Unrelated to this, but has anyone looked into the kiosk demos for Mario Golf Toadstool Tour, Mario Superstar Baseball and a late build of Super Mario Strikers? PlanetWeb was all about this until they were acquired by Monotype Imaging, Inc. A year later, the company jumped over to programming software or something. By the end of 2003, it seemed that PlanetWeb shifted their focus towards media sharing. Their primary product, The Planetweb® Browser, was the browser ported onto SEGA's consoles and other electronic devices. Two of these consoles were the SEGA Dreamcast and SEGA Saturn (the links go to a YouTube video of each browser in action), and SEGA was the only video game company listed as one of their partners on their website in 2001 (surprisingly, PlanetWeb had a relationship with Netflix). The company developed internet products and services, adding internet browsers and e-mail applications to various electronic devices such as televisions, DVD players, screen-based phones, and video game consoles. PlanetWeb was started in 1996 in San Francisco, and they believed that internet would become incredibly necessary on a daily basis (they weren't wrong).
PlanetWeb doesn't exist anymore, but I was able to find some info. In Japan, some special demo discs (labeled slightly differently) were sent to players' mailboxes through services such as Club Nintendo. Nintendo sent these discs to retailers back in the day to put in display GameCube consoles, and new discs would be shipped out every few months with content for the newest game releases. In Japan, they may be referred to as Interactive Disc Catalogs or Gekkan Nintendo Tentou Demo Discs. These kiosk discs are referred to online by their christened name (the name printed on the kiosk discs themselves), Interactive Multi-Game Demo Discs. Most of them have been dumped and preserved (at least the ones that are known to exist) and a few of us are pretty set on documenting these obscure titles that Nintendo intended to keep behind a display unit and away from collectors' shelves.
Melee ever), you would know that there are many GameCube kiosk discs floating around in the wild. If you have read any of my previous journal posts (such as the one on this random stock image on a GameCube disc or my documentation of every version of Super Smash Bros.
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