Who Remembers Sega Channel!

[Drak]

Yes the Sega Genesis Sega Channel!
Such a wonderful device that every school friend with a Genesis I knew had.

So what id like to say is:
Who had one of these when they were young? Or who had one period to say it aint so!


Anyway I remeber we had to return ours constantly since it was so buggy. It had so many glitches and a mere bump could break the thing!

Luckily though, the 4rth or so one we got was indestructable.

Too bad it went out of business due to the glitches.. The 50 games a month was realy cool to have and It allowed me and my bro to play so many games.. It showed me to a few of my fav games such as:

Shining force 2 (it didnt have 1 ;o)
Sparkster
Ristar
Road rash

and many.. many more

 

[Aaaaaaaa]

whats it?

 

[iignotus]

whats it?

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Yes the Sega Genesis Sega Channel!

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Google.

 

[PinkSpider]

I read this thread this morning and it struch me as being a little shit without an explaination or a link.

Oh and I did a quick google myself but I was hungover. Sigh.

Oh and I dont.

 

[Twimfy]

The Sega Channel actually made it to the UK, it was only available in south london and Newcastle...they were the test regions. It could only be used if you were a cable user rather than a sky user.

 

[Drak]

The Sega Channel actually made it to the UK, it was only available in south london and Newcastle...they were the test regions. It could only be used if you were a cable user rather than a sky user.

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I had it in Canada im pretty sure when i use to live in Penticton a long time ago.

theres a pic of it!

Its basically like a cable reciever thingy that allowed u to play games off it, It mustve had like a hard drive or something then booted em from there once u selected a game from the menu.

EDIT: I think it was like $9.99 a month :lol:

 

[PinkSpider]

Im sure ive seen one of those logos before. However I wasent that into gaming until the PlayStation era (well I'd had a NES/ Mega Drive/ GB - but I wasent really hardcore).

 

[Draken]

Never had it, shame, I wanted it.
Didn't nintendo do this too in Japan with the famicom?
I remember they hosted a nes zelda remake for snes for 24 hours to download.

 

[Josquius]

err wtf?
A genesis is a yank mega drive I know but a sega channel?
Sounds like one of those Japan online phone line link up things (which I didn't know the MD had)

 

[Twimfy]

The real shame with the sega channel was that the cart was flash memory only (the one pictured in this thread is the UK cartridge by the way, the US one looks much different).

Sega used to release demos of games through the service and apparently alot of games were completely different to the current versions, had it been a rom cart we could have seen some great beta material today on the web.

 

[Drak]

The real shame with the sega channel was that the cart was flash memory only (the one pictured in this thread is the UK cartridge by the way, the US one looks much different).

Sega used to release demos of games through the service and apparently alot of games were completely different to the current versions, had it been a rom cart we could have seen some great beta material today on the web.

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Yes the UK and US one are different, But here in Canada I remember this is the one that finally worked for me without crapping out

The US one is a bit different I think, but the games were full version and were the same as normal carts since i remember beating shining force 2 and road rash both on the channel, and the orig cart ^.^

I never heard of any demos being released from this .. meh mustve been to young at the time to remember that.

All and all it went bankrupt eventually due to too many glitches, and it was deemed free for a year after it went bankrupt Which was kinda cool.

My brother and law still has one, who knows maybe itll be a collectors itam.

 

[aQwaBlaz3]

I saw the advertisments and stuff on TV

Never got it though...

Anyone remember the X-Band? The first console modem?

I remember I got it in like 1997 (something like that) I was about 2-3 years too late...

Never also got my Dreamcast hooked online...

 

[Twimfy]

I saw the advertisments and stuff on TV

Never got it though...

Anyone remember the X-Band? The first console modem?

I remember I got it in like 1997 (something like that) I was about 2-3 years too late...

Never also got my Dreamcast hooked online...

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The first day I got my DC online was one of the best days of my life. PSO V.2 man I miss that game.

 

[PinkSpider]

Chu Chu Rocket online was aces. And the game was free.

 

[firefly1201]

The first day I got my DC online was one of the best days of my life. PSO V.2 man I miss that game.

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Wasn't that pay monthly? It was the reason I stuck with the original PSO, IIRC.

 

[Twimfy]

No, in the UK it was free but at the time my internet was on pay per minute so I had to be careful.

 

[Drak]

People still play PSO you know? Its on a free private server ;P

All u need to do is hook up a cord to it and play with inet of course.

 

[aQwaBlaz3]

heres the X-Band thing I was talking about.....the first console modem...

 

[PSyMastR]

lol. wow, that is so ugly, but then again. so is a 32x attached to a genesis attached to a master system or whatever. lol.

 

[aQwaBlaz3]

lol. wow, that is so ugly, but then again. so is a 32x attached to a genesis attached to a master system or whatever. lol.

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Or whatever? The 32x NEVER attached to any Master System. Get your facts right, man. Heres a link...Know your Sega before ya talk, Alright?

Ive read that whole site...I know mostly everything there is and will ever be of Sega...EVER.

Jesus, I need sleep...