It makes me disappointed we didn’t get all the crazy, quirky add-ons they made for Japan, especially the famicom stuff. Like, the famicom had add-ons to make it into a full PC.
Family Basic! Just an entire Commodore 64 that you plug into your Famicom.
Also see: a modem, a VR headset, a floppy disk drive that spawned the Zelda franchise. Buttons and lights and extra tall cartridges. It was a magical time.They also didn’t have lockout chips and anyone could make a cartridge for the system.
64DD is such a failure in every possible way that it’s absolutely fascinating to me. Nintendo’s answer to the success of the 600MB cd based consoles was… a 64MB floppy disk attachment. Sure, you could also save your data to it, but that’s hardly consolation.
What conversations even need to happen for this to make it out of the ideation stage, through design and mass production, and be in (very few) consumer hands
Nintendo also made the Virtual Boy.
