The Untold Story of Online Gaming on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis | XBAND

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a fascinating engineering story of early console online play, including a working demo.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Wrestling With Gaming

Topic

xband console online gaming

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2020

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From the original HN conversations

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• It was. Very much so. I have a lot of fond memories of playing Kirby's Avalanche and Killer Instinct on the SNES over the phone lines. I could not fathom why more people didn't flock to the XBAND. It represented everything I ever wanted as …

• Amazingly enough, [LINK] has a working implementation of XBAND. You can see a demo of it in the excellent Wrestling With Gaming documentary on XBAND: [VIDEO]

• If this is interesting to you, I recommend this (1) documentary on XBAND, a peripheral used to access an Xbox Live-like service for the Super Nintendo. It's a fascinating piece of engineering for the time. (1) - [VIDEO]