Dunno if this goes here or on /int/ since it's about eastern Europe, but it does have to do with retro vidya so I'll try here first even though I don't know if many slavs frequent this board. Basically I've been watching picrelated's videos (inb4 ecelebs) about what gaming in the ex-USSR was like in the 90's, but a lot of the stuff that he says doesn't match up with what I remember from my childhood out in Siberia before moving to America. The chronology, according to him, is:>early 90's: everyone played on bootleg NES's (Dendy and its knock-offs)>late 90's: everyone played on Mega Drives>early 2000's: everyone played on PS1's>late 2000's onward: everyone played on PC (out of scope for this board)and he makes it seem like everyone played on consoles. What I actually remember (I was born in '92 and moved to the US with my parents in '02) was that basically no one played on consoles: in our entire commie block there was just one kid with a Mega Drive, and I didn't even hear about Dendy until way after moving to the US and seeing its name on Russian rom sites. Out of the slavs on this board, did anyone else experience this discrepancy, or was it my fault for living so far from Europe?
>I was born in '92Then you completely skipped over the entire era kinaman discusses. Also>opinion doesn't match my own subjective childhood experiences thus it is invalidated and a "discrepancy". come on now, you seem like a polite enough chap, don't do this.
>>12012136In Soviet Russia, game plays you
>>12012136>my childhood out in Siberiadid you get raped by a turnip?also>ecelebs
>>12012136Kinamania should never have gotten into streaming, his edited content has always remained superior.
>>12012338He still does edited content alongside the streams, I don't see what the problem is
The only soviet guy around I find interesting is that one dude who does slavjank crpgs interspaced with talking about his adventures as a dissident and running from the law, but I think he's my age and was a kid when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR died. Cool dude, for a dirty hippie.
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/11985184/Groundhog day round here.
>>12012136Hello Gatis.
>>12012136The place where you lived and your age obviously had an effect on your perception on gaming. Unless you're from Novosibirsk I'm not surprised that your experience was that different from Kinaman. I'm from St. Petersburg and older than him so my experience is different too but in another way.>early 90sFirst of all Dendy did not appear until 93 and it took some time with its aggressive TV ads campaign to spread the awareness so it's more like the early mid 90s. I got my Dendy closer to the end of 93 and at that time maybe just a couple of my classmates had one. Around the middle of 94 about a half of the boys in my class had either Dendy or another Famiclone. For some of us it was an important source of joy and we were actively exchanging cartridges with each other and begging our parents for new games but some didn't cared that much. I don't remember any girls in my class getting involved into gaming talks or cartridge exchanges so obviously it wasn't popular among them.Sega started to appear around late 94 and for several following years Dendy and Sega coexisted with the former being a cheaper option.Playstation started to appear around 97. It was an expensive purchase at the time and not many parents were able to afford it yet. It took me several months of begging my mom and exemplary performance in school to get it in the summer. At the time the shops selling Playstation CDs weren't that common but by mid 98 they were being sold in a lot of places. Dreamcast had a short lived period of popularity around 2000-2001.PS2 started to gain its momentum around 2002 and quickly overtook the original Playstation with the latter becoming a cheaper option kinda like in the pair of Dendy and Sega.
>>12013006In my city, all your dates would be pushed back by a year or two (yeah, Moscow). For example, by mid-1996 buying pirated PS1 games was as easy as buying pirated PC software (of course, most of them were untranslated English copies manufactured somewhere in Romania or Poland). Also, the 3DO had a bit of a moment of glory here in early 1995, just before the PlayStation kicked in.
>>12012136>late 2000's onward: everyone played on PCThe PC took off after NES clones. There were several groups of kids who had home PCs in my class that liked different types of games. Almost all of the gaming magazines were PC only. LAN cafes were everywhere at one point, a kind of culture emerged around them and then quickly died out when Internet availability improved and PC parts became more affordable.
>>12013262Never seen the 3DO or its games being sold in SPb. Maybe some big stores in the city center had it but not the places around where I lived.
>>12013329Huh, I even had one (well, I still own it, though it needs some proper repair). I got it in mid-1995 with a huge discount. I didn’t have a single legit game - only bootlegs (Return Fire, Road Rash, and NFS were my favorites).
Story checks out. My dad got Dendi earlier, he had it already when i was born in 92.After that it was Sega, most kids had PS1 after that.I was priveleged to play Sega Kinocast, and thennit was PS2.Somewhere between Mega Drive and PS1, a lot of PC gaming started happening, and consoles slowly faded out in favor of PC
This gem got a review in the Polish press in 1994, meaning it had some bazaar presence in the ex-commie world. Did any of you get to play it back in the day?
>>12012136Animation Magic, the studio responsible for the cutscenes of the much-memed Zelda CDI games was Russian. In retrospect, those were>Great!
