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That's a pretty cool concept given that it was almost 30 years ago!
by thret 3y ago
That's a pretty cool concept given that it was almost 30 years ago!
- retrac 3y agoOh, the idea is even older. In 1980, video games downloaded over cable TV, was tested in a few US cities. Intellivision! Same basic idea. Cable service allowed very fast (1 Mbit/s approximately) transmission for the time, so games could transfer in seconds: : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayCable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayCable And Sega offered something similar in the USA in the early 1990s too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel I think Satellaview in Japan, was the first service of that kind, which was truly successful though.
- jerf 3y agoMore than 30 years ago. Believe it or not, the Intellivision has the same service, using the same basic technique in 1981: https://www.intvprime.com/intellivision-faq/intellivision-faq-section-2-0-hardware/#2.6%3a+What+was+PlayCable%3f https://www.intvprime.com/intellivision-faq/intellivision-fa... https://www.intvfunhouse.com/mattel/playcable.php https://www.intvfunhouse.com/mattel/playcable.php (The Atari 2600 got a competitor but despite being the older console it was released in 1983: https://www.wired.com/story/streaming-games-actually-started-the-80s/ https://www.wired.com/story/streaming-games-actually-started... ) So, 43 years ago.