XBAND: Online Gaming on the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis

Wrestling With Gaming · Documentary · YouTube title: The Untold Story of Online Gaming on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis | XBAND

Why it's here

HN recommends it as a fascinating engineering story of early console online play, including a working demo.

What it covers

A one-hour documentary on XBAND, the 1994 modem network for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. It covers matchmaking, chat, email, leaderboards and how games were patched at runtime to cope with lag.