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TIL about the Sega Channel (segaretro.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by janus2 to c/[email protected]

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"Sega Channel was a project developed by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive video game console. Completely revolutionary at the time of release (bar a failed attempt with the earlier Intellivision console), it was a method capable of streaming digital content to Mega Drive owners through cable television."

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude I had sega channel, it was so cool! I believe you could play games all the way through and they grouped them by different genres, and the games changed monthly. They also had contests where you could win prizes. I won a backpack for one! Wish I still had it

[–] janus2 3 points 1 year ago

That is rad as hell.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I remember when this was out... always sounded kinda cool. That was back in the era of Street Fighter II and Phantasy Star IV.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Very vivid childhood memories of this. You had 1 (total) save slot. So if you booted another game, the previous was deleted.

Played through Shadowrun 4 or 5 times in a row because of that. Sega really was ahead of the curve so many times. Sega Channel, Analog Sticks, KBM+Broadband on DC. (Genesis+CD+32x Stack, lol).

Wonder where they'd be hardware wise if they hadn't crashed.

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