Did Nintendo Create On Disc DLC

[kilenem]

Nintendo games were the first games I played where you had to have another version of the game to unlock content but now that I'm older, I realized that content was stored on the Cartridge or Disc. I think Pokemon is the biggest offender and a couple other games the communicate with the Gameboy attachment to the N64 like Mario Tennis. You needed the N64 version to unlock waluigi on the gameboy color mario tennis. The Nintendo E-reader unlocked music in animal crossing for gamecube.

Did Nintendo do it first or were their other companies with similar tactics. Where you had ot buy something else to unlock a game feature. Some reason I'm thinking of a arcade game had this feature too.

 

[Roxas1359]

Well from the description you have I guess you could count the SEGA lock-on system for the Sega Genesis/Megadrive. More specifically when locking on Sonic 3 with Sonic 3 and Knuckles you'd unlock the full game along with Super Emeralds, Hyper Sonic, Hyper Knuckles, and Super Tails. You'd also get Doomsday Zone as well which isn't in the base game. Then if you plugged Sonic 2 with the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge you'd be able to play as Knuckles in Sonic 2.

Thing is though, what you're describing isn't really DLC. DLC is downloadable content, back then they were little extras or expansions, nothing else. For DLC really SEGA were the first company to ever make DLC on home consoles with the Dreamcast, as it was the only console to have internet standardized on it until the original Xbox came out, and even then SEGA worked with Microsoft in developing the console and the online originally. Even before that there was the old SEGA Channel, and all the way back to the Atari 2600 there was DLC you'd get via a telephone line.

One of the Dreamcast DLC I know greatly about are the Skies of Arcadia ones that they had. The DLC for it was later put into the base game for the Skies of Arcadia Legends port for the GameCube and the cancelled port for the PS2. There were also music packs for Samba De Amigo on the Dreamcast, which to this day is still the best version of that game since the Wii port is utter crap sadly. T^T