Super Nintendo's Online Banking From 1998 | TranDirect Home Banking System - Retro Gaming History!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- In 1998, a Canadian Company named TranDirect created and an online home banking cartridge for the Super #Nintendo and tried to sell it to banks. Oddly enough, this was their SECOND online banking program for a 90s video game console as they had successfully sold and released similar software for the Amiga CD32 in 1994.
Although it was never released, TranDirect did leave us with a 5 minute long mini-infomercial and tidbits of information for those willing to do a little bit of research.
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You can find the full Trandirect Home Banking System Promo Video on my second channel here: ruclips.net/video/uEp6hArsjZY/видео.html
I wanted to upload a copy of it to make sure it wasn't lost. The original was posted by E. John Love, who worked on the GUI, and it can be found here: ruclips.net/video/XqmwZwJp_8Y/видео.html
If you'd like to see a comedic take on this you can find Chadtronic's video here: ruclips.net/video/3Bn7Ojoy0GY/видео.html
You can try out the Amiga CD32 interactive demo here: web.archive.org/web/19970707214908/www.tvinet.com/tvi/
Wrestling With Gaming dude your content is so good I love seeing these things I never would’ve thought could exist being real life business endeavors
Thank you. Could you also upload a copy to the Internet archive please?
@@tmack729 There's already a copy of it there.
@@crustman5982 thanks! This is definitely one of the more obscure SNES things I know of.
@@WrestlingWithGaming ah, sorry I didn't check. Thank you!
You can rob the banks with a game shark
hahha! That would be a hell of a cheat code!
Ahem..game genie.
Lol. This makes my day. Nailed it. Now where's that Game Genie cartridge and start cranking some codes. 😁😂🤣
I was wondering something similar watching this myself. With the Amiga one being a real product, connected to a real (primitive service), I wonder if there could have been some way to overflow or underflow the system and transfer funds from non-existent (or even existing) accounts that didn't belong to you. Fuzzing this would have been extremely fun but also probably a quick way to get you the Kevin Mitnick special.
@@ApexHardcore It would be very crazy if that were possible. With applications like this, all the actual work is done remotely. The software/hardware controlled by the user is just an interface, it can't actually do anything except make requests and display info sent to it by the bank.
While mistakes are sometimes made, banks are *extremely* paranoid, even in 1998.
Me: *Buys Nintendo switch*
Amazon: Credit/Debit card or COD?
Me: *pays using SNES banking cartridge*
I have never heard of this, learn something new everyday.
And the crazy thing is that there's still more obscure stuff like this from the 90s that a ton of us, myself included, still don't know about.
Reminds me of the GameBoy powered sewing machine
@@WrestlingWithGaming Think of that decade as the Cambrian Explosion of software - though it seems to do a variation every decade.
In Japan there was Famicom based horse betting and banking hardware/software, but I never knew this was being tried out in North America.
Makes sense, though - It’s a computing device already connected to a television with a game pad. They could do a lot worse.
You don’t see online banking, etc apps on consoles today, though. 😁
Ah yes, the Famicom Network Network System. I did a video on that one a couple of years ago. Real interesting piece of hardware.
Oh my god, an SNES controller with a QWERTY keyboard.
I believe that this controller can also double as a weapon.
With the gameboy printer, you can print our your withdraws.
You'd need a japanese Super Game Boy 2 to do this.
"Updates quickly and easily!"
Shows a guy copying something from a PC to a server with a floppy disk
The 90s were magical!
Hey, maybe he walks that disk over to the server very briskly!
Sorry, but what do you expect?
Nope. That server was being updated with a new version of some module. When a user logged in with the snes, and there were modules with a version that was newer than the user's last login, the server would tell the snes cart to mark the outdated modules as "old" and if the cart needed to use the module, the cart would download that module.
Basically a virtual memory system with a LRUreplacement system.
That was the design, anyway,
I'm going to ask my landlord if they accept rent payments via SNES.
My freaking landlord still will only accept paper checks or cash
@@boscopit mine only takes money order
my landlord accepts snes payments, I get printed receipts from a gameboy printer
Most excellent video Sir!!! I do find it fascinating all these '90s devices that let you bank, bet on horses and read emails, still don't exist on modern consoles, despite it being incredibly easy to do so with a simple app.
But I suppose smart phones choked that potential market and you can "sort of" do it on console web browsers.
Thanks Larry! Yeah, it's interesting that these companies tried to do stuff that really stretched the limits of the hardware available then and now not so much.
@@WrestlingWithGaming Indeed, it's quite admiral the risks they took to create new hardware, even going all in on some occasions. Why I love the '90s so much.
They've got to be hiding somewhere around vancouver.
Bc hydro and vancity bank were examples.
I was an employee of TVI back in the day and because I was the only one with any film/video background (and because I was the in-house technical writer, too), I got to write, direct, and produce those promos. (But, don't worry. You'll get no static regarding copyright from me. Frankly, I don't think anyone much cares at this point.) That was the only time I got paid to do such work and I'm grateful to have had the chance. It was a blast.
Thanks for creating this video. I was on the design team at TVI (and an actor in that video). You were much kinder to our product than some other commentators ;) These were leading-edge for consumers in the 90s, way before internet banking was a thing.
Hey there, thanks for watching! I loved the video that you guys put together. It's 100% perfect for the 90s. I only wish the product and controller had been made available so that I could try it out first hand.
I think some other channels that have covered it have been on the younger side and don't realize how forward thinking this and your other internet banking products were.
But MY part ended up on the cutting room floor :)
Canada was using the same satellite Japan was using called "satellview". That's how they were able to make transactions via satellite.
Always good to see your unique videos on subjects lot of people don't know about. Its been a while but, love the video man!
another great video about a rare device ive never heard of. you really are a great creator, Yahel . Always look forward to your quality content
Thanks a lot, I appreciate it!
The Super Nintendo seems like it would've been an odd choice for a home banking system in 1998, considering the SNES was near the end of its life. The Nintendo 64 would've made more sense, but even then, I don't know if banks would've been on board with the idea, considering Nintendo consoles were viewed as more of a toy.
Exactly.
Large install base, however
But the N64 had no existing users (since it wasn't out yet) and would have cost more. The SNES could be had for $50, millions already had one, and it was familiar.
Wish I worked in the office in the 90's that had this technology.
Whenever the boss left the office, I would've organized Street Fighter tournaments with co-workers.
I can just imagine it. Kid: "Come on Dad, I want to play Mario" Dad: "Hang on, I'm trying to keep the lights on"!
This reminds me so much of “Halt and Catch Fire”. A mining company with more money than it knows what to do with, and a bunch of flashy technology. Insane things happen when those things mix.
Great video, as always! We should be putting your channel in the congressional archives
Thanks 😀
Love the quality of content you put out, please keep up the good work
Thanks, appreciate you taking the time to watch.
Your links to those videos are the Christmas gift that will keep on giving year after year! Bless you!
Nice to see you back with some new videos! This proves a belief I have always had that old tech finds some purpose 👍
Awesome video man. I like these topics that were ahead of their time!
Thanks man! I've been looking forward to doing this one.
Yo!!! I swear , and I took screenshots to prove it. I clicked play on THIS video and it started playing jingle bells and it played a video of a kid learning how to ski in So Cal . It had these comments , your thumbnail, this videos title, everything. I clicked back and then reselected it and it played properly . But man that was crazy !!!
Wow I never heard of this thing. I wonder how much other non-gaming stuff was on the SNES, I know there was a bunch on the famicom as it was marketed like a family computer in Japan. I bet someone could have made a home automation cart for the SNES as well. Imagine turning the lights on and off, or switching on the stereo.
I would have loved being a fly on the wall during the meeting when this was pitched.
Thanks for surfacing this. This is a real piece of history I never knew about!
Thanks man. It's a pretty obscure one for sure.
I love the new music, very 80's and very nice.
I think I might get the Transdirect Home Banking System speedrun
TAS
Wrestling with Gaming is an incredible channel.
Thanks!
Nintendo of America was working on a SNES based banking system with Wells Fargo and Supra Corporation (providing the modem tech). The modems were my product at Supra- they connected via the expansion port on the bottom of the SNES. Lance Barr at NoA did the case design for the modem. Wells Fargo supposedly got cold feet and pulled out of the deal. I kept the only SNES modem board as a trophy. [edit: FYI, the Nintendo/Wells/Supra effort was about 1996]
I spent so much time on gamefaqs and youtube just looking at obscure and old gaming stuff that it really is quite magical to find something I never heard about once. Banking on your SNES?! HA very well done video man. Keep up the continued great work!
Thanks! This is definitely one of the more obscure snes things imo.
Another awesome video!
Thanks!
given the timeframe of -98 they probably had some type of softmodem and rj11 jack in the cart. SNES had a proprietary expansion port but it wouldn't have made sense to use it for single application device since cartridge port already gets full access to CPU address/data bus
Kid: Dad! I wanna play Super Mario World!
Dad: Not now son! I'm checking my bank account!
"Email is by far the most popular use of internet"
My first programming job was with this company in 1995. I got the job because the posting mentioned 65816 ( the 6502 on steroids ) and I was familiar with it - though not at all with the SNES.
The SNES project wasn't a success, but its cousins and their descendents handle much ot today's Canadian Credit Union online banking.
Thank you for the mention.
Thanks so much for adding a bit of backstory. It was really difficult to find any information on this at all
@@WrestlingWithGaming You might try Central1 Credit Union in Vancouver. Kelly West ( a manager there as of2017 when I retired ) had worked at TVI, and might have useful info.
My high point at TVI was the code to render the proportional font ( designed by E. John Love ) used for the "e-mail" , in the process discovering a bug in the SNES 65816 Macro assembler
Fun times - as were later years at Central 1 working on online banking.
Interesting, but I can for sure see why this never took off, and yes back in the 90's computers where expensive if you did not know how shop around, find the parts, and build one yourself, which is what I did back then in highschool, and built an AMD K6 II 550 MHz machine for just under $600 USD which was still a lot, and I had to take an after school job saving up all summer, and then some to do it though.
Awesome video Yahel!
Thanks man!
Funny how time works- back in the late '90's, many people still didn't have personal computers due to their price points. Today, nearly everyone is attached at the hip to their iPhones, which they pretty much do everything in their lives on the device - hence making home computers nearly obsolete.
A banking system, an online service, a hot seat, a glove, a piano, light guns, a mouse, a robot. Is there anything Nintendo DIDN'T have?
A cd rom
Gaijillionaire a CD-ROM adapter was actually created for the SNES! It was never released, but yes, Nintendo had it.
Jordan Springer oh no way! I wonder what ever became of it??
Always looking forward to your next video. Great work!
Thanks!
As always, great topic selection and attention to detail
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Love your videos, Keep up the amazing work buddie ^.^
Thanks! 😃
I love videos like this. You really make some great content, thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
Imagine if your kid “accidentally” loaded the banking system and started messing around 😕
😂
That's why they had a password system...but good thought.
@@d.b2664 Some people are dumb enough to write down their passwords!
the music in that promo video is so good
LOL why did the video need to include 5 seconds of the guy clearing a place on the couch for him to sit?
Finally, someone else besides me thinks that was weird and unnecessary lol.
He needed somewhere to sit.
They're trying to convey that he has children and that's the reason he has a SNES. They didn't want people thinking adults would have toy for any other reason.
Wrestling With Gaming perhaps his wife forgot to tidy up
I thought I knew about every obscure SNES product. Guess not. Thanks for showing something so unique!
Thanks for watching!
Uninformed banking company: Let’s create software for the Super Nintendo
Hackers: YES!!!
Am i hearing John Murphy's Adagio in D Minor sounding in the background? Where can i get that version? Thanks
Up up down down x, y, hold l + r then select start . Adds $1000 to the account
Alright, but is nobody going to mention the Wakko plush doll on the couch at 4:24? Man Animaniacs was a helluva great cartoon.
Great video. Subscribed. Thanks for the content! :)
Thanks!
Oh, Dell Dude, I remember you! Back when having a pot arrest could ruin your career... and did for him. Thanks for the video once again, this reminds me of what Nintendo did with the Family Computer Network System.
Oh man, I forgot all about his arrest! Thanks for watching!
Really great content man!
Thank you and thanks for watching.
Awesome
Vancouver and Burnaby! These are all in my area.... I had no idea VanCity Credit union did something like this. Thinking of walking in to a branch with a SNES and asking for banking cartridge! lol I wonder if they have a case of these carts and modems in storage somewhere in the downtown vancouver main branch or maybe a storage unit in North Burnaby. They couldn't just have trashed all of it....
VanCity wouldn't have had any SNESs - but they MIGHT have some CD32 consoles with TVI built modem and IR controller, with the software on CD. I suspect that that system was what inspired Nintendo of America to team up with TVI
I will say, this is the start of turning gaming CONSOLES into home media platforms. And the start of at home mobile banking. Today we have phones and computers that do all of that.
If this took off, man parents would be hogging kids super Nintendo. Especially with the email feature. That was ahead of its time.
Living in Vancouver this is great!
Just like the nuno and Discover gaming colones giving the time i think this was geness. in case you didn't know the nnuo was just DVD Player that suppoerted it's own games and the Discover colone was just an DVD player with an hard disk running Windows XP MCE.
Encrypted with 16 bit security. 😂
WOW.Amazing video! Any ballpark on how much u think this could be worth in the wild? Ty again and now a sub.🔥💯
I've only ever seen one listing for it on eBay and it was set at $1,500. However, I'm pretty sure it was a fake and it ended up taken down by eBay the same day it was put up. This would be one of the rarest Super Nintendo cartridges out there so I'd imagine a real one, if there are any left at all, would go for more that $1,500.
Oh and thank you very much for the kind words. I appreciate you subbing 😊
I am currently wearing that exact Atari shirt. That’s crazy.
Incredible, wow!
It would be interesting to know if the cartridge and controller shown in the promo video are still floating around? I doubt it though, I doubt anyone at the company would have thought to hang on to something like that.
I don't think there are any. There was an eBay listing for the cartridge but it got taken down the same day I found it. Since it doesn't come up as sold I'm pretty sure it was taken down for being fake. The controller wasn't included in the listing. I reached out to a few people from trandirect but none of them got back to me. To be fair, it's possible my contact info was outdated.
Im really jealous of your hair man Im nearly bald :) Great video by the way.You always show something interesting what I didnt know
I'm sure it's only a matter of time before father time takes my hair. I'm 39 so it's on borrowed time
@@WrestlingWithGaming Im 38 and still have some left :D .Keep up the good work mate I love your videos :) Great job always...
Thanks! I appreciate it! 😃
Wow, just wow. 😮 I was surprised a Nintendo device the famcom was doing stocks which was crazy. Well, it turns out there's another one, banking using the SNES. Holy smackaroonies. Again learning new things from you. Kudos for this informative video. 💪😉👍
Thanks! It's a pretty crazy piece of tech.
@@WrestlingWithGaming I was floored on the famcom stocks but this = floored and rolled over. Until now just finished watching that I can't wrap my head around this. Like just wow. I don't know how you do it but please continue. I booked mark it as it is a very good source of info. It's like this gives us a background of how and where apps of today came from. How it makes me appreciate apps of today and gave it a new perpective and that it has come a long way.
Sorry for the long reply as I'm still feeling that "power move" you gave for the 1-2-3 on this video. Again thank you. 💪😉👍 Oh on the funny side, I'm pretty sure if this was out for consumers, I know who to look for on cheat codes say infinite savings. Lolz 🤣😂
Nice chadtronic shout out
Awesome videos you should do one on the Atari Gameline
1:29 "which had no relation to the satellite TV service". Of course not, they have different names! Now you know why DirecTV is spelled that way, they lost out on the chance to own the the Direct TV trademark!
A new WWG vid? It's a good day.
Wasn't there a modem built for SNES? Thought they had a premium online service that failed over in Japanland. It was the X-band. I remember seeing the advertisements here in the states. That's how close they were to launching in the states.
They did launch in the states. I actually did a feature length documentary on it which includes on camera interviews with several members of the XBAND development team. The whole story is crazy. You can watch it here:
ruclips.net/video/k_5M-z_RUKA/видео.html
5:23 that looks like an animaniacs stuffed animal on the couch.
Wakko I believe
@@Lownamebrand Came here to say this. ^
If only they knew that we were about a decade away from being able to do all of this on a cellphone. I wonder how much money was lost on the research and development of this product.
"Dad can I get my Super Nintendo back?"
"Shut up kid! I'm doing our bills!
Good Stuff.
Thanks!
If they were going to offer email as a value add service then they really should have given people the option of a real keyboard. Of course if it never released then they never really had the chance to make this mistake but if they'd included it in their promotional details, it might have attracted more positive attention. I built my first PC in 1998, even then I think the keyboard cost less than £10.
Mega Drive had something like this in Brazil with a bank called Bradesco
There has to be a prototype out there some where 🤯
Yahel is the Peter Steele of gaming
Ha, “I N T E R N E T email”
I mean, it’s not wrong. There’s intranet email too
I want one of those controllers
I'm not entirely sure that anything was off limits during the early days of Nintendo. They were always getting involved in some out there, weird stuff, lol..
Larry Phillips really has $57000 in the bank in 1998 but is running a SNES and that haircut wow
Must be saving money on haircuts and computers lol
i want that jazzy music thats in the vid
I will never understand why these products exist. The Megadrive was also supposed to have a homebanking acessory in Japan and even an answering machine acessory. And I'm like... why lol
Lol look, clearly the ladies love a man that can do his banking from his Super Nintendo 😂
@@WrestlingWithGaming How can we ever hope to compete with that?
@@st1ka Larry knows what the ladies like.
The most concrete concrete conclusion I’ve come to is that until more recently, game makers weren’t taken seriously like other industries in japan and these things helped make them look more serious. As well it’s much much much cheaper than having a computer, but as well the Japanese economy is based on this annual spend your salary bonus cycle and so making and buying these things were part of a boom economy
I didn't have my super nes in 1998 anymore hehehe
I think the closest we got to anything like this (in the states at least) was Sega Channel which didn’t do well here either 😆
I'd say the closest was XBAND and it was 4 years earlier.
Wrestling With Gaming I forgot about Xband! I think Sega Channel saw slightly more commercial success though
If SatelliteView is combined with this thing, then it's Nintendo eShop in 1990s.
"Logging on BZZZZZZT KGGGGGG is as easy as VRRRRRRRRR KGGGGGGGG using an ATM!"
Wait. Is that a stuffed Wacko from Animaniacs on that guys couch?
Sounds like to me they planned to have the modem built into the Cartridge....
But based on what I see in the video that is a normal Cartridge but with a new label slapped onto it...
Which makes me believe that they where never able to stuff all the hardware into the Cartridge... Meaning there probably is no ROM in existence anywhere...
so ahead of its time lol
Wario: I'ma gonna steal your identity
5:14, if that sunuva would have yanked one of my games out without the eject button, I'd have sent him home. He wouldn't be allowed to play my Super....lol
Subbeded
I think Sega Japan also had banking cartridge or something like that...
Nintendo had one for the Famicom, and with the Super Famicom they had horse racing betting system, that lasted well into the 00's.
@@CommodoreFan64 right...perhaps it was Famicom that I remember...
It's the sequel to Wall Street Kid
Someone's looking main roster ready.
Lol 😂
I need one of these!!! Link, please?