Dendy: The New Reality - Somari Review (English subtitles)

Warning: ridiculously old video. Typos are to be expected A LOT.

Before you watch this video, some background info. The boom of famiclones on the territory of ex-USSR began in the year 1993, when the newborn Dendy 8-bit console (distributed by the Steepler Company) breached into every family's house. To PR themselves, Steepler decided to go make a specialized magazine named "Video-Uss Dendy" and a TV show named "Dendy: The New Reality" (in Russian: Dendy Novaya Realnost). Both soon transformed into the "Great Dragon" magazine (Velikiy Drakon) and "The New Reality" TV show (without the word "Dendy", as you may see).

The host of this program is Sergei Suponev, widely known among the children of 90s for hosting a quiz show "Zvyozdny Chas", a competitive show "The Call of the Jungles" (Zov Djoongley) and taking part in the Russian version of the Survivor reality show named "Last Man Standing" (Posledniy Geroy). Died some years ago in a car crash. Rest in pieces, dude...

For the show itself. For a starter, it made a quick description of those cartridges for Dendy and SEGA MegaDrive that have been recently appeared in Steepler's stores in Moscow, along with a quick walks to the stores itself and interviewing the customers and sellers... SNES, GameBoy and Virtual Boy games came sooner. For the ex-USSR, the program was merely unique since nobody made a TV show dedicated to the videogames before and, of course, VERY popular, since I'm showing this vid to you.

This is an extract from the 11th episode of the first season (broadcasted on 2X2 channel) where a particular game is being "reviewed". It's name is Somari. Everyone who has been interested in pirate games knows it. Basically, it's a port of Sonic the Hedgehog made by J. Y. Company (AKA Hummer Team and AKA Somari Team). Some people said that the port itself is actually strong, while the others hated it (and still hate) for the squeaky JYish music and for the physics. No matter if you like this game or not, this translation's gotta be in your collection if you love NES games d:).

The game that was reviewed before is actually Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. DON'T FLAME PLEASE IF YOU HATE THIS GAME TOO!!

...and, at the end, the ugly truth about every famiclone's owner about copyrighting... and pirates particulary. Heh.

SPECIAL THANKS GO TO:
- SpaceNinja88 for hosting this translation on his Pirated Games Central blog
- BrydoRX/Retinex, Cheetahmen92 and Lin for their moral support
- J. Y... well, you know for what
- The creators of Media Subtitler
- Sachen for the dino and TomSoft for Metro Goldwyn Mayer
- Sergey Suponev (R.I.P.) for a piece of nostalgie
- Kinaman for collaborating all the episodes of this program
- Grandma for teaching me English d:D

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• new reality
• novaya realnost
• steepler
• sergei
• sergey
• suponev
• somari
• bootleg
• pirate
• nes
• subor
• kenga
• pegasus
• сомари
• сюбор
• кенга
• денди
• новая реальность
• стиплер
• сергей
• супонев
• супонёв

[machscope]

This is on nester :P

[CrashNicker]

@machscope Nope, it was for the famiclones first. Nester is only an emulator of NES and its' whereabouts! :P

[Makserium]

Wery sad. Sergey Suponev is already dead (that guy on video)...

[TubularMonkey]

In Soviet Russia, cartridge blows on you!

[Kozakczuk]

@CrashNicker Hm, you're right about that...by the way, is there any digitized samizdats about videogames/computers of that era, not counting the digital magazines in floppies?

[CrashNicker]

@Kozakczuk Well, that's for a separate DVD. :) Gotta say, The Great Dragon magazine got so many issues that it would be impossible to fit all THAT and the entire New Reality show, even if in poor quality.

[Kozakczuk]

@CrashNicker Actually, to be honest I would love to see this DVD with more content than video- e.g.: scans of soviet/russian/ukrainian... videogame magazines.

[CrashNicker]

@xxhennersxx Well, they didn't made pirates per se, if that was all about unlicensed GAMES, that is... okay, the consoles as well, since they were only the publishers of all that stuff.

And it was sponsored by that company rather than made.

[xxhennersxx]

@RobGBA The show is made by a company that MAKES pirates. and In the USSR, Copyright infringement ran rampant, it was just a way of life.

[CrashNicker]

@RobGBA Well, back then, did ANYONE realized it was a pirated game anyway? :)

[RobGBA]

That guy is retarded not to see that it was a pirated game!

[wisteela]

Love that about copyright