I've just finished posting a series of articles on some research I did on my recent trip to Japan. You can find them on my IMD blog, and some more pictures on the IMD Flickr pool. If anyone is interested in more information on anything that I've posted, feel free to contact me or leave feedback. I have a great deal of paper documentation and most of the actual games talked about if you're interested in trying them out. There's also a story about a little adventure I got myself into during the trip that you might find enjoyable.
The picture above is of a random little device I fortunately stumbled across in a flea market in Ueno. This is the TV-NET add on for the original Nintendo (Famicom) that allowed the user to play networked games through their system. I've never seen one of these until this trip and it really shows the foresight of Nintendo in their early days.
Comments (3)
Is that for the Satellaview connection they had? That's so awesome that you stumbled upon that, I've been curious about what it looked like for ages.
Posted by rj | May 18, 2007 6:12 PM
Posted on May 18, 2007 18:12
It's pretty random that I managed to stumble across that device, however, it's not a Satellaview, those were for the Super Famicom. What made this one even more impressive was the fact that not only was it obscure to the point that I've never ever seen a picture of it before or even heard about it, but that it was for the Original Nintendo.
Posted by Al Yang | May 19, 2007 8:47 AM
Posted on May 19, 2007 08:47
Very, very interesting. I remember reading somewhere that they had tried a connection service for the Famicom but I had confused it with Satellaview (I thought the service was for both consoles). Wow.
How much was it?
Posted by rj | May 19, 2007 9:00 PM
Posted on May 19, 2007 21:00