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The typical 90's add-ons are what made the 90's special for me. While a nuisance to store like the N64 rumble pack, the dreamcast memory card. It felt like upg
by doublerabbit 1y ago
The typical 90's add-ons are what made the 90's special for me.
While a nuisance to store like the N64 rumble pack, the dreamcast memory card. It felt like upgraded solidity of the device.
- hammock 1y agoThe original rumble packs you plugged in were more powerful and they moved more weight, if I recall correctly compared to modern controllers. Would be cool to make a jacket or bodysuit + headset today you can wear that rumbles in the part of the body you got shot in
- DrillShopper 1y agoI worked on a project that made a vest with controller vibration motors in it connected to a microcontroller. That microcontroller was connected by a serial -> USB converter and was controllable by the computer it was attached to. Sadly, it wasn't for gaming. It was part of a study into the limitations of how much information humans can absorb at once, with the haptic feedback being tested as yet another input when there was a lot of auditory and visual input. I joked they should just use smell, but I don't think they wanted to subject the undergrad research subjects to weird smells.
- ramses0 1y agohttps://www.woojer.com/products/vest-3 https://www.woojer.com/products/vest-3
- jonhohle 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_Interactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_Interactor
- tiltowait 1y agoThe N64 rumble pak also had a longer lever to the controller, making that greater weight even more felt. The annoying thing, of course, was that you couldn't plug in a rumble pak and a memory card at the same time. There were third-party options available, but third-party memory cards had a bad reputation. The Dreamcast solved this by having two slots. The VMUs were insanely cool at the time, and honestly still are. Some games used them in cool ways, such as Resident Evil showing your health.
- ethagnawl 1y agoI had an N64 memory card (if memory serves, a third-party/Mad Catz one I got for Xmas) but I can't remember ever using it for anything.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoI never had any of these back then, and I keep wondering what it would have been like to be all-in on these ecosystems. Especially Nintendo; gameboys with link cables, N64s with controller add-ons to insert your GB cartridges into, Super Nintendos with cartridges that add 3D hardware to your system, etc. Closest thing is that a friend of mine had a NES and a cartridge with 365 games on it (in a menu with snails crawling towards each other), two controllers and the gun.
- komali2 1y agoIt was even crazier in Japan and to this day I don't quite understand how their 90s- era "videogame sent over television" and "videogame sent over ancient cell network" features and dongles worked. I'm trying to remember the names of these features exactly but can't, I just know that it was like, the NES or SNES you could "download" games onto somehow from a TV signal, and then the GB or perhaps GBA had something similar if you connected your console to your phone.
- jonhohle 1y agoIn the US there was the Sega Channel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel which worked over cable.
- MBCook 1y agoI got to play that at my cousins’ house. I was so jealous.
- nemomarx 1y agoSatella view is the keyword I think
- bsammon 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview (for anyone who's interested)