Famicom had a satellite system, with which special gaems were broadcasted to people's homes. However, these gaems changed periodically, and the system only supported one at a time. Thus, you could only play the most current gaem for the system on the system.
Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 21 minutes later, 29 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,077,466
I remember the whole thing was they were trying to market it as "more than just a video game" so that's why it had all the gay shit and was called the "Family Computer"
Sheila LaBoof (OP) replied with this 6 years ago, 12 minutes later, 42 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,077,468
That machine did come out when what was called "home computers" were in ascendance -- a great variety of machines from Commodore, Spectrum, Apple, Tandy/Radio Shack and so on, which I imagine is partly why there was a "great video game crash" in 1983 in North America. I saw a video today about the Intellivision, and even they tried in vain to make a computer accessory for it, which is also what fucked the Coleco company. Atari on the other hand simply made an entirely separate line of computers that were actually somewhat successful.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 3 minutes later, 45 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,077,469
I had an Intellivision.
Grover !jqZkAz4Usg replied with this 6 years ago, 11 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,077,573