316...chip n dale in Contra World haha...you gotta smile at the Soviets imagination...take any cartoon character from America and give it an automatic weapon in Russia
I just recently found this channel and have been watching videos here and there. In every single video, there's something that makes me laugh so hard that I have to pause and calm down before continuing. In THIS video, it's that _Rescue Rangers_ commercial. How very Russian of it. XD
Ok , why is this channel not more popular, I was expecting like 300,000 subs on this , RU-vid is weird , this is a good channel for retro gamers , it’s as good as LGR , very well made
Just discovered your youtube. I'm enjoying your videos, learning a different perspective on retro gaming. Thanks for sharing. Might have to add the Dendy to my collection wishlist.
I grew up in Hungary in the early 90s. Hardly anyone had a console then. Most people played their C64s and the big thing was to buy a disk system. I was that kid who had a family member (my Dad) in Australia. So I was sent a Mega Drive and some games. Which was almost foreign to the kids in my school. And my grandparents would buy me out of date British and American gaming magazines, to practice and learn English. I had no patience on loading C64 games. I was surprised to never hear of the Dendy. we drove Ladas and Moskvich cars, and our TV had that wolf and bunny cartoon. So lack of Russian bootleg console was strange. We had TV shows dedicated to people playing games. And Nintendo and Sega were both represented OK, but they were considered more like Neo Geo was in the west. A super expensive awesome console that was out of reach for the average kid who didn’t have parents sending them stuff from Australia.
Great video, comrade. I'm from Brazil but I live in St. Petersburg now. I've loved video games my whole life, and I was really surprised when some years ago my Russian friends told me all about Dendy. It was funny that they didn't know the name Nintendo, all they knew was Dendy. I've wanted to buy a Dendy since then, and I think your video will finally push me into actually buying one. You got a new subscriber. Cheers, bro!
So this grayish Famicom is Dendy. Now it makes sense. I mean as I live in Finland and I've visited occasional to the towns near our eastern border (which is right next to Russian) and raided some of second hand stores & flee markets, sometimes this console happens to be appear here and there, sold as NES. Usually I've pass the deal but after I saw this video, I might not do that again.
Забыли что Денди это смесь pal и ntsc форматов и игры идут в pal что медленнее чем у nes. Такая музыка звучит лучше, мелодичнее чем быстрая у nes. Образец можно послушать в Duck Tales (Prototype), лунная музыка там звучит как в обычной nes версии на Денди. Особенно заметна разница в Power Blade. А еще у нас были такие замечательные игры как Captain Tsubasa 1-2, Doki! Doki! Yuuenchi, Mickey Mouse 3 (хотя и не было игр с сохранениями). А еще, хоть это очевидно, у нас всегда были турбо кнопки...
Thanks for the interesting video. The Mesen emulator supports Dendy as a regional option (the only Famiclone to have its own setting!) and I've always been curious about the system. Haha, I loved Batman and the Flash part! I grew up in Korea and that's the Monster in My Pocket game as I remember.
Always wanted a great video on the dendy. Nobody talks about the dendy in America and I'm glad I can learn about this console! Great video, you deserve a ton of subs
awesome work! ever watched your Russian videos years ago blindly (I could only understand a little bit of Russian) but what a surprise that you finally have an English channel!
Bootleg stuff from around the world always interests me. I live in Costa Rica (Latin America) where famiclones were also extremely popular and for many the only option due to cost for a while, so I have tons of nostalgia for this kind of stuff. Great video!
I found your channel by watching John's NES Bootlegs video, and have to say, you really deserve more subscribers. I just finished watching all 4 of your videos, and they're all very informative and interesting. I've grown a bit tired of the whole western retro game culture over the past few years, just because to me it seems like everyone's just repeating the same things over and over. Shigeru Miyamoto based Zelda on his memories of exploring the forest when he was a kid, Michael Jackson worked on the soundtrack for Sonic 3, LJN makes shitty licensed NES games, yada yada you know the drill. I thought I pretty much knew all there was to know about retro games, because I just heard the same things over and over from western youtubers, but then I found out that things were actually much, MUCH different over here in Europe, mainly in the Eastern Bloc, which is where I'm from (specifically Czechia). I actually noticed a lot of similarities between what you said gaming was like in Russia and what I've read about it being like in Czechia. Cheap famiclones, pirated PC games, chipped PS1s and all that stuff applies to many eastern european countries as well. We just didn't have it as extreme as you guys, because you could still get original hardware and software if you wanted to, it'd just cost you a pretty penny. We even had things like the the Mega CD and Mega 32X, just in really limited numbers. NFKRZ (and a bunch of other youtubers) actually made a few great videos about videogames in Russia as well, so people definitely can learn about it if they want to, but the same can't be said for Czechia (or rather Czechoslovakia at the time). You can't even imagine how hard it is to find any new info on the distribution of games/movies in the 80s and 90s over here, it's just not properly documented at all. (and of course, I don't have any personal experience from that time at all, since I'm only 16 years old, lol) But that actually does somehow add to the fun of learning about it, because the info is so rare, you're happy when you learn something new. Anyways, great video, I look forward to seeing more.
In Russia, instead of Mario, Sonic has always been more popular, instead of the Zelda series, the Gothic series on the PC, Zelda seemed simple, until the moment when one girl wrote a book with the plot of Zelda posing as her own, then people began to be interested in the Zelda series.
I'm an American who started gaming in 1986 with the Nes and Master System (divorced parents). I have never seen a Dendy before, but I really love the color scheme. It looks incredibly cool in black and white. Thank you for sharing this with us. Addendum - You, my friend, are a good guy. The honesty you show when you talk about sellers on Ebay is both genuine and awesome. The world needs more people like you. I also think you're being a little hard on yourself when talking about your personal sales online. It's perfectly reasonable to expect to make a little from a sale. You're not price gouging here, so no big deal. Subbed!
Very good video, very interesting. Similar to videogames history in Argentina, here came a taiwanese clone called Family Game at early 90s. Some popular games were of course Mario, Megaman, Castlevania, etc, and among others Captain Tsubasa Vol. II: Super Striker a sport-JRPG in JAPANESE and also all the games in 99999 in 1. Also were very common bootleg games that were any other game with the main character replaced by Mario lol, and some original bootleg games like a Street Fighter II version and Somari, Sonic version for Family Game but instead of Sonic it was Mario lmao.
But in the 80s, Russians had no videogame consoles at all. The Dandy only came out in 1992, when Americans were busy playing the SNES and Sega Mega Drive.
We have a Micro-Genius famiclone that’s identical to the Dendy Classic model shown. Micro-Genius also made bootleg Famicom games that were sold in Canada, and Montreal was the center of that importation circle. We got Super Mario 3 before it came out officially in the West. Another popular title was Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa, renamed Baby Mario. You could find them easily in flea markets and independent video stores.
@@RussianVideoGameComrade Never knew that. I guess if i find my all collection of clone cartridges in the garage and buy a new nes , i can relive the great past again :)
I just had to say, that as an American, this was utterly fucking fascinating. We don't really get to see this stuff from the outside. Video games in particular are an interesting kind of thing where they were different everywhere outside of America and Japan. Seeing your culture, your gaming TV shows, your version of a gaming magazine, etc was so cool and expanded my horizon on the world. This was highly informative and I'm glad I watched it. I subscribed.
finally got a chance to sit down and watch this collab! I think the thing that blew me away the most was that gambling cart with the card slot... I've literally never heard of something like that (at least not as far as from russia is concerned) that's so wild!
Interesting that they bootlegged Japanese versions of games instead of European versions. That means they had to convert Japanese NTSC games to run on PAL tv's.
If I were to import a genuine Dendy to the US, what about power? I see it has a DC 9V jack, so can I just use a US transformer to get the 9V? Are they PAL or NTSC? This video was fun, I subscribed to the channel. :)
Thank you for subscription. Yes, you can either use a custom 110V / 9V output transformer or a step-up 110-220V transformer. As for TV standard, Dendy is PAL.
Витя, видео прекрасное) НО: 1. Отдавай кому нибудь текст после перевода для коррекции, ибо очень пахнет гугл-транслитом. 2. Произношение, но это уже, я думаю, прийдёт с опытом. Удачи на западном рынке)
Me and my girlfriend LOVE bootleg games so much! The dendy was truly something awesome! We are importing a lot of games to play on our channel in live streams, and we love it so much! So many unknown games, it's amazing!
Actually there were pirated Final Fantasy cartridges apparently, and Final Fantasy III was an MMC3 game so it wouldn't be too hard to clone. Of course, the Russians would just see a bunch of Japanese hieroglyphs, unless maybe someone in Yuzhno Sahalinsk had a relative gastarbeiting in Japan, or knew someone of Japanese origins.
I worked for a database company in the 90's and we found out that our software was everywhere in Russia but all illegal too :-). They even had a headoffice....was a nice suprise when we wanted to start an office overthere.....and somebody claimed they are the official ones...hahaha lol....
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="358">5:58</a> did the US have any video game shows like this? it seems that every country had one except us.. i can only remember g4 way later on
Why is Scandinavia, Iceland and Finland missing from the Travel Europe game Even the ommision of Denmark, which is mainland Europe. Were they not considered as Europe or were they just to uninteresting? Chip and Dale shooting game was so funny. Such an interesting video in video game past.
I played a lot of Battle City. On my NES clone system called Super Com 72 (think it's Chinese, but it was very popular in Eastern EU and former Yugoslavia). Battle City it is listed as Tank. Great game has even a Level editor. Didn't know it is unknown in the US.
You definitely can buy it for fun if you find a really cheap lot, but be aware, it can easily stop working. But maybe not. It's like Russian roulette :D
@@zemmik I already own a hdmi clone for American NES, but I like the Dendy famicom shape with grey and white color combination, it would be a nice piece for my console collection 👌🎮
It's China roulette))) Maybe good. In my childhood in Russia: "China famiclone wars" (Dendy is a very much cost, but "official" (not)). Some clones has been good (Hitex is my love))))
Dendy is just a misspelling of Dandy. It means nothing in Russian. The producer was probably either an Oscar Wilde fan, or a fan of the Kinks song "Dandy", and forgot how to spell the word. There was a great Dungeons-&-Dragons-style videogame called Dandy (DnD, lol), but that probably had nothing to do with the name of this console.
