Soviet Handhelds

[Anonymous No.8164397]

Are there any other soviet or russian video game consoles beside pic rel?

[Anonymous No.8164417]

>Be Russia
>UR men make the best books
>UR men make the best cartoons
>UR men make the best ballet spectacles
>UR men continue to make classic music which is the best also
>Make shitty videogame stuff that's cringe and dumb

What a cruel fate of this woman.

[Anonymous No.8164429]

>urpa1
>urpa2
>BpemR

[Anonymous No.8164436]

>>8164417
>shitty videogame
Fuck off, anon. "Nu pagadi" video game is a lot of fun.

Also "Pathologic" and many other great games were made in Russia.

[Anonymous No.8164447]

>>8164429
*
>игpa A
>игpa Б
>вpeмя

[Anonymous No.8164452]

>>8164417
>Modern Russia
>Doing anything best
Lel.

[Anonymous No.8164462]

game is kill.
no

[Anonymous No.8164513]

Was Avtoslalom an original Soviet design or did they rip off someone else? It has no G&W equivalent.

[Anonymous No.8164514]

Either there's a lot of commieboos in Russia spreading this information online, or Russia really did accomplish and innovated the most during Soviet times.

[Anonymous No.8164620]

>>8164514
There's a shitload of brainwashed inbred ruskie who really think so.

[Anonymous No.8164642]

>>8164417
I guess this is why Ukraine makes better games

[Anonymous No.8164838]

>>8164417
>Make shitty videogame stuff that's cringe and dumb
Tetris was literally made inside the user stfu zoomer

[Anonymous No.8164876]

>>8164620
Yeah, someone even came up with the lie that they sent the first man in space or something.

[Anonymous No.8164938]

>>8164876
Nice cope.

[Anonymous No.8165307]

>>8164513
Looks like the gameplay would be identical to Tiger's Road Race despite the skewed perspective to fit the clock.

[Anonymous No.8165346]

>>8164838
>a single good game in 80 years of democratic socialism
>still worse than any entry of Columns
Commies just can't win.

[Anonymous No.8165529]

>>8165346
>democratic
What the fuck are you talking about

[Anonymous No.8165570]

>>8165529
Oh that's the term most US communists use to try to peddle "socialism".
Which, they've not even bothered trying to hide it, it's literally just communism under a different name and not real socialism.

[Anonymous No.8165584]

>>8164397
Looks like it's just a Hy, пoгoди themed reskin of Game & Watch Egg, there was a bunch of cartoon reskins for these, like a Mickey Mouse one. Soviet bootleg market was pretty big until the collapse of the whole country.

[Anonymous No.8165657]

>>8165584
Real socialism has never been tried (except in movies and videogames like Pokemon). Based Japanese developer crypto-leftchads.

[Anonymous No.8166405]

>>8164397
>Soviet Handhelds
wew
real bydlo hours ITT

[Anonymous No.8166473]

>>8165657
Meant for this g >>8165570. Pokemon proves socialism.

[Anonymous No.8166837]

>>8165657
>Real socialism has never been tried

[Anonymous No.8167389]

>>8165657
What exactly suggests the Pokemon world is socialist again?

[Anonymous No.8167573]

>>8167389
If anything it seems fascist, there are very few corporations that produce items, and they very likely are controlled by the state.

[Anonymous No.8167604]

>>8167573
I agree. Plus, if we go with the theory that the Elite 4 and Champion make up the executive parts of the government(assuming they even operate with an executive branch), there's the cult of personality that almost all fascist countries need to operate.

[Anonymous No.8167676]

>>8164513
It is told to be the only one not copied directly from Game&Watch.

Some cruel deplorable joker even thought that a watch only version needed to be made.

[Anonymous No.8167763]

Nothing beats the game&watch&dosimeter combo, though. A small batch was made to capitalize on the Chernobyl marketing opportunity, so to speak.

[Anonymous No.8167787]

>>8165657
Real socialism has been tried a million times and even succeeded a few times in Northern Europe. What actually hasn't been tried, or rather, hasn't been achieved, is real communism.

[Anonymous No.8167885]

>>8167763

[Anonymous No.8167981]

>>8164397
>Are there any other soviet or russian video game consoles beside pic rel?

From what I know, there were a shit ton of ZX Spectrum clones. My uncle had this one (it's called BASIC): https://speccy.info/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BA_%28%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%8C%D1%8E%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%29

Speccy was popular among Russian nerds and programmers in 80's and 90's

Electronica also released licensed Atari Pong/Soccer clone systems.

[Anonymous No.8168136]

>>8164397
I still have one of mine from 1989, and it's still works somehow. There were tons of different variations of the same concept. And we didn't even knew that is was a ripoff of Nintendo Game and Watch. Mom used to take several of these to long flights while working as cabin attendant. The amount of money one could make by renting them to passengers was absurdly high. Mostly thanks to them we could afford a real Sony Trinitron, a VCR and stereo CD deck while everyone else only had shitty soviet black and white TVs and horrible tape decks.

[Anonymous No.8168185]

>>8167981
OЙ MOЙ CПЭККИ

[Anonymous No.8168198]

>>8168185
Didn't even need to know the cyrillic, jesus christ. I've spent too much time here avoiding Deltarune.

[Anonymous No.8168349]

>>8167981
didnt ruskies have MSXs too?
i remember hearing that somewhere

[Anonymous No.8168356]

>>8168136
>Mom used to take several of these to long flights while working as cabin attendant. The amount of money one could make by renting them to passengers was absurdly high
based soviet-era hustle desu

[Anonymous No.8168380]

>>8167787
Even if communism were to actually succeed, it would be a horribly antiquated system; bear in mind it was proposed when most countries in the world, except for the USA, were controlled by monarchies. Compared to living in serfdom it would be great, but compared to modern systems it would be like living in an Amish community.

[Anonymous No.8168425]

>>8168349
I've never even heard of anyone having it, but again, I was too young for that and played my dendy and brick game consoles instead.

Wikipedia says MSX systems were definitely used in USSR, primarily in school classes and also in specific work circles, by musicians who created music on it, etc. There are even footages of the MSX games in some old movies, huh
https://youtu.be/VDmYMNnmcc8?t=2556

[Anonymous No.8168471]

>>8168425
yea i remember talking to some boomer ruskie on kc and he said the first computer he ever used was an MSX while in school
didnt know how widespread it was tho

>played my dendy
based dendy owner
how were those things when compared to real NES and other chink knockoff consoles?

[Anonymous No.8168758]

>>8168471
> how were those things when compared to real NES and other chink knockoff consoles?

While "Dendy" is a specific brand name of Famiclone produced in Taiwan and distributed in Russia by Steepler, every other Famiclone from noname chinks was still called Dendy. And there were thousands of those Famiclones.
So they are greatly varied in shape and quality. There were even ones with keyboards that came with educational cartridges teaching kids the basics of programming.
My first Dendy copied Mega Drive's design and died after 2.5 years of use. Second worked fine for 5-6 years until it was destroyed.

I have Steepler's Dendy Junior now. It copies original Famicom almost entirely, they even added port for zapper gun (?) to where originally Disk System port should be. Runs in slow PAL format (every Dendy does, which sucks), and recently, it started to have problems with connector, games are randomly glitching and sound sometimes cuts off. But it's a 25-year old system, so no wonder.
Newest Dendys produced today are absolute shit.

Games were the most important about it. No games that require additional cart battery for saving. No Zelda, no Metroid, no Kirby, Castlevania, Mega Man and SMB3 are rare as fuck. A lot of pirate/hacked shit, sometimes ruined versions of good games.
But in exchange, you've got a bunch of Japanese exclusives (everyone had Battle City by default), entire Nekketsu series, all Adventure Islands, all TMNT games, etc. But what's most important for 90's kid is Capcom's Disney games.
You watch DuckTales on tv and then you play it on your console. Go to your house with your bro after school and play some Contra or Battletoads in co-op.

So maybe russians missed a lot of licensed goods and didn't have all that fancy stuff like manuals for games, but it was still good. It could only get better if you had Mega Drive and Mortal Kombat.

[Anonymous No.8168804]

>>8165657
Decent bait

[Anonymous No.8168815]

>>8168380
>it would be like living in an Amish community.
Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

[Anonymous No.8168823]

>>8168815
Depends. If you like air conditioning, and playing video games, yeah.
If you like modern fast medicine and technical innovation, definitely.

[Anonymous No.8169007]

>>8167389
Um healthcare that costs literally ZERO(!) Pokedollaridoos?

[Anonymous No.8169012]

>>8167787
Denmark and Sweden have publicly stated they're not socialist because they're market economies. Then again, we have faggots in here that believe that a system of literal infinite resources (videogames like Pokemon) is reality and not fantasy.

[Anonymous No.8169027]

>>8169007
Ah, but that could be a service provided to you under the guise that you are participating in the league. Barring that, this healthcare may be provided to you because you pay into it(which isn't exactly socialist, see the NHS), or, y'know, a company that is making money elsewhere. Who knows, maybe the Pokecenters are funded by Silph Co, or some other unrelated company.
Additionally, the technology shown in the Pokemon world is far more advanced, which combined with the concept of a government subsidizing them, could mean that they had found a way to stay afloat, subsisting ONLY off of subsidies, by providing medical services for free using technology that brings the cost as down as low possible.

[Anonymous No.8169065]

>>8167676
& Watch

[Anonymous No.8169201]

>>8168349
In 1984 and 1985, Information and Computer Science was introduced into general Soviet school curriculum, and various decrees on supplying schools with computer labs (as opposed to, or supplementing, theory and paper programming) followed. These were supposed to come as a set of teacher's PC, network components (sometimes with power delivery), and student PCs which either loaded software from host PC, or connected to it as terminals. Around two dozens of such packages appeared, some were local one-time projects, and some were chosen as state-supplied, and were produced in large batches by multiple factories. Officially localized imported MSXs were one of the first to be supplied (as an already existing solution) to hundreds of schools. BK, DVK, and UKNC based packages came to thousands and tens of thousands. Later, in early and mid-90s, they were replaced by IBM PC compatibles.

In USSR and ex-USSR, MSX was not a popular architecture for clones and compatibles. However, BASIC flavors in Soviet school PCs seemed to resemble MSX BASIC or even declared full support, supposedly, to allow the use of existing course materials, books, and articles.

http://www.leningrad.su/museum/show_calc.php?n=218
http://www.leningrad.su/museum/show_calc.php?n=217

[Anonymous No.8169213]

>>8169027
It costs nothing, because socialism works and religious corporations have brainwashed you into thinking it doesn't and that there aren't unlimited resources. Japanese developers figured this out a long time ago. Grow up.

[Anonymous No.8169216]

>>8169065
They used full boards for these (could be those that failed testing), the display was different, and only had contacts for clock elements. This is why it had the same AM and PM indicators as in original games that looked quite alien to a person used to 24-hour clocks.

[Anonymous No.8169518]

>>8168349
There were MSX under the brand of КУBT (Class of Computers for Learning if you want a lousy translation). They even were made by Yamaha! And they probably had the strangest English keyboard layout I have ever seen. I had those in elementary school computer class, but they were rarely used. We played some weird puzzle game about a wolf, a goat and a cabbage. If only I knew that this grey beast could run actual Metal Gear 1 and 2!

[Anonymous No.8169726]

>>8169213
Holy mother of based.

[Anonymous No.8169792]

[Anonymous No.8169797]

>>8165657
>Real socialism

[Anonymous No.8170190]

>>8164397
There was the Dendy, a famiclone and a ZX Spectrum clone (appropriate for the moment). Probably more.

[Anonymous No.8170306]

>>8168758
so cool
thanks for the autism
i always found this stuff so interesting
never knew there were dendy brand megadrive-clones.

>all TMNT games
another thing i heard was that the TMNT tournament fighter (for NES) was a big deal over there. considering the 8-bit limitations, that game is actually a really competent fighter. probably the best one on the NES not that thats a particularly high bar, but yeaaa. i had no idea about it until flipping through random roms years later and was pleasantly surprised

>>8169201
>>8169518
very interesting, thanks anons

[Anonymous No.8170320]

>>8165657
kill yourself as soon as possible

[Anonymous No.8170395]

>>8169518
>And they probably had the strangest English keyboard layout I have ever seen.

That's because they just converted the Russian typewriter layout to their phoenetic equivalents.

[Anonymous No.8170683]

>>8168758
While in russia the most known Nintenclone was Dendy, in Poland it was a Chinese bootleg console called Pegasus.

It's funny, really. Pegasus was so popular, that polish people called every video game Console in the 90s (exept the Ataris) "Pegazus".

[Anonymous No.8171325]

>>8170395
Yeah, I know. It's just strange they decided to do that. Maybe it was to stop re-export, kinda like hardware region lock.
But then again, БК-0010 had the same retarded keyboard layout.

[Anonymous No.8173242]

>>8171325
Phonetic layout and placing KOI8 block of Cyrillic characters corresponding to Latin ASCII ones shifted by 128 was a common things on many systems made with at least partial interoperability with existing foreign software. It was inherited from KOI7, a 7 bit code page that allowed programs with both Latin and Cyrillic text to be recognizable on both foreign and Soviet terminals and systems with both Latin and Cyrillic character ROM. And the principle was inherited from pre-computer era, when what you saw on the telegraph tape was defined by the physical typewriters that were remade for different alphabets.

BTW. a nice site with lots of live examples.
https://sysadminmosaic.ru/wmsx/?DISK_FILES=/_media/msx/russification/ascii2.bas&BASIC_RUN=ascii2.bas&FAST_BOOT
https://sysadminmosaic.ru/msx/russification/russification

[Anonymous No.8173286]

>>8170320
So now you're threatening me? Triggered! I thought we were talking about video games! Get back in your safe space because you've lost the culture war.

>>8169726
Thank you!

[Anonymous No.8173391]

>>8164417
I liked Heroes of Might and Magic V

[Anonymous No.8173574]

>>8170683
Both Dendy and Pegasus were made by Taiwan-based TXC, based off their Micro Genius line of machines.

They were specifically chosen for Dendy because they were one of the only companies that could make consoles that output in the SECAM color that Soviet televisions used, though only the earlier, non-Junior models could so many gamers were stuck playing in monochrome.

[Anonymous No.8173598]

>>8168136
>Mom used to take several of these to long flights while working as cabin attendant. The amount of money one could make by renting them to passengers was absurdly high.
Holy based. My mom and grandpa used to sell berries and wine locally, also knitted clothes, but this is some next level /ussr/ grey market scheme.

[Anonymous No.8173603]

>>8170306
>never knew there were dendy brand megadrive-clones
There weren't. Mega Drive sold there officially. SNES too, but it was way more expensive, and not a lot of games found their way there.