NES expansion thingy

Metallica Man X · Post by **Metallica Man X** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:15 pm

What is that thingy used for? Was there ever anything that was meant to be hooked up to it?

Post by **bicostp** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:19 pm

The expansion port on the bottom?

Super ABBA Bros. Of course!

Seriously, no one is quite sure. There was a modem adaptor for the Famicom (Japanese NES), and my theory is that they were going to make a similar unit for the NES, but the TV computer market was dwindling in favor of the IBM compatibles, so they dropped it and kept the NES as a toy.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:25 pm

it was gonna be used for internet play

Nes Man · Post by **Nes Man** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:27 pm

Turbo Tax 1.0 wrote:it was gonna be used for internet play

Think about that statement... they did not have the internet back then.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:29 pm

i'll try and find where i saw it

Dark Savant0 · Post by **Dark Savant0** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:30 pm

yes they did. Theyve had internet for a long time now. Look up arpanet for beginnings. What you see is HTTP, and that is what you think is the internet but it is not.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:39 pm

http://assembler.emugaming.com/MD_Modem/md_modem.html

heres a modem for sega

Niku-Sama · Post by **Niku-Sama** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:13 pm

well the famicom acually had a modem like thing, it was used to check on stock, bank accounts and the latest news....it was OBVIOUSLY aimed at the 6 to 12 year old bracket

edit:

i think this is the modem hes talking about:
http://assembler.roarvgm.com/MIA_games_ ... eplay.html

shelter pitfall · Post by **shelter pitfall** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:58 pm

umm... I've heard stock market, ordering pizza, and the "ABBA BROS" thing.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:00 pm

iternet and stock market are real or were gonna be thanks Niku-sama
for helping me out there

Post by **gannon** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:48 pm

I remember some loto thing was made for it in Iowa or some place...

Niku-Sama · Post by **Niku-Sama** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:14 am

a lotto thing on nes...thatd be neat

Metallica Man X · Post by **Metallica Man X** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:51 pm

Internet operations hugh? Crazy...NES Live..lol...Man, that'd totally have rocked! Imagin playin some old school action with somebody a bazillion miles away!

BTW, the internet has been around (or at least the idea) since the mid 1950's.
Here's a bit of a histroy lesson

: At the time, the US military needed a communication sytem that couldn't be knocked out easily, since a nuclear war could so just that. Because, at the time, phone systems were all operated by people in large buildings. If one of those buildings were blown up, there'd be a major hack into communications, so the idea was come up with to a make peoples homes each a commications center. With this idea, there'd be no central place for info transfer that could be destroyed. So, in the event of nuclear war, it'd be near impossible to knock out communications...

Alchemist · Post by **Alchemist** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:29 pm

Metallica Man X wrote:Internet operations hugh? Crazy...NES Live..lol...Man, that'd totally have rocked! Imagin playin some old school action with somebody a bazillion miles away!

JNES+Kaillera

BTW, the internet has been around (or at least the idea) since the mid 1950's.

Personally I'd say the internet started in the early 80's with the acceptance of TCP/IP, since that was the first time the public started having access, and it was that which grew into the internet we have today. The early days of ARPANET shouldn't really count (which didn't kick off until the late 60s anyway).

Metallica Man X · Post by **Metallica Man X** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:42 pm

True...but either way, it was at least, some form of internet right?