I grew up with a Dendy and it's important to understand the economics behind the bootlegging. Nintendo didn't have regional pricing on anything. Meanwhile the average salary for people would be under $200/month in the early 90s. This didn't change much leading into 2000s. The mere idea of buying an "official" game system and having to buy original cartridges was out of the ordinary. It was available only to the super rich. This was the real trigger for Dendy becoming popular. What happened in generations after (like the Sega Mega Drive) is "chipping" of consoles, that allowed bootleg cartridges to be played. It wasn't until Steam came about that Eastern European/post-soviet blocks were able to afford original games. I wish someone made a video diving into this more.
I'm from Sweden and I had a similar experience growing up. Buying a modded console was so amazing at the time. The original xbox with hundreds of games on it for only 10-50 dollars max? Amazing. Wasn't really until we got better internet so we could play online through steam (and play lots of halo 3 on the 360) that we stopped buying fakes.
Living in a former Soviet country, I also inherited a Dendy Junior from my father. It introduced me to Nintendo games and made me a fan of the brand forever. Although Dendy is a bootleg console, it was a huge part of childhood for the many here in Eastern Europe and people are familiar with Mario and the like thanks to it
Its just awesome to hear about another cultures exposure to the same source material lol. Would love to see a modern day platformer with Dendy the elephant lol.
I cant help but to hear snark remarks and shaming this whole thing. I understand that they basically stole and resold the nes as their own console. But you should also look up history of eastern europe in 80s-90s, that eastern european countries struggled to recover from the soviet unions reign. Either there was no official nes to buy or it was too expensive, I was actually very glad my dad was able to get one of these copies so we could experience these games
Well it was pretty big in many European countries. The NES was barely adopted in most countries with most people either sticking with home computers or this kind of bootlegs.
LPDani123 My apologies. Some of our countrymen here have had it so well they can't imagine not having Mommy and Daddy get them the best of the best and taking it all go granted. So they act like egotistical morons to those less fortunate. I joined the military after 9/11, I was 19, I saw some places and people living in abhorrent conditions which gave me a newfound respect and appreciation of life and sympathy for those less fortunate.
Original NES/Famicom is clone hardware itself... MOS Technologies made the 6502 CPU. Dendy Junior has a better color scheme than the Famicom and has composite out. Also very easy to mod into NTSC. I think it's an awesome system.
The channel that you called 'OPT' is actually 1. Pronounced as "ORT', standing for Общественное Российское Телевидение or Russian Public Television 2. The biggest channel in Russia
They didn't steal the units, they made them. No units where taken from Nintendo. They weren't counterfeit units. Counterfeit units would be marketed as real Nintendo units in an effort to deceive people into thinking they where real Nintendo units. What these people did was use their own money to develop a product and bring it to areas where Nintendo either chose not to, or where unable to, market their units. They made gaming possible for people who other wise would not have been able to get gaming units. I'm not saying that what they did was legal or not. I'm saying you used inaccurate terms to put these guys in a negative light. I for one think companies like this are great. They produce competition which is good for everything.
This guy is tolerable, but I think when you have guests on your show you need to remind them it's your show, not theirs. So him acting like a goof isn't exactly for everyone, just fans of him. You've had countless good examples from PBG, Barry, ProtonJon, Stryder, etc. who all follow the DYKG style. Remember that you have a certain style that people are used to on this channel.
^Basically this I just worry about seeing another MrWeebl styled video. Again, this guy is alright, but I can see him rubbing a few people the wrong way.
@@ValcristRoda unlike the comment I replied to, nobody implied anything of sort. Defending is one thing, dismissing someone's opinion entirely is another.
Don’t know if that was intentional, but the captions in the outro are just outlandish. Sergei Suponev was just trying help a kid with connecting the console to a TV
As I Russian, I initially was glad DYKG had produced a video on my country's videogame history, but then I heard the quotes and saw the tasteful imagery.
I mean... the video was about Russians stealing a product from another company and selling it as their own making huge profits on it. That warrants ridicule. On top of it, Russia is a fucked up country overall...
While accent humor in itself is not inherently bad, reading someone's quote (especially a lengthy one) in a bad accent representing their ethnicity is not the best idea... plus it wasn't funny.
@@patriciaverso Naahhh not really. If you were to insult me and say something I didn't like I'd probably be mad for about a minute, then continue about my day and forget it even happened. Lol you silly spastic, YOU made YOU mad; nobody else.
Here in Brazil it's actually rare to find a NES console because the market was taken by the bootleg brands. That's why the Sega Master System was more successful over here
In Argentina we had Family Videogame, wich was basicallly the same thing. A blatant rip off the Famicom. We also used to have those cartridges with 9999999 games in 1
@@ЕвгенийБоровинский-з8ж to this day I still find some cheap stores selling NES clones disguised as PS3, PS4, Xbox One and more, all are shit of course
I guess it's just a question of different perspectives, maybe people from the western countries have a point in demeaning and ridiculing the whole Dendy thing for practically stealing Nintendo's work (as expected, because propaganda and learning to hate Russia is apparently pretty OK over there, so why not use this as a small opportunity, right?) But I, as a Russian dude am eternally grateful to the people who brought Dendy here. It's thanks to them that I have fond memories of all these great games like Mario, Excitebike, Duck Hunt, Contra etc. It's thanks to them that I have been a big big fan of gaming since 5 years old. And in fact it's thanks to Dendy that I know about Nintendo and because of that and because of being familiar with the kind of games Nintendo create I NOW have the opportunity to purchase actual official Nintendo consoles and games to support the company I love so much. Heck, it's partly the reason I am able to speak English at least to a certain degree. I have close to 50 games on DS and 3DS combined and like 10-15 games installed on my Switch. And because emulators exist I was able to play at least a couple of games from each of the previous Nintendo consoles. So some people may see all of this as stealing, but the amount of good it did for the kids of that generation cannot be overstated.
Indeed, it made our childhood a joy in this areas where the people are plagued by the poverty every day since the communism. This games were our little joy in this cruel world.
Kinamania is awesome.. his first few videos are subtitled in English. It's was nuts to see what he had to deal with, games that would not be able to be finished (like get to stage 3 in a really hard game and the game would just lock up, i think Konami bootlegs do that.), just bad games. He does go into history, has magazines, great stuff.
@Joan Miriam Hicks Yeah i remember same thing happened to me on Shatterhand game (Southeast Europe region tho) . I was amazed by the gameplay , it eventually become one of my favorites .. but the game just locked up after stage 2 iirc. Never got to see any further, i was so mad lol .. until 20 yrs later rediscovering the game on youtube . 80% of the experience with bootlegs were fine but they were some games indeed which were bugged with intention i guess by the company itself. some form of protection similar to what DRM is doing today with the new games until they get cracked.
It may seem funny for you Americans, but there's a reason those bootlegs exist. Same story with Polish Pegazus. There was simply no access (or there was, but it was extremely expensive and/or had to be bought abroad) to original systems and games. It wasn't until the early 2000s when people kinda stopped pirating stuff. Kinda.
The difference between using a fake accent for a joke and using one for a quote, is that a joke is often an exaggerated version of reality, while a quote is a real portrayal of what someone said.
Ugh, no. Cringy accented reading, and those jokes mistranslating things for lawls... Extra oof when you go and do a bit of research and find out that the program host in the end not only was a beloved children's programming figure in his country, but also died in an accident. Folks, just go watch the "Grey Elephant's Curse" right away, it has subtitles and actual damn respect for this particular part of gaming history. Don't bother with this one.
This host was terrible. Didnt we already have on DYKG the other "unique" host where they let him act like a goddamn fool, took the video down, apologized, and uploaded it without that particular host? I hope they do that again. I watch things like "DYKG" for the information, not piss poor attempts at "comedy".
@@TheXnaut You really think this qualifies as 'amazing'? This must have been an off day for that dude if the other stuff on his channel is worth watching.
Why is it that people like YOU get so upset just because ONE of DYKG's videos has a different narrator from the usual? At least give him a chance, he himself probably wanted to do this. People like you are so unappreciative.
LeaveTheMark there are plenty of narrators that haven’t needed to resort to “wacky” accents and humor for DYKG, especially for a “history of” video. It’s just not a good fit for these types of videos, and it wasn’t even funny.
@@Tribladeofchaos He's just trying to bring something new to the table by presenting his own style and personality to this video. It probably isn't suited for a history video, but he's only trying to be humorous. I guess humor is banned in these videos, from the way you people sound. Not to mention, while it is nice they're good narrators, it gets repetitive listening to Dazz, Greg, and Remix in every video. So when they try to bring someone else up to narrate, they just complain about it. How fucked up!
LeaveTheMark I don’t think you understand. Humor is supposed to be funny, this was not funny in the slightest. And “they” complain about it because this a bad video, bad editing and bad host. I wouldn’t go to this guy’s channel if this was my first impression of his work.
Well, it was mostly correct. Steepler also sold computers and PC games and also had a PC games TV Programme called "Ot vinta". Also, there was an official Sega distributor in Russia and even a TV Programme called "Sonic the Super Hedgehog" which was a competition between 2 families playing Mega Drive games. And this distributor was probably the only company that sold European Mega Drive with red buttons.
Back in those days 90% of Russian kids never heard of Nintendo, so it was advertised as official console, not a bootleg and even on TV the anchor was saying that you should buy this console ONLY in 'official' stores to avoid buying a bootleg, lol :) 10% of Russian kids back then had Famicoms and later Genesis (mega drive) consoles imported from Japan by their fathers, who were sailors (or in any way connected to the sea travels to Japan shores)
More like 0.1% I'd say. Well, maybe in Moscow that was the case? They were later sold on all sorts of bazaars like Mitino, but that kind of thing arguably bloomed when Dendy was in decline already.
I had dendy, also had Subor “another variant” of dendy. Dendy was so much better than original Nintendo. Joysticks were way ahead of its time. Also game cartridges contained sometimes over a 100 games. Sergey Suponev died unfortunately. Skiing accident.
9:32 That's what he actually says (I kinda tried to translate): So anyway, that's the duck game. (this line isn't screwed up) Pretty different games are featured on this cartridge, but they're only related by one thing: they're both 8-bit games, so the color, the graphics and the music are similar. The next letter in my hands is from Sanitov Edik from Volgograd, 62. That's what what he says: _"I have the console Yunior (reading Ju as Yu)... but I call it Junior, because it's more proper pronounciation... and 8 cartridges for it. - [Oh-ho, 8 cartridges for Dendy, that's is pretty many of them!] - They (probably parents) bought me it under a year ago, I'm playing Dendy with TV "Record VC-381"... _*_Yeah, that TV exists._*_ Please tell me why when I'm playing the picture isn't colored?"_ Uhum, Edik, so you're playing the entire year with black-white picture? ... Poor guy... Actually, I think there might be several reasons: first, you might have wired wrong console to the TV, so the color fades out, the signal from the console Dendy is not really... _(video fades out)_
The story of Pegasus isn't that much different from the Russian version. Some guy in the late 80's/early 90's thought he would get a manufacturer of bootleg famicoms and be the sole distributor of the console in Poland. It wasn't licenced and BOOM there you go, a Polish famicom with all the bootleg games from china, taiwan, and other places. Arhn.eu does a really good retrospective of this. Check it out. ruclips.net/video/T7VMrGr1BhE/видео.html
i agree, it felt like the worst kind of padding, like filling paper bags with broken glass. if they were aiming for that 10 minute mark then they shouldve included more facts and less padding.
Played a lot at the early 90’s with my friends. Due to bootleg issues most of platformers were on max complexity. E.g. contra game were nearly impossible to beat.
You mean extremely difficult to beat. E.g. not having continues in different games (Ninja Gaiden, Contra), one hit kill screen glitch (you get hit and game goes bonkers with broken code or freezes), no power ups in some games at all (Ninja Gaiden)...and many more.
I am from Russia, born in 1990. I watched all the video 5 times trying to find all those insulting racism Russian accents. He has just misread a Dragon word on Russian and named it Fragon. Please, could anyone of you give me some timecodes about controversial places in the video?
Love the episode but the way you were reading the statements of the Russian guy it was just dumb. Just read them as any other episode you have done in the past and not use those fake accents if you will do another region locked content from elsewhere in the world, IMHO. Edit: It seems they cut that part.
I really didn't like the style of the host, and I hope that this video doesn't discourage better RUclipsrs in making a Dendy video (Gaming Historian pls), although the Kinaman ones are the best one those videos could ever be because he lived the Dendy curse. Anyway, the host isn't a bad person at all, but his humour is cringy af.
In Argentina there were so many different bootleg Famiclones, that they were actually competing with each other and had different TV commercials. Everyone refered to them as "Family Games" because of the most popular Bootleg being called that, but they were all different, usually different color or shape of the joystick, but inside it was just the same famiclone.
Some of these bootleg games were not possible to beat due to built-in copyright protection. Konami for instance had it in some of their games. For example, Shredder in TMNT 3 was unkillable, so you couldn’t complete the game. In Ninja Gaiden I think you had less weapons to grab. In some games you had less lives or smaller health bars. It was hardcore.
Did they really just reference that picture of Luigi. "That's how it is on this bitch of an earth" I truly feel sorry for the pure souls googling it now.
Wow, lots of people demanding super serious narration for their videos about children's toys. Great vid guys, ignore the haters, they just need to loosen up.
In my country Indonesia, NES officially release in 1991 (same year as SNES release worldwide) but before that we got a similar system, a bootleg NES called " *Spica* ", no different compare to Russian "Dendy" except the name obviously.
I played one of these in Russia back in the day at a relatives house, it was pretty cool. I liked the orange cartridges. Had no idea it was a bootleg console at the time or what Nintendo was lol
Holy shit, something I'm actually knowledgeable about for once. I have a bootleg of a bootleg of a Dendy and since the original owner changed the timing crystal on it to be NTSC, it's been my favourite console.
Critique the government of Russia if you want, but hating on the people of Russia isn't cool or funny to me. As someone who likes these games I think it's actually cool that this guy "stole" these games for Russians to play, otherwise they couldn't have experienced them.
In the eastern part of Russia we bought chinese clones of NES, some have original Famicom from Japan and almost no one have that Dendy! But everyone wanted it - Dendy was kind of a dream and no one knew about all these NES, Famicoms, clones, originals, copyrights or anything like this. Later in 199x we were buying chinese clones of Mega Drive at "Chinese markets"
That’s interesting, thank you for that perspective. I imagine maybe that was easier to get your hands on those because of a closer proximity to the Japanese market - were you stuck playing games that you couldn’t read the text on screen?
@@nerdcity usually original Famicoms and other (Super Famicon, n64, saturn, ps one, 3do) ones were in the sailors families. All the other lucky children were having different Chinese clones (there were lot of them! - with guns, shaped like a car, keyboard, with different design of controllers, all with turbo buttons and some turbo buttons were more "turbo" than others :) ) you know even those Chinese cheap clone systems were pretty expensive especially at the early 199x. And for all of us original one was the Dendy! :) About games - all were Chinese copies on different languages, including Japanese language. Yeah we were stuck with playing these games sometimes. The reasons were: the language, capcon copyright protection (impossible to kill first Shredder in the TMNT Manhattan Project), freezing at the same moment of the game. And sometimes (almost never) we were playing Famicom cartridges and Dendy cartridges, but who cares - game is a game in the childhood.
Oof, quite a number to unpack here but I'll try to be brief: 1. Native Russian speaker here, accent thing is not a… thing for me. IMO if a mock accent offends you, you better check your life priorities and/or grow a thicker skin, regardless of whether it's your native language is being impersonated (outside of situations where some kind of malicious intent is clear, which I don't think what we have here). 2. However, the overall quality of the video *is* an issue. Short story: it's a tasteless, cringy production. Not so short: when the substance of your material is just a notch more than wikipedia page narration, you better compensate with presentation - and this video just does not. Editing is subpar, pacing is all over the place, and the attempts at "humor" don't help at all. The latter's just a killer tbh, it's "Adam Sandler school" at its worse, when most "jokes" do not contain joke at all (including but not limited to the mock accent thing), and the ones that do would make a groaning cricket eyeroll. I'm still lost about what the ending "subtitles" were trying to achieve (to anyone in doubt - no, not the actual translation, but again I don't quite know what it was supposed to be). 3. I don't really have a grudge with DidYouKnowGaming directly regarding this or any other video, a constant stream of guest hosts virtually guarantees some percentage of misfires. That said, I can only hope the "one of the best youtube channels" line was recorded in advance, as I just can't imagine someone in their right mind giving any kind of praise after seeing the final cut.
If you had a thicker skin you wouldn't be leaving this comment either, following the same logic. If you don't like something and choose to take it instead of voicing it then good for you, it has fuck all to do with priorities or thick skin however.
TheRadioSquare You do realize voicing an opinion and being offended don't go hand in hand, no? The comment is literally about video being of poor quality regardless of "offensive" parts. Some "logic" following you got there.
@@Digijester you do realize that voicing an opinion and being offended are not mutually exclusive but also a matter of perspective. Your complaints can be easily grouped together with them.
@@TheRadioSquare it's pretty offensive to leave words out of foreigner's quotes just to make their intelligence seem lower and make them seem more foreign I don't even care about the bad accent, even if its cringy. I just find misquoting people to diminish their intelligent for not being a natural English speaker to be a bigger issue.
@@montengro234 Yeah putting on a fake accent is one thing but purposefully removing parts of a quote just so that you can continue said accent is just plain wrong.
They should of gotten Joel or Vinny to do this considering how they've done lots of things having to do with bootleg games and plug and plays on their streams. Accent doesn't offend me just wanted to get that idea out there.
I think the main reason for lack of interest for SNES was its limited consumer base. Therefore, the kids would not be able to trade games as much as the Sega owners. I remember Sergey Suponev offered a kid a Super Nintendo as a grand prize in one of his programs, and the kid politely declined requesting Sega instead, so he can trade with his friends.
When Nintendo signed a contract with Steepler to promote and sell SNES in Russia they closed their eyes on Steepler selling bootlegs. So it was official in some way.
*for just $500 you can own a hoody and coffee table book* how the hell is this channel not making enough money? remember when you guys were spamming 4chan to get started?
Ребята те кто из россий и Стран СНГ, давайте поддержим автора он старался про нас рассказать миру: Про наш пиратскую-родную Dendy)))))) DidYouKnowGaming? - Man in any case, thank you for the video, it came out cool. But in the beginning of the video did nothing Accent and curves like playing Russian in the game Call of duty-2
I don't appreciate the derogatory tone this video has, I'm surprised I missed the video somehow but I'm glad I did. I live in Macedonia and famiclone consoles were the default "Nintendo" platform for everyone in the early 90's here even tho real NES games and systems were around too, Nintendo never officially licensed anything here but we still had everything regardless. I don't have the energy to argue over a 3 year old video made by American losers with their heads up their butts, all I can say is that we had everything here and weren't behind on anything regardless of whether our countries had official licenses for these games or not.
Only this year I found out about bootlegging in eastern-europe, and what a struggle it was for people to get their hands on video games, let alone a console. But I know enough of this topic to find this video pretty insulting to a lot of people. I don't know if the research for this video was on your guest or on you at DYKG, but it's severely lacking here. That is not the kind of content, nor the quality, I'm used to, from one of my favorite channels on RUclips.
Also, WTF was this "letter reading"? The host answered a question about BW image, not this kind of shite. That's a disgrace. So, apparently, you can't be racist towards Russian people. SMH.
I had a "Terminator" NES clone in a Megadrive shell, that my parents bought for me in Bulgaria. Was pretty sweet, with the tanks games, Super Mario and Adventure island. I think I burned out a couple of power adapters playing duck hunt on it.
Well this was my childhood and I'm glad I was introduced to nes games by this. Better than nothing. Back then we didn't even know it was a bootleg or anything. We just played the games. China was the real MVP back then. I also got a famiclone gifted to me brought from Arab emirates and it had 800 games built in letting you play without any cartridges. Majority of games were the same but with different modifications like infinite lives or level select but it had around 50 original titles with games like megaman, contra, tiny toon adventures, chip and dale, Mario etc among them. Megaman was super rare on bootleg cartridges in russia and almost no one had it. I was so lucky to have it and I kept playing it night and day like a maniac. Since then I'm a huge fan of the series. Scary to think that I wouldn't have my childhood with my megaman now without this dude who hired some Chinese to rip off Nintendo.
Nintendo itself is Japanese multinational in fact. China had nothing to do with it. The creator of Mario and NES console+NES games in general were japanese.
@DidYouKnowGaming thanks for the video, but as a native Russky speaker I have to say your ending sequence was squeakin' bullpoop.What subtitles said was completely different from what Suponev was reading from his papers, and that is even more so offensive than your guest author's poor mocking accent. Anyway, thanks for shedding some light on our bootleg famicom games.
I like the more neutral feel of DYKG "extra" content, rather than this style. Usually you get a guest presenter who isn't trying to 'tude it up with personality. This video takes an interesting subject and makes it grating to listen to.
You were able to save on American NES? Back when we used to play Dendy in Soviet Russia, you use up your 3 lives GG bro, start from scratch. I used to be really good at those games, restart so many times, and redo everything so many times, I still 25 years later remember every secret in any game I've played.
In Hungary it is called the 'Sárga kazettás Nintendo' which means yellow cartridge Nintendo, if you google the hungarian phrase, you will see a lot of it is still sold here :D
@@TheRadioSquare International tone? that's your interpretation, compelling someone's expression is ironically as Marxist Soviet as Russia was when it was at it's most miserable.
@@leeboy2k1 thought I made a typo but no, you just read it wrong. Also that's an idiotic comparison to make. Go ahead and bring in Nazis next just cause people didn't like a shitty joke about how dumb is a guy who was responsible for millions of kids being able to experience video games in a country with a terrible entertainment industry.
Considering that the show is meant to pay homage to 90s-era stuff like video games and trading cards, that must be it. PPS. The Dendy elephant sometimes has yellow pants and blue shoes, like how OK KO's Dendy has a yellow suit and blue boots. I've also discovered that the young version of Velma has a similar visual design to Dendy; similar hair color and hairdo, similar glasses, and they both wear yellow. PPPS. From what else I've found on Wikipedia, (I as an American have never heard of the console before until I decided to look up things called Dendy on Wikipedia) there's also an area in Australia called Dendy's Special Survey, part of which is around 5 miles from another place called Batman's Hill, and the hill itself was first claimed by Captain John Lancey of the ship Enterprize, not to be confused with John de Lancie, who used to play Q in the 90s Star Trek shows.
The episode is somewhat ignorant. TXC made original games. Other Taiwanese developers made original games. You make TXC and Bit Corp look stupid, whereas in all reality they did fabulous hard- and software.
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I grew up with a Dendy and it's important to understand the economics behind the bootlegging. Nintendo didn't have regional pricing on anything. Meanwhile the average salary for people would be under $200/month in the early 90s. This didn't change much leading into 2000s. The mere idea of buying an "official" game system and having to buy original cartridges was out of the ordinary. It was available only to the super rich. This was the real trigger for Dendy becoming popular. What happened in generations after (like the Sega Mega Drive) is "chipping" of consoles, that allowed bootleg cartridges to be played. It wasn't until Steam came about that Eastern European/post-soviet blocks were able to afford original games. I wish someone made a video diving into this more.
I second that
That would be interesting.
Haha you bootleg Russians and your trash childhood games!
I'm from Sweden and I had a similar experience growing up. Buying a modded console was so amazing at the time. The original xbox with hundreds of games on it for only 10-50 dollars max? Amazing. Wasn't really until we got better internet so we could play online through steam (and play lots of halo 3 on the 360) that we stopped buying fakes.
@@Miniskirt29 Fuck you.
Living in a former Soviet country, I also inherited a Dendy Junior from my father. It introduced me to Nintendo games and made me a fan of the brand forever.
Although Dendy is a bootleg console, it was a huge part of childhood for the many here in Eastern Europe and people are familiar with Mario and the like thanks to it
Its just awesome to hear about another cultures exposure to the same source material lol. Would love to see a modern day platformer with Dendy the elephant lol.
@@BakiX they even had money for cartoon...it was weird! :)
There's been a documentary out for years about the Dendy made by Russian RUclipsr "Kinamania" called "The Grey Elephant's Curse".
gyuudon h jk I stayed wondering if Kinamania would appear impersonating the creator of Dendy. That would have been a nice touch.
he talks about it at the end, i dont think u were listening
So...what?
that channel has way too few english subbed videos!
Immediately, I don't trust the look of that shifty-ass unprocessed umbrella stand...
I cant help but to hear snark remarks and shaming this whole thing. I understand that they basically stole and resold the nes as their own console. But you should also look up history of eastern europe in 80s-90s, that eastern european countries struggled to recover from the soviet unions reign. Either there was no official nes to buy or it was too expensive, I was actually very glad my dad was able to get one of these copies so we could experience these games
Back then consoles cost several million rubles, lol :))
(If you convert it to today's numbers it was about 3-4 Russian parents' full salaries)
Well it was pretty big in many European countries. The NES was barely adopted in most countries with most people either sticking with home computers or this kind of bootlegs.
Sorry for the snark and shaming. A lot of Americans still have resentment over the cold war. I'm glad you got to enjoy the games with your dad.
LPDani123 My apologies. Some of our countrymen here have had it so well they can't imagine not having Mommy and Daddy get them the best of the best and taking it all go granted. So they act like egotistical morons to those less fortunate. I joined the military after 9/11, I was 19, I saw some places and people living in abhorrent conditions which gave me a newfound respect and appreciation of life and sympathy for those less fortunate.
Original NES/Famicom is clone hardware itself... MOS Technologies made the 6502 CPU.
Dendy Junior has a better color scheme than the Famicom and has composite out. Also very easy to mod into NTSC. I think it's an awesome system.
The channel that you called 'OPT' is actually
1. Pronounced as "ORT', standing for Общественное Российское Телевидение or Russian Public Television
2. The biggest channel in Russia
It's more known as Channel First.
@@legokirbymanchannel Perwij Kanal :D
I noticed that too. He must have read the Cyrillic “Р” as a Latin “R”
@@legokirbymanchannel It was later renamed from OPT to Channel First, to this day.
They didn't steal the units, they made them. No units where taken from Nintendo. They weren't counterfeit units. Counterfeit units would be marketed as real Nintendo units in an effort to deceive people into thinking they where real Nintendo units. What these people did was use their own money to develop a product and bring it to areas where Nintendo either chose not to, or where unable to, market their units. They made gaming possible for people who other wise would not have been able to get gaming units. I'm not saying that what they did was legal or not. I'm saying you used inaccurate terms to put these guys in a negative light. I for one think companies like this are great. They produce competition which is good for everything.
Without the Dendy I wouldn´t maybe play videogames today. copy or not it was a good thing
This guy is tolerable, but I think when you have guests on your show you need to remind them it's your show, not theirs.
So him acting like a goof isn't exactly for everyone, just fans of him.
You've had countless good examples from PBG, Barry, ProtonJon, Stryder, etc. who all follow the DYKG style. Remember that you have a certain style that people are used to on this channel.
They're allowed to change their content.
@@tj5425 and people are allowed to criticize it
People are also allowed to defend it.
^Basically this
I just worry about seeing another MrWeebl styled video.
Again, this guy is alright, but I can see him rubbing a few people the wrong way.
@@ValcristRoda unlike the comment I replied to, nobody implied anything of sort. Defending is one thing, dismissing someone's opinion entirely is another.
Subtitles at the end are incorrect, Suponev was reading a letter where kid complains that his Dendy games are Black and White.
Don’t know if that was intentional, but the captions in the outro are just outlandish. Sergei Suponev was just trying help a kid with connecting the console to a TV
As I Russian, I initially was glad DYKG had produced a video on my country's videogame history, but then I heard the quotes and saw the tasteful imagery.
*distasteful
Agreeing... All the people are thinking the wrong way about Russians.
It was kinda fucked up, yeah
Yeah it's kinda fucking stupid. Patronising
I mean... the video was about Russians stealing a product from another company and selling it as their own making huge profits on it. That warrants ridicule. On top of it, Russia is a fucked up country overall...
While accent humor in itself is not inherently bad, reading someone's quote (especially a lengthy one) in a bad accent representing their ethnicity is not the best idea... plus it wasn't funny.
It was actually really offensive
@@patriciaverso aww u want ya dummy
@@patriciaverso Yes, I mean how will you cope?
@@leeboy2k1 that's not the point. The point is that if YOU were being portrayed disrespectfully, YOU wouldn't like it.
@@patriciaverso Naahhh not really. If you were to insult me and say something I didn't like I'd probably be mad for about a minute, then continue about my day and forget it even happened. Lol you silly spastic, YOU made YOU mad; nobody else.
Here in Brazil it's actually rare to find a NES console because the market was taken by the bootleg brands. That's why the Sega Master System was more successful over here
In Argentina we had Family Videogame, wich was basicallly the same thing. A blatant rip off the Famicom. We also used to have those cartridges with 9999999 games in 1
Hey;) Do some ppl in Argentina still play those things? like in Russia (where I'm from)
Also in Brazil lol
"999999999 games in 1"
>10 games and.....repeat.
@@ЕвгенийБоровинский-з8ж Rarely, but it was still common ten years ago! Some stores have a few cartidges. I even managed to find one with Somari.
@@ЕвгенийБоровинский-з8ж to this day I still find some cheap stores selling NES clones disguised as PS3, PS4, Xbox One and more, all are shit of course
Muy bueno, hermano! 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, en Brasil, lo mismo! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂
I guess it's just a question of different perspectives, maybe people from the western countries have a point in demeaning and ridiculing the whole Dendy thing for practically stealing Nintendo's work (as expected, because propaganda and learning to hate Russia is apparently pretty OK over there, so why not use this as a small opportunity, right?) But I, as a Russian dude am eternally grateful to the people who brought Dendy here. It's thanks to them that I have fond memories of all these great games like Mario, Excitebike, Duck Hunt, Contra etc. It's thanks to them that I have been a big big fan of gaming since 5 years old. And in fact it's thanks to Dendy that I know about Nintendo and because of that and because of being familiar with the kind of games Nintendo create I NOW have the opportunity to purchase actual official Nintendo consoles and games to support the company I love so much. Heck, it's partly the reason I am able to speak English at least to a certain degree. I have close to 50 games on DS and 3DS combined and like 10-15 games installed on my Switch. And because emulators exist I was able to play at least a couple of games from each of the previous Nintendo consoles. So some people may see all of this as stealing, but the amount of good it did for the kids of that generation cannot be overstated.
Indeed, it made our childhood a joy in this areas where the people are plagued by the poverty every day since the communism. This games were our little joy in this cruel world.
Kinamania is awesome.. his first few videos are subtitled in English. It's was nuts to see what he had to deal with, games that would not be able to be finished (like get to stage 3 in a really hard game and the game would just lock up, i think Konami bootlegs do that.), just bad games. He does go into history, has magazines, great stuff.
Huh.
Thank you for appreciating his content ^_^
So only first videos are subtitled?
Should I.. get on to fixing that?
@@KOTYAR0 oh I haven't watched them in a while. I remember about 10 being subbed in English. Mostly his main series
If you really want some translated I might try to do that if I happen to have time, although no guarantees.
@Joan Miriam Hicks Yeah i remember same thing happened to me on Shatterhand game (Southeast Europe region tho) . I was amazed by the gameplay , it eventually become one of my favorites .. but the game just locked up after stage 2 iirc. Never got to see any further, i was so mad lol .. until 20 yrs later rediscovering the game on youtube . 80% of the experience with bootlegs were fine but they were some games indeed which were bugged with intention i guess by the company itself. some form of protection similar to what DRM is doing today with the new games until they get cracked.
no such thing as PAL-1. it's PAL-I. the letter i.
Roman numbers...?
Nope. The other possible regions use letters from A onward as well...
I can confirm it!
Surprised? The whole Video was stupid and racist.
@@lady1kaka racist against Russians? Russians are a race now?
It may seem funny for you Americans, but there's a reason those bootlegs exist. Same story with Polish Pegazus. There was simply no access (or there was, but it was extremely expensive and/or had to be bought abroad) to original systems and games. It wasn't until the early 2000s when people kinda stopped pirating stuff. Kinda.
The difference between using a fake accent for a joke and using one for a quote, is that a joke is often an exaggerated version of reality, while a quote is a real portrayal of what someone said.
Ugh, no. Cringy accented reading, and those jokes mistranslating things for lawls... Extra oof when you go and do a bit of research and find out that the program host in the end not only was a beloved children's programming figure in his country, but also died in an accident. Folks, just go watch the "Grey Elephant's Curse" right away, it has subtitles and actual damn respect for this particular part of gaming history. Don't bother with this one.
Thank you, I was wondering why this video had so many dislikes...but dear god the accents
Can't wait for the next Did You Know Gaming video where you quote Shigeru Miyamoto in an Asian accent with the Ls and Rs replaced.
BuT THaTs NoT RaSSiSt U StooPid SnOwFlaEK
This host was terrible.
Didnt we already have on DYKG the other "unique" host where they let him act like a goddamn fool, took the video down, apologized, and uploaded it without that particular host?
I hope they do that again.
I watch things like "DYKG" for the information, not piss poor attempts at "comedy".
Nerd City is not a comedy channel, and their content is amazing. What are you on about?
@@TheXnaut You really think this qualifies as 'amazing'?
This must have been an off day for that dude if the other stuff on his channel is worth watching.
@@TheXnaut And not everyone likes his style. Didn't your mother teach you how to accept opinions that are different from your own?
What happened with the other host?
@Lucas THE OTHER HOST WAS READING HIS SCRIPT LOUDLY. I CANT REMEMBER HIS NAME BUT EVERY WORD HE SAID WAS SO DANG LOUD. KINDA LIKE THIS
Please never make an intro like that again. And this nerd city guy doesn’t need to put on a terrible accent just to read the quotes
Why is it that people like YOU get so upset just because ONE of DYKG's videos has a different narrator from the usual?
At least give him a chance, he himself probably wanted to do this. People like you are so unappreciative.
LeaveTheMark there are plenty of narrators that haven’t needed to resort to “wacky” accents and humor for DYKG, especially for a “history of” video.
It’s just not a good fit for these types of videos, and it wasn’t even funny.
@@Tribladeofchaos He's just trying to bring something new to the table by presenting his own style and personality to this video. It probably isn't suited for a history video, but he's only trying to be humorous. I guess humor is banned in these videos, from the way you people sound.
Not to mention, while it is nice they're good narrators, it gets repetitive listening to Dazz, Greg, and Remix in every video. So when they try to bring someone else up to narrate, they just complain about it. How fucked up!
Tribladeofchaos humor is subjective. Stop being a little bitch that demands a certain type of video. You little whiny baby.
LeaveTheMark I don’t think you understand. Humor is supposed to be funny, this was not funny in the slightest.
And “they” complain about it because this a bad video, bad editing and bad host. I wouldn’t go to this guy’s channel if this was my first impression of his work.
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Well, it was mostly correct. Steepler also sold computers and PC games and also had a PC games TV Programme called "Ot vinta". Also, there was an official Sega distributor in Russia and even a TV Programme called "Sonic the Super Hedgehog" which was a competition between 2 families playing Mega Drive games. And this distributor was probably the only company that sold European Mega Drive with red buttons.
Wow, never knew Steepler was in the PC business too.
I never realized Ot Vinta was actually their thing as well, although I should have guessed.
Wait, did they have... 7 GRAND DAD?
Don't sub. It is not allowed. We didn't, sadly
Good topic, poor execution.
"Official Bootleg"
oxymoron
Вся жизнь в России - оксюморон (All life in Russia is an oxymoron)
Back in those days 90% of Russian kids never heard of Nintendo, so it was advertised as official console, not a bootleg and even on TV the anchor was saying that you should buy this console ONLY in 'official' stores to avoid buying a bootleg, lol :)
10% of Russian kids back then had Famicoms and later Genesis (mega drive) consoles imported from Japan by their fathers, who were sailors (or in any way connected to the sea travels to Japan shores)
More like 0.1% I'd say. Well, maybe in Moscow that was the case?
They were later sold on all sorts of bazaars like Mitino, but that kind of thing arguably bloomed when Dendy was in decline already.
If only. There were UNOFFICIAL bootlegs. Bootleg of a bootleg of a bootleg of a NES (I personally had one)
We have had NES clone called Pegasus in Poland.
I had dendy, also had Subor “another variant” of dendy. Dendy was so much better than original Nintendo. Joysticks were way ahead of its time. Also game cartridges contained sometimes over a 100 games. Sergey Suponev died unfortunately. Skiing accident.
9:32 That's what he actually says (I kinda tried to translate):
So anyway, that's the duck game. (this line isn't screwed up)
Pretty different games are featured on this cartridge, but they're only related by one thing: they're both 8-bit games, so the color, the graphics and the music are similar.
The next letter in my hands is from Sanitov Edik from Volgograd, 62. That's what what he says:
_"I have the console Yunior (reading Ju as Yu)... but I call it Junior, because it's more proper pronounciation... and 8 cartridges for it. - [Oh-ho, 8 cartridges for Dendy, that's is pretty many of them!] - They (probably parents) bought me it under a year ago, I'm playing Dendy with TV "Record VC-381"... _*_Yeah, that TV exists._*_ Please tell me why when I'm playing the picture isn't colored?"_
Uhum, Edik, so you're playing the entire year with black-white picture? ... Poor guy... Actually, I think there might be several reasons: first, you might have wired wrong console to the TV, so the color fades out, the signal from the console Dendy is not really... _(video fades out)_
1:04 As a Polish guy, the picture of an NES next to Poland disturbs me, this just ain't right.
There should be a Pegasus
Just watch Kinamania instead of this.
Thx Viktor and my great Grandma for giving me a Dandy
In the 90‘s , my youth as a teenager in a small UdSSR town. God bless.
In Poland we had the "Pegazus", it would be nice if you would make a video about it.
Then be prepared for an avalanche of Kurwas, Ja Pierdoles and mentioning of Polish plumbers.
@@one_step_sideways am keeping an eye on you =-=
Thats one bad ass name for a system lol
@@one_step_sideways
"Ja Pi*rdoles" ROTFL
The story of Pegasus isn't that much different from the Russian version. Some guy in the late 80's/early 90's thought he would get a manufacturer of bootleg famicoms and be the sole distributor of the console in Poland. It wasn't licenced and BOOM there you go, a Polish famicom with all the bootleg games from china, taiwan, and other places.
Arhn.eu does a really good retrospective of this. Check it out. ruclips.net/video/T7VMrGr1BhE/видео.html
6:33
_People couldn't identify official Dendy consoles from bootleg consoles_
*In Soviet Russia, Nintendo is bootleg*
Keep the fake accent and added jokes to your own channel please, we came here for trivia, not cheesy attempts at "humor."
I KNOW RIGHT LOL TRUMP 2020!
Amen
Yeah it's beginning to be like Game Theory all over again
You fucking tell em
i agree, it felt like the worst kind of padding, like filling paper bags with broken glass. if they were aiming for that 10 minute mark then they shouldve included more facts and less padding.
Played a lot at the early 90’s with my friends. Due to bootleg issues most of platformers were on max complexity. E.g. contra game were nearly impossible to beat.
You mean extremely difficult to beat.
E.g. not having continues in different games (Ninja Gaiden, Contra), one hit kill screen glitch (you get hit and game goes bonkers with broken code or freezes), no power ups in some games at all (Ninja Gaiden)...and many more.
I am from Russia, born in 1990. I watched all the video 5 times trying to find all those insulting racism Russian accents.
He has just misread a Dragon word on Russian and named it Fragon.
Please, could anyone of you give me some timecodes about controversial places in the video?
DYKG doesn't ever need to go this loud.
A surprise collab to be sure, but a welcome one.
Get
Out
Gotcha bitch
@@БогданКрименюк why yall so mean to this guy smh
Играли мы в денди
A whale cum one
Love the episode but the way you were reading the statements of the Russian guy it was just dumb. Just read them as any other episode you have done in the past and not use those fake accents if you will do another region locked content from elsewhere in the world, IMHO.
Edit: It seems they cut that part.
I agree. They can be cheeky with humor sometimes but that just felt pretty juvenile and not really up to the standards of their videos.
Yeah. Can we just move on from that kind of russian stereotype?
@@josearvizu2798 that dude was a bastard though, so I don't care
Way too sensitive dude. Chill. It's a joke.
Too sensitive maan. The idea of the joke is "the guy's an idiot"
I really didn't like the style of the host, and I hope that this video doesn't discourage better RUclipsrs in making a Dendy video (Gaming Historian pls), although the Kinaman ones are the best one those videos could ever be because he lived the Dendy curse. Anyway, the host isn't a bad person at all, but his humour is cringy af.
In Argentina there were so many different bootleg Famiclones, that they were actually competing with each other and had different TV commercials. Everyone refered to them as "Family Games" because of the most popular Bootleg being called that, but they were all different, usually different color or shape of the joystick, but inside it was just the same famiclone.
This doesn't seem like region locked.
Did you give the guest creative control or something?
The irony is that this video feels like a bootleg of DYKG.
This was a cool piece of history but... uh... wow that accent bit was uncomfortable
Some of these bootleg games were not possible to beat due to built-in copyright protection. Konami for instance had it in some of their games. For example, Shredder in TMNT 3 was unkillable, so you couldn’t complete the game. In Ninja Gaiden I think you had less weapons to grab. In some games you had less lives or smaller health bars. It was hardcore.
Did they really just reference that picture of Luigi.
"That's how it is on this bitch of an earth" I truly feel sorry for the pure souls googling it now.
A Region Locked episode about the Russian Famiclone Dendy instead of the usual JP exclusive games? Sign me up!
Wow, lots of people demanding super serious narration for their videos about children's toys. Great vid guys, ignore the haters, they just need to loosen up.
humulos not only that but they want people to be respectful over someone who stole the intellectual property of nintendo lol
In my country Indonesia, NES officially release in 1991 (same year as SNES release worldwide) but before that we got a similar system, a bootleg NES called " *Spica* ", no different compare to Russian "Dendy" except the name obviously.
I played one of these in Russia back in the day at a relatives house, it was pretty cool. I liked the orange cartridges.
Had no idea it was a bootleg console at the time or what Nintendo was lol
Holy shit, something I'm actually knowledgeable about for once. I have a bootleg of a bootleg of a Dendy and since the original owner changed the timing crystal on it to be NTSC, it's been my favourite console.
Critique the government of Russia if you want, but hating on the people of Russia isn't cool or funny to me. As someone who likes these games I think it's actually cool that this guy "stole" these games for Russians to play, otherwise they couldn't have experienced them.
monomij waahhhh bby waahhhh
In the eastern part of Russia we bought chinese clones of NES, some have original Famicom from Japan and almost no one have that Dendy! But everyone wanted it - Dendy was kind of a dream and no one knew about all these NES, Famicoms, clones, originals, copyrights or anything like this.
Later in 199x we were buying chinese clones of Mega Drive at "Chinese markets"
That’s interesting, thank you for that perspective. I imagine maybe that was easier to get your hands on those because of a closer proximity to the Japanese market - were you stuck playing games that you couldn’t read the text on screen?
@@nerdcity usually original Famicoms and other (Super Famicon, n64, saturn, ps one, 3do) ones were in the sailors families. All the other lucky children were having different Chinese clones (there were lot of them! - with guns, shaped like a car, keyboard, with different design of controllers, all with turbo buttons and some turbo buttons were more "turbo" than others :) ) you know even those Chinese cheap clone systems were pretty expensive especially at the early 199x. And for all of us original one was the Dendy! :)
About games - all were Chinese copies on different languages, including Japanese language. Yeah we were stuck with playing these games sometimes. The reasons were: the language, capcon copyright protection (impossible to kill first Shredder in the TMNT Manhattan Project), freezing at the same moment of the game. And sometimes (almost never) we were playing Famicom cartridges and Dendy cartridges, but who cares - game is a game in the childhood.
Intentionally leaving words out of a quote to demean the English of a foreigner is ridiculously insulting and petty
That was my problem tbh
I didn't find where the Russian quote was, did they somehow delete it post-upload?
They edit it. I believe you can cut videos on RUclips itself.
Oof, quite a number to unpack here but I'll try to be brief:
1. Native Russian speaker here, accent thing is not a… thing for me. IMO if a mock accent offends you, you better check your life priorities and/or grow a thicker skin, regardless of whether it's your native language is being impersonated (outside of situations where some kind of malicious intent is clear, which I don't think what we have here).
2. However, the overall quality of the video *is* an issue. Short story: it's a tasteless, cringy production. Not so short: when the substance of your material is just a notch more than wikipedia page narration, you better compensate with presentation - and this video just does not. Editing is subpar, pacing is all over the place, and the attempts at "humor" don't help at all. The latter's just a killer tbh, it's "Adam Sandler school" at its worse, when most "jokes" do not contain joke at all (including but not limited to the mock accent thing), and the ones that do would make a groaning cricket eyeroll. I'm still lost about what the ending "subtitles" were trying to achieve (to anyone in doubt - no, not the actual translation, but again I don't quite know what it was supposed to be).
3. I don't really have a grudge with DidYouKnowGaming directly regarding this or any other video, a constant stream of guest hosts virtually guarantees some percentage of misfires. That said, I can only hope the "one of the best youtube channels" line was recorded in advance, as I just can't imagine someone in their right mind giving any kind of praise after seeing the final cut.
If you had a thicker skin you wouldn't be leaving this comment either, following the same logic. If you don't like something and choose to take it instead of voicing it then good for you, it has fuck all to do with priorities or thick skin however.
TheRadioSquare You do realize voicing an opinion and being offended don't go hand in hand, no? The comment is literally about video being of poor quality regardless of "offensive" parts. Some "logic" following you got there.
@@Digijester you do realize that voicing an opinion and being offended are not mutually exclusive but also a matter of perspective. Your complaints can be easily grouped together with them.
@@TheRadioSquare it's pretty offensive to leave words out of foreigner's quotes just to make their intelligence seem lower and make them seem more foreign
I don't even care about the bad accent, even if its cringy. I just find misquoting people to diminish their intelligent for not being a natural English speaker to be a bigger issue.
@@montengro234 Yeah putting on a fake accent is one thing but purposefully removing parts of a quote just so that you can continue said accent is just plain wrong.
They should of gotten Joel or Vinny to do this considering how they've done lots of things having to do with bootleg games and plug and plays on their streams. Accent doesn't offend me just wanted to get that idea out there.
gyuudon h jk yeah, sounds like a great idea, even though for some reason I doubt Vin would be down for that
the outro singlehandedly earned a dislike from me
4:27 it even looks like D and he says F. Dragon. Really???? Ignorance is bliss
I’m from Russia and don’t see any racism in his fake accent. It sounds funny
Americans are going through a phase now where we pretend to get offended for other people, it’s a lot of fun. Especially on Twitter.
Nerd City in Soviet Russia you are not offended by jokes, but jokes are offended by you
That's our childhood for you. We had mad pricing on SNES so nobody bought it here, that's why Megadrive was our saviour after NES era.
I think the main reason for lack of interest for SNES was its limited consumer base. Therefore, the kids would not be able to trade games as much as the Sega owners. I remember Sergey Suponev offered a kid a Super Nintendo as a grand prize in one of his programs, and the kid politely declined requesting Sega instead, so he can trade with his friends.
It can't be a bootleg if it's official
When Nintendo signed a contract with Steepler to promote and sell SNES in Russia they closed their eyes on Steepler selling bootlegs. So it was official in some way.
N’yetendo.
Нинтендо
@@Chaos89P нетендо
This episode of try hards went really off topic, this isn't channel merch...
Only thing that can make this video better is a 5 minute advertisement for Langrisser.
Don't forget about Polish Pegasus Family Game :D
I didn't look at the full title and was confused to see Nerd City on my screen. This is good confusion.
*for just $500 you can own a hoody and coffee table book*
how the hell is this channel not making enough money?
remember when you guys were spamming 4chan to get started?
Ребята те кто из россий и Стран СНГ, давайте поддержим автора он старался про нас рассказать миру: Про наш пиратскую-родную Dendy))))))
DidYouKnowGaming? - Man in any case, thank you for the video, it came out cool.
But in the beginning of the video did nothing Accent and curves like playing Russian in the game Call of duty-2
I don't appreciate the derogatory tone this video has, I'm surprised I missed the video somehow but I'm glad I did.
I live in Macedonia and famiclone consoles were the default "Nintendo" platform for everyone in the early 90's here even tho real NES games and systems were around too, Nintendo never officially licensed anything here but we still had everything regardless. I don't have the energy to argue over a 3 year old video made by American losers with their heads up their butts, all I can say is that we had everything here and weren't behind on anything regardless of whether our countries had official licenses for these games or not.
Where did you find the Dendy Super Nintendo ad?
If you guys promise never to have that dude on again, I will pledge to every tier of the Region Locked book crowdfund.
Only this year I found out about bootlegging in eastern-europe, and what a struggle it was for people to get their hands on video games, let alone a console. But I know enough of this topic to find this video pretty insulting to a lot of people. I don't know if the research for this video was on your guest or on you at DYKG, but it's severely lacking here. That is not the kind of content, nor the quality, I'm used to, from one of my favorite channels on RUclips.
awful and disrespectful reading of the quotes from Victo Savyuk.
Also, WTF was this "letter reading"? The host answered a question about BW image, not this kind of shite. That's a disgrace. So, apparently, you can't be racist towards Russian people. SMH.
I wouldn't say it was racist but it was very annoying.
Lol cry more. 😂
Oh, come on it's not a big deal
Yes totally out of place to make a joke. Everything is ripe for humor but timing is everything, this did not feel appropriate and just wasn't funny.
Dendy. Brought to you by the same country that introduced the world to Tetris.
I came here to learn what a Nintendo Nintendo Entertainment System is. Is it like an Automatic Teller Machine Machine?
No Virgina
I had a "Terminator" NES clone in a Megadrive shell, that my parents bought for me in Bulgaria. Was pretty sweet, with the tanks games, Super Mario and Adventure island. I think I burned out a couple of power adapters playing duck hunt on it.
Go search Kinamans film called Проклятье серого слонёнка. It have eng subtitle.
Don't tell me what to do. And they already told viewers to check out Kinamania at 9:56.
@@one_step_sideways Они не упомянули этот фильм, он не так очевидно расположен.
I'd be more okay with how different this video was if you at least kept the Region Locked intro in.
This is another video you should take down, and remake with one of the regulars. 😡
Or how about "No", "Fuck You" and "Get the fuck over yourself"
@@the-NightStar Scary
Well this was my childhood and I'm glad I was introduced to nes games by this. Better than nothing. Back then we didn't even know it was a bootleg or anything. We just played the games. China was the real MVP back then. I also got a famiclone gifted to me brought from Arab emirates and it had 800 games built in letting you play without any cartridges. Majority of games were the same but with different modifications like infinite lives or level select but it had around 50 original titles with games like megaman, contra, tiny toon adventures, chip and dale, Mario etc among them. Megaman was super rare on bootleg cartridges in russia and almost no one had it. I was so lucky to have it and I kept playing it night and day like a maniac. Since then I'm a huge fan of the series. Scary to think that I wouldn't have my childhood with my megaman now without this dude who hired some Chinese to rip off Nintendo.
Nintendo itself is Japanese multinational in fact. China had nothing to do with it. The creator of Mario and NES console+NES games in general were japanese.
Oh i read later you were talking about a hired chinese dude who ripped off nintendo.. sorry :)
Woot love nerdcity this episode is great!!
@DidYouKnowGaming thanks for the video, but as a native Russky speaker I have to say your ending sequence was squeakin' bullpoop.What subtitles said was completely different from what Suponev was reading from his papers, and that is even more so offensive than your guest author's poor mocking accent. Anyway, thanks for shedding some light on our bootleg famicom games.
The last video is a skit for our Patreon rewards. We alter a portion of what we cover to include their names.
I like the more neutral feel of DYKG "extra" content, rather than this style. Usually you get a guest presenter who isn't trying to 'tude it up with personality. This video takes an interesting subject and makes it grating to listen to.
You were able to save on American NES? Back when we used to play Dendy in Soviet Russia, you use up your 3 lives GG bro, start from scratch. I used to be really good at those games, restart so many times, and redo everything so many times, I still 25 years later remember every secret in any game I've played.
You kind of weren't able to. Very few games had saves, and the big games that didn't have them had password systems.
Not digging this guy.
My mom has a dendy that i play till dis day
The bit reading in the Russian accent felt a bit tedious and annoying, just read it normal.
that was actually very close
In Hungary it is called the 'Sárga kazettás Nintendo' which means yellow cartridge Nintendo, if you google the hungarian phrase, you will see a lot of it is still sold here :D
I guess the Japanese quotes will also be read with strong Japanese accent, right?
Would it really matter? but no you'll probably be right.
@@leeboy2k1 it would cause it detracts from informational tone of the videos towards juvenile attempts at humor and pettiness
@@TheRadioSquare International tone? that's your interpretation, compelling someone's expression is ironically as Marxist Soviet as Russia was when it was at it's most miserable.
@@leeboy2k1 thought I made a typo but no, you just read it wrong. Also that's an idiotic comparison to make. Go ahead and bring in Nazis next just cause people didn't like a shitty joke about how dumb is a guy who was responsible for millions of kids being able to experience video games in a country with a terrible entertainment industry.
There's also Dendy from OKKO Let's Be Heroes. I feel like that's where the name came from.
Considering that the show is meant to pay homage to 90s-era stuff like video games and trading cards, that must be it.
PPS. The Dendy elephant sometimes has yellow pants and blue shoes, like how OK KO's Dendy has a yellow suit and blue boots. I've also discovered that the young version of Velma has a similar visual design to Dendy; similar hair color and hairdo, similar glasses, and they both wear yellow.
PPPS. From what else I've found on Wikipedia, (I as an American have never heard of the console before until I decided to look up things called Dendy on Wikipedia) there's also an area in Australia called Dendy's Special Survey, part of which is around 5 miles from another place called Batman's Hill, and the hill itself was first claimed by Captain John Lancey of the ship Enterprize, not to be confused with John de Lancie, who used to play Q in the 90s Star Trek shows.
The episode is somewhat ignorant. TXC made original games. Other Taiwanese developers made original games. You make TXC and Bit Corp look stupid, whereas in all reality they did fabulous hard- and software.
I got my first Dendy when i was 4 in 94' in Russia, good times!
Damn Somari pirates...
Finally an actual funny comment.
Never expected to see Nerd City on here
Well that's just Dendy...
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