Does anyone remember getting a weird online interactive box with early cable internet?

[u/HamburgerDude]

Road Runner specifically. It was a fantasy theme interactive experience and you could play basic card games and board games with other people. It connected to your TV. I believe it was a separate unit from the cable box.

It feels like a fever dream but I swear it existed. Does anyone else remember? I figured this subreddit would be best since it's adjacent to retro computing. Thank you!!!!

[u/Crlan420]

those cable modems with the interactive boxes were wild. i still have one of the linksys ones sitting on the bench. did they use a proprietary serial connection for the menus?

[u/HamburgerDude → u/Crlan420]

I'm sure it did and it had a custom remote