I remember when I was like 6, my family and I went to some hotel and it had an N64. I was like "Ooo, Smash Bros" and it cost like 5 bucks to play for one hour. Needless to say, I didn't play Smash Bros
McMachete YT definitely if you like party/fighting games, but even if you don't you might enjoy it a lot. i'd start with smash 3ds/wii u or smash ultimate when it comes out, melee is really only significant to the competitive scene
I heard a story from a musician who was on tour while he was still in high school in the late 90’s - early 2000’s. He needed to write an essay for one of his classes & the hotel he was staying at had no business center. The manager told him he could use the N64 controller in his room to type a document through the TV. He said he wrote the entire paper with one of these controllers & it took several hours to complete. Crazy!
When my family and I moved to Mexico, we drove down there and, since it was a 3-day drive, we had to stay at little hotels during the night. One of the nicer hotels we stayed at (unfortunately can't remember which) had a LodgeNet N64 which I thought was cool since I didn't have one growing up. I never pressed my parents to pay for an hour, but I think it had Smash 64. Really weird because this is was 2005 and they hadn't updated to Gamecube.
+Nachuz Yeah, when I was their age, my mom would always lecture me to never reveal any personal information on the internet. I guess parents today aren't as paranoid about their kids going on the internet like my parents were. It's probably cause parents today grew up with the internet and are more comfortable with it. When I was growing up, my parents made it seem like the internet was this scary place where you go to get abducted by child molesters lol. My mom must've watched wayyy too much CNN.
*sees the lodgenet SNES controller* I don't need it... *sees the lodgenet N64 controller* I don't need it... *sees lodgenet Gamecube controller* I NEED IT!!!
Whoa I remember finding these in hotels as a kid! I somehow racked up like $30 just playing Smash Bros, and that was the last time I ever was allowed to play with one of these.
You probably could have just bought the game with that money lol Back in the day though would just play my Game Boy rather than pay for anything like this.
@@ryanvanliere6412 It's hilarious, when you think of it. What if you were looking to pay off your debt in the hotel? You'd end up having real life debts!
I actually remember using Lodgenet to play Animal Crossing in a hotel in Florida in 2009! My dad was only willing to pay for it once or twice and I can't even remember if I finished working for Nook. Wonder whatever happened to that town...
So glad you were able to pick one of these up. I thought these were the coolest things as a kid. The first time I ever played Super Mario 64 was actually at a hotel... a Holiday Inn if I remember correctly. EDIT: I do find it interesting though because I know for sure the year was late 1996 or very early 1997 when I played it. Were there any other variants of this in existence? We picked up a Nintendo 64 a few weeks afterwords. I suppose my first experience could have just been an actual Nintendo 64 owned by the Holiday Inn? I dunno.
That's awesome! I love hearing these stories about everyone's experiences with the service. I think LodgeNet comes with a healthy dose of nostalgia for a lot of viewers!
My parents were high rollers at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City during the GameCube era and we always went with them to the casino. Because they were high rollers, the casino comped all room charges including all the LodgeNet GameCube charges. Needless to say, we went to town playing GameCube all weekend
When I collect retro gaming things myself, my favorite things are always things that are RELATED to retro games rather than the games themselves. I find old accessories and merchandise just so interesting when it comes to the history of a product or service. Seeing these mostly obscure experiments in gaming was awesome! Thanks for showing them to us :D
The most interesting for me is the history behind these things. I love it to emulate the games on my PC, but I want to know how the real consoles works and what gadges you can get for them. I'm only 16 and my first console was a game boy when I was 2006 and than a DS Lite 2008, but I think the older consoles are cooler. I love this channel because of many reasons: 1. Nintendrew shows very much interesting things 2. Nintendrew makes good videos and is sympatic 3. I learn very much about the history of gaming and find new cool games to emulate 4. I improve my English that way ^^ I want to get a programmer one day and need a good English, but I'm from Germany and don't speak English as native language. But: could you please make a video about games, which only could be emulated today, because there are no cardriges anymore? Thanks! ^^
Holy Shit! In 2006 I was eight years old and a homeschool group with my church went to Phili for a field trip. I ended up breaking my toe in valley forge on the way there so I was crippled for the rest of the trip and in the hotel while I was the only behind with dad I found the controller behind the entertainment system. He paid $5 for me to play an hour of Star Fox and it is one of my favorite memories with him. It made me want a N64 so bad and one of those families after the trip gave me their old one and it is a relic of that memory. I'd love to find one of those for my collection. Thank you for the video
I wasn’t expecting such a trip down memory lane today lol. I remember fondly that I stayed at a hotel in Austin as a kid and the GameCube controller instantly got my attention. When looking through the game catalog I noticed that there was a Pokémon game I’d never heard of called “Pokémon Colosseum” and I will never forget begging my mom to let me play for a few hours, and she said yes! Playing it for the first time was absolutely unforgettable, it blew my tiny mind that a Pokémon game could be in 3D , and on something that wasn’t a Game Boy Advance. One of my all time favorite memories.
c_o_o_l_c_a_t when we were so poor we could only get gameboy advance that's what kids will never understand today, if you didn't have money or friends you were honestly missing out.
In the 90's I fondly remember playing the SNES version at Embassy Suites in Corpus Christi, TX. I never knew they made 64 and Gamecube versions. Great video👍
Love it! I remember being in a few hotels that had this setup and scrolling through the game choices. I only ever saw the N64 and Gamecube models. I hadn't thought about these for years. Thanks Drew, for a trip down memory lane. :)
back before speed running was truly huge... I used to play Mario64 on one of these when I'd go to Columbus Ohio with my parents to visit family. That's where I developed my skills in speed running because of it being so expensive to play. Sometimes I wonder if I'm one of the first to beat mario 64 with LESS stars that required as I think the most I ever collected was around 40. A friend of mine had figured out the BLJ trick way back when and showed it to me (we were both glitch hunters...) and that's how I'd get up the infinite stairs when I didn't have the required star count. I know for sure these were found in Hilton Hotel rooms as that's where we always stayed. This was all about 12-15 years ago. I'm 27 now...
I used to take my friends lunch money in grade school and middle school to catch them Mew on their Red/Blue/Yellow games when Pokemon first showed up lol. I accidentally flew away from a long-distance-trainer (the ones that see you as soon as they appear on screen) once and then realized the power of spawning glitched level 7 pokemon XD From there, I hunted and found mew by accident haha
Wow, my family didn't vacation much back then, so I've never seen these before; I had no idea something like this was even possible back in the day. Also, I feel like modders going to the trouble of getting one of these to work, was less about preserving history, and more about finally having an N64 controller with a good joystick. lol
You don't need to f/w an obscure n64 controller to have a good joystick, when there is so many great afterparty joysticks and controllers out there, nothing you said made sense there.
@@maxford4860 there to my knowledge is no original first party N64 controller with a proper thumbstick such as the Perfection that was the GameCube. even if you had an aftermarket in 64 Controller it would not be first-party quality.
Hourly game rentals? holy crap that sounds like a cash cow. because when you are playing games you often lose track of time and they are totally betting on people doing that. spending way more money than they intended.
You can find them at a few places near me. I myself have placed the SNES and the N64 ones when i was a kid living in AL. I stayed up all night playing F-ZERO and Mario 64 and when my dad got the bill he was so mad. He was thinking i had played for like an hour then went to bed and got up and played some more. Man was he wrong. The place we stayed at was nice and only charged him for the one deal they had witch didnt have an hour cap to it and gave you all the games for i think it was $25 witch was still a lot back then. This was back in like 97 i want to say. Was great times
One of my current project goals is to find one of these central boxes. I plan on reverse engineering its protocol so I can use the few lodgenet controllers I have around to have around at parties. Kind of a lame reason, but can you imagine in the 90's what it'd be like for someone to have a console that everybody gets to play on?
You probably don't need the whole central box, I bet you can scope out the existing controller as you move the stick around and push buttons. RJ11 is only four pins, and two of those are probably gonna be power and ground, which you can figure out with a multimeter, so everything else is likely serial. That would be a fun project to build an adapter.
I saw a Lodgenet system with SNES games at a hotel in Bellingham, WA in 2001. It was expensive, I think $4.95 or $5.95 per hour, so I didn't use it. Nowadays people just bring a Wii or Xbox with them, and every hotel has wifi, so it's no wonder that Lodgenet faded into irrelevance
I remember this as a kid. It was always fun useing Logenet at a hotel. I played the Gamecube version and played Super Mario Sunshine, Pokemon Channel, and Kirby's Air Ride. I have also seen the N64 version once, though I never knew their was a SNES version. This video brought back so many memory, thanks your awesome.
I always saw the N64 controller when I went to a Hollywood Casino in Mississippi. I always stayed a night or two when I visited my grandparents. Seeing it and the Gamecube Lodgenet controller (which I saw less often, but they might have been at the same hotel) brings back so many memories.
They should have something like this for the Switch, maybe at Universal? It could be a docked only mode and could have Mario Kart, Smash Bros, and more!
When i was a bit younger around 2012 or so, i went to a big resort chain with some friends, called the great wolf lodge, and it actually had some of the n64 games.
I vividly remember the N64 version growing up. I never got to use it but I would always play around with the controller when staying in hotel rooms. I’m always blown away by the quality of your videos, keep up the great work!
This reminds me when I played GameCube games at Great Wolf Lodge when I was younger. I was also in an apartment and had NES games I don't think that was LodgeNet but I think the GameCube one was it just looks familiar...
Holy crap, 5-10 bucks for AN HOUR of gameplay?! Jesus! I thought the game shops back home, that would charge a buck an hour, were taking us for a ride!
Yeah I grew up in a penny pinching household lol Out of all the family vacations we talk I think I only got 3hrs worth of play on the SNES (2) and N64 (1). You bet your damn ass I remembered the few times I got them to say yes lol. And you would get hyper focused because you wanted to get as far as possible before time ran out. I think they would have earned a lot more moneh of it was closer to 1 or 2 dollars an hour. But thinking about it if a kid had 5 bucks at an arcade (in the 90s) would it last as long as an hour. (I used this argument to convince my dad to let me buy of the hours. And my answer now is, it would depend on the game lol. Eventually if you got good enough at certain games you could beat the whole unit on one credit (or about 20 mins of playtime, again depending on the game). 1 credit would be a quarter so really you could stretch it out longer than an hour lol.
Before I even knew what Nintendo was, I always tried to get my hands on the controllers but my Dad always unplugged them so I couldn't use it. This is when I was around 4-7. I didn't get into Nintendo until 2011 so when I found a GameCube Controller at a Residence Inn that year, I thought it was a long lost Nintendo console. And they kept the Lodgenet system until the Summer of 2013! Never played it though but I assume most people watching this video haven't either.
I remember playing Super Mario sunshine for the first time on one of these things. It was 2009 and I was fairly young so I had no idea what a GameCube even was, I just though it was some really cool original Nintendo game for hotels.
I'm glad you used Dire Dire Docks at the end it's reminiscent of the inside pools that hotels hosting this service trended to have. On road trips I'd beg my parents to let me play and was usually denied haha
I remember a while back I was visting a great wolf lodge in grapevine tx and I believe they had one of the lodgenet systems in there can't remember which one it was I think it was the gamecube version because I saw pikmin for one of the games on the menu
I vaguely remembered something like this from a Delta hotel in Toronto. I never thought I'd see anything about this N64 game rental thing again, let alone get this history lesson on it. Thanks.
The first time I encountered one of these was when I was traveling and had my N64 with me. We got to the hotel, I got it set up and... The TV had no input jacks. NONE. It was hardwired into the wall. And one of those controllers was plugged in the phone line through a hole in the TV stand. I was upset.
Back in 2008 when I was 4 I went to great wolf lodge and one of the things in the room was a GCN lodgenet controller. Since 2009 however it has been gone (maybe due to how the GCN was dead for 2 years)
And THAT is what introduced me to the SNES when I was 9! I was staying at a Hotel (I forget which one) with my family in Charleston, SC during a weekend trip for my cousin’s wedding. My dad paid like around $20 for me to play in our room and mostly played Super Mario World and Super Mario All Stars, and boy was I hooked since!
I remember staying in a room with one of the GameCube ones as a kid. I even remember the matching conventional remote! My parents wouldn't let me touch the controller in fear of getting charged. I didn't really care through, as I had a GameCube at home. I was curious how it worked because I didn't see a GameCube in the room at all so, I speculated the TV had one built in. Honestly, I thought I just imagined this experience until I saw this video.
I really miss these things, and the hotels they were in. Good memories behind them. I actually do own a LodgeNet GameCube controller, but it's a real shame I can't use it, because it's comfortable. I also have a LodgeNet box (two of them!) and a power supply for it, but there's no way to test it because I don't actually have the service or any of the servers. What I really wish is for there to be some kind of adapter. That's actually why I got a _second_ LodgeNet box, in the hopes that I could find some way to fashion an adapter out of the extra somehow someday. Not that I have any idea how, though.
One thing he forgot to mention. Because there is only one controller, you can’t play multiplayer. In fact, many game ROM’s were modded to only allow for single player.
Ooh! I imagine that if they were all really preloaded, they would have all the player names set to "Link" (in the case of the one you mentioned), and there would be one empty slot for if the player still wanted to start from the beginning.
I used some of these n64 models when my family vacated up in Wisconsin Dells but my dad made sure I didn’t play over an hour. Still, was really cool seeing the stuff back in the day; probably my first exposure to Nintendo as a very young kid.
I remember staying at a Great Wolf Lodge, and they had a GameCube controller plug and play thing. It didn't look like that though. You just selected the game I think. I never played any games on it though. My mom said no 😑 it had Twilight Princess on it, which is what stuck out to me.
That looked really cool. The only equivalent I’ve seen to that was when I was in Hawaii there was a PS3 in our room, and we could rent games down in the lobby. Thanks for this cool boy of Nintendo history! Keep it up!
I worked at a Sheraton hotel for many years and we had that N64 service. That is correct on how the service worked. They would come out every once in awhile to update the !ist of games to purchase.
I remember this. My family travelled a lot, whether it be sightseeing or visiting family. My parents would only let us do one “GameCube night”, and they limited our time to 3 or 4 hours (it was 5.99 per hour), and I remember them quite well. We usually played Mario Kart Double Dash along with Luigi’s Mansion, and I also remember playing the original animal crossing on one hotel visit. We had fun, in fact my dad liked the GameCube even tho we had a Wii back at home. One of my best memories with my dad in my younger years, he unfortunately passed away a month after my 18th birthday. This memory will live in my head rent free. Thank you Lodgenet, for the memories.
Me and my family went to a hotel it was i think september of 2000 and it was our first ever trip to america since we where from Croatia when we got it to the room i saw a n64 and i was like what since the only console i had was a gameboy thats the only thing i remember we never played on it my parents didnt want to buy the hour time for us
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I remember using one of these to play Mario Party 3 after my brother finished his time with what I believe was 1080 Snowboarding and that experience sold me on getting a Nintendo 64 for myself. I later received one on what I believe was my 10th birthday with around 12 games to play.
What a throwback! I totally remember playing N64 in hotel rooms when younger, and my parents getting pissed because it went on to their bill. Totally forgot about that until your video.
In the mid 00s I brought my NES with me to a hotel, something I had done in the past and was no big deal back then. Right there was the lodgenet n64 system hooked to the tv. There was no way to hook anything else to the tv. Hotels have these television sets that either have a plate bolted over the connections on the back or specially made televisions that are made just for hotels. Yeah, it's one of those ways that hotels try to get you to rack up higher bills by having services that are directly connected to a tv so you have to play video games or watch movies with their equipment rather than use your own.
Bless the Nintendo Switch for allowing us to play whatever we want, whenever we want, without having to rack up insane hotel bills. I came across the N64 controller at a hotel in 2004. I recall it costing $5-$7.50 for one hour, plus tax. A huge ripoff.
Umm... they still make these systems. Yes, Lodgenet filed for bankruptcy at one point, but they DID NOT go out of business. They are now called SONIFI Solutions, and still hold contracts with more than 1.4 million hotels, and still to this day have an active partnership with hotels.
In short, the LodgeNet system ran similar to the old Sega Channel. The exception being the "set top box" was a cartridge that plugged into the cartridge slot on your at home Genesis and had a coax cable going into the back of the cartridge. Each month, the rom line-up provided through Sega Channel would change, and instead of being charged hourly, it cost a flat fee each month of between $10 and $20.
I remember seeing a game controller like that in a motel room my brother and I stay in a long time ago when I was a kid I remember wondering where the actual n64 was
Between late 90s and early 00s, I got multiple chances on trying out the SNES LodgeNet device from a hotel that I regularly visited. The most interesting fact about the service is that there are 3 exclusive games, all of which are very simplistic in terms of gameplay. Noughts & Crosses, Hangman and Postcard Puzzle. Did you also know that LodgeNet is one of the Nintendo Gateway System distributors? That service was also available in airplanes. I also recommend reading an article from Snes Central about it.
What you mentioned reminded me of the Game Boy Color emulator Singapore Airlines had back in the day, and I even remembered playing some "Tom and Jerry" game on it. However, I know I saw a whole different TH-cam comment many years ago that mentioned someone having played that Nintendo Gateway System SNES on a Singapore Airlines flight. Edit: the GBC and SNES services on that airline back in the day may have been part of the same system
I loved playing SNES games on LodgeNet when we went to Florida in 2000! At the time, I didn’t have an SNES nor was I as serious a game collector as I am today. Mom saw it as me trying some SNES games before buying equivalent titles for the Game Boy or Game Boy Color!
I actually have a promo video of the Lodgenet service that showcased only the Super Nintendo games. I remember viewing lodgenet for movies and video games but every time I would stay with my cousin and he would bring his own n64 with his own games, saving us a crap ton of money.
Jeez, the video title alone brought back so many memories. 16 years ago my family and I stayed at a Holiday Inn in Boston for my brother's wedding. I just remember playing a lot of Mario Tennis, MK4, and Excite Bike 64 before the wedding. My dad was wondering why we were charged an extra 60 dollars by the hotel, but he realized I purchased at least 10 hours worth of playtime with that thing. Good times.
I was at a hotel a long time ago when I was really young and remember trying to play Donkey Kong 64, but the analog stick was slightly off center (or something) so I couldn't jump across the trees and vines near the beginning. Because of the issues, I started getting worked up and upset because it wasn't working and DK wouldn't stand still. I also remember scrolling through the list of games.
I know what that SNES Lodgenet controller design is from. InterAct made a series of controllers in the 90's called the ProPad, and there were versions for the SNES, the Genesis (3-button), and the PC which all used the same shell as each other. They also made other controller designs under the ProPad range, but several of them used the same shell design as the SNES LodgeNet controller.
It wasn't just the continental states, they had them in Hawaii too. I got to use the N64 version in a hotel on either Hawaii or Maui when my family visited in October 2001. We had the trip planned months in advance, and then almost canceled it, for obvious reasons. The lines for security were insane, and all flights between the islands had to pass through Oahu first. I didn't know you could operate the TV with it, though, this is the first I've heard about that.
I remember staying in a hotel overnight in North Carolina around 2005, and they still had the SNES version of the LodgeNet system. This place wasn't a seedy place either, it was a rather nice hotel, so I was perplexed at why they had SNES games available. It doesn't bother me much, I happily paid the $6 per hour to play some classic SNES titles while I was there.
I remember getting to play starfox 64 on one of these as a kid. I think that was the shortest hour of my entire life. (this was around when SF Command launched; I was playing that religiously and could only play SF64 at a friend's house, so anytime I got to play was a treat)
I saw an N64 LodgeNet controller in McMinnville, Oregon as recently as 2013. I'm sure there are probably a few scattered around today that are in operation.
man this vid brought back a memory of my family and I at a hotel when I was maybe 6 or 8. And I did what many other kids did back in the day and tried to play a N64 game. Only to be caught by their parents... they were so pissed lol.
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I'm Canadian, and I actually remember at a hotel my family stayed at years ago, they had the LodgeNet N64 system in the rooms. And I remember when I first saw them I was blown away by the fact you could play multiple N64 games on one TV. I remember even playing Mario 64 on it as well. Those were good times.........
Back in 2012, I stayed in a hotel room with the N64 variation, and I was instantly intrigued. It didn't actually work with the TV, and the hotel staff didn't know what it was. Bummer, but interesting!
I actually remember using the SNES Lodgenet controller in a hotel as late as the late 90's. My parents only allowed it one time though, probably cause the cost would've added up for sure. I remember my brother and I played Final Fight and Kirby's Dream Course with it.
The first time I ever played Ocarina of Time was on one of those LodgeNet controllers. My family and I went to Atlantic City a lot when I was a kid, but because I wasn't really interested in going out on the boardwalk or going to the beach, I stayed in our hotel room and played N64 games instead. I remember I played OoT, Hydro Thunder, Pokémon Snap, and Mario 64. All great games, mind you, but... it was kinda costly, and you only got to play them for like an hour.
I actually remember using one of these YEARS ago when my family was staying at a hotel. I think it was Paper Mario we were paying for? It's honestly kinda surreal seeing one of these controllers again.
When I was 7 in 2012, me and my family went to the viscount suites hotel. I had an ipod that played plants vs zombies and snoopy's street fair. While flipping through channels to find cartoons I came across the main menu talking about nintendo games. Needless to say I was hooked, but my mom caught me on the n64 menu, I hadn't actually started my first hour yet and was only on the menu part where mario leaned on the n64 logo. Mom told me that it would be expensive to play the games on there. I told her we're just gonna rent the games like we do at Casa Video *The video store we went to every summer* We ended up having to talk about why it would be expensive to play super mario 64 on a lodgenet system. And of course since I didn't know how to do the backwards long jump glitch and shave minutes and considering I never used an n64 controller, needless to say it would take me more than a day to beat super mario 64. I wasn't even a completionist back then but still.
There's actually a TV that goes with the controllers, and it's branded N64 on it. I found 2 of them when I was helping a friend clean out an old abandoned hotel he bought. I kept one. I should really take some pics and upload them. I believe that it's made by Sharp, but it's been a while since I've been to my storage and looked at them.
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I remember when I was like 6, my family and I went to some hotel and it had an N64. I was like "Ooo, Smash Bros" and it cost like 5 bucks to play for one hour.
Needless to say, I didn't play Smash Bros
is smash bros fun? I'm thinking of getting melee somewhere
Good, because It would have been a waste of money!
McMachete YT definitely if you like party/fighting games, but even if you don't you might enjoy it a lot. i'd start with smash 3ds/wii u or smash ultimate when it comes out, melee is really only significant to the competitive scene
Should of taken ot
that's where you and I differ, scuttlebug
I went to a hotel about a year ago that still had a Lodgenet GameCube. Awesome video!
JJ.Beast26 did it still have games for rent?
Demeech Sadly, no it was just the GameCube and controller. I’m still kinda wondering why they just left it sitting there...
xDeedles ikr
Same but 2 years ago and it had n64
Wish I was as lucky as you
I heard a story from a musician who was on tour while he was still in high school in the late 90’s - early 2000’s. He needed to write an essay for one of his classes & the hotel he was staying at had no business center. The manager told him he could use the N64 controller in his room to type a document through the TV. He said he wrote the entire paper with one of these controllers & it took several hours to complete. Crazy!
Holy crap that's probably something I would do
R/thathappened
When my family and I moved to Mexico, we drove down there and, since it was a 3-day drive, we had to stay at little hotels during the night. One of the nicer hotels we stayed at (unfortunately can't remember which) had a LodgeNet N64 which I thought was cool since I didn't have one growing up. I never pressed my parents to pay for an hour, but I think it had Smash 64. Really weird because this is was 2005 and they hadn't updated to Gamecube.
Reece Robinson good for you
im 12 i got one too
:) ill make sure to sub
Me too! (Not the Mexico and Gamecube but)
Reece Robinson I'm 4 years old and I got an Atari 2600 wooooooooow no one cares about your age or if you have a "retro" console
+Nachuz
Yeah, when I was their age, my mom would always lecture me to never reveal any personal information on the internet. I guess parents today aren't as paranoid about their kids going on the internet like my parents were. It's probably cause parents today grew up with the internet and are more comfortable with it. When I was growing up, my parents made it seem like the internet was this scary place where you go to get abducted by child molesters lol. My mom must've watched wayyy too much CNN.
I racked up the bill huge when I used these as younger!
My parents were not happy.
Coreychhem2 oof
Coreychhem2 oops I'd imagine so 😬
Coreychhem2
Or just bring a Super NES Classic Mini to the hotel during the free play policy
Brandon Reina because they had that when he was younger
My parents wouldn't let me use it. Sadness.
*sees the lodgenet SNES controller*
I don't need it...
*sees the lodgenet N64 controller*
I don't need it...
*sees lodgenet Gamecube controller*
I NEED IT!!!
Imagine using it for a Smash Melee competition lol
Whoa I remember finding these in hotels as a kid!
I somehow racked up like $30 just playing Smash Bros, and that was the last time I ever was allowed to play with one of these.
You probably could have just bought the game with that money lol Back in the day though would just play my Game Boy rather than pay for anything like this.
6 HOURS OF NONSTOP SMASH BROS?!
I'd understand if it was a wii and subspace emissary, but I don't think they ever made a wii one.
They charged a lot per hour lol
NO NAME; The Wii was available at certain Marriott Hotels at one point just to let you know.
Six hours of Smash. Lucky you.
I was at a hotel last month that had a GameCube one, and an Xbox 360 in a similar way. Super cool!
where???
Dude where? At I would like to hit them up about those
What was it called?
whrre
Where
The very first game I ever played was TMNT on the Nintendo Gamecube, in a hotel room with one of these. I'll never forget that moment of my life.
It's StormDX I played the Wii that was my first system... yeah I'm young.
SLICE AND DICE
My first system was a 3ds and I was born in 2007
I have the Wii version, cowabunga!
They had Animal Crossing on there?! That's just mean...
Right??
What a Tom Nook thing to do.
@@ryanvanliere6412 It's hilarious, when you think of it. What if you were looking to pay off your debt in the hotel? You'd end up having real life debts!
Also, Paper Mario and TTYD... Those would be a pain
I actually remember using Lodgenet to play Animal Crossing in a hotel in Florida in 2009! My dad was only willing to pay for it once or twice and I can't even remember if I finished working for Nook. Wonder whatever happened to that town...
I'm pretty sure Drew is now going into every hotel trying to hunt down the SNES controller.
Cool Catz!!!!!! Cool Catz!!!!!! It was a joke dude.
You can probably find them for sale from *cue scary music* SCALPERS!
So glad you were able to pick one of these up. I thought these were the coolest things as a kid. The first time I ever played Super Mario 64 was actually at a hotel... a Holiday Inn if I remember correctly.
EDIT: I do find it interesting though because I know for sure the year was late 1996 or very early 1997 when I played it. Were there any other variants of this in existence? We picked up a Nintendo 64 a few weeks afterwords. I suppose my first experience could have just been an actual Nintendo 64 owned by the Holiday Inn? I dunno.
That's awesome! I love hearing these stories about everyone's experiences with the service. I think LodgeNet comes with a healthy dose of nostalgia for a lot of viewers!
Cool my first game with smash bros brawl
The copyright date on the back of the controller is 1997
I'm just leaving a random comment before there's like 50
lol why that 2nd camera shot at the start
He's flexing the Nintendo stuff man. lol
Is your profile pic from memeulous?
To be more artsy
yeah
I came to comment this same thing.
My parents were high rollers at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City during the GameCube era and we always went with them to the casino. Because they were high rollers, the casino comped all room charges including all the LodgeNet GameCube charges. Needless to say, we went to town playing GameCube all weekend
did they vote for Trump?
When I collect retro gaming things myself, my favorite things are always things that are RELATED to retro games rather than the games themselves. I find old accessories and merchandise just so interesting when it comes to the history of a product or service. Seeing these mostly obscure experiments in gaming was awesome! Thanks for showing them to us :D
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Same here
If find myself spending more time on using and playing on controllers (opening them up and modding them) , than on playing games...
The most interesting for me is the history behind these things. I love it to emulate the games on my PC, but I want to know how the real consoles works and what gadges you can get for them.
I'm only 16 and my first console was a game boy when I was 2006 and than a DS Lite 2008, but I think the older consoles are cooler. I love this channel because of many reasons:
1. Nintendrew shows very much interesting things
2. Nintendrew makes good videos and is sympatic
3. I learn very much about the history of gaming and find new cool games to emulate
4. I improve my English that way ^^
I want to get a programmer one day and need a good English, but I'm from Germany and don't speak English as native language.
But: could you please make a video about games, which only could be emulated today, because there are no cardriges anymore?
Thanks! ^^
Holy Shit! In 2006 I was eight years old and a homeschool group with my church went to Phili for a field trip. I ended up breaking my toe in valley forge on the way there so I was crippled for the rest of the trip and in the hotel while I was the only behind with dad I found the controller behind the entertainment system. He paid $5 for me to play an hour of Star Fox and it is one of my favorite memories with him. It made me want a N64 so bad and one of those families after the trip gave me their old one and it is a relic of that memory. I'd love to find one of those for my collection. Thank you for the video
There's still the n64 one at great wolf lodge in sandusky
In a Great Wolf Lodge in Canada, they have the Gamecube controllers. :P
Yup I can confirm this
Someone go there NOW and record the thing lmao
It looks exactly how youd expect. Just a controller that was in the top drawer, under the tv. You had to call the front to get it to work
@@Mrblacksabbathfan Can we get pictures or video?
I wasn’t expecting such a trip down memory lane today lol. I remember fondly that I stayed at a hotel in Austin as a kid and the GameCube controller instantly got my attention. When looking through the game catalog I noticed that there was a Pokémon game I’d never heard of called “Pokémon Colosseum” and I will never forget begging my mom to let me play for a few hours, and she said yes! Playing it for the first time was absolutely unforgettable, it blew my tiny mind that a Pokémon game could be in 3D , and on something that wasn’t a Game Boy Advance. One of my all time favorite memories.
c_o_o_l_c_a_t when we were so poor we could only get gameboy advance that's what kids will never understand today, if you didn't have money or friends you were honestly missing out.
Wait... there were 3D Pokemon games way before the Gamecube. N64 had them. Pokemon Snap, Hey You Pikachu and 2 Pokemon Stadium titles...
COUGH COUGH (Pokémon stadium) COUGH COUGH
The first time I played Mario Kart was Double Dash on a Lodgenet Gamecube!
Creditworthy I played double dash on the GameCube but I also played Luigi’s Mansion and it was my first time playing it.
In the 90's I fondly remember playing the SNES version at Embassy Suites in Corpus Christi, TX. I never knew they made 64 and Gamecube versions. Great video👍
Love it! I remember being in a few hotels that had this setup and scrolling through the game choices. I only ever saw the N64 and Gamecube models. I hadn't thought about these for years. Thanks Drew, for a trip down memory lane. :)
back before speed running was truly huge... I used to play Mario64 on one of these when I'd go to Columbus Ohio with my parents to visit family. That's where I developed my skills in speed running because of it being so expensive to play. Sometimes I wonder if I'm one of the first to beat mario 64 with LESS stars that required as I think the most I ever collected was around 40. A friend of mine had figured out the BLJ trick way back when and showed it to me (we were both glitch hunters...) and that's how I'd get up the infinite stairs when I didn't have the required star count. I know for sure these were found in Hilton Hotel rooms as that's where we always stayed.
This was all about 12-15 years ago. I'm 27 now...
That's an inspiring story, not gonna lie.
I used to take my friends lunch money in grade school and middle school to catch them Mew on their Red/Blue/Yellow games when Pokemon first showed up lol. I accidentally flew away from a long-distance-trainer (the ones that see you as soon as they appear on screen) once and then realized the power of spawning glitched level 7 pokemon XD From there, I hunted and found mew by accident haha
Wow, my family didn't vacation much back then, so I've never seen these before; I had no idea something like this was even possible back in the day.
Also, I feel like modders going to the trouble of getting one of these to work, was less about preserving history, and more about finally having an N64 controller with a good joystick. lol
You don't need to f/w an obscure n64 controller to have a good joystick, when there is so many great afterparty joysticks and controllers out there, nothing you said made sense there.
@@maxford4860 there to my knowledge is no original first party N64 controller with a proper thumbstick such as the Perfection that was the GameCube.
even if you had an aftermarket in 64 Controller it would not be first-party quality.
@@WiiUniverse thanks
Wow i saw one of these in a hotel around '07 But i had totally forgotten about it. Great video as always.
i remember seeing these in hotels for years :P i never got to use one cause my parents wouldnt let me lol.
Oof
Hourly game rentals? holy crap that sounds like a cash cow. because when you are playing games you often lose track of time and they are totally betting on people doing that. spending way more money than they intended.
Nah, I think they told you when an hour was up and asked you if you wanted another hour.
Yeah after a hour it cuts you out
As others have said they cut you off and you lost all progress like an arcade machine after a certain amount of time :(
You can find them at a few places near me. I myself have placed the SNES and the N64 ones when i was a kid living in AL. I stayed up all night playing F-ZERO and Mario 64 and when my dad got the bill he was so mad. He was thinking i had played for like an hour then went to bed and got up and played some more. Man was he wrong. The place we stayed at was nice and only charged him for the one deal they had witch didnt have an hour cap to it and gave you all the games for i think it was $25 witch was still a lot back then. This was back in like 97 i want to say. Was great times
Isn't 25 dollars back then like $100 today?
S U N probably more like $50
I checked an inflation calculator so idk if its completely accurate but that seems to equal around 40 today
One of my current project goals is to find one of these central boxes. I plan on reverse engineering its protocol so I can use the few lodgenet controllers I have around to have around at parties. Kind of a lame reason, but can you imagine in the 90's what it'd be like for someone to have a console that everybody gets to play on?
You probably don't need the whole central box, I bet you can scope out the existing controller as you move the stick around and push buttons. RJ11 is only four pins, and two of those are probably gonna be power and ground, which you can figure out with a multimeter, so everything else is likely serial. That would be a fun project to build an adapter.
Any luck?
I saw a Lodgenet system with SNES games at a hotel in Bellingham, WA in 2001. It was expensive, I think $4.95 or $5.95 per hour, so I didn't use it. Nowadays people just bring a Wii or Xbox with them, and every hotel has wifi, so it's no wonder that Lodgenet faded into irrelevance
I remember this as a kid. It was always fun useing Logenet at a hotel. I played the Gamecube version and played Super Mario Sunshine, Pokemon Channel, and Kirby's Air Ride. I have also seen the N64 version once, though I never knew their was a SNES version. This video brought back so many memory, thanks your awesome.
I always saw the N64 controller when I went to a Hollywood Casino in Mississippi. I always stayed a night or two when I visited my grandparents. Seeing it and the Gamecube Lodgenet controller (which I saw less often, but they might have been at the same hotel) brings back so many memories.
They should have something like this for the Switch, maybe at Universal? It could be a docked only mode and could have Mario Kart, Smash Bros, and more!
This video came out a stinking minute ago *HOW!?*
Ooof
Tim Schill Patreon :)
That would be cool.
No. These things were bullshit and should stay dead.
When i was a bit younger around 2012 or so, i went to a big resort chain with some friends, called the great wolf lodge, and it actually had some of the n64 games.
I remember seeing the snes one at a Holiday Inn but that's cause I'm old
I vividly remember the N64 version growing up. I never got to use it but I would always play around with the controller when staying in hotel rooms. I’m always blown away by the quality of your videos, keep up the great work!
Someone: **makes a town in Animal crossing on the lodge net games**
The other hotel guest who booked the same room: O U R T O W N
*USSR Anthem Plays*
Never used one before, but I definitely remember seeing these at the different hotels I stayed at as a kid. Cool piece of history
This reminds me when I played GameCube games at Great Wolf Lodge when I was younger. I was also in an apartment and had NES games I don't think that was LodgeNet but I think the GameCube one was it just looks familiar...
GREAT WOLF LODGE!! YES :D that's the only place I remember these controllers from :) great childhood
Yea the great wolf lodge I went to had them (the one in the poconos in PA.) We played Mario Kart Double Dash and Luigi’s Mansion. Good times.
Holy crap, 5-10 bucks for AN HOUR of gameplay?! Jesus! I thought the game shops back home, that would charge a buck an hour, were taking us for a ride!
Yeah I grew up in a penny pinching household lol Out of all the family vacations we talk I think I only got 3hrs worth of play on the SNES (2) and N64 (1).
You bet your damn ass I remembered the few times I got them to say yes lol. And you would get hyper focused because you wanted to get as far as possible before time ran out.
I think they would have earned a lot more moneh of it was closer to 1 or 2 dollars an hour. But thinking about it if a kid had 5 bucks at an arcade (in the 90s) would it last as long as an hour. (I used this argument to convince my dad to let me buy of the hours. And my answer now is, it would depend on the game lol. Eventually if you got good enough at certain games you could beat the whole unit on one credit (or about 20 mins of playtime, again depending on the game). 1 credit would be a quarter so really you could stretch it out longer than an hour lol.
Oh wait I think I saw one of these when I was younger at a hotel I vaguely remember it playing Mario Tennis
Before I even knew what Nintendo was, I always tried to get my hands on the controllers but my Dad always unplugged them so I couldn't use it. This is when I was around 4-7. I didn't get into Nintendo until 2011 so when I found a GameCube Controller at a Residence Inn that year, I thought it was a long lost Nintendo console. And they kept the Lodgenet system until the Summer of 2013! Never played it though but I assume most people watching this video haven't either.
I remember playing Super Mario sunshine for the first time on one of these things. It was 2009 and I was fairly young so I had no idea what a GameCube even was, I just though it was some really cool original Nintendo game for hotels.
I'm glad you used Dire Dire Docks at the end it's reminiscent of the inside pools that hotels hosting this service trended to have. On road trips I'd beg my parents to let me play and was usually denied haha
I remember a while back I was visting a great wolf lodge in grapevine tx and I believe they had one of the lodgenet systems in there can't remember which one it was I think it was the gamecube version because I saw pikmin for one of the games on the menu
I vaguely remembered something like this from a Delta hotel in Toronto. I never thought I'd see anything about this N64 game rental thing again, let alone get this history lesson on it. Thanks.
I've always wondered what those things my parents were never willing to pay for were. Great Video!
The first time I encountered one of these was when I was traveling and had my N64 with me. We got to the hotel, I got it set up and... The TV had no input jacks. NONE. It was hardwired into the wall. And one of those controllers was plugged in the phone line through a hole in the TV stand. I was upset.
Back in 2008 when I was 4 I went to great wolf lodge and one of the things in the room was a GCN lodgenet controller. Since 2009 however it has been gone (maybe due to how the GCN was dead for 2 years)
I'm so glad you finally made a video about this! I always thought the LodgeNet system was pretty neat.
Been waiting for someone to do some decent coverage on this lol!
And THAT is what introduced me to the SNES when I was 9! I was staying at a Hotel (I forget which one) with my family in Charleston, SC during a weekend trip for my cousin’s wedding. My dad paid like around $20 for me to play in our room and mostly played Super Mario World and Super Mario All Stars, and boy was I hooked since!
I remember one of the hotels I stayed at had the n64 one back in 2007. My grandparents said no though cause I was going to cedar point instead.
I mean they did a have a point. Cedar Point is awesome.
Was it in Sandusky, Ohio, at a Great Wolf Lodge?
I remember staying in a room with one of the GameCube ones as a kid. I even remember the matching conventional remote! My parents wouldn't let me touch the controller in fear of getting charged. I didn't really care through, as I had a GameCube at home. I was curious how it worked because I didn't see a GameCube in the room at all so, I speculated the TV had one built in. Honestly, I thought I just imagined this experience until I saw this video.
Omg I remember these! I went to a hotel in Chicago like 2 years ago and there was an n64 one that they took out the day I got there!
I really miss these things, and the hotels they were in. Good memories behind them.
I actually do own a LodgeNet GameCube controller, but it's a real shame I can't use it, because it's comfortable.
I also have a LodgeNet box (two of them!) and a power supply for it, but there's no way to test it because I don't actually have the service or any of the servers.
What I really wish is for there to be some kind of adapter. That's actually why I got a _second_ LodgeNet box, in the hopes that I could find some way to fashion an adapter out of the extra somehow someday. Not that I have any idea how, though.
One thing he forgot to mention.
Because there is only one controller, you can’t play multiplayer. In fact, many game ROM’s were modded to only allow for single player.
I remember using the N64 one with the new thumb stick once.
Certain games like Zelda had pre-loaded save files.
Ooh! I imagine that if they were all really preloaded, they would have all the player names set to "Link" (in the case of the one you mentioned), and there would be one empty slot for if the player still wanted to start from the beginning.
I remember that service. I never used it because all I thought was “why don’t I just get the game instead of paying by hour for it?”.
I used some of these n64 models when my family vacated up in Wisconsin Dells but my dad made sure I didn’t play over an hour.
Still, was really cool seeing the stuff back in the day; probably my first exposure to Nintendo as a very young kid.
I remember staying at a Great Wolf Lodge, and they had a GameCube controller plug and play thing. It didn't look like that though. You just selected the game I think. I never played any games on it though. My mom said no 😑 it had Twilight Princess on it, which is what stuck out to me.
That looked really cool. The only equivalent I’ve seen to that was when I was in Hawaii there was a PS3 in our room, and we could rent games down in the lobby. Thanks for this cool boy of Nintendo history! Keep it up!
I vaguely remember playing the N64 one with Dr. Mario. I dont think my parents were too keen about the bill
I worked at a Sheraton hotel for many years and we had that N64 service. That is correct on how the service worked. They would come out every once in awhile to update the !ist of games to purchase.
I traveled a lot as a kid, I really wish the hotels I stayed at had the Lodgenet service... But I never left Europe so...
I remember this. My family travelled a lot, whether it be sightseeing or visiting family. My parents would only let us do one “GameCube night”, and they limited our time to 3 or 4 hours (it was 5.99 per hour), and I remember them quite well. We usually played Mario Kart Double Dash along with Luigi’s Mansion, and I also remember playing the original animal crossing on one hotel visit. We had fun, in fact my dad liked the GameCube even tho we had a Wii back at home. One of my best memories with my dad in my younger years, he unfortunately passed away a month after my 18th birthday. This memory will live in my head rent free. Thank you Lodgenet, for the memories.
Me and my family went to a hotel it was i think september of 2000 and it was our first ever trip to america since we where from Croatia when we got it to the room i saw a n64 and i was like what since the only console i had was a gameboy thats the only thing i remember we never played on it my parents didnt want to buy the hour time for us
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I remember using one of these to play Mario Party 3 after my brother finished his time with what I believe was 1080 Snowboarding and that experience sold me on getting a Nintendo 64 for myself. I later received one on what I believe was my 10th birthday with around 12 games to play.
I remember in 2013 or 2012 I saw a GameCube one in a hotel
I remember seeing a gamecube in McDonald's around that time 😂
What a throwback! I totally remember playing N64 in hotel rooms when younger, and my parents getting pissed because it went on to their bill. Totally forgot about that until your video.
#DREWCREW turn up!!!! 🔥🔥🔥
In the mid 00s I brought my NES with me to a hotel, something I had done in the past and was no big deal back then. Right there was the lodgenet n64 system hooked to the tv. There was no way to hook anything else to the tv. Hotels have these television sets that either have a plate bolted over the connections on the back or specially made televisions that are made just for hotels. Yeah, it's one of those ways that hotels try to get you to rack up higher bills by having services that are directly connected to a tv so you have to play video games or watch movies with their equipment rather than use your own.
Bless the Nintendo Switch for allowing us to play whatever we want, whenever we want, without having to rack up insane hotel bills.
I came across the N64 controller at a hotel in 2004. I recall it costing $5-$7.50 for one hour, plus tax. A huge ripoff.
Umm... they still make these systems. Yes, Lodgenet filed for bankruptcy at one point, but they DID NOT go out of business. They are now called SONIFI Solutions, and still hold contracts with more than 1.4 million hotels, and still to this day have an active partnership with hotels.
how does this have comments from 17 hours ago if my subscriptions say it was posted 42 seconds ago? o.O
Those are the patreons. They get early access to all videos.
Sponsors could view the video early.
In short, the LodgeNet system ran similar to the old Sega Channel. The exception being the "set top box" was a cartridge that plugged into the cartridge slot on your at home Genesis and had a coax cable going into the back of the cartridge. Each month, the rom line-up provided through Sega Channel would change, and instead of being charged hourly, it cost a flat fee each month of between $10 and $20.
DREWCREW!!!!
I have known about these, I have seen them in hotels, but this is the first time I have seen someone do a video on these. Great Video Nintendrew!
I remember seeing a game controller like that in a motel room my brother and I stay in a long time ago when I was a kid I remember wondering where the actual n64 was
Thanks for making me learn something new! I've seen the TV remote but never the controller, nice showcase :D
Between late 90s and early 00s, I got multiple chances on trying out the SNES LodgeNet device from a hotel that I regularly visited. The most interesting fact about the service is that there are 3 exclusive games, all of which are very simplistic in terms of gameplay. Noughts & Crosses, Hangman and Postcard Puzzle.
Did you also know that LodgeNet is one of the Nintendo Gateway System distributors? That service was also available in airplanes. I also recommend reading an article from Snes Central about it.
What you mentioned reminded me of the Game Boy Color emulator Singapore Airlines had back in the day, and I even remembered playing some "Tom and Jerry" game on it.
However, I know I saw a whole different TH-cam comment many years ago that mentioned someone having played that Nintendo Gateway System SNES on a Singapore Airlines flight.
Edit: the GBC and SNES services on that airline back in the day may have been part of the same system
I loved playing SNES games on LodgeNet when we went to Florida in 2000! At the time, I didn’t have an SNES nor was I as serious a game collector as I am today. Mom saw it as me trying some SNES games before buying equivalent titles for the Game Boy or Game Boy Color!
I actually have a promo video of the Lodgenet service that showcased only the Super Nintendo games. I remember viewing lodgenet for movies and video games but every time I would stay with my cousin and he would bring his own n64 with his own games, saving us a crap ton of money.
Jeez, the video title alone brought back so many memories. 16 years ago my family and I stayed at a Holiday Inn in Boston for my brother's wedding. I just remember playing a lot of Mario Tennis, MK4, and Excite Bike 64 before the wedding. My dad was wondering why we were charged an extra 60 dollars by the hotel, but he realized I purchased at least 10 hours worth of playtime with that thing. Good times.
I was at a hotel a long time ago when I was really young and remember trying to play Donkey Kong 64, but the analog stick was slightly off center (or something) so I couldn't jump across the trees and vines near the beginning. Because of the issues, I started getting worked up and upset because it wasn't working and DK wouldn't stand still. I also remember scrolling through the list of games.
I know what that SNES Lodgenet controller design is from. InterAct made a series of controllers in the 90's called the ProPad, and there were versions for the SNES, the Genesis (3-button), and the PC which all used the same shell as each other. They also made other controller designs under the ProPad range, but several of them used the same shell design as the SNES LodgeNet controller.
It wasn't just the continental states, they had them in Hawaii too. I got to use the N64 version in a hotel on either Hawaii or Maui when my family visited in October 2001. We had the trip planned months in advance, and then almost canceled it, for obvious reasons. The lines for security were insane, and all flights between the islands had to pass through Oahu first. I didn't know you could operate the TV with it, though, this is the first I've heard about that.
I remember staying in a hotel overnight in North Carolina around 2005, and they still had the SNES version of the LodgeNet system. This place wasn't a seedy place either, it was a rather nice hotel, so I was perplexed at why they had SNES games available. It doesn't bother me much, I happily paid the $6 per hour to play some classic SNES titles while I was there.
I remember getting to play starfox 64 on one of these as a kid. I think that was the shortest hour of my entire life.
(this was around when SF Command launched; I was playing that religiously and could only play SF64 at a friend's house, so anytime I got to play was a treat)
LodgeNet was also a movie rental service. Along with...EVERYTHING...that that implies.
Nice to see someone talk about these, I've been curious about these ever since I saw one.
I saw an N64 LodgeNet controller in McMinnville, Oregon as recently as 2013. I'm sure there are probably a few scattered around today that are in operation.
man this vid brought back a memory of my family and I at a hotel when I was maybe 6 or 8. And I did what many other kids did back in the day and tried to play a N64 game. Only to be caught by their parents... they were so pissed lol.
Always bring a Lilac PlayStation Portable to a hotel room [along with Hannah Montana]
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Announcer: Need more gaming? Don't settle for a wimpy Game Boy. Purchase a PlayStation Portable.
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I'm Canadian, and I actually remember at a hotel my family stayed at years ago, they had the LodgeNet N64 system in the rooms. And I remember when I first saw them I was blown away by the fact you could play multiple N64 games on one TV. I remember even playing Mario 64 on it as well. Those were good times.........
Back in 2012, I stayed in a hotel room with the N64 variation, and I was instantly intrigued. It didn't actually work with the TV, and the hotel staff didn't know what it was. Bummer, but interesting!
I have fond memories of these things, so it's cool to hear a little retrospective on them here.
I actually remember using the SNES Lodgenet controller in a hotel as late as the late 90's. My parents only allowed it one time though, probably cause the cost would've added up for sure. I remember my brother and I played Final Fight and Kirby's Dream Course with it.
I remember seeing something similar to this but with a PS1 instead. They even had Spyro 3
The first time I ever played Ocarina of Time was on one of those LodgeNet controllers. My family and I went to Atlantic City a lot when I was a kid, but because I wasn't really interested in going out on the boardwalk or going to the beach, I stayed in our hotel room and played N64 games instead. I remember I played OoT, Hydro Thunder, Pokémon Snap, and Mario 64. All great games, mind you, but... it was kinda costly, and you only got to play them for like an hour.
I actually remember using one of these YEARS ago when my family was staying at a hotel. I think it was Paper Mario we were paying for?
It's honestly kinda surreal seeing one of these controllers again.
When I was 7 in 2012, me and my family went to the viscount suites hotel. I had an ipod that played plants vs zombies and snoopy's street fair. While flipping through channels to find cartoons I came across the main menu talking about nintendo games. Needless to say I was hooked, but my mom caught me on the n64 menu, I hadn't actually started my first hour yet and was only on the menu part where mario leaned on the n64 logo. Mom told me that it would be expensive to play the games on there. I told her we're just gonna rent the games like we do at Casa Video *The video store we went to every summer* We ended up having to talk about why it would be expensive to play super mario 64 on a lodgenet system. And of course since I didn't know how to do the backwards long jump glitch and shave minutes and considering I never used an n64 controller, needless to say it would take me more than a day to beat super mario 64. I wasn't even a completionist back then but still.
There's actually a TV that goes with the controllers, and it's branded N64 on it. I found 2 of them when I was helping a friend clean out an old abandoned hotel he bought. I kept one. I should really take some pics and upload them. I believe that it's made by Sharp, but it's been a while since I've been to my storage and looked at them.