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The Untold Story of Online Gaming on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis | XBAND
Wrestling With Gaming
A one-hour documentary on XBAND, the 1994 modem network for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. It covers matchmaking, chat, email, leaderboards and how games were patched at runtime to cope with lag.
HN recommends it as a fascinating engineering story of early console online play, including a working demo.
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