Youtube Documentary on the 16bit era XBand thing

Tripped across this last night. Haven’t watched it yet but seemed interesting. It’s an hour + long documentary on the XBand device/service which allowed 16bit consoles likes the SNES and Genesis to play online in America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_5M-z_RUKA

Watched this in chunks. Just finished last night.

Just going to mention that this thing ends, with the hackers who are trying to resurrect XBand as a way of playing multiplayer 16bit games over the internet on actual original hardware. In fact it claims they are nearing something of a stable public release. Neat stuff.

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