It is in the sense that you had to delete the downloaded game to play another, it’s why it’s hard to preserve these satella games.
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TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 months agoIt’s not exactly killing a game, it was never released outside of Japan - and even there it wasn’t widely purchased.
The sad thing is the US SNES did actually have a port for this on the bottom, I always wondered what that was for.
yamanii@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yes but this was also around 30 years ago when data storage was smaller and more expensive.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s just as much game killing than any live service today. Satellaview relied on server connection, there’s no official lasting copies that anyone can own.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Were they full priced games as well?
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It was a service, but my point is less how much was paid, but that much of it is dead and gone. A completely free game that shuts down its servers and becomes unplayable is still a loss to our culture.