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Spike0503 on 15 March 2023
only777 said:

Thanks Dude!

I used a time stamp to skip right to the section that covered what I'm talking about here.  But did you see the bit before that about the Namco arcade cabinet that allowed PS1 & Dreamcast to arcade cross saving?  Here's a photo of that cabinet that had ports for S1 and Dreamcast memory cards:

Yeah, that was interesting as well! I vaguely remember seeing an arcade cabinet somewhere in my city that had memory card slots. I can't remember which game it was though. Maybe it was MvC2 one like in your photo.



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Leynos on 16 March 2023
Spike0503 said:
JackHandy said:

It was an interesting time to be a gamer period. For instance, in 1994, Sega attempted a version of Gamepass, nearly twenty-three years before Microsoft launched theirs. lol. It was an era of excitement and wild experimentation. I miss it. 

I've actually heard of that in a book called Console Wars. Was it called Sega Channel? It's too bad it didn't work, it was truly ahead of its time.

I can only imagine what people at the time felt like when they played some of my favorite games (most of them are from the 90's) Stuff like MGS, the FF games on the PS1, Diablo and Fallout. It must have been amazing to experience those games back when they were released.

 Nintendo also put out the Sateliview which was similar to SEGA Channel. Where SEGA got exclusive Wily Wars and Pulseman from Game Freak. Nitendo put out a special MOTHER game and BS Zelda. You could play at certain hours of the day.



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

DonFerrari on 16 March 2023

I was aware of the cumbersome way to have a PS2 playing online games (very few), but first time I hear for PS1 very cool and show that a lot of what we have today was attempted long ago.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

SvennoJ on 16 March 2023
JackHandy said:
Spike0503 said:

Nice vid! I love the PS1 so it's always nice to find out more about it. So, now I know that both the PS1 and the N64 had limited internet access with an add-on. The late 90's must have been an interesting time to be a gamer in Japan!

It was an interesting time to be a gamer period. For instance, in 1994, Sega attempted a version of Gamepass, nearly twenty-three years before Microsoft launched theirs. lol. It was an era of excitement and wild experimentation. I miss it. 

Talking about Sega, they were preparing to release a VR headset in 1991!

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/11/lost-sega-vr-game-unearthed-made-playable-on-modern-vr-headsets/