SEGA GENESIS Xgame

[GamerTheGreek]

i got this wierd game or sort of game. its a game cart is black that plugs into the system, and theres a port on top that something could plug into it. Its not a 32x and not a game genie, but theres a swtich on it. and theres a phone line or network line that can be plugged in . what is this item

[Ed Oscuro]

Not an XBand modem? Wierd.

[GamerTheGreek]

yup just dug it out again XBAND. ok so what is the history behind this item?
how is it used or how can it be used today?

[SegaAges]

xband, i always wanted one.

i always thought it was used for online play. i could be wrong, but that is what i thought

[The_Chosen_One]

It was used for online play. Not much use for them now as the online network is no longer in existence. You could play games online and check your email etc with it. Still has a few good uses, for example it can be used as a converter as most megadrive games will play through it, and I believe there are two "hidden" games on there that aren't very good but still. One of them is called Maze and I can't remember the other at the moment.

[The Manimal]

Yes, online play. I know they had this for both SNES and GENESIS...


You could play NHL '94 or something on there as well as Madden. That would have been fun if I actually had it at the time.

[digitalpress]

There's a thread here that talks a bit about the Xband modem. I had one, used it back in the day. It was a nice set-up, easy to use. Not nearly enough games supported but what was there was fun (most of the EA Sports titles of the time, Mortal Kombat II, Weaponlord among others).

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25580

I also own a prototype of the Genesis Edge-16 Modem which you'll get to see at the CGE Museum next year (if you haven't been to my house since the last CGE) In the words of its designer Howard Delman, "The Edge 16 allows distant players to compete over a direct phone line using a simultaneous voice/data modem. It also supports a very low cost, credit card sized, memory card of my own design. This card contains a full custom IC incorporating data encryption and EEPROM technology."

He told us when we met that the modem was literally a day away from being shipped to retail stores when the order came in to hold up, eventually the order came in to destroy them a'la Atari's E.T. but a few of the working prototypes were spared. The modem looks quite a bit like a 32X and is a physical piece of hardware (not a cartridge like the Xband) that seats into the Genesis cartridge port.

[Xtasy]

I'm sure there were some downloadable games and reviews for genesis games..There was a similar technogoly for the snes but was only in japan and used a sattelite network...I must say that is the most interesting piece of video game hardware (IMO)

-Xtasy

[SoulBlazer]

Interesting, Joe. Do you know WHY the decision was made not to ship that modem? It sounds REALLY ahead of it's time. :)