Nomura Famicom Online Trader Sun-Line F-II Commercial (subs) [1989, FC]
42An updated version of Famicom Trader, this version introduced a special numberpad that allowed the user to more easily interact with stocks than the first version of Famicom Trader.
Famicom Trader was released at the height of bubble Japan in 1988. Along with the Famicom Modem, this joint venture between Nintendo R&D2 and Nomura Shōken, one of Japan's biggest financial services groups and a global investment bank - allowed Famicom owners to trade stocks.
Because of the massive install base of the Famicom, both companies saw opportunities to sell the Famicomt the business oriented adult market rather than simply to children.
With the modem attachment, users could plug in a phone cord and via a rudimentary dial-up internet connection, could access a server provided by Nomura that provided live stock trades, game hints and cheats, daily jokes, weather forecasts, legal horse betting, spend money playing the lottery, and a small amount of other downloadable content in the form of simple games such as Go and Shogi.
The service lasted three years until the economic collapse in late 1989 when it was deemed too expensive to upkeep the servers.
Nintendo of America had toyed with the idea of bringing the modem to the US, but lacking nation-wide infrastructure and unable to convince concerned parents children would truly be unable to access and play the lottery illegally and anonymously, the project was scrapped early in the planning phase.
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