What is insane is how does Stella drive a 911 Carrera targa top? She clearly doesn’t need shrimp hammer exec guy.

It's a bit comical that the gameboy got canceled seeing how successful it was.

Mario Kart was my favorite pass time with my dad. We played years of Mario Kart on the SNES, N64, and NGC. Really wanted to play Mario Kart on the Wii with him but didn't get the opportunity because of being too busy in our lives with other things at the time. Sadly my dad passed away in 2019 from cancer. I love my dad and miss him very very much.😩😔😞😭

I've heard Rare is no longer around anymore.

Finally getting around to this and man I am so sorry I missed it at launch - great job as always on the vid. I had no idea Nintendo ever did this!! This is wild!

I never knew of this until today. WOW!

I wish Nintendo would offer this service again. I wouldn't mind paying reasonable prices or even a retro service with leaderboards and community based features, like game of the week, or individual game challenges the community could play at the same time and bring back some fun stuff like pictochat.

Nintendo : where u get that rom!? Me : From you, in 1998

They created the best first-person shooter. Today's games don't contain as many features.

Wow I never knew about this as a kid back then. But I had a SNES anyway and was loving it. I only liked a few Sega Genesis games as a kid and that was the Sonic series and Jurassic Park. Didn't know about the Golden Axe series until I was a teen but I loved that too as well as Shining Force. I thought most of Sega's games sucked compared to SNES. The only time I was really interested in a Sega console was when the Dreamcast came out. I had mine for barely a year and they stopped making games for it, I was so mad.

I loved playing Duck Hunt and shooting with my ANES gun, it was really hard on my ANES though.

Subbed. Loving these gaming documentaries. Perfect Dark from 97 changed everything. Underrated inventive fps.

Played this nonstop in my first year in college. Legit didn’t know there was a single player mode…

10 member dev team. I miss these days. I am sick of 1000 member teams taking 6 years to put out a game. I'd settle for worse graphics and a smaller scale if it meant we got high quality, fun games more frequently

still this game holds up as one of best shooter games of all time.

I always felt like using Star Fox as the flagship game was a mistake. You're forced to continuously move forward. No turning or looking around. Mode 7 could've done that. Another game was Vortex and starting at the 2nd level you had non-linear exploration of a 3D space. THAT would've been a better game to promote if they fleshed it out a little more.

thank you for making super cool, intelligent videos without any trendy idiot memes in them. the few intelligent people on this stupid platform really appreciate you and your work.

We need a making of that pause music 😂😂🔥

Pretty cool such flash card fron nintendo, but it’s sad there was no N64,gbc,gba or nes cartride of it because they could,ve sold economically more games that way as well. Eventrough there was the famicom disk system version of it the flashible disk, So consider those services as the precursor of the eshop service.

This was probably the N64 game me and my siblings played the most on the N64. The amazing thing about the game was the sheer volume of content. Single player campaign, arena challenges, multiplayer, custom arena battles. I've never found a shooter that I've enjoyed that much. Other than the framerate, the game was better than Goldeneye in almost every sense.

AKSHUALLY I think you might be pronouncing "Thracia" wrong. The kana read "to-ra-ki-a," and that's pretty much what people who live in real-world Thrace call their homeland.

such obsessive research lol awesome animation in this one

I remember this and it never took off, i was one of the lucky kids that got to experience sega channel though, thanks grandpa

Mystery solved! I saw this in a random store in China Town in Toronto Canada back in the 90's but it had been modified to work with North American SNES carts. I had no idea what it was, as I'm sure they were essentially bootleggers for the games & I'd gone in to buy some Dragonball Z trading cards at the time & found it odd they didn't have actual games for sale but had this machine which clearly fit SNES carts.

You think Nintendo 64 not doing well in Japan was another reason for this flash cart for the SFC? A way to keep generating sales in Japan? They were trying to compete with the second hand game sales by offering lots of titles via flash cart. Genres like Horse Racing dropped to only 2 titles for the 64 but there were 35 for the SFC. Fishing had 22 titles for the SFC but only 6 for the Nintendo 64.

Your back!!

Damn you for bringing another piece of gaming history to my attention that I will have to add to my collection!!! Damn you to hell!!! 😊

Yahel!! Always stoked to see you pop up in my feed. I had a brief amount of knowledge on this topic before but it’s always interesting to get more of a deep dive on such an obscure item. It would be super rad to come across these carts in the wild and see what games people kept on them over time and if there are any ROMs that maybe only exist because of them. Looking forward to more of your content brother.

I still have my SF memory cassettes! I have Estpolis Denki, Lennus 2, and Dracula X on them

Where's the other half of that Street Fighter II Turbo poster?

A totalitarian system that would be right at home today. I hope no one ever digs this up.

I wonder who the person in Yamauchi's ear was that got him to cancel it the first time 👀 Also the Citizen story is peak Nintendo snakiness, that's right up there with the Sony/Phillips thing

great great video, but in the future please try to hold back on the obnoxious background "music" a little bit.

It sounds like this service definitely had some issues, but I'm impressed that they got it to work reasonably well for a handful of years. The late 90s were a completely different era of technology and creating essentially a proto-eShop using physical flash carts is really cool stuff for the time. Thanks for the video, I hadn't heard of this at all and it was a really interesting watch.

I want my money back Trip dipshit, That was my entire Christmas in 94

Now I regret not buying one of these at a convention that had DKC 2 and Shin Megami Tensei 2 😭

Ohhh that's why some roms are labeled (NP). Very cool.

St1ka!

Unlike Nintendo Power, the FDS Disk Writer service didn't require bespoke media since all FDS disks were rewritable. This has resulted in some people buying used FDS disks and finding out the game on the disk wasn't the one on the label!

Storage capacity in these cartridges is some kind of a joke. Some games used almost all memory, witch is not that economy. I'll rather buy full release like Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 with box and manual.

I really enjoyed the content keep up the hard work

How did I not get a notification for this

awesome video, had no idea as much as I know about obscure nintendo.