Sega Net Link

This makes it impossible to download audio or video clips, save e-mail messages, or put previously loaded web pages into cache.

[7] In addition, to allow users to browse with just the Saturn joypad, Sega produced a series of CDs containing hundreds of website addresses.

[12] At the time most television screens ran at a lower resolution than computer monitors, so the browser used anti-aliasing to smooth out the edges of onscreen text characters.

[13] Players could search for other players either on the Internet or using the XBAND matchmaking system, then connect peer-to-peer via modem, or alternatively, use two NetLinks to connect two Saturns and two televisions set up in the same room (thus eliminating the need for a phone line and essentially using the NetLink to emulate the Saturn Link Cable).

[13] Launching at 15,000 yen in Japan and $199 in the USA, it was considered very inexpensive compared to competing online services.

[14] Despite the media excitement over the device and its prominent appearance in Sega's marketing campaign, less than 1% of Saturn owners purchased the NetLink in 1996.

[15] Over its lifetime, an estimated 50,000 NetLink units were sold in North America, half of Sega's original goal.