The business docs they recovered are a fun read. I guess sega channel was the first time they had access to direct customer behavior metrics? They were surprised to learn Qix was one of their top played games.<p><a href="https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/df286eba-e9ca-4a4d-837c-1bb60516c1e0?sortField=title&sortDir=asc&showUncatalogedFiles=true" rel="nofollow">https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/df286eba-e9ca-4a4d-83...</a>
This is awesome! I used to have sega channel as a kid. I never had a game console and a Sega is the only one my mom ever bought us. We were fortunate enough to have cable TV from TCI cable and they had Sega channel. Every month we'd get new games and eventually they changed it to 2 weeks.
Sega Channel cut my game rental costs in half (sorry Blockbuster) and I played so many games I would have never bothered renting. Good times.
Cool, it's nice that they're sharing them instead of adding them to Frank's private collection.
Sega Channel was so ahead of its time
Oh man. Yeah, Sega Channel was amazing. It's true that it came pretty late in the Genesis' life and by that time, Sega was prioritizing Saturn but man, I loved SC and looked forward to the first of the month when all of the menus would switch.