It was for SNES :
Forum - Retro VGs and PCs
Sorry if this is unappropriated for this section.
Ha, so was this first true "cable wire" vg attempt :
PlayCable - Wikipedia
Or :
GameLine - Wikipedia
Or Sega Channel ?
The dreamcast had many firsts though, and it's a homebrew monster, no modding needed, genius Sega.
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About Atari Gameline :
"The CVC GameLine (Control Video Corporation) was a cartridge for the Atari 2600 which could download games using a telephone line.
In the early 1980s a cable pioneer named William von Meister was looking for a way to use his innovative modem transmission technology, recently acquired in ill-fated attempts of sending music to cable companies. Legal issues caused cable providers to step away from the service, leaving Von Meister with a delivery tool and no content.
He then converted his variable speed adaptive modem technology to download games from central servers to individual households. This allowed users to call up a system and, for a fee, download games to their GameLine modules. The game would typically work for 5-10 plays, after which the user would have to connect to GameLine again and pay for another download.[1]
GameLine was originally envisioned to not provide just games, but also news (NewsLine), stock quotes (StockLine), sports reporting and scores (SportLine), electronic mail (MailLine), online banking (BankLine), online forums (OpinionLine), and a wide variety of information including airline schedules, horoscopes, and classified ads (InfoLine). GameLine ceased operations before any of these expanded services were offered, though StockLine and SportsLine were reportedly near full implementation.
GameLine was one of many smaller companies that went bust in the video game crash of 1983.
The company, called Quantum Computer Services, was created by Steve Case, among others. This company created a service called Quantum Link which linked together Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 users offering many of the expanded services originally envisioned for GameLine. Quantum Computer Services eventually became America Online in October 1991"
The main reason he created it initially was to send music and other info to peoples devices in 1980 or so and they said "who wants to download music on a telephone wire for a $1 or read news online, ever hear of a paper or tape, this is a bad idea". Ha ha he was 20 years ahead of his time ! $1 download wire music or books to devices, can anybody say itunes ?
It was like 1981 google tv, one of the companies helping him only went on to become AOL !
Sorry I find this interesting. Guess it's all about timing.
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The SNES Playstation prototype that plays sony ps cd's and snes carts failing = good for Nintendo, they were too greedy for too long, they got what they had coming. But then PS stomped Sega amongst other things =(
Forum - Retro VGs and PCs
Sorry if this is unappropriated for this section.
Ha, so was this first true "cable wire" vg attempt :
PlayCable - Wikipedia
Or :
GameLine - Wikipedia
Or Sega Channel ?
The dreamcast had many firsts though, and it's a homebrew monster, no modding needed, genius Sega.
= = =
About Atari Gameline :
"The CVC GameLine (Control Video Corporation) was a cartridge for the Atari 2600 which could download games using a telephone line.
In the early 1980s a cable pioneer named William von Meister was looking for a way to use his innovative modem transmission technology, recently acquired in ill-fated attempts of sending music to cable companies. Legal issues caused cable providers to step away from the service, leaving Von Meister with a delivery tool and no content.
He then converted his variable speed adaptive modem technology to download games from central servers to individual households. This allowed users to call up a system and, for a fee, download games to their GameLine modules. The game would typically work for 5-10 plays, after which the user would have to connect to GameLine again and pay for another download.[1]
GameLine was originally envisioned to not provide just games, but also news (NewsLine), stock quotes (StockLine), sports reporting and scores (SportLine), electronic mail (MailLine), online banking (BankLine), online forums (OpinionLine), and a wide variety of information including airline schedules, horoscopes, and classified ads (InfoLine). GameLine ceased operations before any of these expanded services were offered, though StockLine and SportsLine were reportedly near full implementation.
GameLine was one of many smaller companies that went bust in the video game crash of 1983.
The company, called Quantum Computer Services, was created by Steve Case, among others. This company created a service called Quantum Link which linked together Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 users offering many of the expanded services originally envisioned for GameLine. Quantum Computer Services eventually became America Online in October 1991"
The main reason he created it initially was to send music and other info to peoples devices in 1980 or so and they said "who wants to download music on a telephone wire for a $1 or read news online, ever hear of a paper or tape, this is a bad idea". Ha ha he was 20 years ahead of his time ! $1 download wire music or books to devices, can anybody say itunes ?
It was like 1981 google tv, one of the companies helping him only went on to become AOL !
Sorry I find this interesting. Guess it's all about timing.
= = =
The SNES Playstation prototype that plays sony ps cd's and snes carts failing = good for Nintendo, they were too greedy for too long, they got what they had coming. But then PS stomped Sega amongst other things =(