Anyone remember Sega Channel? I was the only kid I knew that had it and very few people have even heard of it. It was so unreliable.
It's on my huge list of "things my parents acted like were super expensive but now that I'm a working adult know it wasn't" list.
Apparently it was a big part of improving cable signaling.
> The SEGA Channel delivered games to over 250,000 subscribers over regular coaxial cable. Games would download to the Genesis’ volatile RAM, meaning that they were erased from the system’s memory each time the console was powered off. No matter, though – games could be downloaded again in under a minute. It’s little wonder the service won Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New” award in 1994. The service continued until July 31, 1998, well into the next generation of consoles. Many cable operators had to clean their broadcast signal and equipment to ensure the SEGA Channel could be received, so the very fact that you’re enjoying broadband internet right now could well be thanks to SEGA.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/20/sega-a-soothsayer-of...
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