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One of the best and one of the weirdest things piracy could ever create, '''Dendy''' brought joy to thousands of UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n kids and was the console that spawned the first generation of console gamers in Russia. At first, Dendy looks pretty much like your regular bootleg UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem clone, but to Russian gamers, it was so much more. It indeed had almost the same fate as NES, just on a less epic scale. Despite being completely unlicensed by Creator/{{Nintendo}} (although the short-lived publisher of the console, Steepler Ltd., imported Nintendo's consoles legally as well), it boasted many achievements: Millions of sold Famiclones and peripherals, a really huge network with its own brand shops, its own magazine (a la ''Magazine/NintendoPower''), a TV show (think ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' or ''Series/XPlay'') and millions of obsessed fans.
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One of the best and one of the weirdest things piracy could ever create, '''Dendy''' brought joy to thousands of UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n kids during TheNineties and was the console that spawned the first generation of console gamers in Russia. At first, Dendy looks pretty much like your regular bootleg UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem clone, but to Russian gamers, it was so much more. It indeed had almost the same fate as NES, just on a less epic scale. Despite being completely unlicensed by Creator/{{Nintendo}} (although the short-lived publisher of the console, Steepler Ltd., imported Nintendo's consoles legally as well), it boasted many achievements: Millions of sold Famiclones and peripherals, a really huge network with its own brand shops, its own magazine (a la ''Magazine/NintendoPower''), a TV show (think ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' or ''Series/XPlay'') and millions of obsessed fans.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Sergei Suponev, who died in a car crash like fellow Russian cult figure Music/ViktorTsoi
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* SidewaysCompatibility: Discovered in recent years that Dendy as well other famiclones can play Famicom (AKA Japanese UsefulNotes/{{NES}}) games in the console and vice versa (Dendy games in a Famicom or a NES with the FC-to-NES adapter).
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One of the best and one of the weirdest things piracy could ever create, Dendy brought joy to thousands of [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Russian]] kids and was the console that spawned the first generation of console gamers in Russia. At first, Dendy looks pretty much like your regular UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem clone, but to Russian gamers, it was so much more. It indeed had almost the same fate as NES, just on a less epic scale. Despite being completely unlicensed by Creator/{{Nintendo}} (although the short-lived publisher of the console, Steepler Ltd., imported Nintendo's consoles legally as well), it boasted many achievements: Millions of sold Famiclones and peripherals, a really huge network with its own brand shops, its own magazine (a la ''Magazine/NintendoPower''), a TV show (think ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' or ''Series/XPlay'') and millions of obsessed fans.
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One of the best and one of the weirdest things piracy could ever create, Dendy '''Dendy''' brought joy to thousands of [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Russian]] UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n kids and was the console that spawned the first generation of console gamers in Russia. At first, Dendy looks pretty much like your regular bootleg UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem clone, but to Russian gamers, it was so much more. It indeed had almost the same fate as NES, just on a less epic scale. Despite being completely unlicensed by Creator/{{Nintendo}} (although the short-lived publisher of the console, Steepler Ltd., imported Nintendo's consoles legally as well), it boasted many achievements: Millions of sold Famiclones and peripherals, a really huge network with its own brand shops, its own magazine (a la ''Magazine/NintendoPower''), a TV show (think ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' or ''Series/XPlay'') and millions of obsessed fans.
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[[WebVideo/{{Kinamania}} Kinaman]] created [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQr3tnjHlg a documentary]] about the ramifications of Dendy's bootleg nature on Russian gaming culture at the time.
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[[WebVideo/{{Kinamania}} Kinaman]] created [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQr3tnjHlg a feature-length documentary]] about the ramifications of Dendy's bootleg nature on Russian gaming culture at the time.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Lord Hanta may have glasses, but they just make him look cooler.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: No, really. ''Always.'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog slapped on the cartridge cover of ''VideoGame/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''Chip 'n Dale'' with its actual cover, but renamed to ''Grand Combat''? VideoGame/SeriousSam from ''The Second Encounter'' on the cart of ''Super VideoGame/{{Contra}} 7''? And those are but three examples!
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* CoversAlwaysLie: No, really. ''Always.'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog slapped on the cartridge cover of ''VideoGame/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''Chip 'n Dale'' with its actual cover, but renamed to ''Grand Combat''? VideoGame/SeriousSam from ''The Second Encounter'' ''VideoGame/SeriousSamTheSecondEncounter'' on the cart of ''Super VideoGame/{{Contra}} 7''? And those are but three examples!
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* SidewaysCompatibility: Discovered in recent years that Dendy as well other famiclones can play Famicom (AKA Japanese UsefulNotes/{{NES}}) games in the console and vice versa (Dendy games in a Famicom or a NES with the FC-to-NES adapter).
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of the cartridge labels, if they were done sober or otherwise, were certainly sloppy and trippy, often using artwork that is completely unrelated to the game and often just looks like a load of random images that have been cobbled together for no particular reason. Case in point, the ones presented in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3f3itoyRhE Dendy Chronicles #8]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led to Steepler disappearing, although the man behind the company is now listed as a vice-president of Tenzor, who supposedly manufactured Dendys... Or, at least it's parts. Some people think it's because of the high price of imported Nintendo products. Some say that it's due to sales network Lamport simply betraying their "parents", but we may never know what exactly happened...
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led to Steepler disappearing, although the man behind the company is now listed as a vice-president of Tenzor, who supposedly manufactured Dendys... Or, at least it's parts. Some people think it's because of the high price of imported Nintendo products. Some say that it's due to sales network Lamport simply betraying their "parents", but we may never know what exactly happened...
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of the cartridge labels, if they were done sober or otherwise, were certainly sloppy and trippy, often using artwork that is completely unrelated to the game and often just looks like a load of random images that have been cobbled together for no particular reason. Case in point, the ones presented in [[https://www.''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3f3itoyRhE Dendy Chronicles #8]].
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led to Steepler disappearing, although the man behind the company is now listed as a vice-president of Tenzor, who supposedly manufactured Dendys... Or, at leastit's its parts. Some people think it's because of the high price of imported Nintendo products. Some say that it's due to sales network Lamport simply betraying their "parents", but we may never know what exactly happened...
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led to Steepler disappearing, although the man behind the company is now listed as a vice-president of Tenzor, who supposedly manufactured Dendys... Or, at least
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* TheCameo: Suponev appeared only once in the ReplacementScrappy show ''World of Dendy'', hosting the tournament for ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct''.
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* TheCameo: Suponev appeared only once in the ReplacementScrappy show ''World of Dendy'', hosting the tournament for ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct''.
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* {{Otaku}}: [[LoveItOrHateIt Believe it or not]], loads.
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* {{Otaku}}: [[LoveItOrHateIt Believe it or not]], not, loads.
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[[Main/NamesTheSame Not to be confused with]] the adorable little intellect from ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes''.
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* BlatantLies: A gigantic UsefulNotes/GameBoy shown in season two! [[Although you may already guess it's a prop with a TV screen with a Super Game Boy plugged in.]]
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* BlatantLies: A gigantic UsefulNotes/GameBoy shown in season two! [[Although [[spoiler:Although you may already guess it's a prop with a TV screen with a Super Game Boy plugged in.]]
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The Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, its publisher ''Video-Ace'' had some experience publishing a few movie magazines and a PC games magazine, and the design was soon upgraded. Some of the articles were translated from ''Joystiq'', again thanks to the publishers' connections. Unlike most of its contemporaries, ''Video-Ace; Dendy'' concentrated more on movies, treating video games more like "interactive entertainment", and didn't have annoying ads. Later, however, when the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis first debuted, the Fun Club section rose in popularity and became a name known to Russian gamers as ''The Great Dragon''.
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The Great D'', while the second carries on the name of the TV show ''Dendy: The New Reality'', although sadly, was only four issues long... While its older brother underwent a 10-year evolution from inheriting the format of ''Video-Ace Dendy'' with some really reasonable add-ons to a magazine with loads of info on [=JRPGs=], next-gen consoles and anime, while still retaining the stuff that was loved before (8-bit and 16-bit sections, mainly). And that all was until 2003, when the magazine folded due to lack of funds. A revival was announced but seems to have encountered DevelopmentHell.
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The Great D'', while the second carries on the name of the TV show ''Dendy: The New Reality'', although sadly, was only four issues long... While its older brother underwent a 10-year evolution from inheriting the format of ''Video-Ace Dendy'' with some really reasonable add-ons to a magazine with loads of info on [=JRPGs=], next-gen consoles and anime, while still retaining the stuff that was loved before (8-bit and 16-bit sections, mainly). And that all was until 2003, when the magazine folded due to lack of funds. A revival was announced but seems to have encountered DevelopmentHell.
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The Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, its publisher ''Video-Ace'' had some experience publishing a few movie magazines and a PC games magazine, and the design was soon upgraded. Some of the articles were translated from ''Joystiq'', again thanks to the publishers' connections. Unlike most of its contemporaries, ''Video-Ace; ''Video-Ace Dendy'' concentrated more on movies, treating video games more like "interactive entertainment", and didn't have annoying ads. Later, however, when the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis first debuted, the Fun Club section rose in popularity and became a name known to Russian gamers as ''The Great Dragon''.
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The GreatD'', Dragon'', while the second carries carried on the name of the TV show ''Dendy: The New Reality'', although sadly, was Reality''. The latter lasted only four issues long... While issues, while its older brother underwent a 10-year evolution from inheriting the format of ''Video-Ace Dendy'' with some really reasonable add-ons to a magazine with loads of info on [=JRPGs=], next-gen consoles and anime, while still retaining the stuff that was loved before (8-bit and 16-bit sections, mainly). And that all was until 2003, when the magazine folded due to lack of funds. A revival was announced but seems to have encountered DevelopmentHell.
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The Great
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Several bits of the TV show dedicated to this famiclone, ''Dendy: The New Reality'', may be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A7E2F4261CD950A7 here]], subbed in English, or, if you're really interested (or maybe just happened to be born in the post-Soviet era), you may watch it from beginning to end in its original language[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzueORf25s here]].
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Several bits of the TV show dedicated to this famiclone, ''Dendy: The New Reality'', may be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A7E2F4261CD950A7 here]], subbed in English, or, if you're really interested (or maybe just happened to be born in the post-Soviet era), you may watch it from beginning to end in its original language[[https://www.language [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzueORf25s here]].
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contain examples:
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!!The ''Video-Ass Dendy'' and its SpiritualSuccessor, ''The Great Dragon'' are the examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Lord Hanta may have glasses, but they just make him cooler.
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* AuthorAppeal: Vladimir Borev, the headie of ''Video-Ass'' publishing. Quoting: ''Watching the game, playing the movie''.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Some games, even if they were reviewed hell long ago, get a kinda pointless, in this case, re-review. Instant example: When ''Great Dragon'' was a spinoff, ''Dendy: The New Reality'' magazine reviewed VideoGame/{{Doom}} for [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]]. Later on, when ''Dendy'' magazine officially died... Doom was reviewed. Again. And yes, for SNES. And that's when the UsefulNotes/PlayStation debuted.
* [[BrandNameTakeover Pirate Name Takeover]]: [[Franchise/MortalKombat Ho]] [[FanSpeak Sung Pak]].
** Who actually was an actor for Liu Kang in [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 the first installment]].
* DevelopmentHell: The ''Great D'' is expected to be revived... And it resulted in nothing else but updates on the official website.
* DoingItForTheArt: Video-Ass Dendy and its following installments definitely had some soul put in it. Despite some mistakes taken in as well.
** For example, you need to write a one-page review for VideoGame/BattleCity. What you could put here, considering it's a first-generation NES game? But, naturally, one fan's review was so well-written that it included a basic premise plot, description of landscape and the ingame tanks, as well as wishing good luck to the beginner players. Of course, this may sound funny, but yes, it ACTUALLY is well-written, so now whenever it's needed to write a review on this game, the review follows a similar scheme.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Sadly, this is here as well, mainly in the latter era. The reason is that a Steepler wannabe, ''New Game'', which is known for its Magistr Famiclones and being the first ones to '''sell the initially free''' [[GameMod Sonic Megamix]] released a 'continuation' to ''The Cool Gamer'', but it turned out to be nothing else than yet another 'Tips and Tricks for 9000 Games on Mega Drive' clone. Doesn't help that exactly the same descriptions, as well as tips and tricks can be read out on their official website.
** The ratings to the games they've given also fits this trope to an [[PrecisionFStrike F]]. Just for instance, how could ''VideoGame/HerzogZwei'' get 4/10 while this, ehrm, thing got 6/10? And, moreover, how ''VideoGame/RangerX'' would receive 4/10?!
*** [[FollowTheLeader The worst thing is that the other books released after this one seem to copy the ratings directly from here.]]
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Some games, even if they were reviewed hell long ago, get a kinda pointless, in this case, re-review. Instant example: When ''Great Dragon'' was a spinoff, ''Dendy: The New Reality'' magazine reviewed VideoGame/{{Doom}} for [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]]. Later on, when ''Dendy'' magazine officially died... Doom was reviewed. Again. And yes, for SNES. And that's when the UsefulNotes/PlayStation debuted.
* [[BrandNameTakeover Pirate Name Takeover]]: [[Franchise/MortalKombat Ho]] [[FanSpeak Sung Pak]].
** Who actually was an actor for Liu Kang in [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 the first installment]].
* DevelopmentHell: The ''Great D'' is expected to be revived... And it resulted in nothing else but updates on the official website.
* DoingItForTheArt: Video-Ass Dendy and its following installments definitely had some soul put in it. Despite some mistakes taken in as well.
** For example, you need to write a one-page review for VideoGame/BattleCity. What you could put here, considering it's a first-generation NES game? But, naturally, one fan's review was so well-written that it included a basic premise plot, description of landscape and the ingame tanks, as well as wishing good luck to the beginner players. Of course, this may sound funny, but yes, it ACTUALLY is well-written, so now whenever it's needed to write a review on this game, the review follows a similar scheme.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Sadly, this is here as well, mainly in the latter era. The reason is that a Steepler wannabe, ''New Game'', which is known for its Magistr Famiclones and being the first ones to '''sell the initially free''' [[GameMod Sonic Megamix]] released a 'continuation' to ''The Cool Gamer'', but it turned out to be nothing else than yet another 'Tips and Tricks for 9000 Games on Mega Drive' clone. Doesn't help that exactly the same descriptions, as well as tips and tricks can be read out on their official website.
** The ratings to the games they've given also fits this trope to an [[PrecisionFStrike F]]. Just for instance, how could ''VideoGame/HerzogZwei'' get 4/10 while this, ehrm, thing got 6/10? And, moreover, how ''VideoGame/RangerX'' would receive 4/10?!
*** [[FollowTheLeader The worst thing is that the other books released after this one seem to copy the ratings directly from here.]]
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* AuthorAppeal: Vladimir Borev, the headie head of ''Video-Ass'' ''Video-Ace'' publishing. Quoting: Quote: ''Watching the game, playing the movie''.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Some games, even if they were reviewedhell long ago, previously, get a kinda pointless, an in this case, case pointless re-review. Instant For example: When ''Great Dragon'' was a spinoff, ''Dendy: The New Reality'' magazine reviewed VideoGame/{{Doom}} for [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]]. Later on, when ''Dendy'' magazine officially died... Doom was reviewed. Again. And yes, Again, for SNES. And that's when the SNES, around the time the UsefulNotes/PlayStation debuted.
* [[BrandNameTakeover Pirate Name Takeover]]: [[Franchise/MortalKombat Ho]] [[FanSpeak SungPak]].
**Pak]]. Who actually was an the actor for Liu Kang in the [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 the first installment]].
first]] and [[VideoGame/MortalKombatII second]] installments of Franchise/MortalKombat.
* DevelopmentHell: The ''Great D'' is expected to be revived... And so far, it has resulted in nothing else but updates on the official website.
* DoingItForTheArt:Video-Ass Video-Ace Dendy and its following installments definitely had some soul put in it. Despite some mistakes taken in as well.
it, inspite of the occasional mistakes.
** For example, say you need to write a one-page review for VideoGame/BattleCity. What you could put here, considering it's a first-generation NES game? But, naturally, one fan's review was so well-written that it included a basicpremise plot, premise, a description of the landscape and the ingame tanks, as well as wishing good luck to the beginner players. Of course, this may sound funny, but yes, it ACTUALLY is well-written, so now whenever it's needed to write a review on this game, the review follows a similar scheme.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Sadly, this is here as well, mainly in the latter era. The reason is that a Steepler wannabe, ''New Game'', which is known for its Magistr Famiclones andbeing having the first ones gall to '''sell the initially free''' [[GameMod Sonic Megamix]] released a 'continuation' to ''The Cool Gamer'', but it turned out to be nothing else than yet another 'Tips and Tricks for 9000 Games on Mega Drive' clone. Doesn't help that exactly the exact same descriptions, as well as tips and tricks can be read out on their official website.
** The **The ratings to the games they've given to certain games also fits this trope to an [[PrecisionFStrike F]]. a T. Just for instance, how could ''VideoGame/HerzogZwei'' get 4/10 while this, ehrm, thing got 6/10? And, moreover, how ''VideoGame/RangerX'' would receive 4/10?!
*** [[FollowTheLeader4/10?! The worst thing is that the other books released after this one afterwards seem to copy the ratings directly from here.]]there.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Some games, even if they were reviewed
* [[BrandNameTakeover Pirate Name Takeover]]: [[Franchise/MortalKombat Ho]] [[FanSpeak Sung
**
* DevelopmentHell: The ''Great D'' is expected to be revived... And so far, it has resulted in nothing else but updates on the official website.
* DoingItForTheArt:
** For example, say you need to write a one-page review for VideoGame/BattleCity. What you could put here, considering it's a first-generation NES game? But, naturally, one fan's review was so well-written that it included a basic
* ExecutiveMeddling: Sadly, this is here as well, mainly in the latter era. The reason is that a Steepler wannabe, ''New Game'', which is known for its Magistr Famiclones and
*** [[FollowTheLeader
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** First of '''ALL''', there is a 'Fun Club' section [[WordOfGod (it was even explained why it shouldn't be spelled as Fan Club)]] which accepted a huge load of fan work: Art, game story concepts, humorous psychological tests, fiction [[FanFic (no, not this one)]], comic strips and more 'n more!
** And some stuff that didn't make it into Fun Club section or Art Gallery went as the tips 'n tricks pages' illustrations.
** A [[{{Feelies}} bundle]] newspaper ''Dragon Plus'' which not only included several good (and not that good) outside-the-editorial articles, but also could be bought only from the editorial on rubble each. Why so? Basically, it was allowed and '''needed''' to be resold by the loving readers who were dreaming about making money!
** And some stuff that didn't make it into Fun Club section or Art Gallery went as the tips 'n tricks pages' illustrations.
** A [[{{Feelies}} bundle]] newspaper ''Dragon Plus'' which not only included several good (and not that good) outside-the-editorial articles, but also could be bought only from the editorial on rubble each. Why so? Basically, it was allowed and '''needed''' to be resold by the loving readers who were dreaming about making money!
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** First of '''ALL''', there is a 'Fun Club' section [[WordOfGod (it was even explained why it shouldn't be spelled as Fan Club)]] which accepted a huge load of fan work: Art, game story concepts, humorous psychological tests, fiction [[FanFic (no, not this one)]], that kind)]], comic strips and more 'n more!
**more! And some stuff that didn't make it into Fun Club section or Art Gallery went as the tips 'n tricks pages' illustrations.
** A [[{{Feelies}}bundle]] bundled]] newspaper ''Dragon Plus'' which not only included several good (and not that good) not-so-good) outside-the-editorial articles, but also could be bought only from the editorial on rubble for a ruble each. Why so? Basically, it was allowed and '''needed''' ''needed'' to be resold by the loving readers who were dreaming about making money!
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** A [[{{Feelies}}
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** Lord Hanta.
*** And, basically... '''How'''! In his 'alternate review' of VideoGame/GarfieldCaughtInTheAct, which was ''much'' better than its scrappy NES big brother, got Irated by him in all sorts, starting with how NintendoHard and annoying the game is, ending '''with''' cursing the franchise. Right, ClusterFBomb, only without swearing. He also reviewed a ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fighting game which not only was ''slightly'' better than ''VideoGame/YieArKungFu'' gameplay-wise, but also got a bastardized US 'localization' named [[PunBasedTitle Street Combat]]. And guess what? No bad words for this game! With the detailed description of every character! Do we need to say more?
*** On a side note... He likes ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''.
*** And, basically... '''How'''! In his 'alternate review' of VideoGame/GarfieldCaughtInTheAct, which was ''much'' better than its scrappy NES big brother, got Irated by him in all sorts, starting with how NintendoHard and annoying the game is, ending '''with''' cursing the franchise. Right, ClusterFBomb, only without swearing. He also reviewed a ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fighting game which not only was ''slightly'' better than ''VideoGame/YieArKungFu'' gameplay-wise, but also got a bastardized US 'localization' named [[PunBasedTitle Street Combat]]. And guess what? No bad words for this game! With the detailed description of every character! Do we need to say more?
*** On a side note... He likes ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''.
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** Lord Hanta.
*** And, basically... '''How'''!Hanta was a massive one. How? In his 'alternate review' of VideoGame/GarfieldCaughtInTheAct, which was ''much'' better than its scrappy mediocre NES big brother, got Irated by him in all sorts, he was pretty angry, starting with how NintendoHard and annoying the game is, ending '''with''' cursing with him ''cursing the franchise. Right, ClusterFBomb, only without swearing. Garfield franchise''. He also reviewed a ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fighting game which not only was ''slightly'' better than ''VideoGame/YieArKungFu'' gameplay-wise, but also got a bastardized US 'localization' named [[PunBasedTitle Street Combat]]. And guess what? No Combat]], and had nothing bad words for this game! With the to say about it, and even gave a detailed description of every character! Do we need to say more?
*** On a side note... He likes ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''.character!
*** And, basically... '''How'''!
*** On a side note... He likes ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''.
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* TheStoic: The walkthroughs for NES games were published since the ''Video-Ass Dendy'' was born and until the time when the magazine was about to collapse. Nuff said.
** Mega Drive fits this trope in the second place, because the walkthroughs for its games were posted '''even''' with the fade of '8-bit' part, but the games for it appeared a bit later than the magazine was created.
** With Fun Club being par with the Mega Drive section.
* TitleDrop: Inverted. The spin-off, which later became a separate magazine had the name of one of the authors. Ten seconds to guess his alias.
* WildMassGuessing: Yes, the magazine even had '''this''', on who Great Dragon really is.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Video-Ace or Video-'''Ass'''?
** SpellMyNameWithAnS: If you go with direct transliteration, then the second. If you aim for accurate pronunciation or just don't see any sense in butchering the title '''[[PrecisionFStrike that]]''' [[PrecisionFStrike much]], then the first. In either case, this is likely to be a mispronunciation of what is otherwise supposed to be "Video-Ace" in the original Russian.
** Mega Drive fits this trope in the second place, because the walkthroughs for its games were posted '''even''' with the fade of '8-bit' part, but the games for it appeared a bit later than the magazine was created.
** With Fun Club being par with the Mega Drive section.
* TitleDrop: Inverted. The spin-off, which later became a separate magazine had the name of one of the authors. Ten seconds to guess his alias.
* WildMassGuessing: Yes, the magazine even had '''this''', on who Great Dragon really is.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Video-Ace or Video-'''Ass'''?
** SpellMyNameWithAnS: If you go with direct transliteration, then the second. If you aim for accurate pronunciation or just don't see any sense in butchering the title '''[[PrecisionFStrike that]]''' [[PrecisionFStrike much]], then the first. In either case, this is likely to be a mispronunciation of what is otherwise supposed to be "Video-Ace" in the original Russian.
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* TheStoic: The walkthroughs for NES games which were published since the ''Video-Ass from when ''Video-Ace Dendy'' was born and until the time when the magazine was about to collapse. Nuff said.
collapse.
**Mega Drive fits this trope in the The UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis walkthroughs earn second place, because the walkthroughs for its games were posted '''even''' even with the fade of '8-bit' part, but the games for it appeared a bit later than the magazine was created.
**created. With Fun Club being par with the Mega Drive Genesis section.
* TitleDrop: Inverted. The spin-off, which later became a separate magazinehad with the name of one of the authors. Ten seconds to guess his alias.
* WildMassGuessing: Yes, the magazine even had '''this''', on who the Great Dragon reallyis.
was.
*WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Video-Ace or Video-'''Ass'''?
**SpellMyNameWithAnS: If you go with direct transliteration, then the second. transliteration, it's called ''Video-Ass Dendy''. If you aim for accurate pronunciation or just don't see any sense are in butchering the title '''[[PrecisionFStrike that]]''' [[PrecisionFStrike much]], polite company, then the first.it's called ''Video-Ace Dendy''. In either case, this is likely to be a mispronunciation of what is otherwise supposed to be "Video-Ace" in the original Russian.
**
**
* TitleDrop: Inverted. The spin-off, which later became a separate magazine
* WildMassGuessing: Yes, the magazine even had '''this''', on who the Great Dragon really
*
**
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* AscendedFanboy: Appeared in one episode. [[spoiler:Wren from Video-Ace.]]
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* AscendedFanboy: Appeared Wren from Video-Ace appeared in one episode. [[spoiler:Wren from Video-Ace.]]episode.
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* BlatantLies: Megahuge UsefulNotes/GameBoy shown in season two! Although you may already guess it's a prop with a TV screen with a Super Game Boy plugged in.
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* BlatantLies: Megahuge A gigantic UsefulNotes/GameBoy shown in season two! Although [[Although you may already guess it's a prop with a TV screen with a Super Game Boy plugged in.]]
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* CatchPhrase: 'We invite you to the world of New Reality, the world of computer games!'
** Oh, and the phrase from the theme song at the start!
** Oh, and the phrase from the theme song at the start!
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* CatchPhrase: 'We invite you to the world of New Reality, the world of computer games!'
** Oh, andgames!' Not to mention the phrase from the theme song at the start!
** Oh, and
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** Sadly, the end of the second season (and the entire show in general) was very abruptt.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In Episode #9 of the first season, where the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem debuted on the show, Suponev tells us about the fact that Mario was made by Creator/{{Nintendo}}. Although he had mentioned that name[[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident]] right in the second episode of the same season]].
* TheManBehindTheMan: In Episode #9 of the first season, where the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem debuted on the show, Suponev tells us about the fact that Mario was made by Creator/{{Nintendo}}. Although he had mentioned that name[[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident]] right in the second episode of the same season]].
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** Sadly, the end of the second season (and the entire show in general) was very abruptt.
abrupt.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In Episode #9 of the first season, where the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem debuted on the show, Suponev tells us about the fact that Mario was made by Creator/{{Nintendo}}. Although he had mentioned thatname[[LateArrivalSpoiler name [[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident]] right in the second episode of the same season]].season.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In Episode #9 of the first season, where the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem debuted on the show, Suponev tells us about the fact that Mario was made by Creator/{{Nintendo}}. Although he had mentioned that
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!!The ''Dendy: The New Reality'' show and its follow-ups are the examples of:
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!!The ''Dendy: The New Reality'' show and its follow-ups are the contain examples of:
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* AscendedFanboy: Appeared in one episode. [[spoiler:...Wren.]]
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Sergei Suponev, who coincidentally got into the same death trap as Music/ViktorTsoi... Car crash.
* [[BootstrappedTheme Bootstrapped Themes]]: ...Which actually come from VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD and Subterrania and used during both seasons.
* BlatantLies: Megahuge UsefulNotes/GameBoy shown in season two! Although you may already guess it's a prod with a TV screen showing Super Game Boy add-on in action.
* TheCameo: Suponev appeared only once in the ReplacementScrappy SoOkayItsAverage show ''World of Dendy'', hosting the tournament for ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct''.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Sergei Suponev, who coincidentally got into the same death trap as Music/ViktorTsoi... Car crash.
* [[BootstrappedTheme Bootstrapped Themes]]: ...Which actually come from VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD and Subterrania and used during both seasons.
* BlatantLies: Megahuge UsefulNotes/GameBoy shown in season two! Although you may already guess it's a prod with a TV screen showing Super Game Boy add-on in action.
* TheCameo: Suponev appeared only once in the ReplacementScrappy SoOkayItsAverage show ''World of Dendy'', hosting the tournament for ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct''.
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* AscendedFanboy: Appeared in one episode. [[spoiler:...Wren.[[spoiler:Wren from Video-Ace.]]
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Sergei Suponev, whocoincidentally got into the same death trap as Music/ViktorTsoi... Car crash.
died in a car crash like fellow Russian cult figure Music/ViktorTsoi
* [[BootstrappedTheme BootstrappedThemes]]: ...Which actually come Themes]]: Both seasons used music from VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD'' and Subterrania and used during both seasons.
''Subterrania''
* BlatantLies: Megahuge UsefulNotes/GameBoy shown in season two! Although you may already guess it's aprod prop with a TV screen showing with a Super Game Boy add-on in action.
plugged in.
* TheCameo: Suponev appeared only once in the ReplacementScrappySoOkayItsAverage show ''World of Dendy'', hosting the tournament for ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct''.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Sergei Suponev, who
* [[BootstrappedTheme Bootstrapped
* BlatantLies: Megahuge UsefulNotes/GameBoy shown in season two! Although you may already guess it's a
* TheCameo: Suponev appeared only once in the ReplacementScrappy
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* GagDub: Done by Suponev ''himself'' on ''Jurassic Park II'' (SNES) intro.
** Still, the re-dub retains the original idea, it just adds a parody grain of 'perestroika dubbers.'
** Still, the re-dub retains the original idea, it just adds a parody grain of 'perestroika dubbers.'
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* GagDub: Done by Suponev ''himself'' on the intro to the SNES version ''Jurassic Park II'' (SNES) intro.
** Still, the re-dub2'' . The dub retains the original general idea, it just adds a parody grain of 'perestroika dubbers.'though parodying the VoiceoverTranslation that was common on imported films in Russia at the time.
** Still, the re-dub
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* SequelHook: End of first season.
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* SequelHook: End The end of the first season.
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** Sadly, the end of the second season (and the entire show in general) was mainly a sudden abrupt.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In Episode #9 of the first season, where Super Nintendo debuted, Suponev tells us about the fact that Mario was made by Nintendo.
** [[spoiler:Although he said [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} that word]] [[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident]] right in the second episode of the same season]].
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: [[AvertedTrope Nonexistent for this show.]]
** In '''both''' meanings of this trope. Straight and literal.
* [[VideoFullOfFilmClips Video Full of VHS Clips]]: Sometimes, before showing a game based on a movie/cartoon, Suponev inserts a VHS tape with the thing the game was based off and showed a one -- or two-minute fragment from it. [[spoiler:With 'perestroika' kind of translation dub.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: In Episode #9 of the first season, where Super Nintendo debuted, Suponev tells us about the fact that Mario was made by Nintendo.
** [[spoiler:Although he said [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} that word]] [[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident]] right in the second episode of the same season]].
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: [[AvertedTrope Nonexistent for this show.]]
** In '''both''' meanings of this trope. Straight and literal.
* [[VideoFullOfFilmClips Video Full of VHS Clips]]: Sometimes, before showing a game based on a movie/cartoon, Suponev inserts a VHS tape with the thing the game was based off and showed a one -- or two-minute fragment from it. [[spoiler:With 'perestroika' kind of translation dub.]]
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** Sadly, the end of the second season (and the entire show in general) was mainly a sudden abrupt.
very abruptt.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In Episode #9 of the first season, whereSuper Nintendo debuted, the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem debuted on the show, Suponev tells us about the fact that Mario was made by Nintendo.
** [[spoiler:AlthoughCreator/{{Nintendo}}. Although he said [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} had mentioned that word]] [[LateArrivalSpoiler name[[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident]] right in the second episode of the same season]].
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: [[AvertedTrope Nonexistent for thisshow.]]
** In '''both''' meanings of this trope. Straightshow,]] both figuratively and literal.
literally.
* [[VideoFullOfFilmClips Video Full of VHS Clips]]: Sometimes, before showing a game based on a movie/cartoon, Suponev inserts a VHS tape with thething license in question the game was based off and showed a one -- or two-minute short fragment from it. [[spoiler:With 'perestroika' kind of translation dub.]]it, with a VoiceoverTranslation.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In Episode #9 of the first season, where
** [[spoiler:Although
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: [[AvertedTrope Nonexistent for this
** In '''both''' meanings of this trope. Straight
* [[VideoFullOfFilmClips Video Full of VHS Clips]]: Sometimes, before showing a game based on a movie/cartoon, Suponev inserts a VHS tape with the
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* BrandNameTakeover: Now, ''every'' Famiclone is nicknamed 'Dendy,' no matter if it has this name or not. Meanwhile in UsefulNotes/{{Poland}}, the imported Famiclones were called ''Pegasus'', after [[http://i.imgur.com/KBI2jCn.jpg this particular model]].
* CoversAlwaysLie: No, really. ''Always.'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog slapped on the cartridge cover of ''VideoGame/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''Chip 'n Dale'' with its actual cover, but renamed to ''Grand Combat''? VideoGame/SeriousSam from ''The Second Encounter'' on the cart of ''Super VideoGame/{{Contra}} 7''? And those are only three of the examples out of thousands!
* CoversAlwaysLie: No, really. ''Always.'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog slapped on the cartridge cover of ''VideoGame/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''Chip 'n Dale'' with its actual cover, but renamed to ''Grand Combat''? VideoGame/SeriousSam from ''The Second Encounter'' on the cart of ''Super VideoGame/{{Contra}} 7''? And those are only three of the examples out of thousands!
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* BrandNameTakeover: Now, ''every'' Famiclone is nicknamed 'Dendy,' no matter The popularity of the Dendy resulted in ''all'' Famiclones being called that by Russians, regardless if whether or not it has this name or not.was actually sold under that name. Meanwhile in UsefulNotes/{{Poland}}, the imported Famiclones were called ''Pegasus'', after [[http://i.imgur.com/KBI2jCn.jpg this particular model]].
model sold there]].
* CoversAlwaysLie: No, really. ''Always.'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog slapped on the cartridge cover of ''VideoGame/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''Chip 'n Dale'' with its actual cover, but renamed to ''Grand Combat''? VideoGame/SeriousSam from ''The Second Encounter'' on the cart of ''Super VideoGame/{{Contra}} 7''? And those areonly but three of the examples out of thousands!examples!
* CoversAlwaysLie: No, really. ''Always.'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog slapped on the cartridge cover of ''VideoGame/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''Chip 'n Dale'' with its actual cover, but renamed to ''Grand Combat''? VideoGame/SeriousSam from ''The Second Encounter'' on the cart of ''Super VideoGame/{{Contra}} 7''? And those are
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** Dendy wasn't the first famiclone to pop up on the market, and that's not talking about that it's not the first to swag the Famicom's original design, either.
** To make matters worse, the some of the models of Dendy had built-in gamepads, complete with no Select and Start buttons on the second gamepad, akin to the first models of Famicom.
** To make matters even worse, Dendy itself has a clones of its own, not manufactured by the now defunct Steepler. And even while those are being advertised as the consoles with more supreme graphics and sound, they weren't really different to the other famiclones (but yet it had completely nothing to do with the actual Steepler's clone).
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of the cartridge labels are this, using artwork that is completely unrelated to the game and often just looks like a load of random images that have been cobbled together for no particular reason. Case in point, the ones presented in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3f3itoyRhE Dendy Chronicles #8]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led Steepler to disappearing, although the man behind this company is now listed as a vice-president of Tenzor company, who supposedly manufactured Dendies... Or, at least, bits of it. Some people think it's because of the high price of imported Nintendo products. Some say that it's due to Lamport simply betraying their 'parents,' but we may never know what happened exactly... Maybe, all at the same time?
** To make matters worse, the some of the models of Dendy had built-in gamepads, complete with no Select and Start buttons on the second gamepad, akin to the first models of Famicom.
** To make matters even worse, Dendy itself has a clones of its own, not manufactured by the now defunct Steepler. And even while those are being advertised as the consoles with more supreme graphics and sound, they weren't really different to the other famiclones (but yet it had completely nothing to do with the actual Steepler's clone).
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of the cartridge labels are this, using artwork that is completely unrelated to the game and often just looks like a load of random images that have been cobbled together for no particular reason. Case in point, the ones presented in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3f3itoyRhE Dendy Chronicles #8]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led Steepler to disappearing, although the man behind this company is now listed as a vice-president of Tenzor company, who supposedly manufactured Dendies... Or, at least, bits of it. Some people think it's because of the high price of imported Nintendo products. Some say that it's due to Lamport simply betraying their 'parents,' but we may never know what happened exactly... Maybe, all at the same time?
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** Dendy wasn't the first famiclone to pop up on the market, and that's not talking about that it's not the first to swag swipe the Famicom's original design, either.
** To make matters worse,the some of the models of Dendy had built-in gamepads, complete with no Select and Start buttons on the second gamepad, akin to the first models of original Famicom.
** To make matters even worse, Dendy itselfhas a had clones of its own, not manufactured by the now defunct Steepler. And even while those are were being advertised as the consoles with more supreme better graphics and sound, they weren't really different to the from other famiclones (but yet (though it had completely nothing to do with the actual Steepler's clone).
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of the cartridgelabels are this, labels, if they were done sober or otherwise, were certainly sloppy and trippy, often using artwork that is completely unrelated to the game and often just looks like a load of random images that have been cobbled together for no particular reason. Case in point, the ones presented in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3f3itoyRhE Dendy Chronicles #8]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led to Steeplerto disappearing, although the man behind this the company is now listed as a vice-president of Tenzor company, Tenzor, who supposedly manufactured Dendies... Dendys... Or, at least, bits of it.least it's parts. Some people think it's because of the high price of imported Nintendo products. Some say that it's due to sales network Lamport simply betraying their 'parents,' "parents", but we may never know what happened exactly... Maybe, all at the same time?
exactly happened...
** To make matters worse,
** To make matters even worse, Dendy itself
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of the cartridge
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led to Steepler
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One of the best and one of the weirdest things piracy could ever create, Dendy brought joy to thousands of [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Russian]] kids and was the console that spawned the first generation of console gamers in Russia. At first, Dendy looks pretty much like your regular UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem clone, but to Russian gamers, it was so much more. It indeed had almost the same fate as NES, just on a less epic scale. Despite being completely unlicensed by Creator/{{Nintendo}} (although the short-lived publisher of the console, Steepler Ltd., imported Nintendo's consoles absolutely legally), it boasted a lot of achievements: Millions of sold Famiclones and peripherals, a really huge network with its own brand shops, own magazine (say hello to ''Magazine/NintendoPower''), TV show (say the same thing to ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' and related shows) and millions of obsessed fans.
Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, its publisher ''Video-Ace'' had some experience publishing a few movie magazines and a PC-games magazine, and the design was soon upgraded. Some of the articles were translated from ''Joystiq'', again thanks to the publishers' connections. Unlike most of its contemporaries, ''Video-Ace; Dendy'' concentrated more on the movies, treated video games more like 'interactive entertainment', and didn't have annoying ads. Oh yeah. Later, however, when the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis first debuted, the Fun Club section rose in popularity and almost became a leitmotif of all generations of... ''The Great Dragon''.
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The Great D'', while the second continued the line of ''Dendy: The New Reality'', although sadly, was only four issues long... While its older brother underwent a 10-year evolution from inheriting the format of ''Video-Ass Dendy'' with some really reasonable add-ons to a magazine with loads of info on [=JRPGs=], next-gen consoles and anime, which, however, still retained the stuff that was loved before (8-bit and 16-bit sections, mainly). And that all was until 2003, when the magazine got scrapped due to the lack of fundings. Of course, it's expected to be revived, but DevelopmentHell still does its dirty job.
Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, its publisher ''Video-Ace'' had some experience publishing a few movie magazines and a PC-games magazine, and the design was soon upgraded. Some of the articles were translated from ''Joystiq'', again thanks to the publishers' connections. Unlike most of its contemporaries, ''Video-Ace; Dendy'' concentrated more on the movies, treated video games more like 'interactive entertainment', and didn't have annoying ads. Oh yeah. Later, however, when the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis first debuted, the Fun Club section rose in popularity and almost became a leitmotif of all generations of... ''The Great Dragon''.
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The Great D'', while the second continued the line of ''Dendy: The New Reality'', although sadly, was only four issues long... While its older brother underwent a 10-year evolution from inheriting the format of ''Video-Ass Dendy'' with some really reasonable add-ons to a magazine with loads of info on [=JRPGs=], next-gen consoles and anime, which, however, still retained the stuff that was loved before (8-bit and 16-bit sections, mainly). And that all was until 2003, when the magazine got scrapped due to the lack of fundings. Of course, it's expected to be revived, but DevelopmentHell still does its dirty job.
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One of the best and one of the weirdest things piracy could ever create, Dendy brought joy to thousands of [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Russian]] kids and was the console that spawned the first generation of console gamers in Russia. At first, Dendy looks pretty much like your regular UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem clone, but to Russian gamers, it was so much more. It indeed had almost the same fate as NES, just on a less epic scale. Despite being completely unlicensed by Creator/{{Nintendo}} (although the short-lived publisher of the console, Steepler Ltd., imported Nintendo's consoles absolutely legally), legally as well), it boasted a lot of many achievements: Millions of sold Famiclones and peripherals, a really huge network with its own brand shops, its own magazine (say hello to (a la ''Magazine/NintendoPower''), a TV show (say the same thing to (think ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' and related shows) or ''Series/XPlay'') and millions of obsessed fans.
The Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, its publisher ''Video-Ace'' had some experience publishing a few movie magazines and aPC-games PC games magazine, and the design was soon upgraded. Some of the articles were translated from ''Joystiq'', again thanks to the publishers' connections. Unlike most of its contemporaries, ''Video-Ace; Dendy'' concentrated more on the movies, treated treating video games more like 'interactive entertainment', "interactive entertainment", and didn't have annoying ads. Oh yeah. Later, however, when the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis first debuted, the Fun Club section rose in popularity and almost became a leitmotif of all generations of... name known to Russian gamers as ''The Great Dragon''.
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The Great D'', while the secondcontinued carries on the line name of the TV show ''Dendy: The New Reality'', although sadly, was only four issues long... While its older brother underwent a 10-year evolution from inheriting the format of ''Video-Ass ''Video-Ace Dendy'' with some really reasonable add-ons to a magazine with loads of info on [=JRPGs=], next-gen consoles and anime, which, however, while still retained retaining the stuff that was loved before (8-bit and 16-bit sections, mainly). And that all was until 2003, when the magazine got scrapped folded due to the lack of fundings. Of course, it's expected to be revived, funds. A revival was announced but DevelopmentHell still does its dirty job.
seems to have encountered DevelopmentHell.
The Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, its publisher ''Video-Ace'' had some experience publishing a few movie magazines and a
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The Great D'', while the second
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Several bits of the TV show dedicated to this famiclone, ''Dendy: The New Reality'', may be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A7E2F4261CD950A7 here]], fully in English, or, in case if you are a complete kamikaze (or just ''was'' born in ex-USSR), you may watch it from the beginning till the end in its original language, starting from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzueORf25s here]].
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Several bits of the TV show dedicated to this famiclone, ''Dendy: The New Reality'', may be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A7E2F4261CD950A7 here]], fully subbed in English, or, in case if you are a complete kamikaze you're really interested (or maybe just ''was'' happened to be born in ex-USSR), the post-Soviet era), you may watch it from the beginning till the to end in its original language, starting from [[https://www.language[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzueORf25s here]].
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Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, due to the fact that its publishers, ''Video-Ace'', already had some experience (they published a few movie magazines and a PC-games magazine), the design was soon upgraded. Some of the articles were translated from ''Joystiq'', again thanks to the publishers' connections. Unlike most of its contemporaries, ''Video-Ace; Dendy'' concentrated more on the movies, treated video games more like 'interactive entertainment', and didn't have annoying ads. Oh yeah. Later, however, when the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis first debuted, the Fun Club section rose in popularity and almost became a leitmotif of all generations of... ''The Great Dragon''.
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Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, due to the fact that its publishers, ''Video-Ace'', already publisher ''Video-Ace'' had some experience (they published publishing a few movie magazines and a PC-games magazine), magazine, and the design was soon upgraded. Some of the articles were translated from ''Joystiq'', again thanks to the publishers' connections. Unlike most of its contemporaries, ''Video-Ace; Dendy'' concentrated more on the movies, treated video games more like 'interactive entertainment', and didn't have annoying ads. Oh yeah. Later, however, when the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis first debuted, the Fun Club section rose in popularity and almost became a leitmotif of all generations of... ''The Great Dragon''.
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** [[spoiler:[[LateArrivalSpoiler Although he said]] [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} that word]] [[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident right in the second episode of the same season]].]]
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** [[spoiler:[[LateArrivalSpoiler Although [[spoiler:Although he said]] said [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} that word]] [[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident accident]] right in the second episode of the same season]].]]
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* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: [[AvertedTrope is nonexistent for this show.]]
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* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: [[AvertedTrope is nonexistent Nonexistent for this show.]]
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[[WebVideo/{{Kinamania}} Kinaman]] created [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQr3tnjHlg a documentary]] about the ramifications of the Dendy's bootleg nature on Russian gaming culture at the time.
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[[WebVideo/{{Kinamania}} Kinaman]] created [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQr3tnjHlg a documentary]] about the ramifications of the Dendy's bootleg nature on Russian gaming culture at the time.
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** First of '''ALL''', there is a 'Fun Club' section [[WordOfGod (it was even explained why it shouldn't be spelled as Fan Club)]] which accepted a huge load of fan work: art, game story concepts, humorous psychological tests, fiction [[FanFic (no, not this one)]], comic strips and more 'n more!
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** First of '''ALL''', there is a 'Fun Club' section [[WordOfGod (it was even explained why it shouldn't be spelled as Fan Club)]] which accepted a huge load of fan work: art, Art, game story concepts, humorous psychological tests, fiction [[FanFic (no, not this one)]], comic strips and more 'n more!
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** A [[{{Feelies}} bundle]] newspaper ''Dragon Plus'' which not only included several good (and not that good) outside-the-editorial articles, but also could be bought only from the editorial on rubble each. Why so? Basically, it was allowed and '''needed''' to be reselled by the loving readers who were dreaming about making money!
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** A [[{{Feelies}} bundle]] newspaper ''Dragon Plus'' which not only included several good (and not that good) outside-the-editorial articles, but also could be bought only from the editorial on rubble each. Why so? Basically, it was allowed and '''needed''' to be reselled resold by the loving readers who were dreaming about making money!
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*** And, basically... '''how'''! In his 'alternate review' of {{Garfield}}: [[GarfieldCaughtInTheAct Caught in the Act]], which was ''much'' better than its scrappy [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] big brother, got Irated by him in all sorts, starting with how NintendoHard and annoying the game is, ending '''with''' cursing the franchise. Right, ClusterFBomb, only without swearing. He also reviewed a ''Ranma'' fighting game which not only was ''slightly'' better than ''VideoGame/YieArKungFu'' gameplay-wise, but also got a bastardized US 'localization' named [[PunBasedTitle Street Combat]]. And guess what? No bad word for this game! With the detailed description of every character! Do we need to say more?
*** On a side note... he likes ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''.
*** On a side note... he likes ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''.
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*** And, basically... '''how'''! '''How'''! In his 'alternate review' of {{Garfield}}: [[GarfieldCaughtInTheAct Caught in the Act]], VideoGame/GarfieldCaughtInTheAct, which was ''much'' better than its scrappy [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] NES big brother, got Irated by him in all sorts, starting with how NintendoHard and annoying the game is, ending '''with''' cursing the franchise. Right, ClusterFBomb, only without swearing. He also reviewed a ''Ranma'' ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fighting game which not only was ''slightly'' better than ''VideoGame/YieArKungFu'' gameplay-wise, but also got a bastardized US 'localization' named [[PunBasedTitle Street Combat]]. And guess what? No bad word words for this game! With the detailed description of every character! Do we need to say more?
*** On a side note...he He likes ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''.
*** On a side note...
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* TheStoic: The walkthroughs for NES games were published since the ''Video-Uss Dendy'' was born and until the time when the magazine was about to collapse. Nuff said.
** MegaDrive fits this trope in the second place, because the walkthroughs for its games were posted '''even''' with the fade of '8-bit' part, but the games for it appeared a bit later than the magazine was created.
** With Fun Club being par with MegaDrive section.
** MegaDrive fits this trope in the second place, because the walkthroughs for its games were posted '''even''' with the fade of '8-bit' part, but the games for it appeared a bit later than the magazine was created.
** With Fun Club being par with MegaDrive section.
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* TheStoic: The walkthroughs for NES games were published since the ''Video-Uss ''Video-Ass Dendy'' was born and until the time when the magazine was about to collapse. Nuff said.
**MegaDrive Mega Drive fits this trope in the second place, because the walkthroughs for its games were posted '''even''' with the fade of '8-bit' part, but the games for it appeared a bit later than the magazine was created.
** With Fun Club being par withMegaDrive the Mega Drive section.
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** With Fun Club being par with
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Video-Uss or Video-'''Ass'''?
** SpellMyNameWithAnS: If you go with direct transliteration, then the second. If you aim for accurate pronunciation or just don't see any sense in butchering the title '''[[PrecisionFStrike that]]''' [[PrecisionFStrike much]], then the first. In either case, this is likely to be a mispronounceation of what is otherwise supposed to be "Video-Ace" in the original Russian.
** SpellMyNameWithAnS: If you go with direct transliteration, then the second. If you aim for accurate pronunciation or just don't see any sense in butchering the title '''[[PrecisionFStrike that]]''' [[PrecisionFStrike much]], then the first. In either case, this is likely to be a mispronounceation of what is otherwise supposed to be "Video-Ace" in the original Russian.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Video-Uss Video-Ace or Video-'''Ass'''?
** SpellMyNameWithAnS: If you go with direct transliteration, then the second. If you aim for accurate pronunciation or just don't see any sense in butchering the title '''[[PrecisionFStrike that]]''' [[PrecisionFStrike much]], then the first. In either case, this is likely to be amispronounceation mispronunciation of what is otherwise supposed to be "Video-Ace" in the original Russian.
** SpellMyNameWithAnS: If you go with direct transliteration, then the second. If you aim for accurate pronunciation or just don't see any sense in butchering the title '''[[PrecisionFStrike that]]''' [[PrecisionFStrike much]], then the first. In either case, this is likely to be a
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* [[AllMonksKnowKungFu All Game Developers Know Assembler]]: Suponev's, perhaps, most weird opinion on video games. Simpler version: ''All game developers are programmers.''
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* [[AllMonksKnowKungFu All Game Developers Know Assembler]]: Suponev's, perhaps, most weird opinion on video games. Simpler version: ''All game developers are programmers.''programmers''.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Sergei Suponev, who coincidentally got into the same death trap as Music/ViktorTsoi... car crash.
* [[BootstrappedTheme Bootstrapped Themes]]: ...which actually come from [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic CD]] and Subterrania and used during both seasons.
* BlatantLies: Megahuge GameBoy shown in season two! Although you may already guess it's a prod with a TV screen showing Super Game Boy add-on in action.
* [[BootstrappedTheme Bootstrapped Themes]]: ...which actually come from [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic CD]] and Subterrania and used during both seasons.
* BlatantLies: Megahuge GameBoy shown in season two! Although you may already guess it's a prod with a TV screen showing Super Game Boy add-on in action.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Sergei Suponev, who coincidentally got into the same death trap as Music/ViktorTsoi... car Car crash.
* [[BootstrappedTheme Bootstrapped Themes]]: ...which Which actually come from [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic CD]] VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD and Subterrania and used during both seasons.
* BlatantLies: MegahugeGameBoy UsefulNotes/GameBoy shown in season two! Although you may already guess it's a prod with a TV screen showing Super Game Boy add-on in action.
* [[BootstrappedTheme Bootstrapped Themes]]: ...
* BlatantLies: Megahuge
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** Oh, and the phrase from the music theme at the start!
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** Oh, and the phrase from the music theme song at the start!
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** Still, the redub retains the original idea, it just adds a parody grain of 'perestroika dubbers'.
* GrammarNazi: Suponev, on the others' knowledge of English and [[SubvertedTrope in extremly mild doses]].
* GrammarNazi: Suponev, on the others' knowledge of English and [[SubvertedTrope in extremly mild doses]].
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** Still, the redub re-dub retains the original idea, it just adds a parody grain of 'perestroika dubbers'.
dubbers.'
* GrammarNazi: Suponev, on the others' knowledge of English and [[SubvertedTrope inextremly extremely mild doses]].
* GrammarNazi: Suponev, on the others' knowledge of English and [[SubvertedTrope in
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--->'''Suponev:''' But something tells me we'll see each other again!
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* TheManBehindTheMan: In episode 9 of the first season, where Super Nintendo debuted, Suponev tells us about the fact that Mario was made by Nintendo.
** [[spoiler:[[LateArrivalSpoiler Although he said]] [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} that word]] [[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident right in the second episode of the same season.]]]]
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames [[AvertedTrope is nonexistent for this show.]]
** [[spoiler:[[LateArrivalSpoiler Although he said]] [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} that word]] [[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident right in the second episode of the same season.]]]]
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames [[AvertedTrope is nonexistent for this show.]]
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* TheManBehindTheMan: In episode 9 Episode #9 of the first season, where Super Nintendo debuted, Suponev tells us about the fact that Mario was made by Nintendo.
** [[spoiler:[[LateArrivalSpoiler Although he said]] [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} that word]] [[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident right in the second episode of the sameseason.]]]]
season]].]]
*TheProblemWithLicensedGames TheProblemWithLicensedGames: [[AvertedTrope is nonexistent for this show.]]
** [[spoiler:[[LateArrivalSpoiler Although he said]] [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} that word]] [[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident right in the second episode of the same
*
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* [[VideoFullOfFilmClips Video Full of VHS Clips]]: Sometimes, before showing a game based on a movie/cartoon, Suponev inserts a VHS tape with the thing the game was based off and showed a one- or two-minute fragment from it. [[spoiler:With 'perestroika' kind of translation dub.]]
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* [[VideoFullOfFilmClips Video Full of VHS Clips]]: Sometimes, before showing a game based on a movie/cartoon, Suponev inserts a VHS tape with the thing the game was based off and showed a one- one -- or two-minute fragment from it. [[spoiler:With 'perestroika' kind of translation dub.]]
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** The ratings to the games they've given also fits this trope to an [[PrecisionFStrike F]]. Just for instance, how could ''VideoGame/HerzogZwei'' get 4/10 while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGodPNSs1Y8 this, ehrm, thing]] got 6/10? And, moreover, how ''VideoGame/RangerX'' would receive 4/10?!
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** The ratings to the games they've given also fits this trope to an [[PrecisionFStrike F]]. Just for instance, how could ''VideoGame/HerzogZwei'' get 4/10 while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGodPNSs1Y8 this, ehrm, thing]] thing got 6/10? And, moreover, how ''VideoGame/RangerX'' would receive 4/10?!
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** [[http://www.newgame.ru/ Here's their website.]] Don't yell if you will get a trojan on your attempt to save a page though.
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** [[http://www.newgame.ru/ Here's their website.]] Don't yell if you will get a trojan on your attempt to save a page page, though.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: No, really. ''Always.'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog slapped on the cartridge cover of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''Chip 'n Dale'' with its actual cover, but renamed to ''Grand Combat''? VideoGame/SeriousSam from ''The Second Encounter'' on the cart of ''Super VideoGame/{{Contra}} 7''? And those are only three of the examples out of thousands!
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* CoversAlwaysLie: No, really. ''Always.'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog slapped on the cartridge cover of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''VideoGame/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''Chip 'n Dale'' with its actual cover, but renamed to ''Grand Combat''? VideoGame/SeriousSam from ''The Second Encounter'' on the cart of ''Super VideoGame/{{Contra}} 7''? And those are only three of the examples out of thousands!
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[[WebVideo/{{Kinamania}} Kinaman]] created [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDCW_hXrU1E a documentary]] about the ramifications of the Dendy's bootleg nature on Russian gaming culture at the time.
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[[WebVideo/{{Kinamania}} Kinaman]] created [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDCW_hXrU1E com/watch?v=rJQr3tnjHlg a documentary]] about the ramifications of the Dendy's bootleg nature on Russian gaming culture at the time.
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One of the best and one of the weirdest things piracy could ever create, Dendy brought joy to thousands of Russian kids and was the console that spawned the first generation of console gamers in Russia. At first, Dendy looks pretty much like your regular NintendoEntertainmentSystem clone, but to Russian gamers, it was so much more. It indeed had almost the same fate as NES, just on a less epic scale. Despite being completely unlicensed by Nintendo (although the short-lived publisher of the console, Steepler Ltd., imported Nintendo's consoles absolutely legally), it boasted a lot of achievements: millions of sold famiclones and peripherals, a really huge network with own brand shops, own magazine (say hello to ''Magazine/NintendoPower''), TV show (say the same thing to ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' and related shows) and millions of obsessed fans.
Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, due to the fact that its publishers, ''Video-Ace'', already had some experience (they published a few movie magazines and a PC-games magazine), the design was soon upgraded. Some of the articles were translated from ''Joystiq'', again thanks to the publishers' connections. Unlike most of its contemporaries, ''Video-Ace; Dendy'' concentrated more on the movies, treated video games more like 'interactive entertainment', and didn't have annoying ads. Oh yeah. Later, however, when the MegaDrive first debuted, the Fun Club section rose in popularity and almost became a leitmotif of all generations of... ''The Great Dragon''.
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The Great D'', while the second continued the line of ''Dendy: The New Reality'', although sadly, was only four issues long... While its older brother underwent a 10-year evolution from inheriting the format of ''Video-Uss Dendy'' with some really reasonable add-ons to a magazine with loads of info on [=JRPGs=], next-gen consoles and anime, which, however, still retained the stuff that was loved before (8-bit and 16-bit sections, mainly). And that all was until 2003, when the magazine got scrapped due to the lack of fundings. Of course, it's expected to be revived, but DevelopmentHell still does its dirty job.
[[{{WebVideo/Kinamania}} Kinaman]] created [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDCW_hXrU1E a documentary]] about the ramifications of the Dendy's bootleg nature on Russian gaming culture at the time.
Several bits of the TV show dedicated to this famiclone, ''Dendy: The New Reality'', may be watched [[http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A7E2F4261CD950A7 here]], fully in English, or, in case if you are a complete kamikaze (or just ''was'' born in ex-USSR), you may watch it from the beginning till the end in its original language, starting from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzueORf25s here]].
Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, due to the fact that its publishers, ''Video-Ace'', already had some experience (they published a few movie magazines and a PC-games magazine), the design was soon upgraded. Some of the articles were translated from ''Joystiq'', again thanks to the publishers' connections. Unlike most of its contemporaries, ''Video-Ace; Dendy'' concentrated more on the movies, treated video games more like 'interactive entertainment', and didn't have annoying ads. Oh yeah. Later, however, when the MegaDrive first debuted, the Fun Club section rose in popularity and almost became a leitmotif of all generations of... ''The Great Dragon''.
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The Great D'', while the second continued the line of ''Dendy: The New Reality'', although sadly, was only four issues long... While its older brother underwent a 10-year evolution from inheriting the format of ''Video-Uss Dendy'' with some really reasonable add-ons to a magazine with loads of info on [=JRPGs=], next-gen consoles and anime, which, however, still retained the stuff that was loved before (8-bit and 16-bit sections, mainly). And that all was until 2003, when the magazine got scrapped due to the lack of fundings. Of course, it's expected to be revived, but DevelopmentHell still does its dirty job.
[[{{WebVideo/Kinamania}} Kinaman]] created [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDCW_hXrU1E a documentary]] about the ramifications of the Dendy's bootleg nature on Russian gaming culture at the time.
Several bits of the TV show dedicated to this famiclone, ''Dendy: The New Reality'', may be watched [[http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A7E2F4261CD950A7 here]], fully in English, or, in case if you are a complete kamikaze (or just ''was'' born in ex-USSR), you may watch it from the beginning till the end in its original language, starting from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzueORf25s here]].
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One of the best and one of the weirdest things piracy could ever create, Dendy brought joy to thousands of Russian [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Russian]] kids and was the console that spawned the first generation of console gamers in Russia. At first, Dendy looks pretty much like your regular NintendoEntertainmentSystem UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem clone, but to Russian gamers, it was so much more. It indeed had almost the same fate as NES, just on a less epic scale. Despite being completely unlicensed by Nintendo Creator/{{Nintendo}} (although the short-lived publisher of the console, Steepler Ltd., imported Nintendo's consoles absolutely legally), it boasted a lot of achievements: millions Millions of sold famiclones Famiclones and peripherals, a really huge network with its own brand shops, own magazine (say hello to ''Magazine/NintendoPower''), TV show (say the same thing to ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' and related shows) and millions of obsessed fans.
Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, due to the fact that its publishers, ''Video-Ace'', already had some experience (they published a few movie magazines and a PC-games magazine), the design was soon upgraded. Some of the articles were translated from ''Joystiq'', again thanks to the publishers' connections. Unlike most of its contemporaries, ''Video-Ace; Dendy'' concentrated more on the movies, treated video games more like 'interactive entertainment', and didn't have annoying ads. Oh yeah. Later, however, when theMegaDrive UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis first debuted, the Fun Club section rose in popularity and almost became a leitmotif of all generations of... ''The Great Dragon''.
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The Great D'', while the second continued the line of ''Dendy: The New Reality'', although sadly, was only four issues long... While its older brother underwent a 10-year evolution from inheriting the format of''Video-Uss ''Video-Ass Dendy'' with some really reasonable add-ons to a magazine with loads of info on [=JRPGs=], next-gen consoles and anime, which, however, still retained the stuff that was loved before (8-bit and 16-bit sections, mainly). And that all was until 2003, when the magazine got scrapped due to the lack of fundings. Of course, it's expected to be revived, but DevelopmentHell still does its dirty job.
[[{{WebVideo/Kinamania}} [[WebVideo/{{Kinamania}} Kinaman]] created [[http://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDCW_hXrU1E a documentary]] about the ramifications of the Dendy's bootleg nature on Russian gaming culture at the time.
Several bits of the TV show dedicated to this famiclone, ''Dendy: The New Reality'', may be watched[[http://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A7E2F4261CD950A7 here]], fully in English, or, in case if you are a complete kamikaze (or just ''was'' born in ex-USSR), you may watch it from the beginning till the end in its original language, starting from [[http://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzueORf25s here]].
Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, due to the fact that its publishers, ''Video-Ace'', already had some experience (they published a few movie magazines and a PC-games magazine), the design was soon upgraded. Some of the articles were translated from ''Joystiq'', again thanks to the publishers' connections. Unlike most of its contemporaries, ''Video-Ace; Dendy'' concentrated more on the movies, treated video games more like 'interactive entertainment', and didn't have annoying ads. Oh yeah. Later, however, when the
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The Great D'', while the second continued the line of ''Dendy: The New Reality'', although sadly, was only four issues long... While its older brother underwent a 10-year evolution from inheriting the format of
Several bits of the TV show dedicated to this famiclone, ''Dendy: The New Reality'', may be watched
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* BrandNameTakeover: Now, ''every'' famiclone is nicknamed 'Dendy', no matter if it has this name or not. Meanwhile in Poland, the imported famiclones were called ''Pegasus'', after [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pegasus_console%2Bpad%2Bgame.jpg this particular model]].
* CoversAlwaysLie: No, really. ''Always.'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog slapped on the cartridge cover of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''Chip 'n Dale'' with its actual cover but renamed to ''Grand Combat''? VideoGame/SeriousSam from ''The Second Encounter'' on the cart of ''Super VideoGame/{{Contra}} 7''? And those are only three of the examples out of thousands!
* CoversAlwaysLie: No, really. ''Always.'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog slapped on the cartridge cover of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''Chip 'n Dale'' with its actual cover but renamed to ''Grand Combat''? VideoGame/SeriousSam from ''The Second Encounter'' on the cart of ''Super VideoGame/{{Contra}} 7''? And those are only three of the examples out of thousands!
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* BrandNameTakeover: Now, ''every''
* CoversAlwaysLie: No, really. ''Always.'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog slapped on the cartridge cover of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''Chip 'n Dale'' with its actual
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** Perfectly lampshaded by Kinaman in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQr3tnjHlg The Curse of The Gray Elephant]], as well as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhRH3j3BjGU Dendy Chronicles 7]].
* FollowTheLeader and ShoddyKnockoffProduct: Not only to the actual Famicom, but to many other famiclones, not to mention the licensed consoles of the latter generations.
* FollowTheLeader and ShoddyKnockoffProduct: Not only to the actual Famicom, but to many other famiclones, not to mention the licensed consoles of the latter generations.
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** Perfectly lampshaded by Kinaman in [[http://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQr3tnjHlg The Curse of The Gray the Grey Elephant]], as well as [[http://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhRH3j3BjGU Dendy Chronicles 7]].
#7]].
* FollowTheLeader and ShoddyKnockoffProduct: Not only to the actual Famicom, but to many otherfamiclones, Famiclones, not to mention the licensed consoles of the latter generations.
* FollowTheLeader and ShoddyKnockoffProduct: Not only to the actual Famicom, but to many other
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** To make matters even worse, Dendy itself has a clones of its' own, not manufactured by the now defunct Steepler. And even while those are being advertised as the consoles with more supreme graphics and sound, they weren't really different to the other famiclones (but yet it had completely nothing to do with the actual Steepler's clone).
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of the cartridge labels are this, using artwork that is completely unrelated to the game and often just looks like a load of random images that have been cobbled together for no particular reason. Case in point, the ones presented in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3f3itoyRhE Dendy Chronicles 8]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led Steepler to disappearing, although the man behind this company is now listed as a vice-president of Tenzor company, who supposedly manufactured Dendies... or, at least, bits of it. Some people think it's because of the high price of imported Nintendo products. Some say that it's due to Lamport simply betraying their 'parents', but we may never know what happened exactly... Maybe all at the same time?
!!The ''Video-Uss Dendy'' and its SpiritualSuccessor, ''The Great Dragon'' are the examples of:
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of the cartridge labels are this, using artwork that is completely unrelated to the game and often just looks like a load of random images that have been cobbled together for no particular reason. Case in point, the ones presented in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3f3itoyRhE Dendy Chronicles 8]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led Steepler to disappearing, although the man behind this company is now listed as a vice-president of Tenzor company, who supposedly manufactured Dendies... or, at least, bits of it. Some people think it's because of the high price of imported Nintendo products. Some say that it's due to Lamport simply betraying their 'parents', but we may never know what happened exactly... Maybe all at the same time?
!!The ''Video-Uss Dendy'' and its SpiritualSuccessor, ''The Great Dragon'' are the examples of:
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** To make matters even worse, Dendy itself has a clones of its' its own, not manufactured by the now defunct Steepler. And even while those are being advertised as the consoles with more supreme graphics and sound, they weren't really different to the other famiclones (but yet it had completely nothing to do with the actual Steepler's clone).
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of the cartridge labels are this, using artwork that is completely unrelated to the game and often just looks like a load of random images that have been cobbled together for no particular reason. Case in point, the ones presented in[[http://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3f3itoyRhE Dendy Chronicles 8]].
#8]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led Steepler to disappearing, although the man behind this company is now listed as a vice-president of Tenzor company, who supposedly manufactured Dendies...or, Or, at least, bits of it. Some people think it's because of the high price of imported Nintendo products. Some say that it's due to Lamport simply betraying their 'parents', 'parents,' but we may never know what happened exactly... Maybe Maybe, all at the same time?
!!The''Video-Uss ''Video-Ass Dendy'' and its SpiritualSuccessor, ''The Great Dragon'' are the examples of:of:
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of the cartridge labels are this, using artwork that is completely unrelated to the game and often just looks like a load of random images that have been cobbled together for no particular reason. Case in point, the ones presented in
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led Steepler to disappearing, although the man behind this company is now listed as a vice-president of Tenzor company, who supposedly manufactured Dendies...
!!The
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* AuthorAppeal: Vladimir Borev, the headie of ''Video-Uss'' publishing. Quoting: ''Watching the game, playing the movie.''
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Some games, even if they were reviewed hell long ago, get a kinda pointless, in this case, re-review. Instand example: when ''Great Dragon'' was a spinoff, ''Dendy: The New Reality'' magazine reviewed VideoGame/{{Doom}} for SNES. Later on, when ''Dendy'' magazine officially died... VideoGame/{{Doom}} was reviewed. Again. And yes, for SNES. And that's when the PlayStation debuted.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Some games, even if they were reviewed hell long ago, get a kinda pointless, in this case, re-review. Instand example: when ''Great Dragon'' was a spinoff, ''Dendy: The New Reality'' magazine reviewed VideoGame/{{Doom}} for SNES. Later on, when ''Dendy'' magazine officially died... VideoGame/{{Doom}} was reviewed. Again. And yes, for SNES. And that's when the PlayStation debuted.
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* AuthorAppeal: Vladimir Borev, the headie of ''Video-Uss'' ''Video-Ass'' publishing. Quoting: ''Watching the game, playing the movie.''
movie''.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Some games, even if they were reviewed hell long ago, get a kinda pointless, in this case, re-review.Instand Instant example: when When ''Great Dragon'' was a spinoff, ''Dendy: The New Reality'' magazine reviewed VideoGame/{{Doom}} for SNES.[[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]]. Later on, when ''Dendy'' magazine officially died... VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doom was reviewed. Again. And yes, for SNES. And that's when the PlayStation UsefulNotes/PlayStation debuted.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Video-Uss Dendy and its following installments definitely had some soul put in it. Despite some mistakes taken in as well.
** For example, you need to write a one-page review for BattleCity. What you could put here, considering it's a first-generation NES game? But, naturally, one fan's review was so well-written that it included a basic premise plot, description of landscape and the ingame tanks, as well as wishing good luck to the beginner players. Of course, this may sound funny, but yes, it ACTUALLY is well-written, so now whenever its needed to write a review on this game, the review follows a similar scheme.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Sadly, this is here as well, mainly in the latter era. The reason is that a Steepler wannabe, ''New Game'', which is known for its Magistr famiclones and being the first ones to '''sell the initially free''' [[GameMod Sonic Megamix]] released a 'continuation' to ''The Cool Gamer'', but it turned out to be nothing else than yet another 'Tips and Tricks for 9000 Games on Mega Drive' clone. Doesn't help that exactly the same descriptions, as well as tips and tricks can be read out on their official website.
** The ratings to the games they've given also fits this trope to an [[PrecisionFStrike F]]. Just for instance, how could ''VideoGame/HerzogZwei'' get 4/10 while [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGodPNSs1Y8 this, ehrm, thing]] got 6/10? And, moreover, how ''RangerX'' would receive 4/10?!
** For example, you need to write a one-page review for BattleCity. What you could put here, considering it's a first-generation NES game? But, naturally, one fan's review was so well-written that it included a basic premise plot, description of landscape and the ingame tanks, as well as wishing good luck to the beginner players. Of course, this may sound funny, but yes, it ACTUALLY is well-written, so now whenever its needed to write a review on this game, the review follows a similar scheme.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Sadly, this is here as well, mainly in the latter era. The reason is that a Steepler wannabe, ''New Game'', which is known for its Magistr famiclones and being the first ones to '''sell the initially free''' [[GameMod Sonic Megamix]] released a 'continuation' to ''The Cool Gamer'', but it turned out to be nothing else than yet another 'Tips and Tricks for 9000 Games on Mega Drive' clone. Doesn't help that exactly the same descriptions, as well as tips and tricks can be read out on their official website.
** The ratings to the games they've given also fits this trope to an [[PrecisionFStrike F]]. Just for instance, how could ''VideoGame/HerzogZwei'' get 4/10 while [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGodPNSs1Y8 this, ehrm, thing]] got 6/10? And, moreover, how ''RangerX'' would receive 4/10?!
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* DoingItForTheArt: Video-Uss Video-Ass Dendy and its following installments definitely had some soul put in it. Despite some mistakes taken in as well.
** For example, you need to write a one-page review forBattleCity.VideoGame/BattleCity. What you could put here, considering it's a first-generation NES game? But, naturally, one fan's review was so well-written that it included a basic premise plot, description of landscape and the ingame tanks, as well as wishing good luck to the beginner players. Of course, this may sound funny, but yes, it ACTUALLY is well-written, so now whenever its it's needed to write a review on this game, the review follows a similar scheme.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Sadly, this is here as well, mainly in the latter era. The reason is that a Steepler wannabe, ''New Game'', which is known for its Magistrfamiclones Famiclones and being the first ones to '''sell the initially free''' [[GameMod Sonic Megamix]] released a 'continuation' to ''The Cool Gamer'', but it turned out to be nothing else than yet another 'Tips and Tricks for 9000 Games on Mega Drive' clone. Doesn't help that exactly the same descriptions, as well as tips and tricks can be read out on their official website.
** The ratings to the games they've given also fits this trope to an [[PrecisionFStrike F]]. Just for instance, how could ''VideoGame/HerzogZwei'' get 4/10 while[[http://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGodPNSs1Y8 this, ehrm, thing]] got 6/10? And, moreover, how ''RangerX'' ''VideoGame/RangerX'' would receive 4/10?!
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One of the best and one of the weirdest things piracy could ever create, Dendy brought joy to thousands of Russian kids and was the console that spawned the first generation of console gamers in Russia. At first, Dendy looks pretty much like your regular NintendoEntertainmentSystem clone, but to Russian gamers, it was so much more. It indeed had almost the same fate as NES, just on a less epic scale. Despite being completely unlicensed by Nintendo (although the short-lived publisher of the console, Steepler Ltd., imported Nintendo's consoles absolutely legally), it boasted a lot of achievements: millions of sold famiclones and peripherals, a really huge network with own brand shops, own magazine (say hello to ''Magazine/NintendoPower''), TV show (say the same thing to ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' and related shows) and millions of obsessed fans.
Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, due to the fact that its publishers, ''Video-Ace'', already had some experience (they published a few movie magazines and a PC-games magazine), the design was soon upgraded. Some of the articles were translated from ''Joystiq'', again thanks to the publishers' connections. Unlike most of its contemporaries, ''Video-Ace; Dendy'' concentrated more on the movies, treated video games more like 'interactive entertainment', and didn't have annoying ads. Oh yeah. Later, however, when the MegaDrive first debuted, the Fun Club section rose in popularity and almost became a leitmotif of all generations of... ''The Great Dragon''.
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The Great D'', while the second continued the line of ''Dendy: The New Reality'', although sadly, was only four issues long... While its older brother underwent a 10-year evolution from inheriting the format of ''Video-Uss Dendy'' with some really reasonable add-ons to a magazine with loads of info on [=JRPGs=], next-gen consoles and anime, which, however, still retained the stuff that was loved before (8-bit and 16-bit sections, mainly). And that all was until 2003, when the magazine got scrapped due to the lack of fundings. Of course, it's expected to be revived, but DevelopmentHell still does its dirty job.
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDCW_hXrU1E A documentary]] about the ramifications of the Dendy's bootleg nature on Russian gaming culture at the time.
Several bits of the TV show dedicated to this famiclone, ''Dendy: The New Reality'', may be watched [[http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A7E2F4261CD950A7 here]], fully in English, or, in case if you are a complete kamikaze (or just ''was'' born in ex-USSR), you may watch it from the beginning till the end in its original language, starting from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzueORf25s here]].
!!The clone itself, as well as related hardware and cartridges, may be one of the examples of:
* BrandNameTakeover: Now, ''every'' famiclone is nicknamed 'Dendy', no matter if it has this name or not. Meanwhile in Poland, the imported famiclones were called ''Pegasus'', after [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pegasus_console%2Bpad%2Bgame.jpg this particular model]].
* CoversAlwaysLie: No, really. ''Always.'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog slapped on the cartridge cover of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''Chip 'n Dale'' with its actual cover but renamed to ''Grand Combat''? VideoGame/SeriousSam from ''The Second Encounter'' on the cart of ''Super VideoGame/{{Contra}} 7''? And those are only three of the examples out of thousands!
** If a multicart states to have 9999 games or more, then not only the cover will be misleading, but the menu, too. Plus, some of the games slapped on the sticker may not appear on the actual cartridge at all.
** Perfectly lampshaded by Kinaman in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQr3tnjHlg The Curse of The Gray Elephant]], as well as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhRH3j3BjGU Dendy Chronicles 7]].
* FollowTheLeader and ShoddyKnockoffProduct: Not only to the actual Famicom, but to many other famiclones, not to mention the licensed consoles of the latter generations.
** Dendy wasn't the first famiclone to pop up on the market, and that's not talking about that it's not the first to swag the Famicom's original design, either.
** To make matters worse, the some of the models of Dendy had built-in gamepads, complete with no Select and Start buttons on the second gamepad, akin to the first models of Famicom.
** To make matters even worse, Dendy itself has a clones of its' own, not manufactured by the now defunct Steepler. And even while those are being advertised as the consoles with more supreme graphics and sound, they weren't really different to the other famiclones (but yet it had completely nothing to do with the actual Steepler's clone).
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of the cartridge labels are this, using artwork that is completely unrelated to the game and often just looks like a load of random images that have been cobbled together for no particular reason. Case in point, the ones presented in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3f3itoyRhE Dendy Chronicles 8]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led Steepler to disappearing, although the man behind this company is now listed as a vice-president of Tenzor company, who supposedly manufactured Dendies... or, at least, bits of it. Some people think it's because of the high price of imported Nintendo products. Some say that it's due to Lamport simply betraying their 'parents', but we may never know what happened exactly... Maybe all at the same time?
!!The ''Video-Uss Dendy'' and its SpiritualSuccessor, ''The Great Dragon'' are the examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Lord Hanta may have glasses, but they just make him cooler.
* AscendedFanboy: Just see the ''Dendy: The New Reality'' entry below.
* AuthorAppeal: Vladimir Borev, the headie of ''Video-Uss'' publishing. Quoting: ''Watching the game, playing the movie.''
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Some games, even if they were reviewed hell long ago, get a kinda pointless, in this case, re-review. Instand example: when ''Great Dragon'' was a spinoff, ''Dendy: The New Reality'' magazine reviewed VideoGame/{{Doom}} for SNES. Later on, when ''Dendy'' magazine officially died... VideoGame/{{Doom}} was reviewed. Again. And yes, for SNES. And that's when the PlayStation debuted.
* [[BrandNameTakeover Pirate Name Takeover]]: [[Franchise/MortalKombat Ho]] [[FanSpeak Sung Pak]].
** Who actually was an actor for Liu Kang in [[VideoGame/MortalKombat the first installment]].
* DevelopmentHell: The ''Great D'' is expected to be revived... And it resulted in nothing else but updates on the official website.
* DoingItForTheArt: Video-Uss Dendy and its following installments definitely had some soul put in it. Despite some mistakes taken in as well.
** For example, you need to write a one-page review for BattleCity. What you could put here, considering it's a first-generation NES game? But, naturally, one fan's review was so well-written that it included a basic premise plot, description of landscape and the ingame tanks, as well as wishing good luck to the beginner players. Of course, this may sound funny, but yes, it ACTUALLY is well-written, so now whenever its needed to write a review on this game, the review follows a similar scheme.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Sadly, this is here as well, mainly in the latter era. The reason is that a Steepler wannabe, ''New Game'', which is known for its Magistr famiclones and being the first ones to '''sell the initially free''' [[GameMod Sonic Megamix]] released a 'continuation' to ''The Cool Gamer'', but it turned out to be nothing else than yet another 'Tips and Tricks for 9000 Games on Mega Drive' clone. Doesn't help that exactly the same descriptions, as well as tips and tricks can be read out on their official website.
** The ratings to the games they've given also fits this trope to an [[PrecisionFStrike F]]. Just for instance, how could ''VideoGame/HerzogZwei'' get 4/10 while [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGodPNSs1Y8 this, ehrm, thing]] got 6/10? And, moreover, how ''RangerX'' would receive 4/10?!
*** [[FollowTheLeader The worst thing is that the other books released after this one seem to copy the ratings directly from here.]]
** [[http://www.newgame.ru/ Here's their website.]] Don't yell if you will get a trojan on your attempt to save a page though.
* FanworkBan: Averted, for several reasons.
** First of '''ALL''', there is a 'Fun Club' section [[WordOfGod (it was even explained why it shouldn't be spelled as Fan Club)]] which accepted a huge load of fan work: art, game story concepts, humorous psychological tests, fiction [[FanFic (no, not this one)]], comic strips and more 'n more!
** And some stuff that didn't make it into Fun Club section or Art Gallery went as the tips 'n tricks pages' illustrations.
** A [[{{Feelies}} bundle]] newspaper ''Dragon Plus'' which not only included several good (and not that good) outside-the-editorial articles, but also could be bought only from the editorial on rubble each. Why so? Basically, it was allowed and '''needed''' to be reselled by the loving readers who were dreaming about making money!
** [[PromotedFanboy Some even made it to the editorial!]]
* {{Otaku}}: [[LoveItOrHateIt Believe it or not]], loads.
** Lord Hanta.
*** And, basically... '''how'''! In his 'alternate review' of {{Garfield}}: [[GarfieldCaughtInTheAct Caught in the Act]], which was ''much'' better than its scrappy [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] big brother, got Irated by him in all sorts, starting with how NintendoHard and annoying the game is, ending '''with''' cursing the franchise. Right, ClusterFBomb, only without swearing. He also reviewed a ''Ranma'' fighting game which not only was ''slightly'' better than ''VideoGame/YieArKungFu'' gameplay-wise, but also got a bastardized US 'localization' named [[PunBasedTitle Street Combat]]. And guess what? No bad word for this game! With the detailed description of every character! Do we need to say more?
*** On a side note... he likes ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''.
** Wren also seems to be one.
** Several fans who got into anime themselves or not without the help of Lord Hanta.
** The magazine ''even'' had a small part for reviewing anime to keep the fans on their toes!
*** And even written discussions on which animation is better: American or Japanese. Think ConsoleWars.
* SdrawkcabName: Navi Kihcto.
* TheStoic: The walkthroughs for NES games were published since the ''Video-Uss Dendy'' was born and until the time when the magazine was about to collapse. Nuff said.
** MegaDrive fits this trope in the second place, because the walkthroughs for its games were posted '''even''' with the fade of '8-bit' part, but the games for it appeared a bit later than the magazine was created.
** With Fun Club being par with MegaDrive section.
* TitleDrop: Inverted. The spin-off, which later became a separate magazine had the name of one of the authors. Ten seconds to guess his alias.
* WildMassGuessing: Yes, the magazine even had '''this''', on who Great Dragon really is.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Video-Uss or Video-'''Ass'''?
** SpellMyNameWithAnS: If you go with direct transliteration, then the second. If you aim for accurate pronunciation or just don't see any sense in butchering the title '''[[PrecisionFStrike that]]''' [[PrecisionFStrike much]], then the first. In either case, this is likely to be a mispronounceation of what is otherwise supposed to be "Video-Ace" in the original Russian.
!!The ''Dendy: The New Reality'' show and its follow-ups are the examples of:
* TheAce: The Dennis and Alex duo, [[TheAdjectivalSuperhero The All-Knowing Videogame Experts]].
* [[AllMonksKnowKungFu All Game Developers Know Assembler]]: Suponev's, perhaps, most weird opinion on video games. Simpler version: ''All game developers are programmers.''
* AscendedFanboy: Appeared in one episode. [[spoiler:...Wren.]]
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Sergei Suponev, who coincidentally got into the same death trap as Music/ViktorTsoi... car crash.
* [[BootstrappedTheme Bootstrapped Themes]]: ...which actually come from [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic CD]] and Subterrania and used during both seasons.
* BlatantLies: Megahuge GameBoy shown in season two! Although you may already guess it's a prod with a TV screen showing Super Game Boy add-on in action.
* TheCameo: Suponev appeared only once in the ReplacementScrappy SoOkayItsAverage show ''World of Dendy'', hosting the tournament for ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct''.
* CatchPhrase: 'We invite you to the world of New Reality, the world of computer games!'
** Oh, and the phrase from the music theme at the start!
* GagDub: Done by Suponev ''himself'' on ''Jurassic Park II'' (SNES) intro.
** Still, the redub retains the original idea, it just adds a parody grain of 'perestroika dubbers'.
* GrammarNazi: Suponev, on the others' knowledge of English and [[SubvertedTrope in extremly mild doses]].
* SequelHook: End of first season.
--->'''Suponev:''' But something tells me we'll see each other again!
** [[WordOfGod And he kept his contextual promise.]]
** Sadly, the end of the second season (and the entire show in general) was mainly a sudden abrupt.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In episode 9 of the first season, where Super Nintendo debuted, Suponev tells us about the fact that Mario was made by Nintendo.
** [[spoiler:[[LateArrivalSpoiler Although he said]] [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} that word]] [[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident right in the second episode of the same season.]]]]
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames [[AvertedTrope is nonexistent for this show.]]
** In '''both''' meanings of this trope. Straight and literal.
* [[VideoFullOfFilmClips Video Full of VHS Clips]]: Sometimes, before showing a game based on a movie/cartoon, Suponev inserts a VHS tape with the thing the game was based off and showed a one- or two-minute fragment from it. [[spoiler:With 'perestroika' kind of translation dub.]]
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One of the best and one of the weirdest things piracy could ever create, Dendy brought joy to thousands of Russian kids and was the console that spawned the first generation of console gamers in Russia. At first, Dendy looks pretty much like your regular NintendoEntertainmentSystem clone, but to Russian gamers, it was so much more. It indeed had almost the same fate as NES, just on a less epic scale. Despite being completely unlicensed by Nintendo (although the short-lived publisher of the console, Steepler Ltd., imported Nintendo's consoles absolutely legally), it boasted a lot of achievements: millions of sold famiclones and peripherals, a really huge network with own brand shops, own magazine (say hello to ''Magazine/NintendoPower''), TV show (say the same thing to ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' and related shows) and millions of obsessed fans.
Russian counterpart to ''Nintendo Power'' began its life as ''Video-Ace: Dendy'' and, design-wise, was pretty bland. However, due to the fact that its publishers, ''Video-Ace'', already had some experience (they published a few movie magazines and a PC-games magazine), the design was soon upgraded. Some of the articles were translated from ''Joystiq'', again thanks to the publishers' connections. Unlike most of its contemporaries, ''Video-Ace; Dendy'' concentrated more on the movies, treated video games more like 'interactive entertainment', and didn't have annoying ads. Oh yeah. Later, however, when the MegaDrive first debuted, the Fun Club section rose in popularity and almost became a leitmotif of all generations of... ''The Great Dragon''.
Steepler's bankruptcy caused the Dendy magazine to split into two publications. One became ''The Great D'', while the second continued the line of ''Dendy: The New Reality'', although sadly, was only four issues long... While its older brother underwent a 10-year evolution from inheriting the format of ''Video-Uss Dendy'' with some really reasonable add-ons to a magazine with loads of info on [=JRPGs=], next-gen consoles and anime, which, however, still retained the stuff that was loved before (8-bit and 16-bit sections, mainly). And that all was until 2003, when the magazine got scrapped due to the lack of fundings. Of course, it's expected to be revived, but DevelopmentHell still does its dirty job.
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDCW_hXrU1E A documentary]] about the ramifications of the Dendy's bootleg nature on Russian gaming culture at the time.
Several bits of the TV show dedicated to this famiclone, ''Dendy: The New Reality'', may be watched [[http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A7E2F4261CD950A7 here]], fully in English, or, in case if you are a complete kamikaze (or just ''was'' born in ex-USSR), you may watch it from the beginning till the end in its original language, starting from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzueORf25s here]].
!!The clone itself, as well as related hardware and cartridges, may be one of the examples of:
* BrandNameTakeover: Now, ''every'' famiclone is nicknamed 'Dendy', no matter if it has this name or not. Meanwhile in Poland, the imported famiclones were called ''Pegasus'', after [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pegasus_console%2Bpad%2Bgame.jpg this particular model]].
* CoversAlwaysLie: No, really. ''Always.'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog slapped on the cartridge cover of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''? ''Chip 'n Dale'' with its actual cover but renamed to ''Grand Combat''? VideoGame/SeriousSam from ''The Second Encounter'' on the cart of ''Super VideoGame/{{Contra}} 7''? And those are only three of the examples out of thousands!
** If a multicart states to have 9999 games or more, then not only the cover will be misleading, but the menu, too. Plus, some of the games slapped on the sticker may not appear on the actual cartridge at all.
** Perfectly lampshaded by Kinaman in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQr3tnjHlg The Curse of The Gray Elephant]], as well as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhRH3j3BjGU Dendy Chronicles 7]].
* FollowTheLeader and ShoddyKnockoffProduct: Not only to the actual Famicom, but to many other famiclones, not to mention the licensed consoles of the latter generations.
** Dendy wasn't the first famiclone to pop up on the market, and that's not talking about that it's not the first to swag the Famicom's original design, either.
** To make matters worse, the some of the models of Dendy had built-in gamepads, complete with no Select and Start buttons on the second gamepad, akin to the first models of Famicom.
** To make matters even worse, Dendy itself has a clones of its' own, not manufactured by the now defunct Steepler. And even while those are being advertised as the consoles with more supreme graphics and sound, they weren't really different to the other famiclones (but yet it had completely nothing to do with the actual Steepler's clone).
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of the cartridge labels are this, using artwork that is completely unrelated to the game and often just looks like a load of random images that have been cobbled together for no particular reason. Case in point, the ones presented in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3f3itoyRhE Dendy Chronicles 8]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Actually, nobody knows what led Steepler to disappearing, although the man behind this company is now listed as a vice-president of Tenzor company, who supposedly manufactured Dendies... or, at least, bits of it. Some people think it's because of the high price of imported Nintendo products. Some say that it's due to Lamport simply betraying their 'parents', but we may never know what happened exactly... Maybe all at the same time?
!!The ''Video-Uss Dendy'' and its SpiritualSuccessor, ''The Great Dragon'' are the examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Lord Hanta may have glasses, but they just make him cooler.
* AscendedFanboy: Just see the ''Dendy: The New Reality'' entry below.
* AuthorAppeal: Vladimir Borev, the headie of ''Video-Uss'' publishing. Quoting: ''Watching the game, playing the movie.''
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Some games, even if they were reviewed hell long ago, get a kinda pointless, in this case, re-review. Instand example: when ''Great Dragon'' was a spinoff, ''Dendy: The New Reality'' magazine reviewed VideoGame/{{Doom}} for SNES. Later on, when ''Dendy'' magazine officially died... VideoGame/{{Doom}} was reviewed. Again. And yes, for SNES. And that's when the PlayStation debuted.
* [[BrandNameTakeover Pirate Name Takeover]]: [[Franchise/MortalKombat Ho]] [[FanSpeak Sung Pak]].
** Who actually was an actor for Liu Kang in [[VideoGame/MortalKombat the first installment]].
* DevelopmentHell: The ''Great D'' is expected to be revived... And it resulted in nothing else but updates on the official website.
* DoingItForTheArt: Video-Uss Dendy and its following installments definitely had some soul put in it. Despite some mistakes taken in as well.
** For example, you need to write a one-page review for BattleCity. What you could put here, considering it's a first-generation NES game? But, naturally, one fan's review was so well-written that it included a basic premise plot, description of landscape and the ingame tanks, as well as wishing good luck to the beginner players. Of course, this may sound funny, but yes, it ACTUALLY is well-written, so now whenever its needed to write a review on this game, the review follows a similar scheme.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Sadly, this is here as well, mainly in the latter era. The reason is that a Steepler wannabe, ''New Game'', which is known for its Magistr famiclones and being the first ones to '''sell the initially free''' [[GameMod Sonic Megamix]] released a 'continuation' to ''The Cool Gamer'', but it turned out to be nothing else than yet another 'Tips and Tricks for 9000 Games on Mega Drive' clone. Doesn't help that exactly the same descriptions, as well as tips and tricks can be read out on their official website.
** The ratings to the games they've given also fits this trope to an [[PrecisionFStrike F]]. Just for instance, how could ''VideoGame/HerzogZwei'' get 4/10 while [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGodPNSs1Y8 this, ehrm, thing]] got 6/10? And, moreover, how ''RangerX'' would receive 4/10?!
*** [[FollowTheLeader The worst thing is that the other books released after this one seem to copy the ratings directly from here.]]
** [[http://www.newgame.ru/ Here's their website.]] Don't yell if you will get a trojan on your attempt to save a page though.
* FanworkBan: Averted, for several reasons.
** First of '''ALL''', there is a 'Fun Club' section [[WordOfGod (it was even explained why it shouldn't be spelled as Fan Club)]] which accepted a huge load of fan work: art, game story concepts, humorous psychological tests, fiction [[FanFic (no, not this one)]], comic strips and more 'n more!
** And some stuff that didn't make it into Fun Club section or Art Gallery went as the tips 'n tricks pages' illustrations.
** A [[{{Feelies}} bundle]] newspaper ''Dragon Plus'' which not only included several good (and not that good) outside-the-editorial articles, but also could be bought only from the editorial on rubble each. Why so? Basically, it was allowed and '''needed''' to be reselled by the loving readers who were dreaming about making money!
** [[PromotedFanboy Some even made it to the editorial!]]
* {{Otaku}}: [[LoveItOrHateIt Believe it or not]], loads.
** Lord Hanta.
*** And, basically... '''how'''! In his 'alternate review' of {{Garfield}}: [[GarfieldCaughtInTheAct Caught in the Act]], which was ''much'' better than its scrappy [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] big brother, got Irated by him in all sorts, starting with how NintendoHard and annoying the game is, ending '''with''' cursing the franchise. Right, ClusterFBomb, only without swearing. He also reviewed a ''Ranma'' fighting game which not only was ''slightly'' better than ''VideoGame/YieArKungFu'' gameplay-wise, but also got a bastardized US 'localization' named [[PunBasedTitle Street Combat]]. And guess what? No bad word for this game! With the detailed description of every character! Do we need to say more?
*** On a side note... he likes ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''.
** Wren also seems to be one.
** Several fans who got into anime themselves or not without the help of Lord Hanta.
** The magazine ''even'' had a small part for reviewing anime to keep the fans on their toes!
*** And even written discussions on which animation is better: American or Japanese. Think ConsoleWars.
* SdrawkcabName: Navi Kihcto.
* TheStoic: The walkthroughs for NES games were published since the ''Video-Uss Dendy'' was born and until the time when the magazine was about to collapse. Nuff said.
** MegaDrive fits this trope in the second place, because the walkthroughs for its games were posted '''even''' with the fade of '8-bit' part, but the games for it appeared a bit later than the magazine was created.
** With Fun Club being par with MegaDrive section.
* TitleDrop: Inverted. The spin-off, which later became a separate magazine had the name of one of the authors. Ten seconds to guess his alias.
* WildMassGuessing: Yes, the magazine even had '''this''', on who Great Dragon really is.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Video-Uss or Video-'''Ass'''?
** SpellMyNameWithAnS: If you go with direct transliteration, then the second. If you aim for accurate pronunciation or just don't see any sense in butchering the title '''[[PrecisionFStrike that]]''' [[PrecisionFStrike much]], then the first. In either case, this is likely to be a mispronounceation of what is otherwise supposed to be "Video-Ace" in the original Russian.
!!The ''Dendy: The New Reality'' show and its follow-ups are the examples of:
* TheAce: The Dennis and Alex duo, [[TheAdjectivalSuperhero The All-Knowing Videogame Experts]].
* [[AllMonksKnowKungFu All Game Developers Know Assembler]]: Suponev's, perhaps, most weird opinion on video games. Simpler version: ''All game developers are programmers.''
* AscendedFanboy: Appeared in one episode. [[spoiler:...Wren.]]
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Sergei Suponev, who coincidentally got into the same death trap as Music/ViktorTsoi... car crash.
* [[BootstrappedTheme Bootstrapped Themes]]: ...which actually come from [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic CD]] and Subterrania and used during both seasons.
* BlatantLies: Megahuge GameBoy shown in season two! Although you may already guess it's a prod with a TV screen showing Super Game Boy add-on in action.
* TheCameo: Suponev appeared only once in the ReplacementScrappy SoOkayItsAverage show ''World of Dendy'', hosting the tournament for ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct''.
* CatchPhrase: 'We invite you to the world of New Reality, the world of computer games!'
** Oh, and the phrase from the music theme at the start!
* GagDub: Done by Suponev ''himself'' on ''Jurassic Park II'' (SNES) intro.
** Still, the redub retains the original idea, it just adds a parody grain of 'perestroika dubbers'.
* GrammarNazi: Suponev, on the others' knowledge of English and [[SubvertedTrope in extremly mild doses]].
* SequelHook: End of first season.
--->'''Suponev:''' But something tells me we'll see each other again!
** [[WordOfGod And he kept his contextual promise.]]
** Sadly, the end of the second season (and the entire show in general) was mainly a sudden abrupt.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In episode 9 of the first season, where Super Nintendo debuted, Suponev tells us about the fact that Mario was made by Nintendo.
** [[spoiler:[[LateArrivalSpoiler Although he said]] [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} that word]] [[LateArrivalSpoiler by accident right in the second episode of the same season.]]]]
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames [[AvertedTrope is nonexistent for this show.]]
** In '''both''' meanings of this trope. Straight and literal.
* [[VideoFullOfFilmClips Video Full of VHS Clips]]: Sometimes, before showing a game based on a movie/cartoon, Suponev inserts a VHS tape with the thing the game was based off and showed a one- or two-minute fragment from it. [[spoiler:With 'perestroika' kind of translation dub.]]
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