Peripheral Vision
NetLink
» PLATFORM: Saturn » RELEASED: 1996
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COST: $199 (launch), £35+ (today, boxed) £25+ (today, unboxed)
This rather featureless slab of black plastic cost a bomb back in the mid-Nineties, but for Saturn owners it represented a gateway to worlds beyond the bedroom. The NetLink is a 28.8Kbps modem which was only released in North America and on a limited trial in Finland. One purpose of the device was to allow players to access the internet, using a dedicated browser disc developed by PlanetWeb and optionally the NetLink Keyboard and NetLink Mouse. Later versions of the browser even supported chatrooms via IRC.