/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10363923]

>Online Game Streaming Service
>in 1994
There’s no fuckin’ way bro.

[Anonymous No.10363927]

>>10363923
ayo ain'' no WAAAAAAY lil bro din' know 'aht

[Anonymous No.10363939]

>>10363923
if Sega channel is an "online" service then so was ordering a PPV in the 80s

[Anonymous No.10363943]

>>10363923
>literally the autistic screeching meme
fitting

[Anonymous No.10363948]

>Sega on the cutting edge of
>rushing out unfinished games and selling you the "complete" game at full price later
>games that focus on cutscenes over actual quality
>YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY

[Anonymous No.10363958]

>>10363943
Indeed.

[Anonymous No.10363961]

>>10363948
>games that focus on cutscenes over actual quality
What delusion is this? I can't even think of a Sega game with cutscenes before Sonic Adventure

[Anonymous No.10364201]

A friend of mine had Sega Channel.

[Anonymous No.10364215]

>>10363923
I used to watch AOSTH on Sega Channel.

[Anonymous No.10364220]

>>10363923
Wasn’t that one Garfield game exclusive to this service? Like it’s the only game that wasn’t sold retail anywhere until I think it got released on PC or something.

[Anonymous No.10364236]

>>10363961
Sega CD FMV Shovelware. All cutscene, minimal gameplay.

[Anonymous No.10364412]

>>10363923
>online game renting service
>in 1983
>couldn't get any of the actual good games so didn't really take off
>American games market crashed in the same year
Very well timed too, the company behind this took inspiration from getting fucked and became AOL.

[Anonymous No.10364443]

That will never catch on.
Who wants to pay for games and then not even own them?

[Anonymous No.10364959]

>>10364443
>Who wants to pay for games and then not even own them?
yeah, you must’ve been born after 9/11, I don’t think this board is for you, fag.

[Anonymous No.10365773]

>>10364220
IIRC the only exclusivity about it is new sets of levels unavailable anywhere else

[Anonymous No.10365779]

>>10364959
I assume he was taking a jab at the current state of digital game "ownership"

[Anonymous No.10365780]

>>10364443
Only publishers and devs own the games

[Anonymous No.10365804]

>>10363923
Neat thing, Sega Channel was basically proto cable internet and some of the tech that went in to it ended up in the cable internet standard DOCSIS.

[Anonymous No.10365810]

>>10364236
So like the critically acclaimed PS4/PS5 games today? Just sounds like sega was ahead of everyone else as usual

[Anonymous No.10365817]

>>10364959
Actual retard

[Anonymous No.10365820]

>>10363923
I had it for a few years in the Denver area. It was cool, but you couldn’t save, and they always shit like Phantasy Star 2-4 on there.

[Anonymous No.10365823]

>>10364236
FMV games are not even close to the majority of content on the Sega CD...

[Radiochan !!8R5IcuH3PgQ No.10366078]

>>10363923
Research PlayCable, this was being done with 2600 and Intellivision games in the 80s

[Anonymous No.10366098]

>>10363923
It wasn't streaming. You directly downloaded whatever game you wanted to play to the cart and could keep playing it so long as the cart didn't fail or you downloaded another game. This is why some games managed to get preserved. You'd know this if you did a couple seconds of research but you didn't and now you look like a fool. You're probably gonna get past the IP counter and go HURRR SAME SHIT to save face but it is in fact not the same thing and you will forever be a laughing stock in my memories of "Dumb newfags on /vr/ I have pwned" list. Good day. Mods.... do something about this thread because quite frankly it's an embarrassing thing to see on what was once a prestigious board for vintage video game discussion.

[Anonymous No.10366107]

>>10363923
It's not streaming. The game is downloaded locally and then you play it.
PC gamers were downloading games in the early 80s.

[Anonymous No.10366138]

>>10365820
Are those good games?

[Anonymous No.10366147]

>>10366098
Anon-sama...

[Anonymous No.10366153]

>>10365820
>phantasy star
>can't save

And then zoomers claim "there was no such thing as leaning the console on for several days/nights in a row"

Did saving worked as long as you kept the console on at least?

[Anonymous No.10366169]

>>10363923
And it was as good as you'd expect an online streaming service in 1994 to be.

[Anonymous No.10366264]

>>10366169
didn't even have cable tv growing up, but a good friend had sega channel, and i was fucking glued to the tv even while shit was loading so i could read all the news briefs and stuff. i had never seen anything like it, it was insane to me as a 10-11 year old

[Anonymous No.10366278]

>>10366264
I don't believe you.

[Anonymous No.10366290]

>>10366278
Naw, he’s telling the truth.

>>10366264
What fucking sucks is that, because the news and games were streamed and because of the lack of tech at the time. They’re literally not a screenshot nor video of the news paged and what they were about. I used to see people on GameFAQs talk about games that were completely wiped from existence after the service was discontinued. My old brother said there was a Rambo game that was streamed that was played like Contra but better… literally no recollection of it on the entire fucking web.

[Anonymous No.10366302]

>>10366290
Damn, can't say I've ever heard of that Rambo game. Sounds like it would have been good. I only really got to use the service a handful of times over the course of a summer, and most of the time we were playing 2 player stuff, and the big new releases that were coming out.
I know there's been some kind of work to bring it back to life in some form in recent years, but I don't know if it ever really went anywhere substantial.

[Anonymous No.10366325]

>>10366302
Do you remember anything of what was streamed?

>kind of work to bring it back to life
I’m surprised they haven’t yet. I’m sure someone will.

[Anonymous No.10366342]

>>10366325
I don't remember anything really specific, but there were mentions of contests you could enter, and upcoming games that were going to be downloadable.
We played 2p Outrunners a lot for some reason, Gunstar Heroes, MK3 (though it was in separate downloads with a few characters each). Think I played Vectorman on it for the first time. I don't remember if Wily Wars was on it around the time my friend had it. Getting to be a long fucking time ago.

[Anonymous No.10366412]

>>10364412
Literally Intellivision Playcable but for the Atari 2600.

[Anonymous No.10366417]

>>10365810
""critically acclaimed""
Yeah, more like paid to positively review it by SNoY

[Anonymous No.10366443]

>>10366098
boomerchads i kneel

[Anonymous No.10366462]

>>10363948
>>rushing out unfinished games and selling you the "complete" game at full price later
Truly ahead of their time.

[Anonymous No.10366570]

>>10366138
Great games, but long enough that you need to be able to save to beat them…
>>10366153
It was like 1995, we had one tv in the house, and there’s no way my parents were gonna let me leave that shit on for weeks while I beat some video game. I got revenge years later though and beat all 4.

[Anonymous No.10366650]

>>10364236
Sewer shark was awesome!

[Anonymous No.10366771]

>>10366153
I had Sega Channel for a few years and saves worked on most games. The only one I remember it not working on was Rings of Power. Also if you even just loaded another game that used saves, whatever you had saved previously in other games was overwritten, so you had to be careful about that.
I've read that a lot of units had dead save batteries, so that's probably why people say saves didn't work even though the functionality was there.

[Anonymous No.10367467]

>>10366412
>age dick waving
XMODEM bros...we just keep winning. [EOT]
Anyway they weren't very scalable, but that only became an issue for Playcable because it had modest success and lasted long enough to actually see bigger games get released. Still cool though.
Would've been cooler with the Colecovision, but they turned that into a pre-broken computer with a penchant for erasing your media when it did function instead.

[Anonymous No.10367551]

>>10363923
One of the few genuinely functional ideas Sega had, only to be sabotaged by the rapacity of early-90s cable providers.