You have instantly become my favourite KZfaq channel!

Very cool! My mom and grandma worked at the factory that produced these consoles. (BINOM factory in the city of Ordzhonikidze) Fun fact - since the economy in the USSR was planned, I never saw these consoles for sale in our city! And the only thing I had from this console in my childhood was a metal badge with a rooster (you can see it at 4:00 seconds, in the center of the console). It's a GOST sign(soviet government standard) but stylized for a child product ))

Damn, they really took the right to repair serious there back then. Now a lot of stuff we have to try finding usually paying at a 3rd party company or are completely secret with randomware all-in-one chips.

In Canada most of electronic devices made before the 90's had the schematics either in the user's manual or often inside the back cover. TV's, radios, even refrigerators had them. It's sad that it's no longer the case.

Your excitement about the schematics is contagious!! 😂

I love repairs and I love Soviet electronics! And I really appreciate well-made videos combining the two :) Looking forward to future ventures of yours!

Finally an original tech-electronics geek! No sponsors or ads. This is by far one of the most underrated channels on youtube. First stumbled upon your channel when i was bored in the control room at the factory where i work in the very far north of sweden. The day after we were like 8-9 men both operators, instrument technician and electrician watching your videos on the main screen at 3 in the morning while working a nightshift. Such addictive videos and content. Can’t wait to see the improved version of your robot.

This was very satisfying to watch you repair 👍 It seems to be a copy of the standard 80's z80 based Pong console. It really does show how far behind the Soviets were though. That's a very chunky 1970's style single sided PCB.

This was amazing to see. When I was a kid during the soviet union, I had a great toy which had a small magnetic car going around a circular metallic racetrack and it was controlled by an attached steering wheel. Would love to see that toy again!

I absolutely love all the old Soviet electronics stuff, and when I was living in Moscow I spent many hours looking in wonder at all the stuff for sale on Avito. My wife, who grew up with it, isn't quite so keen...

Fantastic video, I hope this is the first of many!

The reason why there are names or scrawled letters/numbers on the boards is that the people who solder the boards are piece workers. as much as you did, you earned as much. This is the easiest way to prove that you made the board in order to get money for it. It seems to me that this is still the case with piecework work

Hungary also included schematics with their products. TVs, Hi-Fi systems, computers, game consoles , even my hungarian laptop from 1987.

Love the moment when it suddenly works! And then edge of my seat whilst waiting for you to flick the switch to try a game!! LOL :) Very interesting indeed, thanks for sharing.

I'm going to collect some late 80s electronics after seeing you ❤

That is amazing. I've seen plenty of soviet computers, but it continually shocks me that they were so far behind on something they had 15 years to copy. It's pretty amazing to realize how screwed they are today, with no internal designs whatsoever.

Конденсаторы К50-16 сразу меняй без промедлений и сожаления! Серия "16" была кошмаром всех радиолюбителей и мастеров. 🙂

cool, gonna watch all of your vidoes now

You say you want schematics in modern electronics but the schematic of lets say a modern pc motherboard would need to be bigger than a living room 😅

The pong and shooting game graphics looks identical to the General Instruments AY-3-8500 TV games chip. That was used widely in many pong type consoles in the late '70s. I guess the Soviets might have cloned it for this console. The original GI chip also had a football and a squash type game as well.

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your happens when you saw the test pattern is priceless, great video

Great video.

Hi Thomas, love your channel. One favor if you ever have time. If you could provide the schematics to bitsavers that would be great!

This is amazing! I had one of these in childhood and I even was lucky enough to play it. Keep the good stuff coming!

Great video!

nice repair👍👍👍👍

Awesome :) love old USSR tech. On my desk I have Autoslalom hand-held from Elektronika. Love it and it is fully functional :)

I wish I was the camera man. Love watching this!

Great video! Soviet electronics are very interesting!

Great stuff!

Love it, can't wait for more!

Every Video I've seen of yours is great. Thank you for sharing all this cool Tech Stuff.

This is another totally underrated channel. Well done and good luck mate 👍

I have red color version of this console and and a dark red TV like that

In Soviet Union, video game play you, what a country !!!

I had an identical game brought from Russia for me when I was little. 😂. I don't know how I came across this video.

I have the same pong. You can play against "computer" on this. Look the last switch or so 😊

21:06 I think this console was made in the 70s, a few years before Atari popularised the use of ROM cassettes.

It's an incredibly rare first generation soviet console. Saw it just a couple of times in the beginning of the 80th. It's a surprise that your unit was produced in 1990. I have two questions about it: does it have a direct western analog? And is it emulated somehow?

Like the quality of your content and the video montage, just a little critic about background music getting a bit too loud.

Молодец!! Great video!

Awesome! 🎉

Yay i have such tv now~

SCHEMATICS!

Where has this channel been all my life?? Excellent content!

I was immediately taken aback when you opened the case and first got a look at the insides, the tinned circuits on the back look beautiful, and then just the whole hand made quality and look of the unit, it's definitely a thing of beauty, and it tells stories. I LOVE that you get a schematic with your electronics, so if you're qualified and so inclined to do so YOU can diagnose and fix them when it's needed, and now look at the state of things such as people like Rossman having to fight for Right To Repair, DRM in general 😔 I'm so glad I came across your channel, and going back through your older videos seeing how quickly and incredibly well you've been bumping up production quality and raising the bar each time, it's really impressive and inspiring to see 😃 Do you have a Discord or Similar? Would be a great place for a community to build and hang out. 😀 Have a great day man, all the best from the UK 👍

This goes to show how far behind the soviet union was in electronics if you saw this kind of stuff anywhere else you would think its from the 70s.

This is the third generation of this video game system

You should have measured those capacitors, interesting to see how bad they actually were. Great channel btw, subscribed.

Fun video. I built a myself a "Leningrad" ZX Spectrum clone a couple of years ago. The USSR has a great history of clone systems using some really clever engineering. The home made PCBs and covered wire jumpers speak of a time when quality of workmanship was valued more than churning stuff out. Just one question, is the unit a SECAM system or PAL?

This channel's videos seem very similar to documentaries that I used to watch. Is this channel backed by an oldschool station or do you just have a background in TV? Your videos look very professional.

Please make a video about that little TV.

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Very interesting! We had this sort of game around the late 70's in the UK. I remember my parents being excited to get one. Was it really so much later that it appeared in Russia? Or was this particular one just made later. интересный канал!

I cannot believe this isn’t a million+ channel. Production value off the chart and so engaging.

This ain't an Atari clone, it's Pong-style console (e.g. Magnavox Odyssey, Nintendo Color TV Game etc) Atari wasn't cloned in USSR, its clone "Rambo TV game console" appeared in 1990s only (in parallel with Famicom clones knows as Pegasus/Dendy/Subor/Lifa/Simbas/dozens others names)

I recently bought this console and that exact TV used. What channel/frequency setting did you use for the TV? can’t get the picture to come in clearly

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ב''ה, too much informational absurdity but I seem to remember something from one of the Soyuz clock videos about Soviet electrolytics using an opposite striping pattern to common "Western" Taiwan/HK/China etc. parts. Where polarity is marked with symbols and you're sure of the ground plane this probably is no issue but something to confirm for longevity.

Just discovered your channel and its amazing 🎉 Can you share the name of song at 08:00 please?

So were you an Amiga 500/1000 guy?

A few months before Soviet collapse. Must've have been the last Soviet console.

All that in the nineties and it only plays pong type games?

Я вот тут задумался... от чего вы всё это питаете? У вас же даже частота другая. 🤔

Will you be scanning the documentation that came with it?

What’s the name of the song on 18:15??

you are kind of a capacitor guy, aren't you?...

Really great project. A good introduction to electronics with the schematic. Like today, the Russians were way ahead of their time. Except: The 100 Best PC Games of the Early '90s ... in 10 Minutes! (1990-1992): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bruaZ6h_tJa8oHk.html

Why are your eyes so Black? It is like I'm looking into the endless abyss of space or something..... Really liked the video, it's awesome that they included Schematics back the in day, that should be made into Law for ALL electronics! I want my Schematics! Copyright & Patents can eat dirt!

I don't believe this was released in 1990? Even for the Soviet Union (WHICH ENDED IN 89?!), this would have been embarrassingly anachronistic in 90, like really really obviously embarrassing, I have to think the date is wrong and it was actually released in 1980?

888th like!!! :)

You can't laugh after saying "Color: Black" lmao, nonono. I mean you can but 🧐

Put it in H!!!!

Poor old babushka shouldve denied your sale since you were too afraid to discuss russia with her.

схема почти гениальная. Голова К145ИК17 - Это клон, без сомнения. Русские не заморачивались такими бездялушками, просто копировали. Интересное развитие оригинально чипа от TI: AY-3-8500 (-1) (К145ИК17) 1976 4 Ball & Paddle games and 2 shooting games AY-3-8550 (-1) 1976 Improved AY-3-8500 with horizontal player motion AY-3-8601 (-1) 1976 Square Off: Combat Squares, Racing Squares, Shooting Squares, 2 Jungle Games AY-3-8602 (-1) 1976 Volleyball Plus: Volleyball, Protection, Hazard (supposedly unreleased) AY-3-8605 (-1) 1977 3 submarine war games AY-3-8700 (-1) 1976 Tank battle game AY-3-8765 (-1) 1976 4 motor-cycle games: Skill cycle, Cycle race... AY-3-8800 (-1) 1976 4 games: Black Jack, Draw Poker, Acey/Ducey and WAR AY-3-8888 (-1) 1976 2 Vegas games: Black Jack and Slot Machine AY-3-8889 (-1) 1976 Tic-Tac-Toe and LEM (Lunar Landing Module)