Steepler Ltd.

Steepler Ltd. was a Moscow IT company founded in late 1990, mainly known for distributing the Micro Genius console series in Russia, alongside a slew of unlicensed Famicom cartridges, under the Dendy brand. Steepler's appearance on the video game market of the former USSR was accompanied by a rather large advertisement campaign that featured TV and press coverage, including the Dendy: The New Reality weekly show and the Video-Uss Dendy magazine. Despite shutting their doors in 1996, they've singlehandedly managed to eliminate the technological gap between Russia and first-world countries, and their impact on the local IT industry was so huge that some of the company's spin-offs still operate to this day.