LodgeNet

SONIFI Incorporated, previously SONIFI Solutions, is an interactive content and connectivity provider. The company serves approximately 1.4 million hotel rooms worldwide in addition to healthcare facilities throughout the United States with core services that include interactive television, broadband, connectivity, and advertising media solutions along with nationwide technical and professional support services.

The company's corporate headquarters are in Los Angeles, California and the primary operations center is in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The company also maintains offices in Silicon Valley as well as offices in Canada and Mexico and a network of field service facilities serving the company's customers throughout the United States and Canada. SONIFI's primary customer base is in the continental United States, and they also deliver services in Canada, Mexico and 15 other countries through relationships with local licensees. As LodgeNet, it had a long-standing partnership with Nintendo, and has brought Nintendo console titles to hotel rooms since the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

History

SONIFI Solutions was founded in 1980 as Satellite Movie Company. The company was renamed LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation in 1991 and became a publicly traded corporation in 1993. LodgeNet purchased The Hotel Networks, On Command, and Stay Online corporations in 2006 and 2007, and changed its name to LodgeNet Interactive Corporation in 2008.

In late 1993, LodgeNet launched its on-demand hospitality service, including worldwide delivery of Super NES games to hotel guests via its proprietary building-wide networks. LodgeNet eventually reported the system being installed in 200,000 hotel guest rooms by April 1996, and 530,000 guest rooms by mid-1999. By April 1996, LodgeNet reported that its partnership with Nintendo to deliver Super NES games had yielded 200,000 worldwide hotel guest room installations. On June 16, 1998, Nintendo and LodgeNet entered a 10-year licensing agreement for an "aggressive" upgrade to add Nintendo 64 support to their existing 500,000 Super NES equipped guest room installations. LodgeNet says that within the system's previous five years to date, the system had "caused Nintendo to become the most successful new product rollout in the history of the hotel pay-per-view industry". LodgeNet reported that within the middle of 1998 alone, 35 million hotel guests encountered the Nintendo name as an integral amenity, and it reported sales of more than 54 million minutes of Nintendo-based gameplay.

On June 10, 1999, LodgeNet and Nintendo began expanding and upgrading their existing Super NES buildout to include Nintendo 64 support. In mid-1999, LodgeNet reported that its 530,000 hotel room installations were increasing at a rate of 11,000 rooms per month. In September 2000, Nintendo and LodgeNet began delivering newly released Nintendo 64 games to hotel rooms at more than 1,000 hotel sites, concurrently with the games' retail releases, demonstrating "the capacity to update odgeNet'sinteractive digital systems with fresh content virtually overnight".

On December 31, 2012, LodgeNet announced its intention to file for a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a recapitalization that would give control of the company to Colony Capital, a global investment firm with $38 billion in assets under management and a broad range of hospitality and media industry investments. The commencement of these proceedings was announced on January 28, 2013. During this period the company also announced that Colony had signed a memorandum of understanding with DirecTV under which LodgeNet and DIRECTV would operate as strategic partners within the hospitality and healthcare markets. The agreement extended the parties' current free-to-guest programming agreement to include DIRECTV branding, programming and content, advertising and other operational support.

On March 28, 2013, Colony announced that it had completed the acquisition, concurrent with an approximately $70 million recapitalization of the company and a new $358 million long term credit facility. The investor syndicate led by Colony was issued new common stock representing 100% ownership of the company. This completed the company's emergence from Chapter 11. In the same announcement, hospitality industry veteran Mike Ribero was named the company's new CEO. Tom Storey is the president of hospitality, Ed Kaufman is general counsel, and John Chang is the chief financial officer, completing the current executive management team.

The company officially became SONIFI Solutions on June 25, 2013, with an announcement at the HITEC trade show. In January 2020, its corporate entity became SONIFI Incorporated.

Games

Games are offered for three Nintendo platforms, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Nintendo 64, and the GameCube, with support for the Nintendo Entertainment System planned.

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

There were 49 Super Nintendo Entertainment System titles available to play on LodgeNet hotel televisions and on airlines equipped with Nintendo Gateway System, which LodgeNet used for their hotel service. Some titles were not playable on airlines.

*'' Blackthorne''
*'' Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure'' (not available on airlines)
*''Boxing Legends of the Ring''
*''The Brainies''
*'' ClayFighter: Tournament Edition'' (not available on airlines)
*'' ClayFighter 2: Judgment Clay'' (not available on airlines)
*'' Claymates''
*'' Donkey Kong Country''
*'' Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' (not available on airlines)
*''Dr. Mario'' (standalone, exclusive to the service)
*'' Final Fight''
*'' F-Zero''
*'' Hagane: The Final Conflict''
*'' Hal's Hole in One Golf''
*'' Hangman'' (exclusive to the service)
*'' Killer Instinct'' (not available on airlines)
*'' Kirby's Dream Course''
*'' The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past''
*'' The Lost Vikings''
*''The Lost Vikings 2''
*'' Mega Man X''
*'' NCAA Basketball'' (listed in a Nintendo Power article about the Gateway Service, unknown availability)
*'' Noughts & Crosses'' (exclusive to the service)
*''Panel de Pon''
*'' Postcard Puzzle'' (exclusive to the service)
*''Prehistorik Man''
*''Pro Mahjong Kiwame''
*'' Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye''
*'' Street Fighter II: The World Warrior''
*'' Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting'' (not available on airlines)
*''Super Adventure Island''
*'' Super Bonk''
*''Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts''
*''Super Mario All-Stars''
*'' Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World'' (unknown availability)
*'' Super Mario World''
*'' Super Metroid'' (not available on airlines)
*'' Super Play Action Football''
*''Super Punch-Out!!''
*''Super Soccer''
*''Super Solitaire''
*'' Super Street Fighter II'' (not available on airlines)
*''Super Tennis''
*''T&E True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach'' (listed in a Nintendo Power article about the Gateway Service, unknown availability)
*'' Tetris'' (standalone, exclusive to the service)
*'' Tetris Attack''
*'' Tetris & Dr. Mario''
*''Vegas Stakes''
*'' Wario's Woods''

Nintendo 64

There were 38 Nintendo 64 titles available to play on LodgeNet hotel televisions.

*''1080° Snowboarding''
*'' Donkey Kong 64''
*'' Dr. Mario 64''
*''Excitebike 64''
*''Extreme-G''
*''F-Zero X''
*'' Forsaken 64''
*'' Gauntlet Legends''
*'' Hydro Thunder''
*'' Iggy's Reckin' Balls''
*'' Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards''
*'' The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask''
*'' The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time''
*'' Mario Golf''
*'' Mario Kart 64''
*'' Mario Party 3''
*'' Mario Tennis''
*''Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits''
*''Milo's Astro Lanes''
*'' Mortal Kombat 4''
*''Namco Museum 64''
*''The New Tetris''
*'' Paper Mario''
*'' Pilotwings 64''
*''Pokémon Snap''
*'' Rampage 2: Universal Tour''
*'' Ready 2 Rumble Boxing''
*'' Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA''
*'' San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing''
*'' Star Fox 64''
*'' Star Wars: Rogue Squadron''
*''Super Mario 64''
*''Super Smash Bros.''
*'' Turok 2: Seeds of Evil''
*''Virtual Chess 64''
*''Virtual Pool 64''
*'' Wave Race 64''
*'' Yoshi's Story''

GameCube

There were 43 Nintendo GameCube titles available to play on LodgeNet hotel televisions.

*''1080° Avalanche''
*'' Animal Crossing''
*'' Backyard Baseball 2007''
*''Battalion Wars''
*''Chibi-Robo!''
*'' Custom Robo''
*'' Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem''
*'' Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles''
*'' Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance''
*''Geist''
*'' Kirby Air Ride''
*'' The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition''
*'' The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures''
*'' The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest''
*'' The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess''
*'' The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker''
*''Luigi's Mansion''
*'' Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour''
*'' Mario Kart: Double Dash!!''
*''Mario Party 4''
*''Mario Party 5''
*''Mario Party 6''
*''Mario Party 7''
*''Mario Power Tennis''
*'' Metroid Prime''
*'' Metroid Prime 2: Echoes''
*'' Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
*'' Pikmin''
*'' Pikmin 2''
*'' Pokémon Channel''
*''Pokémon Colosseum''
*'' Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness''
*'' Star Fox: Assault''
*'' Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader''
*'' Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike''
*'' Super Mario Strikers''
*'' Super Mario Sunshine''
*''TMNT''
*'' Tomb Raider: Legend''
*'' The Urbz: Sims in the City''
*'' Wario World''
*'' WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Games!''
*'' Wave Race: Blue Storm''

See also

* Nintendo 64 controller#LodgeNet variant
* Interactive television
* Smart TV
* Nintendo Gateway System

Notes

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.sonifi.com/

Television technology
Mass media companies established in 1980
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq