One of the great ironies of gaming is the little-known fact that the original Nintendo Entertainment System (8-bit) was designed to include modem functionality. The U.S. model that conquered the interactive entertainment industry and redefined mass market sales for game designers never actually implemented the feature, nor did Nintendo ever create the dial-up service that they had planned for their users that might have been a mini-equivalent of a fledgling AOL (then known as QuantumLink and PC Link).



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