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| - The Dendy is a clone of the Famicom that was widely sold in the Soviet Union and Russia during its time. This was due to the fact that the legitimate NES wasn't available in the communist country, so programmers made their own clone. This unlicensed clone looked like a Famicom except that it was black in color. It also used Famicom cartridges.
- This is a series of Russian NES clones manufactured by a company called Linko.
- 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 Mega Drive 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 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 Mega Drive 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 Development Hell still does its dirty job. 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 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 here.
- The Dendy is a clone of the Famicom that was widely sold in the Soviet Union and Russia during its time. This was due to the fact that the legitimate NES wasn't available in the communist country, so programmers made their own clone. This unlicensed clone looked like a Famicom except that it was black in color. It also used Famicom cartridges.
- This is a series of Russian NES clones manufactured by a company called Linko.
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