Russian Sonic

Lobotomy · Dec 1, 2014

Kiddo Cabbusses said:

Lobotomy said:

Is that a Borg as a television show host.

Did the Russians seriously not have Color TV as the standard in the 1990s.

What a bunch of drunken wankers.
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Is it theoretically possible to do any sort of color techniques for video like this?
(I was originally gonna say "Like Technicolor" before it dawned on me that that technique was specifically tailored to film-media formats...)
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I mean, you could colorize it like they did with Star Trek and Doctor Who from the '60s.

Mr Lange · Dec 1, 2014

Kiddo Cabbusses said:

If I may be honest, the Russian 3D model actually looked more or less as on-model as DiC's Sonic cartoons. It just looks horrid because, quite frankly, that's how 3D animation in the 90's looked.

The McDonalds crap to the right, in comparison, was made over 10 years later when 3D art was significantly more advanced, and is meant to be based off "Modern" Sonic. The lack of quality shows a lack of budget and care, rather than the Russian Sonic's more classic "90's camp".

Not to mention the hand-drawn Sonic in the Russian show is actually really neat.
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I'm well aware.
I just had to make that joke when I saw that.

crystallize · Dec 1, 2014

So apparently I was wrong, initially creating a topic on SSMB and not here.

Black Squirrel said:

Sweet - this actually tells us quite a lot - very little is known about the official Sega presence in Russia.Sonic - Super Hedgehog(I can't use a colon without redirecting to Sonic Retro - oop)
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It actually goes by many names: Sonic The Super Hedgehog, Sonic Club, TVquiz of electronic entertainments "Sonic".

Overlord said:

Maybe our friends over at http://sonicscanf.org and http://sonic-world.ru/ can shed some further light on this?
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http://forum.sonic-world.ru/topic/7445-%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81-%D0%BA-%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC/
http://staroetv.su/forum/4-3064-1
http://gbx.ru/index.php?showtopic=21363

Kiddo Cabbusses said:

This is probably a silly request, but would anyone be willing to make GIF animations based on the hand-animated Sonic on the bottom right? I can imagine that being great to see in various video edits.
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Only this so far.
http://share.gifyoutube.com/mGrEOg.gif

SpeedStarTMQ said:

Love the little 'Corner-Sonic', I wonder who did the animation?
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Considering how Zelda CDI games were animated in St.Petesburg, I won't entirely defy a possibility of this animation being made by the same people.

ICEknight said:

By the way, blue eyelids aside, that small Sonic seems pretty on-model even when facing the camera, which was most of the times done wrong back then... I wonder if this is the Russian counterpart to a similar Japanese show or something.
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You really shouldn't look at this from the point of developed and respecting capitalistic economics. />/> Those were the times in russia when people even in Moscow couldn't believe that cash machine can actually give you your salary in cash.

Kiddo Cabbusses said:

Tell us what the hell the context of those Transformers scenes during the Herzog Zwei part are?
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Looks like the show writers came up with some bullshit fairytale about evil Herzog Einz conquering good planet of something, and good Herzog Zwei protecting it. And to illustrate it in some way, they put a footage of Galvatron as Einz and Kup as a good guy in here.

Lobotomy said:

Is that a Borg as a television show host.Did the Russians seriously not have Color TV as the standard in the 1990s.What a bunch of drunken wankers.
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I think we have had 60cm screen color TV since early 80s.

Black Squirrel · Dec 1, 2014

If it's three parts of the same broadcast I'd hazard a guess that the monochrome is a recording issue, not a broadcasting one.

This wasn't a time where you can go out and buy a TV for £20 or whatever. These were big meaty investments - our "secondary" TV back then was an old monochrome one, and that's in the relatively wealthy UK. IIRC food was sometimes hard to come by in the early years of post-Soviet Russia.

crystallize · Dec 1, 2014

Black Squirrel said:

If it's three parts of the same broadcast I'd hazard a guess that the monochrome is a recording issue, not a broadcasting one.

This wasn't a time where you can go out and buy a TV for £20 or whatever. These were big meaty investments - our "secondary" TV back then was an old monochrome one, and that's in the relatively wealthy UK. IIRC food was sometimes hard to come by in the early years of post-Soviet Russia.
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These are most likely different issues, but I agree on the rest of the post.

My mom recalls radio advising to drink more if you've got nothing to eat.

Look what I've found guys!
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/10153

To start negotiations with the Japanese company, which has no offices in Russia, is not enough just ready to purchase products for a large sum. Still need to stock up on very solid recommendations abyss of patience and knowledge of Japanese business ritual.
Apparently, no one in Russia all this in due measure did not have, because Sega, which usually sells abroad through their own representative, decided to enter the Russian market through another Japanese company, which already has a representative office in Russia. As such, he was elected trading house Nissho Iwai, who works in Russia for more than 30 years. This trading house, according to its representatives, was granted the status of exclusive importer of Sega in Russia.
But if you think that Nissho Iwai then engaged in the formation of the Russian dealer network for the sale of video games, you know enough Japanese business. In fact, Nissho Iwai found the Russian company - "Forrus" - which has agreed to be the exclusive distributor in Russia and Sega to create their own dealer network. So, now the Russian representative Nissho Iwai exclusively buys goods for Russia at Sega and immediately sells it exclusively to the company "Forrus" ... Without a pint of sake do not tell.
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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:viWjD3g1fzMJ:vk.com/wall-8143546_19494+&cd=13&hl=ru&ct=clnk&gl=ru

The original Mega Drive 2 pal asia imported by Steepler the open spaces of our country in the '90s, in addition there was a company Nissho Iwai Corporation (in my opinion, it is still there, I also have instruction in Russian with the indication of the office), which is a -That time of import to Russia as the originals, but only Euro pal, but quickly tied to the case. And it all happened at the same time Bitman-s, Kenga-mi, Pro16Bit-s, Subor-s and other Chinese clone. Probably in no other country was not as fun as we have.

And I would like to add that in stores Dendy, a long time on the shelves at the same time you could see and Mega Drive 2 clone and the original. Original cost in the 95th year 670,000 - 690,000 rubles, and the clone was worth 450,000 rubles., As well as our people, no one explained that for 450,000 rubles. shit on a stick, all saw the same picture, but for various money and naturally took over 450000 p.
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This guy here show some bubblegum stickers with Sonic and badniks...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxgijcv6vg4

Kiddo Cabbusses · Dec 1, 2014

crystallize said:

SpeedStarTMQ said:

Love the little 'Corner-Sonic', I wonder who did the animation?
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Considering how Zelda CDI games were animated in St.Petesburg, I won't entirely defy a possibility of this animation being made by the same people.
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[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3UjmiCvgpo[/media]
I'd say corner-Sonic is leaps and bounds ahead of these CD-I cutscenes. Corner-Sonic looks like it was drawn by someone who honest-to-goodness understood that Sonic was modeled after retro Disney characters, and thus actually has many retro cartoon-isms (from the way he mouth moves - complete with how his mouth looks when he looks to his side - to the way his arms wave when he moves them to a different posture... heck, he's also one of the most expression-filled interpretations of Sonic around!) that were RARELY replicated in most 90's animation, especially not any of the Sonic animations produced besides this. In other words, Corner-Sonic appears to have been done by a professional or veteran animator who really cared about the final output. I could not possibly believe CD-I Zelda was done by the same people.

crystallize said:

Kiddo Cabbusses said:

Tell us what the hell the context of those Transformers scenes during the Herzog Zwei part are?
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Looks like the show writers came up with some bullshit fairytale about evil Herzog Einz conquering good planet of something, and good Herzog Zwei protecting it. And to illustrate it in some way, they put a footage of Galvatron as Einz and Kup as a good guy in here.
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This sounds so hilariously bad that I want to imagine how it'd be dubbed.

Fred Wood · Dec 2, 2014

I pray that someday we get fansubs.

Azookara · Dec 2, 2014

That commercial with the "SEGA" ambulance going on in the background and the logo popping up at the end probably has some of the worst background music ever made for a commercial. lmao

X-Crim · Dec 2, 2014

Mr Lange said:

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haha, I remembered the same thing when I saw it

crystallize · Dec 3, 2014

Azukara said:

That commercial with the "SEGA" ambulance going on in the background and the logo popping up at the end probably has some of the worst background music ever made for a commercial. lmao
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Because Sega is not cool; Sega is "magical world" hence music choice.

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