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Russian who grew up in the VHS pirate boom. - I remember those EA VHSs, they usually had a ton of ads, including a mix of PG-13 ones and then something spicy like Basic Instinct. Like, it was a wild time. - "Translator trying to say all the credits" it's not ALL the credits, but usually just writers-composers-directors. In voice over translations of movies, they'd do the same, but as the credits go on screen at the start of movie, they'd read out all the actors, go silent, then read out the composer, writers and directors. Nobody cares about Casting or whatever. - The long logo at the end is when he says the Russian dub actors, so maybe it's there to provide the space for MORE actors, but he usually fits it in quickly. - On why there's Discovery Channel and MTV at the end - EASY. The VHS was probably a MTV recording, but was then rewritten to a Discovery one, then into Mortal Kombat... Gotta be frugal when you're a 90s Russian videopirate. - The DVD menu on the end of the VHS has ArthuT (a typo) and the Liliputans (Arthur and the Invisibles), the New Adventures of Cinderella, Sharkbait and RenaiSance (also with just one S). PS: Random note, TMNT are just called "Ninja Turtles" (Черепашки Ниндзя) in Russia, officially and colloquially, from the 80s cartoon to the Michael Bay movies. But the newer VHS-DVD rip you showed actually had them as Turtle Mutant Ninjas, which is not something I've ever heard them called in Russia. But I also haven't watched the official release of the 2000s TMNT cartoon in Russia, so maybe that was the plan at the time?
Phelous is practically the only RU-vidr that would go through different language versions of a film to find minute differences and stumble upon an Atari creepy pasta. Old Phelous probably would've ended the video with the robot killing him.
@@slenders1ckn3ss I'd be all like "I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR" if somebody did an overdub of the World Series in the style of the "disinterested Dutchman and his son" Dingo dubs.
The actor, who tries to translate all the names during the end titles on a Russian tape is Vadim Andreev, Russian voice of Megawolt from DW, Donkey from Shrek and many other characters
I've seen the spaceship and robot Atari 8-bit demos before and it amuses me so much that they showed up on some random VHS tape. It's called the "CES demo". One RU-vid upload I've found says credits the programmers: "This is the second half of the "Robot / Spaceship" 1982 CES demo, by Jim St. Louis and Russ Karas." watch?v=kLdmviclAx4 The CES demo ROM file has been dumped and preserved online. BTW, I don't blame you for not being able to find much about the robot and spaceship demos-- in the past year search results on RU-vid have been absolute trash. I know I'm not the only person having this problem.
You know, some of these legitimately do feel like bits in creepypastas, just if they were really mundane. Like the Tom and Jerry Kids intro thing. EDIT: Oh, wow, I didn't even get to the Atari thing. That feels like a vignette straight out of the original NES Godzilla Creepypasta with the password screens.
Australian Leonardo: That's not a katana. Now, this is a katana! ...of course. I do love these little deep dives onto weird regional releases. And thanks, UK VHS for reminding me of the cursed era whe Coca-Cola owned Columbia Pictures and did all their product placement with a sledgehammer.
I can just imagine Mark Elliott's narration before the film: "Be sure to join us right after the feature, for some absolutely random bullcrap not related to anything at all".
I can just imagine Phelan explaining all of this weird TMNT dumpster diving to Alyson. "No, honey, it's for the show! Really! ...Crap, now I have to make a video."
14:35 man, these tyoe of dubs were super-common right after the USSR broke up, to the point that the guys who did them became semi-famous, and people actually prefered watching these one-voice dubs over the more professional multi-voice ones
.....Ok, the weird robot at the end of the Ghostbusters video tape is a highlight lol. I mean everything else was bizarre, out there and very much strange but THAT was something I never knew would pop up in a VHS video. But yeah, VHS tapes were indeed an old relic of an age gone by and it is great that you document a lot of these or in layman's terms:Phelous reminds us that he is a Turtles, Mortal Kombat and Ghostbusters fan volume whatever number we are at right now lol. Still, great job!
Actually that "Russian Music Video" is actually German. The single was released at the end of November 1998. On the bottom there is a text announcing a frequency change of the channel "VIVA" this was recorded of.
Hi, Phelous. The TMNT/TMHT tape you chewed the intro off from Spain wasn’t an edition in Spanish, actually. The language is Catalan, one of the languages in Spain, co-official in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. The Turtles were first aired in Catalonia in the late 80s and made their roll in regional TV stations, most of them airing in their regional languages, not in Spanish. I know it because I’m from there and if the right age for having watched the original turtles series on regional Catalan tv stations TV3 and Canal 33.
I'm guessing Pizza World, the tape's co-sponsor, was a regional chain in Catalonia (I'm guessing from the lack of info I've been able to find about it on the internet). Oh, and two fun facts about Chupa Chups - Salvador Dali designed the brand's logo, and they sponsored the early-90s mascot platformer Zool.
Here in Hungary too, a lot of classic movies were simply never released (or only decades later) in normal format, but we got the "dubbed over" VHS tapes in school, where one incredibly bored old lady would talk with zero enthusiasm over everyone's original english or german audio. And CAM recordings were common on the flea markets, but that was more of the CD/DVD era's time. They even printed covers for them and everything.
If I wasn’t Australian, and remembered those Roadshow ads better than my coworkers’ names, I would be convinced that all of these were fake. Truly, the world of VHS is a crazy, crazy place.
I remember the Return of the Living Dead 2 video having a commercial where you can call in to order T-Shirt and other merchandise. It had Tarman wearing the shirt.
I only remember that because of a friend who recorded a bunch of random shows and it was the one my favorite sequels so it stuck with me wish I was a bit older so I could have talked my brother into getting it for me
Reminds me of how the manual for the C64 Friday the 13th game included info on a contest the publisher held where they gave away computer gear (e.g. monitors)
Weird, but interesting! It's almost like they felt like they HAD to use every bit of the tape, so they would just stick random stuff at the end. Those Atari tech demos were pretty spiffy back in the day. Now it's antiquated, but still a sight to see. Just not one you'd expect to see at the end of a Ghostbusters VHS tape.
This reminds me of a video I had when I was a child called "The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas." It was a standard animated holiday special from the 1970s, but after that ended, the tape presented other holiday-themed adventures of Ted E. Bear and friends. The thing is, these weren't animated, but instead were narrated over still images like a picture book. There was also a live-action "news report" segment, with the characters presented as costumed performers (or possibly puppets?)
My pride and joy is the japanese VHS of the film "Transylvania 6-500" (known in japan as "vampire reporter" for some reason) which came secondhand from a clear-out of a japanese video store. The japanese ads before and after and movie trailers are a trip.
Having the intro to an animated show cut to just the title screen reminds me of how Toonatik in the UK used to air Spongebob episodes! It wasn't until I was in my mid teens that I found out Spongebob had had a theme song beyond just the bit where he whistles with his nose!
*06:36** I actually owned one of those VCR's back in the day. it was awkward as the flip-down part covering the VHS was actually quite heavy for some reason & you have to twist the dial to Fast Forward & Rewind at different speeds.*
4:54 "Your honesty will be rewarded... with your demise..." 10:30 Oooh, a production slate! 12:15 I've seen some Russian prints of the old 90s Disney cartoons where it hangs on the Buena Vista International logo for a little over around 20-30 seconds. 17:40 Actually, that's a video by the German hip-hop group Fettes Brot. Oh, and there's a scroll at the bottom warning viewers of satellite frequency changes. 20:39 Zound is probably the dubbing studio, they also did the English dub of the obscure French cartoon Omer 20:44 The company is Clasikaletet, who were pretty successful back in the day, and even co-produced Hachaverim Shel Barney, the Israeli adaptation of Barney & Friends 21:55 Actually, that tape's in Catalan. 25:22 My theory is that someone (probably that Yaron Peare person or somebody who bought equipment from his shop) accidentally recorded over the tape with them screwing around with their Atari computer
Seriously, that "Your honesty will be rewarded" coupled with the ominous music sounds like something an early 90's B-movie villain would say just before killing the henchman who brought him bad news.
Zound I would assume also did the Hebrew dub of Omer And the Starchild(A French cartoon) & the English dub was made by the same studio using a translated version of the Hebrew script.
I was in Israel in 2006 and they had a kosher Pizza Hut, where they seated patrons at a nice table and presented a menu. One of the nicest restaurant experiences I’ve ever had
It could be imported as the recording and copied on many different tapes. That's why there are many Disney cartoons or films from American channels and music videos from VIVA or non-Russian MTV. And yeah, we had a habit to record something on top of movies or anything we didn't interested in. Or just to fill the space, which was left on tape.
I wouldn't be surprised if you've heard of him, Phelan- but Brutalmoose has an AMAZING vhs series, called Mystery Tapes, that you might really get a kick out of.
It makes me sad how much we’re neglecting physical media. So much is going to end up lost in streaming service hell. I miss VHS days, I can still remember watching my old recording of Ghostbusters II taped off of HBO. I’d always double feature it with the recording immediately after, Wayne’s World 2. I got Jurassic Park when it was released and as either a 4 or 5 year old, I’m surprised that tape still worked before I got DVD copies to replace it.
Holy crap, that Roadshow TMNT tape was one that I'd rent all the time! I had to rent it because nowhere in town actually sold the tapes advertised. It's weird yet cool to see this bizarre VHS again.
You weren't kidding about how bizarre the stuff in these VHS tapes were. It's like we're going down an acid trip. Most of the tapes I had were mostly normal. The more ya know when it comes to watching your videos.
"That Paul monkey scares me because has an extra eye, and he's HYPER-REALISTIC! But if he falls into the water behind him, he'll be completely useless and no longer threatening to me!"
"That's it? That's the tech demo for our advanced Atari computer? That was just a bunch of cheap walk cycles!" "What a rip!" "GRRRRR-who cares, let's just play Dandy."
I'm from Portugal, and watched Turtles when it originally aired here in 1991. I can confirm we had the HERO version, and the singer (American) also sang 'Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles'. Not sure if this was different in the later dubbed re-runs, as I was too old by then.
The Russian Mortal Kombat Annihilation vhs looks like on those unfinished workprint versions of a movie you find online. Which is fitting since Annihilation was apparently never properly finishned.
Can't say I expected someone to talk about a VHS tape of a Catalan dub, but it's pretty cool to see That commercial for Never on Sunday made me laugh so hard, someone asked me if I was okay
17:38 what the hell is the german pop band "Fettes Brot" doing here on a russian vhs? WHAT. (For context, the song is "Können diese Augen lügen." /can these eyes lie?, the recording seems to be from VIVA, a german MTV competitor also running music tv)
This has got to be one of the most entertaining videos you have ever published. I love vhs and all the strange unpredictable things that can happen when looking through tapes of questionable legitimacy. The atari demos, weird logos, and the MK Conquest tape are particular highlights.
17:40 That's not Russian. It is a German music video from Viva TV, which used to be some kind of German MTV-knockoff and was quite popular in the 90s. Makes you wonder how it ended up on a Russian TMNT VHS.
My guess is someone recorded the TMNT episodes from some Russian TV channel (probably 2X2) and also happened to have a satellite that let them receive foreign channels. So they must've also recorded something from VIVA, and when the recording got bootlegged they forgot to cut it out.
@@Parkinski27 That's my guess as well. The scroll at the bottom of the VIVA recording seems to be warning viewers that the channel is switching satellite frequencies.
I think that maybe the atari 'demoscene' esq stuff was probably Yaron recording on the end of the ghostbusters tape, or maybe the disturber put it on the tape since there was audience overlap with atari computers and ghostbusters?
I remember something like this happening for me. Okay, the first time I saw the movie double dragon, it was on the VHS that was definitely recorded on the worst quality. And to top it off, to go along with the screen bleeding and tearing, somebody recorded part of a Cheech Marin film in the 3rd part of the film. Talk about brutal. Great video
Bloody hell, that Aussie tape was a blast from the past. Can't say I remember the dubbed ad before it, but that might just be my brain trying to save itself.
Some Finnish tapes also had just intros of other cartoons maybe being commercials. I think Captain N had the Intro of Camp Candy in it, eventough we never had Camp Candy on vhs or on tv. It also has a Super Mario brothers 3 commercial in the tape.
17:43 - it's not a Russian music video. It's a German music video. In fact it's from German music channel Viva, which, I guess, was included in Russian cable TV.
@@ExtremeWreck yeah. I'm Polsih and I remember having Viva too (even watched some anime in German on that channel), so I assumed it might be a former Eastern Bloc thing XD.
9:35 If you’re watching on a phone and you zoom in on the VHS hand you can see that Phelous actually edited a VHS and so on. I found this out because I was curious if he really did it and I just love that little attention to detail.
Speaking of weird things on VHS, have you heard of ACTION MAX? A system that turns your VCR into an interactive video game. You get to shoot ghost puppets, criminal mannequins and submarine toys.
24:49 I like how in the Pizza World commercial, you can clearly see the V of fresh cheese they added around the slice in order to get the cheese pull on camera while the rest of the pizza is a completely inedible prop. This is standard for pizza ads, of course, but it usually doesn't look so obvious. They try to pick a color of cheese that actually matches the rest.
The greek vendors used the openings of other shows to showcase which other shows they had out instead of actual ads, they did the same with some super sentai cassettes they had in the greek market during the 80s...
If you want more films to say thanks for buying them, mid-period UK DVDs often had a message saying "By purchasing this DVD, you are supporting the British Film and Television Industry. THANK YOU!" before films. You can find it easily on RU-vid.
I'm guessing Cannon films was the distributor for the Israeli version because Golan and Globus are Israeli themselves. The cool thing about the Israeli Cannon logo is that it has the G shape, but also, nested in the corner of the G is th Hebrew letter "gimmel" (ג) which is the letter Golan and Globus's names start when when spelled in Hebrew. I dunno, I just love stuff like that
I remember when I was a kid I had a VHS tape of Sonic SATAM which contained the first three episodes and at the end of the tape there was a full episode of the Dumb and Dumber cartoon. I just wanted to mention that.
This is exactly why I love your videos. I love it when you show random whacky stuff like this! Thank you for also including the 2000s ninja turtles cartoon series as well. The Australian Turtles dub preview was totally ridiculous and also very funny and unique. I love the insane wacky stuff from the Russian and Hebrew tapes too!
Its actually very common for russian dubs to just dub over everything and not really properly mute the English actor's speaking. Usually if it makes it on TV it is correctly dubbed but Russians hate subtitles.
