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One time, we had remotes for televisions. We hated having to point them to get line of sight.
Did you know that some of the older Gameboys had this? I think it was the Gameboy color. Instead of a link cable, you'd just point two Gameboys at each other, and.... Well, they had to be on a level surface like a table. And also you basically couldn't ever move them or touch them, which was strange for a handheld. ...annnnd it basically didn't work. Ever. So Wi-Fi was pretty good!
But no, let's go and use line of sight tech, that seems like a great idea!
I kid, I kid. I'm sure it works fine enough within its limitations for a certain purpose, I just can't help but joke about making these connections.
@SCmSTR
@wave_walnut the gameboy color infrared communication was basically the amiibo of the 90s. You could transmit a tiny amount of data and that's it. In Pokémon for example, just trading pokemon was too much of infared. But you could give someone a mystery gift.
It's THAT why I never got it to work? I always figured it was because it was a steaming pile of garbage and was actually just half baked tech on the same level as the NES and would just break and that was that. I still have my GBC somewhere and probably my Pokemon yellow cartridge in some box somewhere, hopefully without batteries still in it 😬 I should see if anybody else I know has one and try to get it to work with something very low data.