From: kendrick@nospam.io
In article <461e8f05$0$4925$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
Grestang wrote:
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>How the heck did Sega expect to pull off online play back in 1989? I know
>Tele-Genesis never came out in the US, but I think the Mega Drive equivolent
>came out in Japan. How well did that work? I'm also curious as to how well
>X-Band and the Saturn Netlink fared. From what I hear, Street Fighter 2
>Hyper Fighting on 360 still has some lag in it. Wasn't one of the Mortal
>Kombat games playable on X-Band? How laggy could THAT have been?
It's important to note that the X-band didn't allow versus play so much as
it allowed you to download cartridge images over the phone line. It was
more a software distribution method than it was a network gaming solution,
which makes sense if you consider how game companies made money at the
time. X-band downloads were treated like rentals, which might lead to
sales down the road.
The Netlink is a different beast entirely, in that the networked play
consists of two nodes only. One Saturns would direct-dial another for a
console-to-console connections, rather than running a protocol stack and
talking to an ISP. And so one guy playing Bomberman might be stuck with
long distance charges as a result. The Netlink was certainly capable of
running TCP/IP via a SLIP connection, but this was only ever implemented
for the web browser used to distribute game save files.
Networked play as we appreciate it today started on the Dreamcast, with
the modem as a pack-in. Unfortunately, Sega didn't have the marketing
muscle to get people to support it enough to make it a standard.
-KKC, job hunting. Woo.
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