Play [Program] Sega Channel Online

Game Overview

Remember when Sega Channel blew our minds back in the day? You'd plug this weird adapter into your Genesis, hook it up to cable, and suddenly you had a rotating menu of like 50 games at a time. Some were demos, some full versions—it felt like cheating the system.

The selection changed every month, so you'd rush home from school to see what new stuff appeared. Half the fun was discovering random titles you'd never risk buying at the rental store. I still remember playing weird Japanese imports that never made it to shelves here.

Sure, the quality varied wildly—for every Sonic 3, there were three shovelware platformers—but that was part of the charm. It was basically Netflix for Genesis before anyone knew what streaming was.