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[edit] Popularity?

I grew up in Moscow during the 80s and I never heard of this product once. It says that it enjoyed great popularity, but there's nothing confirming the fact. Are there any sales figures or something like it available? Peter Isotalo 09:53, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

Hm. When I first introduced information about the Dendy to the main Nintendo Entertainment System article I put in some references, but I can't find them now. Short of wading through the history section there, a cursory search of Google gives a relatively large number of Russian-language websites with mention the Dendy alongside the Famicom/NES (like here, for instance). There's also this page, but that's really more along the lines of hearsay (though it does have some other information that should probably be added to the article, but I digress).

The problem is that accurate sales data is hard to come by, given that the Dendy wasn't officially licensed hardware. And, my knowledge of Russian being somewhat shaky (read as: nonexistent), I personally can't go digging very deeply into Russian web sites for more information. That being said, there does seem to be a great deal of circumstantial support for claiming that it was, at the very least, uniquely popular as far as NES hardware clones go.

But obviously, having lived there, you're probably a better source of information than I am, so I am more than willing to be corrected on this point. Just a thought, though: the vast majority of NES clones didn't hit the streets until relatively late in the NES/Famicom's lifespan (after 1990 or so, rather than during the '80s), and the same seems to be true of the Dendy. Could that be the source of the confusion? – Seancdaug 22:40, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

I moved to Sweden in 1990. That probably explains my ignorance. :-) Peter Isotalo 23:09, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

I grew up in Moscow in the late 80's and early 90's and this system was extremely popular with me and all of my friends, perhaps more so in the mid 90's. -- vex5 22:32, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

yeah it was popular in mid90s in Ukraine

Indeed, it was quite popular all over the USSR in 90s.