Nintendo's been online for years...

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I'm not sure if theres a thread about this already so Im just going to post anyway.

I have heard alot of people saying that the DS and Wii are nintendos first attempts and puting their systems online. The truth is nintendo has had everyone of their consoles with some kind of online capability (yes even NES called famicom in japan) even though you could only get the extra hardware in japan, I have played N64 online and I was one of the only people I knew that had the GCN online (only had 2 games that used it) So I just thought I'd bring up the subject and open any disscusion for it, cause alot of people are ignorant to the fact that nintendo was the FIRST to have any console online, heck they even had a diskdrive for NES,SNES and N64 too... So did the PSX
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Darkprinny said:
Intellievison where first with online console things
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayCable

But of corse since it was early 80s ive never been online with it

You got me there Darkprinny! btw that was more like sega channel, I had Intellivision I would've hit this up along time ago! I wonder why it never caught on...
 
There was a service for the Atari 2600 that included a cartridge that connected to your phone line. You could download and play games (they would be gone when you turned the power off though). No additional functionality though (multiplayer online or anything like that).

Here it, it was called Gameline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameline
Pic: http://netti.nic.fi/~pelle/pkp/old8cvc.jpg

Interestingly enough, the guys who did that eventually created America Online.
 
Gamejunkie said:
So I just thought I'd bring up the subject and open any disscusion for it, cause alot of people are ignorant to the fact that nintendo was the FIRST to have any console online

You'd think they'd be better at it by now. :aureola:
 
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Skippy said:
There was a service for the Atari 2600 that included a cartridge that connected to your phone line. You could download and play games (they would be gone when you turned the power off though). No additional functionality though (multiplayer online or anything like that).

Here it, it was called Gameline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameline
Pic: http://netti.nic.fi/~pelle/pkp/old8cvc.jpg

Interestingly enough, the guys who did that eventually created America Online.

Well now Very Interesting! again its like a sega channel but wow, that had to be the first form of online gaming. I wonder how long it took to D/L those tiny atari games. I had a 2600 and when I was younger I could'nt get why my 2600 would'nt play atari 3200 games! and I still wonder why the 3200 never got more popular than the 2600, it might be because the nintendo came out in 1986? i think... I had mario bros for 2600 man I wish I still had it I bought it for 50 cents at a flea market. Now i could've probably sold it for 10 times that!
 
the super nintendo's disc drive was never released.
it was made in part with sony
and that's how the playstation came about.
the super nintendo disc drive came out as the Philips PS-I which was the worst console ever made.
ya n00b
 
Skippy said:
There was a service for the Atari 2600 that included a cartridge that connected to your phone line. You could download and play games (they would be gone when you turned the power off though). No additional functionality though (multiplayer online or anything like that).

Here it, it was called Gameline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameline
Pic: http://netti.nic.fi/~pelle/pkp/old8cvc.jpg

Interestingly enough, the guys who did that eventually created America Online.

Theres a few consoles that you could do things online with
Its just it was before anybody knew what internet was
 
Gamejunkie said:
You got me there Darkprinny! btw that was more like sega channel, I had Intellivision I would've hit this up along time ago! I wonder why it never caught on...

I <3 SEGA CHANNEL
 
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Well now Very Interesting! again its like a sega channel but wow, that had to be the first form of online gaming. I wonder how long it took to D/L those tiny atari games.

It took under 5 minutes per game. Unfortunately the game selection wasn't all that great and the lineup neve really increased. It came out during the tail end of the 2600's lifespan and didn't last very long. They would send you pages to put into a binder that had info for each game and how to play it. There was a numeric keypad on the screen where you would enter your PIN number (so that parents could limit the number of games you could download) and then you would enter the number for the game and it would make a dial-up connection and download the game. I'm not sure how fast the modem was, but given the era it came out, it was probably 300 or 1200 baud.

i think... I had mario bros for 2600 man I wish I still had it I bought it for 50 cents at a flea market. Now i could've probably sold it for 10 times that!

I did a quick look at eBay and it looks like the Atari 2600 version of Mario Bros. is going for just under a dollar, and that's including the manual. It wasn't very rare.
 
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U da noob!

blueradio said:
the super nintendo's disc drive was never released.
it was made in part with sony
and that's how the playstation came about.
the super nintendo disc drive came out as the Philips PS-I which was the worst console ever made.
ya n00b


The Nintendo Disk Drive WAS released just not in america, you can find them quite easily in Japan.
 
Skippy said:
I did a quick look at eBay and it looks like the Atari 2600 version of Mario Bros. is going for just under a dollar, and that's including the manual. It wasn't very rare.

The Mario on the VCS/2600 wasnt what you think it was
It was the Mario pipes game that was on the GBA Mario games
 
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Original..

Darkprinny said:
The Mario on the VCS/2600 wasnt what you think it was
It was the Mario pipes game that was on the GBA Mario games


Yes but that is the Original Mario Bros. first one ever made, I think his first appearance is on Donkey Kong, Im not sure though you'd have to look it up...
And Im not surprised it's not worth much, Atari Games back then were still a dime a dozen LITERALLY... lol
 
Well DK was the first game he was in and that game was on a few formats
Arcade version
2600, ColecoVision, INTV versions
Atari 8-bit, Apple II, C64, TI-99, MS-DOS versions
NES version
FDS version
7800 version
Virtual Console
http://kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo/marios-dirty-atari-past-194215.php
Vid of said Atari game

But as far as the atari 2600/vcs gose I still play on mine
Yars Revenge on a 50" tv FOR THE EPIC WIN
 
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