The SEGA Channel

I'm pretty sure the Sega Channel did have game saves. I remember playing a lot of RPGs on there and I don't think I would play them if they didn't save. Maybe it only kept saves for one game at a time or something?

Just seeing those menus again is so incredibly nostalgic. My dad for YEARS would joke about how I was always mysteriously too sick to go to school at the beginning of every month (because of the refresh). What great memories.

Back in the 90s my buddy bought one of these at a garage sale. We thought it wouldn't work without a subscription but we took it home and plugged into the cable and it worked perfectly. We were in gaming heaven for months. (And the cable company never knew)

I used the Sega Channel back in 1995. I had traveled to LA, and at the hotel (it was a more upscale hotel), had a Sega genesis with Sega channel in every room. I played on it until 2AM. My thinking at the time, was that this was something soo cool that it would be offered in every major city by the end of the year.

That flapping mothwing effect in alien soldier looks amazing even now.

I remember when my next door neighbors got this. Played Mega Man on it not knowing it was a Sega Channel exclusive game in the states. Just seemed like the coolest concept ever.

It’s crazy how ahead of its time Sega Channel was! I miss this era of Sega!

I had the Sega Channel from it's beginning all the way until they cancelled the service. I don't ever remember seeing Dyna Brothers 2, but I really DO remember Nightmare Circus (and the hype the "News Section" gave it). Towards the end of the service, the games mostly repeated with maybe one or two new titles that they would hype up a lot. My clearest memory (and also my worst) was the Primal Rage Tournaments they tried to do. You actually played against other players in real time, but the game would ALWAYS crash at the end and no one could win the promised Primal Rage Arcade Machine. I remember when the tournaments ended, they said something like "sorry.. technical errors prevented us from crowning a winner" and they just left it at that.

I rode that baby out till the end, went through the game changes from monthly to bi-weekly, to the price drops and all. Gave me some incredible gaming memories and that menu music is forever with me : P

I had the SEGA Channel when I was very young. I remember playing Sonic 3D Blast, but the game was cut into two parts and you needed a code from the end of the first part to play the second part. I also remember playing some Barney game and realizing that you couldn’t lose or get hurt. It was the first game I got bored with and realized that games needed consequences.

I love waking up to a new Game Sack video on Sunday morning. I really do.

I had the sega channel. The device acted like a cartridge. The version i had kept the game on it long as you didnt write over it. Also could save game progress also.

I would stay up till 12 at night at the end of the month to see what new games were available! They tended to reupload a lot of the same games over the course of time but it was such an awesome service.

Heck yeah the Sega Channel blew my mind when it came out. It was such a blast, and I got to play so many great RPGs I didn't know the system had.

I was lucky growing up we had the sega channel. It was actually my introduction to RPG's. I learned the hard way when you were done playing you'd lose your save progress so I would just leave the Genesis on sometimes for a whole day or 2 until I got back on the game. I remember beating Shining Force 1 and 2 that way

I had the Sega Channel from 1995-1997 through TCI here in St. Louis, it was a key component of my video game experience back then there was only so many games that I could rent from Blockbuster and having the Sega Channel meant I got to play games that probably would’ve never even touched otherwise. I still remember so vividly making sure that the cable was tightened on the back of the adapter so I wouldn’t get that “Attention!” screen even though you run across it a few times. I even got to play games that are now considered lost or haven’t even been dumped in ROM form yet such as Garfield: The Lost Levels and even the Genesis version of the Flintstones movie video game. What was maddening back then was because of the memory size of the adapter, they wasn’t able to play certain full games like Super Street Fighter II only had half the roster to play as and Mortal Kombat 3 when it first came out had to be split into two parts. Also, noticed certain games made by Acclaim or had a big license such as NBA wasn’t even able to be played on there mainly due to licensing issues I’m sure, even if it was made by Sega themselves so I still had to go to Blockbuster for some of those games. BTW, Pulseman was never translated on the Channel but it was still a fun game and I could never for the life of me figure out why it never got released here in the US at least physically. The Sega Channel will always go down as one of those “you had to be there” moments in gaming, something I will truly cherish forever.

Sega Channel user here, I remember staying up late night on the end of the month waiting for the game lineup and screen to change.

I finally noticed that Alien Soldier's title screen is boasting about setting the Mega Drive's CPU on fire. That's kind of awesome honestly. More games should do that.

28:48 I truly appreciate these skits you do. They are very well timed and placed and your dry humor is just spot on. I think these put you next to AVGN (In his good days) in how you can convey these funny jokes with just your facial expressions alone. You are a great actor

Me and my big brother were so lucky to have grown up with the Sega Channel! It's thanks to this that we are life long Sega fans!