I mean.....I guess. I wouldn't exactly call SatellaView the same thing as internet downloaded games.
My understanding is it was a Japan only thing, that you downloaded the actual game from local corner stores (like 7/11), and then dialed in for the "live" voice acting from random actors. So even though they'd be reading the same script, your experience would differ wildly, and the audio was about onpar with a telephone call being played out of your tv speakers.
And the reason it was Japan only is because as patchy as that sounds, it's still more advanced than what we had available in terms of connectivity in the USA at the time.
Same reason why I've decided to skip Switch 2, and I'll pirate the games 10 years from now.
If it's going to be digital anyways, fuck it, ya know? If I don't get a physical copy, why am I going to clutter my physical space with a case that does almost nothing?
Now imagine if NES, SNES, N64 games had been like this. If internet had been around in the 80s like it is now, do you think an SNES download cart would do anything today? I still have NES/SNES/N64 games. If the cart were a digital download, I'm sure the download links wouldn't work today. WiiU doesn't even work, and that was 10 years ago.
I hope one day theres something similar to this, but for 8bitdo.
I have an 8bitdo keyboard, and in order to map my buttons, I need to boot up a windows 10 hard drive, do my one time edits, save them to the keyboard, and THEN I can turn off the pc, swap back to my ZorinOS hard drive, and THEN I can go about as normal.
And if for some reason somethings wrong, or didn't take, I'd have to repeat the whole process all over again.
All because the keyboard manager doesn't work on linux. But it's not logitech.
I was 17 years old when 9/11 happened. 2 weeks away from turning 18.
As everybody watched on that day, in horror, I watched from a slightly different perspective. I thought the draft was coming back. I can distinctively remember as it happened thinking I was watching the defining moment of my generation in real time as it happened. Like if pearl harbor had been televised live. And I was right about it being the defining moment, right about knowing war was coming, wrong about the draft.
Instead the war went on for decades with no draft needed. And I watched Bush bumble his way though the presidency. It still baffles me that Bush won in 2004. People saw 9/11, saw 3 years of Bush's response, and then said "Yes please, more of that!".
I genuinely thought we had witnessed the dumbest, and most evil president in history.
I mean.....I guess. I wouldn't exactly call SatellaView the same thing as internet downloaded games.
My understanding is it was a Japan only thing, that you downloaded the actual game from local corner stores (like 7/11), and then dialed in for the "live" voice acting from random actors. So even though they'd be reading the same script, your experience would differ wildly, and the audio was about onpar with a telephone call being played out of your tv speakers.
And the reason it was Japan only is because as patchy as that sounds, it's still more advanced than what we had available in terms of connectivity in the USA at the time.