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{{HardwareInfobox | image = Famicom Network System.png | type = Peripheral | jp_rel = {{Release|1988|September||JP}} | jp_dis = 2001 | manufacturer = Nintendo | successor = Satellaview | media = ROM Card }} The {{Nihongo title|Family Computer Network System|ファミコンネットシステム}} is a video game peripheral for the [[Family Computer]] released only in [[Japan]] in 1988 that uses a card-based format like [[Hudson Soft]]'s/[[NEC]]'s [[PC-Engine]].<ref>http://www.ne.jp/asahi/oroti/famicom/ish11.html</ref><ref>''[http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/2006/03/25/103,1143298259,50588,0,0.html Wi-Fiコネクションについて講演 『ウイイレ』など40タイトルが開発中]''. [[Famitsu]]. 25 March 2006.</ref> It allowed the user access to a server that provided game cheats, jokes, weather forecasts, and a small amount of downloadable content. It could also be used to make live stock trades. It did provide online play but all of its games with [[online]] play were ports of cartridge games and are now very rare to find.<ref>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/NintendoEntertainmentSystem</ref> The device also allowed players to purchase and download certain games onto the disk drive. [http://awesome.commodore.me/downloads/magazine/The_Games_Machine/The_Games_Machine_Issue_01_Oct_87.pdf] By early 1989, the Family Computer Network System had sold 150,000 units in Japan.<ref>http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19890813&id=85BTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yYYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6774,717076</ref> The idea of downloading content would later be used in the Super Famicom's [[Satellaview]], the [[Nintendo 64DD]], the [[GameCube]], the [[GameCube to Game Boy Advance Link Cable]], the Nintendo DS's DS Download Play, the Wii's [[WiiConnect24]] and its shop, the [[Nintendo DSi]]'s [[DSi Shop]], and the [[Nintendo eShop]] for the [[Nintendo 3DS]], [[Wii U]] and [[Nintendo Switch]]. ==See also== * [[Family Computer Disk System]] * [[SEGA Channel]] * [[Teleplay Modem]] * [[Satellaview]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External Links== * [http://www.siliconera.com/2006/09/05/nintendos-secret-online-past-the-famicom-modem The Famicom Modem] *[https://techtoroms.com/roms/nintendo-3ds/ Nintendo 3ds roms] {{Nintendo Hardware}}
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