[TimmiT]

Third video

Oh god.

[Felik]

I don't know if I should consider myself lucky I never watched or even heard of it as a kid.
I do remember myself watching Russian version of Hugo game show and loving it.

[ashthedragon]

This is amazing.

[Black Squirrel]

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)

[Overlord]

Maybe our friends over at http://sonicscanf.org and http://sonic-world.ru/ can shed some further light on this?

[Kiddo Cabbusses]

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.

[ICEknight]

That intro looks like a mishmash of Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Adventure... in 1994. o_O

[Dark Sonic]

Sonic has a bad habit of staring at people's crotches with enthusiasm in that first video...

[SpeedStarTMQ]

Love the little 'Corner-Sonic', I wonder who did the animation?

[ICEknight]

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.

This post has been edited by ICEknight: 30 November 2014 - 10:32 AM

[GagaMan]

The Sonic animations in the corner are rather cute. Also in the 2nd video was that a sort of Russian Sega World/Park?

[Black Squirrel]

GagaMan, on 30 November 2014 - 12:18 PM, said:

The Sonic animations in the corner are rather cute. Also in the 2nd video was that a sort of Russian Sega World/Park?

Not a Russian one...

... it's Sega World Bournemouth (although I think the latter parts are from Japan). Hilariously this now counts as the only surviving footage of the place that we know of.

It's like the stars aligned - I only came across an indoor photo by chance a few days ago.

[Black Squirrel]

Digging:

It was a show hosted by "Yevgeni/Evgeniy Stychkin" on a channel called RTR (РТР) (look the old logo), which is now called Russia 1. Apparently aired for a few months in Spring/Summer-ish 1994, later repeated on Channel 5. Might have also aired in Ukraine.

Arm yourself with google translate and search the Russian message boards - this is a topic that appears to have turned up a few times.

[Irixion]

I can understand what they're saying...so if anyone wants a translation, I'd be willing to provide specific bits :V.


They're asking basic questions... What country did x or y for example in one of them. This is so terrible I'm actually crying watching this.

This post has been edited by Irixion: 30 November 2014 - 03:03 PM

[HP Zoner]

So that's where Sonic got used to hanging on to helicopters.