It's another sign the industry is moving away from owning games - some fear that means gamers having to "shell out more."
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“Again”.

I used to have a Sega Channel as a kid. It was this big clunky cartridge with its own power supply and internet connection that downloaded Sega Genesis games. It was incredible.

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While doing some research on Sega Channel (I was a SNES kid) I found this article which has a lot of cool info.

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The Internet was not part of the system

Programming and transmission of the Sega Channel’s monthly services started with a production team at Sega, which would put together content every month and load it onto a CD-ROM. It was then sent to TCI’s satellitestation,[12] located in Denver, Colorado.[13] From the station, the signal was transmitted via Hughes Communications’ Galaxy 7 satellite, which uploaded at 1.435 GHz and downloaded at 1.1 GHz, to the local cable providers.

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I knew a kid who had the Sega channel thing, it was amazing to watch.

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