Friday, June 18, 2021

Nintendo LodgeNET promo video found on a cd-r in a parking lot of a hotel

This small story is very fun and amazing, BLUamnEsiac from the LodgeNET community found this cd-r in a rough shape in a parking lot outside a hotel and it was marked "Adult Collections November 2001" and on in was this promo video for the now defunct and very hard to find hardware of the Nintendo LodgeNET service!. With his permission I uploaded it to youtube.

"LodgeNet partnered with Nintendo to bring video games directly into guest hotel rooms through streaming over the LodgeNet server, with the special LodgeNet controller plugging directly into the TV or LodgeNet set-top box, transmitting the game over phone lines connected to a central game server. Pricing was usually $6.95 plus tax for 1 hour of video games. After 1 hour, the game would immediately stop and prompt the user to purchase more play time. Many games were modified for single-player play only."
As of 2021 no surviving LodgeNET containing a HD has been found and dumped but coolmod has posted a few pictures of it's internals (HD missing). 

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