Nintendo's FORGOTTEN Satellite Service - Satellaview [TetraBitGaming]

[@shingosawatarihgx8345]

I wish Nintendo would rerelease the satellaview games on the switch. obviously some changes would need to be made to replicate what it was actually like playing them, but still, it's an important part of Nintendo's history.

[@TetraBitGaming]

Yeah no kidding

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

It'd also be great if they can redo the entire BSX service in its entirety, remastered preferably

[@CopyTheCompcom]

Mabey to, ya know, make Nintendo switch online more worth it

[@1Thunderfire]

I thought that too and new things with audio and everything would be really cool. But it probably won't happen. :(

[@TetraBitGaming]

BING BING Hey guys, hope you enjoyed the video! Experimented with something different here, so I hope you still enjoyed! I plan to try and show my face more often in my videos as well! I will see you guys IN A BIT! (Let's smash 2K likes, LET'S GO!)

[@alphazero8477]

Hey Tetra I Love The Vids And I left A Comment On The Comment That I Did on The SA Halloween dlc you should look at it

[@alphazero8477]

AND B I N G B I N G A N D F R E E Z E G A M E

[@Sean-D78]

E A R L Y

[@safebox36]

Don't know why or if it was intended but the webcam felt 90s-esque as well. Which, either way, was a nice touch.

[@wowshiii4519]

I think the world would be better with out cringe Mideast, aka, Tick freakin tok

[@SkelWT]

Use D-pad *Sets name as Dpad*

[@peri_dotrito]

Oi ralsei

[@CloudyMN]

no

[@thelballyt]

He used DPAD as the game asked.

[@dalmutbrothers]

10:21

[@CappnRob]

Something else about the Satelleview was it live streamed music while you played! F-Zero played licensed classic rock songs for example, and yeah there was voice acting too in stuff like Mario and Fire Emblem. The Fire Emblem maps were actually remade for the sadly Japan-only remake of FE3 called New Mystery of the Emblem for the DS, but it's still nice to see some of that old gaming history survive officially.

[@kissme1518]

The first gaming while listening to music stream

[@nicobbq]

That was pretty entertaining and interesting! Good job Tetra!

[@TetraBitGaming]

Thanks bbqboi

[@benness4450]

ńįçë

[@mudkiptg]

The worst part about the Satellaview is that not all of the games were saved, and are now lost to the sands of time. It's such a shame that so many games are completely lost and unplayable.

[@TetraBitGaming]

Yeah :(

[@ExtremeWreck]

True, so are most Sega Channel games.

[@mudkiptg]

@@ExtremeWreck Isn't every Sega Channel exclusive game lost? Sega Channel didn't even have a save function.

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@mudkiptg Yeah, which makes that place worse.

[@mudkiptg]

@@ExtremeWreck Yeah. I really hate how a lot of the games from this era of gaming are lost, never to be found again.

[@bitgirl3567]

This was so interesting i loved it!! It would’ve been really cool to have this service back in the day...

[@HemiHami]

0.0

[@kordru]

it would be really cool if I'm being honest

[@GigantTech]

@@HemiHami UwU

[@seasarabain9445]

Where's tetra boy

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

If that were to happen in the 1990s, Nintendo would have to join forces with a satellite company (like Dish, RCA or PrimeStar) to make distributing something similar to the BS-X service a reality for the SNES. Dial-up internet is too slow, the telephone line belongs to the X-Band video game modem, broadband internet is many years away, and the Sega Channel owns the cable TV video-gaming landscape.

[@tomatotomatoe7253]

I was told gunpei yokois grandfather was ceo of st giga and after some digging it appears true. Supposedly after they heard of his work with the virtual boy they mentioned joining forces and it went from there

[@ItsNep]

I never really view it as forgotten or obscure, even though it really is. I found out about it 4+ years ago when i got into the Fire Emblem franchise, I started with the gba entries then backtracked, and on my path I found out about this system because there was an FE game on it. When they remade the third entry in the series, they actually included the story and characters from the satellaview game which was pretty rad of them.

[@agentmothman5343]

*Your shelf is giving me anxiety.*

[@that1dragonkid]

@Noah Gamer *w h a t ? ?* I actually don't know what that means,please explain!

[@NekoArc]

I still remember when the bz zelda team worked like hell to get those games into a functional state. So many memories getting BS Zelda and Ancient Stone Tablets running

[@Zanji1234]

"it started WAY back in 1995, heck that's even before I was born" ... thank you... now i'm feeling old :-( born in '85 *lol*

[@BraveFencerLinkMakenshi]

lol same!

[@Sonictheoofhog4]

I had to re read this multiple times

[@svenbtb]

lol right? I was like "Bro you're a baby"

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

That happened when you were 10. 1995 is ten years after 1985...

[@ossnd5238]

Holy crap you were born after 1995? That's insane to me. Also that shelf is driving me ABSOLUTELY insane. Genos Woods makes it okay though

[@sledgehammer_floatzel]

6:29. "Weird computer guy" ITS SATEBO GODDAMNIT

[@TheVonzilla]

Thanks for this, it went so much more in-depth than other videos about this system. It’s really cool to eat to see it all now! Thanks a ton.

[@TetraBitGaming]

Thanks for watching!

[@NijiMarii]

The "weird computer guy's" name is Satebo. ;) He acted as the mascot for the Satellaview (along with his satellite dish counterpart Parabo,) as well as a character in some of the Satellaview games. This is a really great and accurate video as far as I know, amazing job!

[@TetraBitGaming]

Thanks for watching and for the info!

[@Qbxyz-_l]

​@@TetraBitGamingand it's not a weird computer guy, it's a weird TV with satellite wings guy.

[@kannabi]

Fun fact - chrono cross on the PS1 is actually a remake of sorts of radical dreamers - even uses some tunes from the soundtrack :)

[@Nexus71c]

I recently came across both BS LOZ and Ancient Stone of Tablets. Namely the former and all the modifications people have done to it, like having an original experience, Link/Zelda as characters, and turing the game into a real game rather than an event styled one. So was definitely cool to see more Satellaview games out there!

[@athought1110]

There was a collection on Mario magazines that had things like Mario smoking, toad and peach doing some “acts”, and Mario abusing peach in plushie forms

[@draga_]

0:03 MONOPOLY 2!? YOU BET I WOULD'VE PAYED FOR THAT!

[@calebd3947]

1:24 OwO look what i seen with my very own two O's

[@LubuzzD]

0:21 How did you get your shelf to look like that!?! Maybe he went into debug mode in his house

[@theroyalgaxaly9773]

No he hacked to get that Plz kill me

[@Saibotg5]

@@theroyalgaxaly9773 sure

[@Mystic-Aidan]

Well. This is a different type of lost bits. I love it! Keep up all your amazing work tetra

[@maxooou]

omg,i was looking on your channel for a Satellaview video after watching the super mario odyssey 3h ago,and i now see this,thanks you

[@TetraBitGaming]

Haha good timing !

[@DaNoob1485]

Nintendo should release some of these games again

[@Matt-zo9hi]

I like that face. That's a nice face.

[@SpecterPaladin]

How to get a hearted comment on tetra’s channel: B I N G B I N G W A H O O Edit: wow I can’t believe that worked

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Lol. That's funny

[@Hal90007]

:0

[@etot6064]

SpecterQuilava I’m gonna try that

[@titangamingbot2521]

@@etot6064 no

[@titangamingbot2521]

@@LatteWiiU no

[@charliep7112]

13:38-Wait, you're telling me that Mario collection was a scam? Ha-ha, now that's a good one.

[@chickenflaver6191]

Your telling me, at the time of this videos air. He was born after 1995 making him only 23... I thought he was 40.

[@FutureBeatle]

Lol same

[@Vibin_Panda]

Im hoping that Nintendo still has the games in their database and I also hope that they will see this video and will release all the games from the satellite service

[@pimppopotamustard]

The hardest thing to believe about this is that you were born after 1995

[@MS46532]

Oh so that's what Nathaniel Bandy is talking about in Ranking Mario Odyessy Costumes Video!

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Good thing I watched this video first

[@wandererwerewolf477]

While information about the cost of a St. Giga subscription is thin on the ground, I did find a reference that stated the SoundLink content was a separate subscription in the amount of 600 yen -- roughly $6.75/month.

[@HackySacc]

I've been waiting for this ever since you mentioned it

[@TetraBitGaming]

Hope you enjoyed :)

[@Imfernolistico]

yeet now i gotta wait for the sega channel lost games also,*if ya ever do it make sure ya include Garfield Caught In The Act The Lost Levels*

[@alexabernard5692]

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[@Skylightningz]

5:17 I loved The Zets Intro Joke there!

[@posivibez2094]

Amazing overview was unaware of a lot of these Thanks!

[@TetraBitGaming]

Thanks for watching!

[@hydrorobot6610]

When I'm mad I always say THIS IS BROADCAST SATELLAVIEW lmao Anyways nice video as always tetrabit!!! Now, what would happen if some dude actually makes a satellite that has connection to the emulated BS-X and makes more games and stuff? That would be awesome!

[@TetraBitGaming]

Haha yeah that'd be amazing

[@EQOAnostalgia]

Bowswer captures Peach is an endearing tradition that i wouldn't change for anything.

[@rho-starmkl4483]

6:26 The feminine version of "Steve" is "Stephanie".

[@TetraBitGaming]

It's a joke

[@Rinne_Z_rank]

'and without tik tok' (wait that could be a good thing) *I AGREE!*

[@PhirePhlame]

You were close on BS Zelda 1. It was a Soundlink-only game (the ingame music sequences apparently existing as a fallback since it was such an early game), in which you played as the same character as you did in the BS-X town (Link also seemingly being a fallback).

[@PhirePhlame]

There's also VHS footage of the first installment of BS Mario Collection.

[@PhirePhlame]

Speaking of footage, I've found an absolute smorgasbord! kzbin.info/aero/PL-eTK1JuIi0JCqedFlZnH-62cYvt-6xCP

[@videoswithduncan1502]

TetraBit: it would make the magazines something closer to a podcast Me: Nintendo Power. Nintendo Power Podcast. XD

[@akkar8726]

There should be a mascot for TetraBit: Name: Pixelbit Design: Floating, colorful block with eyes and a mouth Personality: Factual, witty Voice: Tetra’s voice. I hope you can use this! ❤️

[@thetastywhale]

The shelf above the Bowser wall art gives me a little anxiety that it is going to fall. (nice video refresher about the Satellaview!!)

[@mwbgaming28]

Fun fact: these days GIGA makes porn

[@PatatFrituurder]

I did not need this information but okay

[@Ninthusiast]

For those of you wondering the title of the top down shooter in this video at 12:30, it's entitled "Dezaemon BSX Version - BS-X Shooting."

[@Romess1]

What amazes me is that those "fictional" top speeds in F-Zero are already surpassed by production cars in this day and age.

[@DaRealDarkfire]

"Use D-Pad" Name:**blank** Tetra:HMMMMMMM *Names D-pad*

[@bizznick444joe7]

I remember AVGN talked about Satelavision once on Legend of Zelda, in the Japanese version there was a microphone in the NES controller where you can scream into and it modulated your voice and scared away the big bunny eared monster because it hated noise

[@Luis-yh9xd]

1:09 Mario T-posing in his former glory

[@QuackAttackPodcasts]

Dang dude, Bowsah done melted your shelf! I keep thinking,....is that stuff gonna fall off there??! CATCH IT BRAH!

[@seroujghazarian6343]

The Kaizou Choujin Schbibinman series actually has ONE game that was localised in the west (NA), Shockman

[@replaymikey953]

The computer is a satellite you know that if you actually SAW the intro long enough

[@meyers0781]

The BxS shooter game was made by Athena's own Dezaemon, where Dezaemon is basically a "shmup maker" or "2D shooter maker" (i prefer the term 2D shooter than shmup or runNgun) Dezaemon is available for NES (reportedly the hardest to emulate), SNES (probably the best one), N64, Saturn, and PlayStation And it's surprisingly powerful, even have contests where people bring memory card and share their games, and the PS1 one reportedly came with weird and bizarre assortment of contest-winning games.

[@PotatoSoupThe64th]

They did at least hint to us that this did actually exist, but only with a costume for Super Mario Odyssey.

[@theomegafan304]

7:58 Guru Guru's name in Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask makes so much more sense now

[@DarkPuIse]

"Starting all the way back in April of 1995 [...] That's before even I was born." Goddamn do I feel old now. I'd be 10 three months later. :( But at the time, I was getting my own taste of something fairly similar that did come out stateside - Sega Channel. :)

[@cornofthepop1]

Saddened by the lack of no more than the mention of warios woods existing, not even mentioning it got aired twice in different skins The second one was as close to the American release of SNES Wario's Woods as Japan got with a few modes removed, and Birdo or Catherine as she's called there, being replaced with an honestly creepy but not scary rendition of... Er... Stevette...? But first they used it as some kind of advertising for some show called burst to laughter, where Birdo and the Whomp wall were replaced with sprite versions of real life actors. Again, Japan didn't get the SNES version AT ALL, so these were the only times they ever got a taste of it. You left them out though, which is a suuuuuuper shame, and makes me suuuuuuper sad

[@nickplj12]

1:24 PAUSE HERE NOW YOU DONT WANNA MISS WHATS GONNA HAPPEN 1:55 sound “LINK” haha

[@yellohammer8571]

In the words of Clyde "Tomato" Mandelin, the thing looks like a Super Frankencom.

[@sugaryhull9688]

RIP Near/Byuu. They were one of the legends that helped preserve the Sattelaview

[@melhaur]

Very happy that you mentioned this attachment to the Super Nintendo, it would be interesting if also nintendrew or more did similar as well

[@Sinn0100]

Before you were born...way back in 95...that's funny stuff...I mean God 1995 was like so long ago...okay, I'm busting your chops a little. Good and accurate video, keep up the great work. ;) What...no Chrono Trigger either...thats it I sentence you to 40 hours of non-stop Chrono Trigger or until you beat it! The shmup is pretty much Parodious (misspelled) for the Super Famicom.

[@SilentRealm6677]

10:09 speaking about sutte hakkun there were plans to release it for Gameboy and Gameboy color but none was released until the 2020 when we got lotcheck leak

[@tobs2470]

Yesterday I found a 245 Romset Archive of Satellaview ROMS in the usenet. I can send them to you if you want them.

[@halilsahin4238]

I want to be look at to be honest.

[@tobs2470]

@@halilsahin4238 I can't share them over KZbin easily. Do you have telegram? I uploaded them there. t.me/nintendobs

[@halilsahin4238]

@@tobs2470 can you send on google drive unfortunately ı dont have telegram

[@tobs2470]

@@halilsahin4238 yeah, gimme a few minutes

[@tobs2470]

@@halilsahin4238 drive.google.com/file/d/1TgT2FGsjjnC8d-Omjy7wpqBvnssu5VHr/view?usp=drivesdk 244 Roms in total. Enjoy.

[@r.cabrera4324]

0:31..... LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SH* (beep) *sight* do you want me to hate you? DO YOU?

[@TroopaToots]

3:08 Ah yes, back when watching Cartoons didn't costa n arm and a leg.

[@thesmilingman7576]

4:19 also leaks

[@FlameRat_YehLon]

Nowadays the most similar thing would be Telnet based MUDs and CGI/PHP only webgames. Yeah it's all text based (webgames can have graphics but still won't be interactive ones) but everything is rendered on the server. It could be interesting if someone just use PHP to make a game that would change itself depending on what time you log into the game. It's totally possible. (Well... Glass terminal style client games, for example, Minecraft, would also allow minigames and things like that. But there's very little stuff you can do to make the experience "not as Minecrafty" so it probably doesn't count.)

[@StuffWePlay]

Sattelite? That's out of this world!

[@jaydenbrownman4181]

Not forgotten with those views, Tetra

[@joeettner4279]

Can you tell me the name of the shootemup where you play as the satellaview TV guide mascot?

[@AD002]

THE WOWOW PART KILLED ME XDXDXDXD

[@RhysTheTroll]

What do you say when you lose a wii game? I want a wii-match!

[@MewTheGamer]

Hey, its not *that* bad...

[@gcreates775]

Think Nintendo would ever do a sort of "reboot" to this? Obviously not with St. Giga, but perhaps on their own terms?

[@lain328]

Anyone else notice that X-Files version of a shelf in the background... I just hear that theme music everytime I see that part.

[@user-rs1990]

One strange thing on BS Super Mario USA is that at one point, an entire area plunges into blackness except the protagonist and the enemies! Very frustrating!

[@ScyHigh]

How did we go from things like this to MicroTransactions to play a game normally?

[@ExtremeWreck]

EA, that's how.

[@FlameRat_YehLon]

MMOs, if you want to know why. Basically, MMOs used to be all time based (you pay for the hours you log into the game) in China, which people don't quite like, and thus when private server for MMOs come, they used the "free to play, pay for powerful gear" model and got pretty popular. Then some MMOs started to officially using this idea and got wildly succeeded. Then games outside China also stole this idea. Then mobile games makes the idea more casual (pay for additional health)

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@FlameRat_YehLon Cool! Are you from China? If so, do you use VPN?

[@mahmoodmawed4347]

I wish I was a kid in the 90s in Japan and played the sattelaview and I love talking about internet and satellite

[@Born_Free_Die_Happy]

I turned 6 in 1995, and I seriously thought this guy was at least 10 years older than me.

[@randomops8726]

0:31 Yes, THAT WORLD WOULD BE THE BEST WITHOUT TICTOCK

[@randomops8726]

Lol! I did that on purpose to sound like a boomer.

[@cm603]

Actually, the price of the St.GIGA was more like 7000 JPY, $64.?? USD (per year). The BS tuner was actually a decoder which could not change channels, acting like a passthrough that decoded the digital signal.

[@ADSNOOZER]

Very fascinating! DLC BEFORE DLC!!

[@shelledanteater2098]

Yeah I wish I could still play Scott pilgrim vs the world officially on ps3 because it was only digital

[@Protoman85]

I didn't know Michael Dukakis was into video games. Not Beau Bridges either

[@alexrunk8097]

That's one small step for game, one giant leap for game kind

[@Operator0G]

kind of sad that you didn't mention the BS fire emblem game, especially since FE is popular now. oh well, great video! did not expect kirby to have quite the amount of pachinko stuff lol

[@TetraBitGaming]

Thanks ! I have never really played FE so it wasn't as important for me to go over, I do plan on trying out the games though

[@johnvida3426]

11:32 Oh Look! discount Mega Man X1-X3!

[@CO2Davealvin]

Hii tetrabit love the content!!!

[@TetraBitGaming]

Thank you!

[@CO2Davealvin]

@@TetraBitGaming your welcome you are my favorite youtuber

[@kamilslup7743]

Literally all of us are praying for the tracks from "BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2" to be released in F-Zero 99, same with the vehicles Edit: did not know about the 1st one but we are probably praying for it as well

[@bigjalapeno7061]

0:31 Me: (Roundhouses the computer) I commented the same thing before but it was deleted for some reason, so I reposted it

[@benness4450]

tic toc is PRICK FOC

[@theobscurestash6537]

This video and a lot of these "Magazines" owe A LOT to the archiving and coding work done by _KiddoCabbusses_ . If you're interested in _Satellaview BS-X_ his channel is really worth checking out. The amount of work he's done is astounding.

[@thesmilingman7576]

11:57 wasn't the SNES discontinued a long time ago

[@NANA-kd7yg]

I can't believe you was only born in 1995. You look older than my Dad.

[@autistic_furry]

I wonder if it could be possible to get one of these working via a raspberry pi or something similar

[@MrLordpistoia]

How can you look so old but yet so young at the same time

[@CommodoreFan64]

As much as this system has been cover by other channels over the years, it's far from forgotten, the only thing that could be remotely seen as forgotten with this are the games that were not backed up by Nintendo, or at least in no way that we know of.

[@TetraBitGaming]

I'd still say it's pretty forgotten to the average person lol

[@SpecterPaladin]

Nintendo: the hipsters of live-streaming

[@904funny]

12:43 What would a Nintendo peripheral be without Mario’s ass!

[@TetraBitGaming]

Lmao