Widespread gaming history myths

[MrPopo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBAND

But prior to that was the Japan exclusive Meganet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Meganet

[noiseredux]

Really? That's amazing. I know the satelliview and the Sega channel, but I never heard of this before. Which games were supported? In which countries? How were the modems called? How well did it work?

yeah the XBand (thanks Popo, I was blanking). If I understand correctly it worked by tricking the game into thinking that Player 2 was the guy sitting next to you instead of the person whose modem you've dialed.

[elmagicochrisg]

The fact that a myth is an opinion when it's personal opposed to subjective, whether or not it sucks, is a matter of taste, depending on how you look at it. Otherwise it's just bad, unless bad is good. Then it's a statement. Because, let's face it, an opinion is a subjective statement that can be the result of an emotion or an individual interpretation of a fact. Unless green is blue, and chicken tastes like chicken. Think about that...

Jééz, this thread sucks...

[o.pwuaioc]

Quality, by definition, is intrinsic hence it cannot be subjective even if our means to determine such quality are inprecise.

Myth of the year.

[Breetai]

I think a lot of people are confusing online play (mmos, online multiplayer), with online downloads. Those technologies shown for consoles before the 32-bit era were primitive downloadable content systems. Don't know if there was a way to have online multiplayer on 32-bit consoles.

But I too think that the Dreamcast was the first console to allow online multiplayer gaming. And if it wasn't the Dreamcast that was first, I don't think the first console would have been something made before 1995. It must have first become big on PCs before a console manufacturer thought of doing it.

You totally ignored my last post, just a few before this one you made.

[sheath]

In addition to the X-band, the Saturn's Netlink allowed for online peer to peer multiplayer gaming.

Also, Ken Kuturagi was the father of the Playstation.

In reality Sony worked with Nintendo on the CD-ROM attachment for the SNES, and Sony of America's Olaf Olaffson worked (however briefly) with Sega of America on a next generation CD-ROM based system. Fact, Revolutionaries at Sony claims that the Playstation existed in the late 80s and that it was being promoted by Kuturagi at that time.

Whatever that Playstation was it had little to do with the system finalized in late 1993.

[ZeroAX]

You totally ignored my last post, just a few before this one you made.

Ah, sorry honey. Promise I'll make it up to you. I'll take you out for dinner, a movie ANYTHING you want.


Though Meganet still sounds just like Satelliview, and XBAND is awesome, but unofficial. So I guess the Saturn was the first console with official online multiplayer? And the Dreamcast the first one with built in internet gaming capabilities?

[Ack]

Every video game is considered terrible by someone in the world, just as every video game is considered excellent by someone else. Every video game is someone's favorite and someone else's most hated. But this is about myths in gaming history, not whether Justice League Task Force was a good game.

Warcraft was Blizzard's first game.

No, this simply isn't true.

Warhammer 40,000 ripped off Starcraft.

I have actually heard this, and it made me groan then just as it makes me groan now.

3D gaming made its debut in the 1990s.

I, Robot, 1983.

[elmagicochrisg]

3D gaming made its debut in the 1990s.

I, Robot, 1983.

Just watched a clip on Youtube...

Impressive...

[Breetai]

You totally ignored my last post, just a few before this one you made.

Ah, sorry honey. Promise I'll make it up to you. I'll take you out for dinner, a movie ANYTHING you want.


Though Meganet still sounds just like Satelliview, and XBAND is awesome, but unofficial. So I guess the Saturn was the first console with official online multiplayer? And the Dreamcast the first one with built in internet gaming capabilities?

Really? ANYTHING? Okay, I want to have a Spy vs. Spy marathon with you. The loser has to watch the other play Outrun Online HD or Outrun 2 or Outrun 2006SP until every single course is completed.

Yeah, I guess the Saturn was the first with officially licensed online multiplayer, and the DC the first out of the box with it built in. At least, as far as I know.