NES Minnesota State Lottery Modem and cart

[sniperCCJVQ]

I dont remember to have seen this topic here before but here some good info about the NES Minnesota State Lottery Modem and cart.

http://www.megspace.com/entertainmen...ery/index.html

I dont know if this could be add to the guide since it's more gambling than gaming.

[vintagegamecrazy]

Is that thing past proto stages or not? That is interesting, and it should be in the book. The NES is a game system and not a computer so anything made for it should be in the guide, Period. Interesting note is that if it is a real production cart test marketed or not and not a proto that would (probably) make game 2 to receive a 10 rarity. and most other systems don't have a 10 game at all, let alone the 2600.

[sniperCCJVQ]

"Sometime around September 1991, Minnesota State Lottery director George Andersen released to the press that the lottery was going to test using an NES, complete with a modem and cartridge, for lottery players to play online. However, this idea was met with opposition from Minnesota's elected officials, and in October, the lottery announced they had scrapped the experiment."

If i understand, it was never release for the public, so that's probably mean the modem and the cart still in the prototype stage.

Now, how many cart and modem are been produced in the proto stage ? The article doesnt say nothing about that.

[Mr. NEStalgia]

I posted this a while back here.

It still interests me though, it seems there would have to be at least two of them to test the thing out. I'd love to see one of those get in the hands of a collector...like me lol.

-=Mr. NEStalgia=-

[vintagegamecrazy]

How do we know if they are protos or just a handfull of production ones for the lottery to test and never made past that or not. Who knows.