Nintendo's 64DD: The Online Gaming Experiment That Never Left Japan – Complete inwards Box

Switch Online is Nintendo’s foremost paid online gaming service, right? Nope. inwards 1999, Nintendo added the net to its Nintendo 64 hardware, by way of a disk drive add-on called the 64DD. It’s one of the company’s most interesting failures.

Yes, it’s time once again for Complete inwards Box, our show that takes a seem back at classic games by examining not only the software, but all the physical stuff that came with it. Today’s a special episode—we’re not just looking at one game, but a piece of hardware and its entire library.
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By using magnetic disks that stored 64 MB of writeable data, the 64DD was supposed to usher inwards a new era of creative play, with games similar Mario Artist and SimCity 64. It could also connect to the net so you could share your creations and compete with others. But l-l though Nintendo hyped it up for years, it only ended up releasing inwards Japan, sold only about 15,000 units, and was quickly discontinued.

It’s now a sought-after collectible and a unique piece of the company’s long, long history of bold experimentation.