On October 18, 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System game console appeared on sale in the United States. In Japan, it appeared even earlier - in 1983 under the name Famicom. But in Russia, it became known in December 1992 under the Dendy brand - it was the unofficial third-generation hardware clone of the console, in which we played our favorite Super Mario, Contra and Tanchiki.
NES October 18, 2015, turned thirty years old.
The Nintendo Entertainment System is a third-generation gaming console developed by Nintendo while managing its Hiroshi Yamauchi . Officially, more than sixty million consoles and more than five hundred million games were sold, but that is not counting the numerous clones. The prefix was on sale from 1983 to 2003. ')
Games for the console were supplied on cartridges that can be made independently.
In 1986, Nintendo NES owned 90% of the gaming consoles market, and the remaining Sega Master System and Atari accounted for the remaining 10%.
NES was the first gaming console with motion control . For this, they used Power Glove. A special receiver was installed on the TV, and the glove was connected to the console. Receivers made a sound, it was reflected from the glove, and then using the triangulation method, the system calculated the position of the “joystick” in space. The system perceived the movement of the fingers - it was possible to shoot by bending a finger, as if you were pulling the trigger.
Famicom / NES clones began to be released in the late eighties by the Taiwanese company TXC Corporation. For ninety-four dollars, or 39,000 rubles, in Russia at the end of 1992 one could buy Dandy.
In 1994, a television program about computer games for game consoles “Dandy - New Reality” by Sergey Suponev was published on Russian television. Those children who did not have either the Dandy or the Segui or other consoles learned about the games from this program.
Russian advertising Dendy:
The games for Dendy in Russia could be played on the “Syubor” prefix. Its body was made in the form of a standard keyboard for a computer with a port for a cartridge. I learned how to print on it - a cartridge with tutorials was included.