/vr/ - Retro Games

Did Russia have Speccy clones? That's the shit I want to see.

>>6940920
dpad looks horrible

>>6940920
They had those in South Korea too due to the ban on Japanese products until it was lifted sometime in the early 00’s.

>>6940920
I live in Argentina and 95% of 8 bit consoles were famiclones. Hell, we even had one that looked like a car, among other different bizarre models. I liked most of them over the original nes. Also the carts were like the one in your picture: nicer, smaller and came in a lot of cool different colors

>>6940920
I lived in the hood in the US. we used to get the bootleg man, always selling some random shit, be it bagged incense sticks, cordless phones, gucci bags with backwards logos, power fighter toys that were a mix of power ranger and optimus prime knockoffs, movies or even sometimes video games. I bought one handheld thing off him once($10 and I stole a bag of cheeseburgers from a restaurant a street down). It actually kind of looked like that shitty gba mod that just came out where it's an original gba with an sp's flip screen. it was a 255 in 1, but it only had maybe a dozen games. Breakout, Pacman, Snake, Tetris, Space Invaders and a few other simple ones. Tic Tac Toe where it had 2 difficulties, win by default or never win. It was fun. He had a couple early plug and play systems that were basically just NoaC with a multicart integrated. Shit babby sized controllers with like 3 foot cords, hardwired, and only composite mono output(yellow and white, cables not included). Not bad for the price.

>>6940923
There were a lot of ZX Spectrum clones in the USSR! Unlike Dendy, which were produced in the 90s in Taiwan, from Chinese components, Spectrum clones were made earlier, in the USSR, from Soviet components. In fact, it was the only home gaming platform in the USSR, not counting some pong-consoles like "Элeктpoникa Typниp", "Элeктpoникa Bидeocпopт 3", etc. There were, of course, computers of our own design, for example, "Элeктpoникa БК-0010/11/11M", but they were not widespread as wide as the Spectrum. During Perestroika, when Gorbachev allowed private entrepreneurship, Spectrum clones began to be collected in cooperatives, and there were a lot of them.

>>6940920
that's pretty cool. I really like soviet/post-soviet tech.
Are there any demos online?

>>6941026
>collected
made

>>6941026
Well, the keyboard looks a lot better than the Speccy, at least.

>>6940959
that's got a lot of charm to it, ngl.

>>6940920
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQr3tnjHlg

>>6941039

>>6940920
I'm not going to dismiss their machine just because it's Soviet. I enjoy Tetris and the Rubix Cube. So what does this machine have? Any exclusives worth emulating?

>>6941047
This is an ordinary famiclone. Of the exclusives there, perhaps, "Traffic Rules" and "Miracle Field" of Chudov.
Look for exclusives on Soviet personal computers and Soviet clones of Western computers.

owned a Terminator II in 1997 Bulgaria. Had a cartridge with duck hunt, battle city, and 9 billion different hacked versions of smb. Thought it was awesome until it broke down in a month.

Live in the US, the majority of experience I have with famiclones are those SuperJoy things they used to sell in malls with the realisticish light gun and knockoff 64/Genesis controllers

A couple years ago I saw pic related inside a thrift store. Not sure where it came from, it output PAL so I didn't pick it up but seemed pretty cool. I had a ton of fun reading about this shit as a kid.

Live in the US. Never saw very many knockoff games as a kid, but when I was a teenager they sold pic related in malls. Usually in the center courts where any vendor could buy space. I remember wondering how the fuck these people were openly violating the law, they got away with it for awhile too.

>>6941103
Same, I didn't see many knockoffs in the US until the consoles themselves were 7-8 years old. It wasn't until 2001-02 that I began to see the NES av controller thing. I guess because we're much more regulated in commercial business spaces.

>>6940959
SOUL

>>6941042
I remember being amazed when I learned you could emulate consoles on PC and download ROMs for free. I can't image what it would be like for Russia seeing most of these games for the first time as they were meant to be. In order and complete. Aside from the games with copyright protection, I imagine it was still better than only owning an Atari or Commodore. The Chinese picked the best to rip off.

>>6941103
Those button placements LOL
>>6941126
> I didn't see many knockoffs in the US until the consoles themselves were 7-8 years old.
I remember the 65,536 in 1 NES knockoffs in mall kiosks say 15 years ago

>>6940959
la pole position de los video juegos..

>>6941047
famiclones don't have exclusives, you can literally plop in their bootlegs in a regular famicom or a nes with an adapter and they work

>>6940920
>Look at this shit. This thing is called "Zoomer".

>>6940920
i have been unable to locate the famiclone i had as a kid. it looked like a psx but it was green and transparent, it was called funstation and had a built in cartridge with stuff like super mario bros, duck hunt and circus charlie

>>6941043
Was this looted from chernobyl power plant control room?

>>6940959
el goblino...

>>6941208
maybe its this one it isnt called the same though but it has the games you said

>>6941243
no that looks like the ps one, mine looked like the old psx, also it had WAY less games than that
thanks for trying though

>>6941043
oh my goooood dude, that looks genuinely painful. If the zx spectrum keyboard makes your fingers hurt in minutes, that thing must do it immediately. I pity the slavs

>>6940959
That looks great

>>6941103
By the time these started coming out, they were just NOAC (NES on a chip), not actual Famicom clones.

>>6941042
He made a different video many years later which is basically a remake of this, but with AVGN rip off format replaced by a modern long form overview style. Many cool new info but no captions, so for slavs only.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vToeTj5EqCA

>>6940920
>In post-Soviet Russia, we played on this shit, and we thought it was the official 8-bit console.
We had famiclons in Latinamerica from Nikita and other brands, but still we were smart enough to realize it wasn't an original Nintendo, I mean come the fuck on it doesn't even say Nintendo.

>>6941039

The keyboard is lifted from the УКHЦ, which is something completely different and itself borrows heavily from the design of Yamaha's YIS503 MSX2, which was made in Japan but imported in the USSR as a special version to be used in schools.

There are a lot of weird eastern bloc home micros that most normie vintage tech collectors have never heard about, even most people from the area never heard about them because they were far too expensive for a normal person to buy at the time (one could cost about 5-10 salaries).

Here in Bulgaria apart from AppleII and IBM clones, our engineers decided to copy the Oric1/Atmos instead of the Speccy for the home market. I suspect the reasoning was that there was already a plant making cloned 6502 chips locally for the AppleII-clones, while a Spectrum would require a Z80 which hadn't been reverse-engineered yet at the time. The keyboard on the early models is very nice, it used genuine Cherry switches which no doubt cost a fortune to import. They switched to cheap rubber dome for later models.

Most soulful famiclon incoming.

>>6940920

>>6942258
A challenger appears!

>>6941208
>it looked like a psx but it was green and transparent, it was called funstation
Anon I know them. To be honest those were pretty bad quality, but cheap as fuck. They had some games in their internal memory already loaded.

>>6942264
That one is pretty nice too in design.
I think the SY-700 has better plastic quality and texture though more similar to the original.

>>6941103
The first time I saw the N64 controller NOAC bootleg was on the Shop At Home Network.

>>6942265
do you have a pic? i can't find it anymore

>>6942190
His videos are great, I have watched all the ones subtitled but I saw he has some longform videos that look hella interesting but alas I can't understand. I do like the way he says Dendy though, I can pick that word out of the rest of the Ost-gibberish

>>6943480
His real passion is not retro gaming in particular but the celebration of Russian '90s era as whole, quite a unique time if you weren't adult yet to experience the horrors of Yeltsinist economy. I guess he does not consider those topics as interesting for foreigners as his Dendy stuff to consider hiring someone to write English captions.

>>6943517

That video about Terminator bubble gum was great, as a kid i always assumed there were people who collected all of the pictures but i had never seen someone actually do it before. Especially when you consider that the company that made the gum didn't give a shit about how to properly number their sets...

>>6941043
jesus that looks miserable to type on