Ah, the SEGA Channel. The second attempt at online gaming. The first attempt was actually on the ATARI 2600, believe it or not. As with SEGA Channel, you could buy games (through a dial-up connection for ATARI), and could purchase games for around 25 cents US. These games would stay around for 8 playthroughs, and then delete themselves.
The folks that made the ATARI game went on to make America Online.
Never really understood the appeal for that channel even as a kid. Why play something I wasn’t physically owning, especially if situations like this come up (Though not like I could afford it, we wouldn’t get the net till 98).
Sucks to be you, Kevin.
Barney Gumble: IT BEGINS!!!
Ah, the SEGA Channel. The second attempt at online gaming. The first attempt was actually on the ATARI 2600, believe it or not. As with SEGA Channel, you could buy games (through a dial-up connection for ATARI), and could purchase games for around 25 cents US. These games would stay around for 8 playthroughs, and then delete themselves.
The folks that made the ATARI game went on to make America Online.
Poor boy. I think that crash was Kevin’s sanity meter.
*Correction: “…says otherwise..”
Mother nature says others, Kev =P.
Never really understood the appeal for that channel even as a kid. Why play something I wasn’t physically owning, especially if situations like this come up (Though not like I could afford it, we wouldn’t get the net till 98).
In all fairness, the Genesis still rules.
Ah Sega Channel, the original Game Pass. $20 for 100 games a month was nothing to sneeze at back then. You know, when it worked.
Though 1 would think Kevin must already own virtually every game in the Genesis library he would be even slightly interested in anyway.
And once again, Kevin loses another “battle” against the Sega consoles XD
Gotta love how technological advancements made this practically a non-issue (as far as I know).
Also, I’m digging Kevin’s distinctly more exaggerated expressions lol