Recently, video game researcher Liam Robertson discovered that Nintendo had planned to add features such as live broadcasting and radio to game Boy Color 20 years ago, and they even developed an accessory called PageBoy.
Liam Robertson said game Boy Color, with PageBoy installed, could accept messages and emails from other players like a pager at the time. In addition, players can also use the Internet to watch live TV, online news and a series of online activities that are not unusual now.
However, in subsequent developments, Nintendo found that the plan relied heavily on radio networks. At that time, there were very few regions that had the technology, which doomed the development of the program to receive very limited benefits. So Nintendo decided to cancel the program in July 2002.
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