SNES-Genesis Lan Party

Há ideias que aparecem muito à frente do tempo. Quem imaginava no início da década de 90, andar a jogar através da Internet com uma MegaDrive, ou até um NES?

A verdade, é que chegou a ser desenvolvido um modem para estas três consolas (MegaDrive, SuperNintendo e NES), que permitia jogos entre as diferentes plataformas. E funcionava! Infelizmente, nunca chegou a ser lançado. O artigo abaixo, além de explicar a história, é um testemunho de como apertados esquemas de licenças podem matar boas ideias.

"In 1992, when the World Wide Web was still an ambitious dream and most people had not even heard the term “email,” Keith Rupp designed what was arguably the world’s first console gaming modem. The Baton Teleplay Modem, designed for the three leading consoles of the time, offered something that was then unheard-of to gamers: the ability to compete head-to-head against a real human player anywhere across the country. It was a revolutionary idea, far ahead of its time, that almost certainly would have changed the face of gaming as we know it. So why have you never heard of it? I caught up with Keith to find out."

Baton Teleplay Modem