xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@PurpCat @coolboymew There are a few Videoway boxes out there in the wild, but they are expensive and non-functional, unless you find a way to feed teletext data into it.

@PurpCat I just want to talk about my hobbies, but now communities are either tranny hug-boxes or TND edgelords.

@coolboymew
If only someone was clever enough to have hacked their terminal to dump whatever was on their RAM back when the service was still in operation.

"Le fou du roi" seems to be the most interesting because Lost Media Wiki says that it was a Zelda/Pac-Man hybrid.

The closest thing I had to Videoway was GameLounge which was a DirectTV channel that provided games streamed to your satellite box, but they were the quality of Java feature phone games, and even then you still had to pay an extra fee to play the full game, except on certain "free weekends". Most of the stuff on there was Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network themed. Dish had something similar, but for Disney games.

It just pains me that there are absolutely zero preservation efforts for these games that were streamed via non-Internet means. I think they represent a unique and obscure part of gaming history. I NEVER hear anyone talk about it outside of the Satellaview and Sega Channel. Not even the Video Game History Foundation mentions them. I feel like if people are more vocal about it, then it would be more likely that these games will be leaked or even officially re-released in some form.

@coolboymew Too bad they are just recreations. The source code to these games are rumored to still exist. There have even been attempts to emulate the Videoway hardware but it's pointless given that it relies on teletext data that is no longer available.

This shit is arguably more obscure than the Satellaview. It's fucking insane.

https://lostmediawiki.com/Videoway_(lost_Canadian_cable-box_games;_1990-2006)#Emulation_Attempts

@PurpCat It's got even worse.

Remember being told that this culture war shit was nothing but a passing fad?

@fsf Or how about not owning those useless devices in the first place?