Motion Controls?!?! What's next???

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disolitude said:

redspear said:
Some other random tidbits.

Nintendo released a 3d goggle system for the Famicom in April 1988. The game it was released with was 3d hot rally developed by Nintendo. It was the first Mario kart the cover art features Mario driving.

The famicom had a modem and disk drive that attached to it. This enabled users to download content from kiosks and bring them home or in the case of the modem download it. Though the main use was primarily horse race betting it also was a online game in the early 1980s.

The Super Famicom also had a modem which as far as I know did not support online gaming but allowed people to download games, as well as news and even had a satellite radio channel.

The Sega Channel was pure innovation though and on top of all this Sega has always been better about taking their riskier peripherals and innovations overseas. Where Nintendo was more cautious with the US and Euro markets.

All the above said though it was truly the Dreamcast that set the stone for modern day online gaming for consoles. Intergrating the modem(something neither the PS2 or the GC did) was the first step forward. Including a browser made people more friendly to the idea.

BTW both the PSP and DS have a TV tuners in Japan by third party manufacturers. Also the Turboexpress was the first to have one.

Good stuff. I always love going over retro gaming...

"The Super Famicom also had a modem which as far as I know did not support online gaming but allowed people to download games, as well as news and even had a satellite radio channel." - was this in Japan? In North America and Europe this never happened. I lived in Europe till 1995 and then in Canada after and this was never even spoken of here.

"All the above said though it was truly the Dreamcast that set the stone for modern day online gaming for consoles. Intergrating the modem(something neither the PS2 or the GC did) was the first step forward. Including a browser made people more friendly to the idea." - Sega Saturn had a browser. I used it for online chats in 1997 to try to pick up ladies. My handle was studboy3000...

"Nintendo released a 3d goggle system for the Famicom in April 1988. The game it was released with was 3d hot rally developed by Nintendo. It was the first Mario kart the cover art features Mario driving." - so it was after the 3D glasses for Master system? I believ that was 1987...

Yes it was in Japan only. That is why I said Super Famicom..they had weird stuff over their like a audio cassette player for BASIC programing on the original Famicom.

 

Other consoles had browsers but the Dreamcast is the only console I know that actually included it at purchase which is key.

I am not sure when the sega goggles came out. The sega goggles were more supported and better advertised then the nintendo ones. Which only got support for one game. I only know the game because it was the first mario racing game and is significant for its spirtual successors that would go on and become one of the biggest selling franchises in VG history. The gap between goggle releases was not that great but neither were true 3D instead they relied on field frame interlacing and blacking out one eye and then the other.

The VB on the other hand actually used a military technolgy which involved rotating mirrors and a red LED. Though its implementation was horrible and only good for 2 or 3 games max the others were unplayable IMO.

 

Sega was better about bringing products overseas than nitendo....BTW after 1988 Tonka made the master system in the US.

 

Sega was more willing to take stuff over seas.