds more like something from a stereotypical dystopian USSR. As if the System entertains you regardless of whether you want to be entertained or not.
@@alternatecheems8145 maybe, but not to an 8 year old in 1990s! I had best time vet playing it for hours! It was my first video game console ever (never even seen a computer before)
@@Lowmandavis Can't even mention WW2 without getting demonetized. Unless you're the History channel, RUclips gives big companies a pass. But, RUclips doesn't have to worry about that, because the History channel doesn't even show historical shows anymore.
Even though I miss a little bit your gaming videos, your documentaries on Russian media are so introspective, interesting and eye opening that make me forget about those a bit. I am so happy how you grew as a RUclipsr, from a gaming channel, to a commentary channel, to memes and currently your documentaries, it's so refreshing yet at the same time retaining your NFKRZ personality. And yes, I've been looking for a Dendy video for years (or at least one I could understand) and this, this is perfect.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA XD Just imagine the fact, that you're a kid on earth, watching TV, and the host, equivalent of the danish "Bubber" (That's for you, Roman), saying "Vodka is bad, Super Nintendo is good" x'D I can confirm, from Denmark, that both Vodka and Super Nintendo is SPITZEN KLASSE!
I grew up in India. And we had pretty much same scene as other Asian countries. Countless FamiClones! I had Golden Yellow Famiclone called "COSMOS" which was 1:1 NES with NES like ports and square controllers (with 4 buttons two turbo) and same Grey NES Zapper gun! My sister called Nikita, had a Famiclone called...Nikita! It was a Megadrive look. My one Cousin had another Megadrive rip off famiclone called TERMINATOR II! And other cousin had that Dendy Jr from above video!
Heh, I saw Kinaman's video on the topic years ago (Grey Elephant's Curse, for anyone interested). Nevertheless, I'm glad you touched upon this as well - and thanks for bringing back those good ol' memories, Rom. PS. A small trivia for ya: the Eastern-European bootleg of NES/Famicom, Pegasus, was made by a bogus company BobMark, founded by a guy who had preciously imported used clothes from Asia to Polish second-hand shops... however, the mid-90s amendments to Polish Copyright Law - more specifically, 1994 update to _Ustawa o prawie autorskim_ - turned out to be a "little" obstacle to his business. BobMark didn't share the fate of Steepler and go bankrupt, though, and continued to stay in business; and that's because they just ditched video games & started to produce fizzy, carbonated drinks licensed from the West. More info on the topic: /watch?v=T7VMrGr1BhE
I started gaming in 1980, when I was 8, on the Atari 2600 of my elder Brother. Which is 18 Years older and already lived with his Wife together in an own Flat. So I could only play, when I visited him, every few Weeks. Later I got a Microvision Handheld, which I still own, a Vectrex-Console (sadly I don't have it anymore), a Commodore 64, a Commodore Amiga 600 and so on. But I never heard of the Dendy-Console before. So it was very interesting. Thank you! :)
I was sort've confused by the Hamy console part of the video when you were talking about the Dendy. It seemed like it had some common titles like the Dendy from what you were saying, but I felt the connection was weak as it wasn't the same thing as a Dendy. Some additional elaboration might've helped there. Also, listing some sources (maybe in the video description) would give you more credibility and let viewers research the topic some more. Otherwise, I really liked this break in style from some of your other videos. It's nice to have a little variety. I enjoyed learning from it. Good job!
It's kinda interesting to hear that another country also uses the word xerox to describe any photocopying machine... I actually didn't know it was a brand until now tbh, cool story bro
There is still a shop in my native city called "Центр Денди" (Dendy's Center). But it's just a history bit. By now they selling only tv equipment and spare parts for electronics.
I had a "Nintendo Playstation" as a kid that used cartridges. There were apparently only 200 prototypes produced?? And we just got it for free from our neighbor in a poor Finnish suburb?? It didn't have the original controllers, but it would probably still be worth a lot today. Unfortunately it stopped working in 2000 when I was 4 and we threw it in the thrash 😭
That's called a "genericized trademark", when all photocopiers become known as "a xerox", video games consoles all being called 'dendy', and all cold soda drinks being known as 'coke' in the American south. Very interesting video.
We have a similar thing in the UK, the most common vacuum cleaner was the the "hoover", so most people refer to their hoover regardless of the actual brand.
sport shoes are commonly called adidasy in polish also the only way to call a disposable razor is "żyletka" from polonized gilette - that one is in dictionaries
I recently found out about these game consoles from another RUclipsr. Blew me away. I just thought everyone had access to NES . Thanks for the vid. Have watched a few of your videos and really enjoyed it. Hitting the subscribe button!
I know this video is old by now, but damn Roman, the new type of content you've started making after getting into uni and studying languages is something I really enjoy nowadays keep it up
11:56 The speed and animation at which Mario throws the crates leads me to believe this is a Sega Genesis version of Chip & Dale. See the NES version for a comparison.
i mean a lot of americans like myself buy things that are made in vietnam or india yet a lot of us know little about those countries and they probably dont know a whole lot about us either
Im from Germany born in the mid 80s and my best friend had a Turkish(?) fake NES/SNES concole. You put the NEs style cartridges in it from the top, like an SNES, it had SNES controller and the NES gun for shooting birds. It came with 1 game cartridge that had like 250 games on it like Contra and all. Now I'm wondering what kind of weird hybrid NES/SNES concole that was. (You couldn't use the 250-in-1 NES-style cartridge in a original NES , though.)
Ку сай Yet here in America, gullible college students swear up and down that communism is the right way to go. I wish they could have a chat with people that suffered through living in an actual communist country.
@@alexandrvasilev2865 it is. This is a hack of unlicensed game called Squirrel King which itself was an unauthorized port of the Chip 'n' Dale game for NES.
In Hungary these were unknown items. We bought Commodore 16 in 1987. Then a C64 in '90, and Amiga 1200 in '94. And all of our friends something like these - ZX Spectrum, Enterprise, Commodore plus 4, Amiga 500, and since the mid '90-s some kind of PC-s.
Bomberman! I could play that for hours and hours while visiting my Polish grandmother. Together with Milk n Nuts, Contra, Mario, Tank (Battle City), Arkanoid and Duck Hunt :D.
Translated, that would be "Video Ace Dendy". "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", however is "Агенты Щ.И.Т.", pronounced "Aghenty SHIT" (yes, "shield" in Russian is "shit" [щит])
@@JosephRobinsonSMBX These transliterations never seize to irritate me. For instance, why Хабаровск would be transliterated as Khabarovsk? This word does NOT start with K! Just because French can't read a good honest H at the start of a word, sacre bleu.. (alsoKharkov, kolkhoz). Same thing with words starting with H transliterated as starting with Г (Henry -> Генри, Hamburg -> Гамбург).
They've been breaking so often that in my lifetime I've had like 5 or 6 Dendys. The last one I bought in like 2005, they were still selling in a small town near Smolensk where PC at that time was like Porsche, I guess. Except no one had it
In Malta we had very popular the Micro Genius consoles - Like you said pretty much the same console as the Dendy. Very popular was the IQ-1000 or IQ-2000 with wireless controller.
The reason why these 90's console cost so much is pretty simple. The quality. Despite it were unlicensed copies, it were wery stable and pretty indentical to pal famicom. The reason why dendy classic costed so much, and not every family could afford it, it is just 100% copy of famicom, and it is the main reason why 90% of these console still work. Dendy junior was technically simplified version. And that is the reason why some of theses coppies had it's own minuses, were not so stable, and sometimes some games didn't work on them properly. Still thee also have great quality. Other console's - well, it was cat in the bag. Some of them were good. Some not. I had Liko ( one of subor models). And console itself was wery good. Gamepads worked 6 years, and then was broken. If we had oportunity two change gamepads, it still would be with me. It was reallu good. But other, who bought subor, werent so lucky. And nowadays bootleg consoles are usually total crap. Cheap motherboards, with one chip only. What concernes sega. Well, in dendy shop were two models l - original japanese, and bootleg version. These bootleg version usually were good. Another sega clone wich was good wad Kenga, these copies even had sega cd port, and japanese sega cd are completly worke with it. There is one good new clone. Sega retro hd, ( I hope i writted it correctly).
Владимир Галицкий most of this doesn’t make sense for example “ cat in the bag” is not an expression and to “let the cat out of the bag” means to give up a secret by accident....
@@theycallmesavage573 It is an expression, but Russian. To "buy cat in a bag" means something alike "to get something cheap, hoping that you will get something good, but knowing that risk of defective wares is quite high"
Still have my OG Dendy Junior. I was shocked(as probably all Russians), when i got myself an internet access in a late 2000s, that those Dendys were actually ripoff of japanese gaming console Famicom.
I remember being at friends' home watching neighbor playing Tanks. You could pick up the signal, because these consoles were plugged in as antenna and, amplified by the TV itself, emitted some of the signal to the area around- so you just tune in and watch. So yeah- Eastern Block invented Twitch .
I had one chinesse clone of Dendy,that called "Haili 777" in my childhood and it wasn`t necessary to connect through antenna input, because it has a small antenna inside of it and broadcast reciver, so you just need to tune your tv and find your broadcasting console. Just magic:)
We use to do that here in Costa Rica, the signal even reach several houses down the street.
It's not like twitch, more like cuckolding
Sounds bizzare and amazing to me
Twitch is cuckolding lol
And they passed on the chance to call it Lenintendo!
Linin wasn’t that good of a leader
@@kilist174 Actually he was. The problem was with what he led.
Lenin was poisoned by Stalin dumbass
@@Yes_Fantasy_419 He died of chlamydia dumbass
@@kilist174 if it wasn't for lenin russia wouldn't exist today
I live in Iran and this was the first console my father bought for me when I was 5 years old. I remember my whole family playing with it. My brother and my sister and my father. Many times the adapter burned out and my father had to buy a new one. I remember that for this reason I put the adapter in the refrigerator every few hours so that it does not get hot. :D
The Mario bootleg was actually a re-skin of a game called “Squirrel King”, which in turn was a ripoff of Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers on the NES.
That box throw tho, 😅
A ripoff game of a ripoff game, running on a ripoff console. That's one heck of a chain of ripoff
At least it was based off of a good game....
@@Kalvinjj IS RUSSIAN GAME, NO RIPOFF! IS IMPROVEMENT!
You see Ivan, Russian game is not ripoff. Is just surprise sequel!
I really love these documentries
ya dude the Video Essays *rule*
No u don't
Yea we need more russian ones... He does them prety well.
you should watch dendy documentary from Kinamania then, much better stuff IMO
@@KOROZEC1 will do
The word Dendy is still popular. If I’m playing PlayStation my parents say I’m playing Dendy
Lol
and literally every game is named "piff paff"
Just like the gameboy or PlayStation in the us
@J is an American I can confirm that and most parents get you a Nintendo as your first console
Сказал как Кинаман =)
6:49 "Vodka is bad, Super Nintendo is good"
Sounds like capitalist propaganda but ok
Да Western Spy
Sounds like a Wario brainwashing commercial.
I think it sounds more like he want kids to play video games instead of starting drinking alcohol hehe :P Vodka is also a capitalistic venture as well :P
Pilsmer Водка... плохой!
Супер Нинтендо... хорошо!
For maximum effect, try "imperialist" instead (or on top) of "capitalist". Adds that ideological punch everyone loves!
As a Taiwanese, it’s kinda interesting to know that “our” product had been rebranded and sold in a country that we are generally not familiar with.
@Cactus Jack Well..I mean we know about the country, but not many people knows about the whole culture of Russia compared to the nearby countries, and we generally only knows russians as "The Fighting Nation". Yeah, no offensive though.
@@dmitrykim3096 Wait...Thailand?
@@neolin7812 yeah sorry, fucked up. Taiwan, yeah Russia and Taiwan dont really know much about each other
@@dmitrykim3096 It's alright, I know many foreigners usually confuses Taiwan with Thailand.
Thank you, Taiwanian people, for my happy childhood.
I'm from Brazil, and I owned a Russian Famiclone called "Mega Power" back when I was a kid. I eventually moved on to an original SNES, but that console is what started my long lasting love for video games that persists to this day. I played tons of those bootlegged "100 in 1" cartridges in it. While most of the stuff on those cartridges was crap, I did own one with Super Mario Bros and Contra, so it wasn't all that bad. Oh, there was also one with Hogan's Alley and Duck Hunt. Both contained Battle City, if I recall correctly.
All in all, I had a lot of fun playing tons of bootlegs as a kid, and I have some weird nostalgia for those days nowadays. The idea of getting a cartridge without really knowing what you're getting into, and playing a console that's literally just a bootleg Famicom clone. I dunno, I kinda miss it.
Oh, and we also refer to copying machines as "xerox" here in Brazil.
As a fellow Brazilian, I bet your pretty good English is also largely on account of growing up playing video games
Nintendo: Super Mario
Dendy: *SUPER MARKOV*
You gotta save Princes Peach from the gulag before she gets executed.
Super Vladimir
I read it as super makarov
Super carrot?
Dendy: *SUPER STALIN*
Nintendo: Am I a joke to you
Dendy: Da
*Original*
Midnight Club Still Cancelled Soz I prefer you over this kid.
Midnight Club Still Cancelled Soz Who cares?
Disney & More apparently you
Midnight Club Still Cancelled Soz Nope, you’re the only one complaining. Like he said, who cares? A joke’s a joke
I had one in like ‘93-94 when living in Belarus. Dendy was sick. every cart had like 100 games on it and with classics not just garbage games.
“Mario can shoot fireballs, since when can he do that?”
Literally the first game my dude
Bruh did I just hear a woosh?
@@anaussie8714 Or Mario Bros.
@@pasijutaulietuviuesas9174And Mario Land XD nah just kidding
@@sim_nintendo3735 Mario Land is a later game.
Donkey Kong tho
I'm loving these video essay style videos from you, great stuff.
Weiss best.
Released for the patriotic comrade with games such as:
- Super Markov Comrades 1, 2 and 3
- Marxist Man 1-7
- Kirbev's Adventure
- Bunkervania
- Contra-revolution
- Tetris (with original soundtrack from Red Army Choire Korobeiniki
and - Bottle Toads
- Bottle City
Марево
Танчики (Battle City)
Контра
Самолёт (Sky Destroyer)
Беглец (Lode Runner)
Стройка (Tetris)
And Samus is Yuri
Super Mario IV (from popular russian Nintendo hater)
SuperMarkov....
:D
I've also watched Kinamania's series on Dendy called "Curse of the Grey Elephant". I find it hilarious that on TV shows like Novaya Realnost Dendy, the host would say things like, "Joe and Mac is just a rip off of Super Mario 15", since there had already been released earlier in Russia a pirated version of Joe and Mac, with Mario and Luigi sprites swapped in. When the ACTUAL game Joe and Mac was finally released in Russia, the original version was accused of being the pirate copy! Comedy gold!
Pavel "Kinaman" Grinjov made a lot of good content about 8-bit, 16-bit games and consoles in russian reality. Now he making serial "One day of childhood" about consoles, gum stickers, comicses, toys from 90th in Russia. Also, he streaming every friday old games on his live channel.
*Super Mario 16
In Soviet Russia... Well, you know
I'll have to watch it again... ruclips.net/video/rJQr3tnjHlg/видео.html
Was just thinking a couple hours ago, when's my Russian homie gonna post something new. Well here we are lol.
💙
Next to Bald and Bankrupt, he's my favorite for Russia videos.
@@CallieMasters5000 yea me too, bald needs to get some new content already and have a million sub video. I used to like Harald baldar, but he's turning into a complete douche, his old stuff is so much better than what he's doing now. Still a sub, but idk for how long. BALD is my absolute favorite RUclipsr.
Ashley Castle Why is he a douche? Don’t really watch him, just some videos.
Ashley Castle Do you hate him or love him?
Stalin as Mario. Now that’s a sight I thought I’d never see.
Good insight, go to gulag
someone in red stomping innocent members of the population who were transformed into monsters by a magical spell..
"Itsa me!!! Stalino!!!! Here we go!!!" (Jumps on the heads of Nazis, Political Dissidents, and Ukrainians) Stalino has to save his daughter "Princess Svetlana" from the clutches of King Czar Nicholas. While Stalino sidekick Molotov who has slippery feet and can jump higher will aid him in his quest!
@@Yes_Fantasy_419 it is conveniently not mentioned in game that molotov cannot in fact jump higher than stalino, lest molotov be forced to serve a ten year term in ice world for subversion
Super Stalino
My wife grew up in the Soviet Union, and they had a Sega Master System in the 80’s that was an illegal European import. Lots of people who were the Soviet equivalent of upper-middle class had access to this stuff through the gray market, even before the Denny’s started flooding in.
We had the "Pegasus" model here and let me tell you, it was the HOTTEST SHIT in my city.
Nobody else even heard about it, so when I told my friends to come by and play some games together, they were so blown away by the console we literally had kids from my school coming to play something every single day.
One might say, my parents were angry with that... but they were super cool with it, since both of them were playing Battle City (Tanks) or Contra, OG Mario Bros, Donkey Kong and other games together.
It was even decided who will clean the dishes or takes out trash by who will loose in 1v1 in some of those games (ofc who had the higher score)
Man I love these memories, when we finally had a PC, my parents were playing all kinds of games (esp. RPGs) and the most popular game here was Might & Magic 6.
My mom drew a map of every location and even drew a map of all the locations connected together.
My dad then wrote all the potions effects, all the trainers and skills, all the quests and to this day we have that huge book of maps, potion recipies and quest guides in my parents living room stored right next to the VHS when me and my sister were born and our family photos.
All thanks to my uncle who went to Poland BY MYSTAKE and needed an excuse for the travel so he bought Micro Genius IQ-502 (Pegasus) as a gift for us (because it was not possible to get your hands on it in my country at the time)
God Bless
**claps**
Your parents sounds cool dude! Props to them
7:23 here in Brazil, the one that looks like a Playstation is called Polystation
Yeah, i had one of those
Also polystation became famous worldwide
Jajajajaj I’m from Colombia, me too. Do you remember the lion jumping game? 😂
I am from chile and my parents called the polystation the playstation five in the year 2008 or 2009, because cost 5.000 pesos
In Romania we also had NES bootlegs. The most popular one was the Terminator Console
Comrade, your head is there. FOr every one PS One owner in Nigeria, there were about 200 #EndingMan console owners and maybe 50 Sega Genesis owners to boot.
In Serbai also Terminator with yelow game boxes
In Brazil we had Famiclones too, the original NES was overshadowed by clones because the NES AND the SNES had the same price, so most people wanted the SNES. Those who couldn't afford the SNES had Famiclones, and sometimes the Master System and the Megadrive.
(Our first NES clone was made in 1989, the design is pretty bizarre to be honest
http2.mlstatic.com/nes-dynavision-3-com-1-controle-e-pistola-8-jogos-72-e-60-D_NQ_NP_730956-MLB31755909241_082019-F.webp )
*Terminator 2 music plays*
Sunt din Romania, cam cand au fost alea? Eu nu imi aduc aminte de asa ceva.
When you realise that supreme stole Dendy's logo
same cheap stuff from taiwan, so it's legit
Saying Dendy as Dendy's makes it sound like a diner.
hey im curious hwich supreme logo are you referring to? the box logo? i cant see any resemblance
White all-caps text over a red rectangle. I guess Supreme also ripped off many news headliners, Nintendo's logo, exit signs, TLC channel's logo, mall sales graphics, rejected stamp, Uniqlo, Monopoly board game, many tabloids like Sun Tabloid and News World, Life Magazine, Colgate toothpaste, Marvel Comics, JVC technologies, Velux, Diesel.
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Man, Supreme sure did stole their logo from lots of companies. Crazy.
@@WingMaster562 r/woooosh
7:26 that wobbly button is a sure sign of incredibly high build quality
US: 1 Console = 300$, 1 Game = 50$
Russia: 1 Console + 25 Games = 30 $
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avg wage in USA 2900$
avg wage in Russia 655$
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@@cskinqbe438 avg wage in Russia 250$
Stagflation is real
@@misterkaos.357 At least somebody understand economics
@@misterkaos.357 Americans overall extremely fat and greedy. I would be surprised if they would not charge 50 bucks for each game
NFKRZ gaming videos???
Hello
@@Ultimatedogfan i know you just replied because they are verified
@@user-vg5zx4lx8m NO, I LOVE TETRABITGAMING WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?
It’s pirated NES , gaming videos are the same as s NES or famicom with a few exceptions like rescue rangers 3 and handful more other games that were messed up by pirates, go to kinomania RUclips channel to see it in details.
What is TetraBitGaming doing here lol
Nowadays if Nintendo found out a foreign company was making bank selling fake versions of their consoles they’d send a hitman
"Vodka is bad
Super Nintendo is good"
I need a GIF of that
@ZionHillCalling how do you do it?
i feel a meme brewing
@@cucumber623 We'll come back here and say we say it give birth.
Vodka is bad
Congratulations you have just earned a 5 star stay in Siberian goolag
Russia: Dendy
Poland: Pegazus
And Terminator and Polystation! All games beginning with: Official license of Nintendo :D
Pegasus
egasus
gasus
ASUS
@@yaroslavromanyuk5669 You just cracked the code, son.
Terminator in romania?
Ukraine: Jippy
I know this is an older video, but I discovered you thanks to Bald and Bankrupt recently and I am really loving your videos! You give such a good insight to Russian life and culture and it's nice to know people on the other side of the world are just as "normal" as me, lol, regardless what the media says. I also started on youtube by watching avgn and can relate. Hopefully this message finds you well and keep up all the great content!!
03:58 In Serbia, it was called "Terminator" since it had an image of the Terminator on the box :D
*GRAND DAD 2020,* Coming Soon To The *Dendi64®*
STARI ATA KREMENČEK
STARI ATA KREMENČEK
[Joel liked this]
GRAND DAAAYD! FLEENSTONES???
"Dendy" - "Sega" (Mega Drive) - "PlayStation". Не было у нас консольных войн до 6-го поколения. SNES, N64, Saturn не были распростанены.
[Vinesauce] NFKRZ
12:13 "and by throwing firewalls. When did Mario do that?" Well . . .
IM JUST WONDERING WTF JOHNNY DEPP W/YELSTIN IN 1990s RUSSIA @ 2:02 ?
When you are a russian, kinda weird to watch
исторические документалки о других странах, только эта документалка про ТВОЮ страну
Да, Денди в сердцах, но документалку реально крипово смотреть
херабрин леша 2008 ясно же написано что dendy
Привет брат
@@wewduck6874 Доров
“If you like Nintendo…”
(Plays Sonic’s soundtrack in background.)
sonic 2 emerald hill zone
"Sort of approved by nintendo itself despite given them zero profit." This is the least believable thing in gaming history.
They couldn't do anything about it probably. I can't imaging nintendo rep calling and threatening someone in USSR
@@opex9979 it was all happening AFTER collapse of Soviet Union
@Gui And in the end Sega remained the most popular console in late 90's in Russia and Nintendo is still trashed to this day for different reasons - the main being their overpriced shit that looks like something out of steam greenlight.
That sounds amazing and totally something in another universe
Vodka is bad
Super Nintendo is good
I seriously love Russia now
Антон Монетов it was ace, not ass.
Why not both?
@@inkursion5868 ace is ас, с одной С, bro
@@Anton_Monetov videoassdendy op
@@Eto_Kusay , не мечи бисер перед свиньями, у них не было Dendy, им НЕ ПОНЯТЬ.
In Bulgaria we had Terminator 2 a.k.a Super Design Ending-Man BS-500 AS
Wow, thats pretty sad - the Pegasus in Poland pulled out when copyright laws became a thing and jumped into legal Sega sales. They got burned on the Saturn fiasco and moved on to making a knockoff cola. The original owner is still doing well :)
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Lmao nice find
You know NFKRZ moving up when he can buy random iconic things JUST to show his viewers. Rock on NFKRZ
Probably cause he begs for money through Patreon claiming his videos get demonetised when he clearly has ads. Even on this video he has ads.
It costs like $10-15 now it's not that expensive
@@CV-ly6ct advertisers advertising through youtubers in russia hardly pay for advertising
I wouldn't say that this console is iconic. It's totally modern and doesn't even look as a console.
@@tehValorin the console he played is not an original Dendy, it's modern
My 7 years old was born and growing up in America where I’ve lived for close to 20 years. We started talking about game consoles and for some reason I felt the need to do some research in the Denny that I grew up with. So many childhood memories with this thing. I can’t remember my exact age when parents caved in and bought one for me. We had this archaic Russian made tv and I remember my disappointment when after hooking everything up the image was black and white. Luckily parents ponied up some more right away and got us a modern by those days some Asian country made TV with a remote. It was great fun playing it with buddies. Shopping for cartridges on open air markets prevalent in those days. Maybe I’ll get one for nostalgic reasons to ruminate about the country where I was born and grew up, and has changed so much.. awesome video by the way
Poland: Pegasus
Japan: Famicom (Family Computer)
Russia: Dendy
USA: NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
"Entertainment System" sounds more like something from a stereotypical dystopian USSR. As if the System entertains you regardless of whether you want to be entertained or not.
Brazil: dynacon-dynavision.
Europe: Megadrive
@@jimdavies9354 Europe and Brazil.
@@spessato I see, Sega's European and South American connection haha.
Dendy: Fake it ‘till they take it!
Nintendo: We Good 👍🏻 Don’t support Sega 🤝
Then gets backstabbed, refuse to sell their products and promote sega anyway.
Talk about russian roulette
My mom bought me Dendy when I was 8 years old, back in 90s... best time of my life!
dendy is broken garbage lmao
@@alternatecheems8145 maybe, but not to an 8 year old in 1990s! I had best time vet playing it for hours! It was my first video game console ever (never even seen a computer before)
@@Mazxlol pretty slav thing if you ask me /sarcasm
@@alternatecheems8145 we are all slavs :D
@@Mazxlol 😳👉👈 slav chan UwU /s
You should fully transition to Russian history content because this is fantastic.
History channels are mass demonitized today, so it might not be too good of an idea :(
@@dronfim huh, RUclips must be hating on history
@@Lowmandavis Can't even mention WW2 without getting demonetized. Unless you're the History channel, RUclips gives big companies a pass. But, RUclips doesn't have to worry about that, because the History channel doesn't even show historical shows anymore.
@@mrbisshie dang, that's just messed up
@@mrbisshie all you hear on the history channel is "are aliens real?" "They visited ancient Egypt"
Вы чувствуете на себе чьё-то злобное внимание...
Кинаман пробудился!
Someone translate please?
@ฺ it's not a meme, but a Russian youtuber reference
OfficialSektis there’s a channel kinamania that made a 1,5 hour long video about dendy and the like. You still can watch it with English subtitles
Моя дендя до сих пор работает.
What is wrong with his shoulders??
My Bro's Dad Called His Nintendo...a PRETENDO.
Even though I miss a little bit your gaming videos, your documentaries on Russian media are so introspective, interesting and eye opening that make me forget about those a bit. I am so happy how you grew as a RUclipsr, from a gaming channel, to a commentary channel, to memes and currently your documentaries, it's so refreshing yet at the same time retaining your NFKRZ personality. And yes, I've been looking for a Dendy video for years (or at least one I could understand) and this, this is perfect.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA XD
Just imagine the fact, that you're a kid on earth, watching TV, and the host, equivalent of the danish "Bubber" (That's for you, Roman), saying "Vodka is bad, Super Nintendo is good" x'D
I can confirm, from Denmark, that both Vodka and Super Nintendo is SPITZEN KLASSE!
lol
I grew up in India. And we had pretty much same scene as other Asian countries. Countless FamiClones!
I had Golden Yellow Famiclone called "COSMOS" which was 1:1 NES with NES like ports and square controllers (with 4 buttons two turbo) and same Grey NES Zapper gun!
My sister called Nikita, had a Famiclone called...Nikita! It was a Megadrive look.
My one Cousin had another Megadrive rip off famiclone called TERMINATOR II!
And other cousin had that Dendy Jr from above video!
Heh, I saw Kinaman's video on the topic years ago (Grey Elephant's Curse, for anyone interested). Nevertheless, I'm glad you touched upon this as well - and thanks for bringing back those good ol' memories, Rom.
PS. A small trivia for ya: the Eastern-European bootleg of NES/Famicom, Pegasus, was made by a bogus company BobMark, founded by a guy who had preciously imported used clothes from Asia to Polish second-hand shops... however, the mid-90s amendments to Polish Copyright Law - more specifically, 1994 update to _Ustawa o prawie autorskim_ - turned out to be a "little" obstacle to his business.
BobMark didn't share the fate of Steepler and go bankrupt, though, and continued to stay in business; and that's because they just ditched video games & started to produce fizzy, carbonated drinks licensed from the West.
More info on the topic: /watch?v=T7VMrGr1BhE
I started gaming in 1980, when I was 8, on the Atari 2600 of my elder Brother. Which is 18 Years older and already lived with his Wife together in an own Flat. So I could only play, when I visited him, every few Weeks. Later I got a Microvision Handheld, which I still own, a Vectrex-Console (sadly I don't have it anymore), a Commodore 64, a Commodore Amiga 600 and so on.
But I never heard of the Dendy-Console before. So it was very interesting. Thank you! :)
Your "narrator voice" is so different that I didn't realize it was you speaking until I realized it sounded a little familiar.
Great English btw
"Видео асс" possibly means Video Ace
Maybe, but in russian "ace" pronounce "ас". Maybe they added extra letter just to sound cooler or it could be abbreviation of some sort.
Marcel Walter
, "Video Ace" is a true meaning. "Видео асс" - word "асс" is an old version of "ас".
It actually does, lol
Heh
Video ass
@@poochyenajones1362No, it just pronounces "ass".
Wasn’t expecting a Scott the Woz reference.
We Indians had the console called "imagination" best game library ever .
what about the alapa
You missed out on life by playing with your imagination.
Yea and your favourite game is "shitting street bros"
I like turtles
@@SpaceLight202 kek
Is it just me or does stalin look like mario
He is basically a wario in real life
red is bored WAAAAAAAAAAA
red is bored 🤪😂🤣😙
Capitalist propaganda!
Nah just you bro
It's like the console your grandma brings back from her Bali holiday.
that super mario world sega mega drive game is actually a rom hack of a game called squirrel king, which is ironically a unlicensed game
I was sort've confused by the Hamy console part of the video when you were talking about the Dendy. It seemed like it had some common titles like the Dendy from what you were saying, but I felt the connection was weak as it wasn't the same thing as a Dendy. Some additional elaboration might've helped there. Also, listing some sources (maybe in the video description) would give you more credibility and let viewers research the topic some more. Otherwise, I really liked this break in style from some of your other videos. It's nice to have a little variety. I enjoyed learning from it. Good job!
It's kinda interesting to hear that another country also uses the word xerox to describe any photocopying machine... I actually didn't know it was a brand until now tbh, cool story bro
I think that most of East Europe does it
There is still a shop in my native city called "Центр Денди" (Dendy's Center). But it's just a history bit. By now they selling only tv equipment and spare parts for electronics.
Woow good job Roman, really informative and professional video!
I had a "Nintendo Playstation" as a kid that used cartridges. There were apparently only 200 prototypes produced?? And we just got it for free from our neighbor in a poor Finnish suburb??
It didn't have the original controllers, but it would probably still be worth a lot today. Unfortunately it stopped working in 2000 when I was 4 and we threw it in the thrash 😭
The only remaining one has sold for 300,000 dollars 😮
"Vodka bad, SNES good" is probably the most successeful anti-alcohol ad in Russia.
That's called a "genericized trademark", when all photocopiers become known as "a xerox", video games consoles all being called 'dendy', and all cold soda drinks being known as 'coke' in the American south. Very interesting video.
Thank you
Canadians call all jetskis "sea-doo" and all drug dealers call resealable bags ziploc
We have a similar thing in the UK, the most common vacuum cleaner was the the "hoover", so most people refer to their hoover regardless of the actual brand.
sport shoes are commonly called adidasy in polish
also the only way to call a disposable razor is "żyletka" from polonized gilette - that one is in dictionaries
Yeah or how all water heaters called "Ariston" in Post-Soviet countries
10:48 they actually got the ROM from the official Brazilian port of Duke Nukem 3D. I'm shocked!
I recently found out about these game consoles from another RUclipsr. Blew me away. I just thought everyone had access to NES . Thanks for the vid. Have watched a few of your videos and really enjoyed it. Hitting the subscribe button!
This channel is ground breaking. Noone ever speaks of social and day to day life type history of Russian
Vodka: Bleh!
Super Nintendo: Good!
but...
Vodka AND Super Nintendo: Awesome!
I know this video is old by now, but damn Roman, the new type of content you've started making after getting into uni and studying languages is something I really enjoy nowadays keep it up
* NES and SEGA Genesis performing fusion dance *
* HamY4 emerges *
I like how the TV in the Dendy ad is named "Sonya"
Japan: we're gonna make the best console for games
Russia: hold my blyat, cyka.
Надеюсь ты импотент.
@@NecroticHelios are you bydlo?
Russian «blyat» is more like English «fuck».
"Hold my fuck, bitch" ?
Word Blyat literally means 'Whore'
I am from Romania and in the 80s where arcade machines and some big shops where selling consoles and TVs with consoles integrated.
11:56 The speed and animation at which Mario throws the crates leads me to believe this is a Sega Genesis version of Chip & Dale. See the NES version for a comparison.
As an Taiwanese I'm surprised our country would be mentioned,but than again that time era is probably near the end of our golden age...
You are having golden era NOW.
i mean a lot of americans like myself buy things that are made in vietnam or india yet a lot of us know little about those countries and they probably dont know a whole lot about us either
Nintendo Entertainment Slav
No, its not NES! It is DES for Dendy Effortless Slav
Im from Germany born in the mid 80s and my best friend had a Turkish(?) fake NES/SNES concole. You put the NEs style cartridges in it from the top, like an SNES, it had SNES controller and the NES gun for shooting birds. It came with 1 game cartridge that had like 250 games on it like Contra and all. Now I'm wondering what kind of weird hybrid NES/SNES concole that was. (You couldn't use the 250-in-1 NES-style cartridge in a original NES , though.)
My childhood was a lie i actually thought dendy was a legit thing
Russia hasn't been legit since 1917.
Me too.
@@undercoverneunzehn fuck reds. we are still struggling with their deeds
Ку сай Yet here in America, gullible college students swear up and down that communism is the right way to go. I wish they could have a chat with people that suffered through living in an actual communist country.
@@2yoyoyo1Unplugged exactly they keep saying that but communism never really worked
5:46 Actually, this translates like "video ace", no "ass")))
Kinamania made a great video about Dandy: Grey Elephant Curse (Проклятие серого слонёнка
)
8:00 "Felix the Cat"
NYET NYET PUT IT BACK
*het
HET
uncle jobel look away
Calm down. Look closer, it's in the 8-bit section. It's the original version, not Russian bootleg.
*F E L I X T H E H E T*
12:12 NFKRZ - ....or shooting fire balls, since when does Mario do that?!??!
Fire Flower - *am I a joke to you!?!??!*
Justsomeguy the throwing objects was also in Super Mario Bros. 2 so this man did indeed miss out
it looks like a Chip'n'Dale clone but with diffrent sprites
@@alexandrvasilev2865 it is. This is a hack of unlicensed game called Squirrel King which itself was an unauthorized port of the Chip 'n' Dale game for NES.
Justsomeguy super mario 64 and all the other 3D games: am I a joke to you?
7:46 there's a random tp-link router quick-start guide in the box
The way you delivered the information in this video was spot on, a very informative and fact filled video brilliant 😊👍.
Wow 😮 great job! I love these “history” videos!
In Hungary these were unknown items. We bought Commodore 16 in 1987. Then a C64 in '90, and Amiga 1200 in '94. And all of our friends something like these - ZX Spectrum, Enterprise, Commodore plus 4, Amiga 500, and since the mid '90-s some kind of PC-s.
Battle City (at 10:13) was a thing in Hungary too (tho I played it on pc). oh the feels :D does anyone remember Dyna Blaster/Bomberman?
Bomberman! I could play that for hours and hours while visiting my Polish grandmother. Together with Milk n Nuts, Contra, Mario, Tank (Battle City), Arkanoid and Duck Hunt :D.
@@LuiePool , I remember all these games)
Roman: it's pronounced "counter-fit"
Remember optronics in the 1990's and Quantum Loop Logicgates? Feels like 1995 went through backwards revisions
*V I D E O - A S S D E N D Y*
Translated, that would be "Video Ace Dendy".
"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", however is "Агенты Щ.И.Т.", pronounced "Aghenty SHIT" (yes, "shield" in Russian is "shit" [щит])
@@Booruvcheek shield in my language (Czech) is štít, which is pretty similar 😁
@@FilFee 🤝 Common Slavic root, I guess
@@Booruvcheek to be fair, щит would normally transliterate as "shchit" and not "shit", though it is pronounced similarly
@@JosephRobinsonSMBX These transliterations never seize to irritate me. For instance, why Хабаровск would be transliterated as Khabarovsk? This word does NOT start with K! Just because French can't read a good honest H at the start of a word, sacre bleu.. (alsoKharkov, kolkhoz).
Same thing with words starting with H transliterated as starting with Г (Henry -> Генри, Hamburg -> Гамбург).
They've been breaking so often that in my lifetime I've had like 5 or 6 Dendys. The last one I bought in like 2005, they were still selling in a small town near Smolensk where PC at that time was like Porsche, I guess. Except no one had it
PC in 2005 was pretty widespread in CIS countries.
@@viper6741 not everywhere, trust me
@@Kirshach yes, but comparing with rarity of Porsche is not that accurate
Kirshach
Нихуя-се у меня смертестойкая денди, если у такого большого количества людей оная не раз ломалась. Моя вот уже второй десяток работает.
To Poland, Smolensk is a controversial city.
In Malta we had very popular the Micro Genius consoles - Like you said pretty much the same console as the Dendy. Very popular was the IQ-1000 or IQ-2000 with wireless controller.
The reason why these 90's console cost so much is pretty simple. The quality. Despite it were unlicensed copies, it were wery stable and pretty indentical to pal famicom. The reason why dendy classic costed so much, and not every family could afford it, it is just 100% copy of famicom, and it is the main reason why 90% of these console still work. Dendy junior was technically simplified version. And that is the reason why some of theses coppies had it's own minuses, were not so stable, and sometimes some games didn't work on them properly. Still thee also have great quality. Other console's - well, it was cat in the bag. Some of them were good. Some not. I had Liko ( one of subor models). And console itself was wery good. Gamepads worked 6 years, and then was broken. If we had oportunity two change gamepads, it still would be with me. It was reallu good. But other, who bought subor, werent so lucky. And nowadays bootleg consoles are usually total crap. Cheap motherboards, with one chip only.
What concernes sega. Well, in dendy shop were two models l - original japanese, and bootleg version. These bootleg version usually were good. Another sega clone wich was good wad Kenga, these copies even had sega cd port, and japanese sega cd are completly worke with it. There is one good new clone. Sega retro hd, ( I hope i writted it correctly).
Владимир Галицкий most of this doesn’t make sense for example “ cat in the bag” is not an expression and to “let the cat out of the bag” means to give up a secret by accident....
@@theycallmesavage573 It is an expression, but Russian. To "buy cat in a bag" means something alike "to get something cheap, hoping that you will get something good, but knowing that risk of defective wares is quite high"
"OUR CONSOLE"
[plays Soviet Anthem]
BONIC!!!!
@@Zedek ournic
ohhhh party of sega, strength of the people
СОЮЗ НЕРУШИМЫЙ РЕСПУБЛИК СВОБОДНЫХ
I sent this video to my father, he sad he had the famicom edition. Sadly he let the console in Kasachstan when he moved to germany. :(
Still have my OG Dendy Junior. I was shocked(as probably all Russians), when i got myself an internet access in a late 2000s, that those Dendys were actually ripoff of japanese gaming console Famicom.
Remember vodka bad super Nintendo good!
Why i love russia in a few words lol