Sega Channel

[Earl Theodore Stevenson]

The Sega Channel will open in 11 cities on Sept.18. Those cities are:
Walnut Creek, CA
Beaumont, TX
East Lansing, MI
Hoover, AL
Portland, OR
St. Louis, MO
Buffalo, NY
Cheyenne, WY
Gastonia, NC
Nashua, NH
Reston, VA

As of now somwhere in the neighborhood of 50 games will be included in the
initial package. As of now the cabability of playing people from different
areas is not there. The channel will be installed by cable companies.

Earl Stevenson
Sega Marketing Representative
Stanford University

[Robert Hawkins]

In article <33lo82$9...@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> Earl Theodore Stevenson,

The Sega Channel already "opened" here in East Lansing(and other places)
on July 18. The other info is true :) We ARE playing about 50 games, and
we can't interact with others.

The saving method sucks, however. They have designed the system so that
save memory and game memory is one and the same, and if you load to large
a game, the save from those 25+ hours you played shining in the darkness
is now gone...

Rob
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Robert Hawkins
Intelligent Systems Laboratory
317 Engineering Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, 48824-1027
http://isl.cps.msu.edu/~hawkinsr/

[Becky Chan]

In article <340bt6$13...@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, Robert Hawkins <hawk...@isl.cps.msu.edu> writes:

|> The Sega Channel already "opened" here in East Lansing(and other places)
|> on July 18. The other info is true :) We ARE playing about 50 games, and
|> we can't interact with others.
|>

Sega Channel is not available where I am. Are these *new* games
that you are playing?

Does Sega intend to use Sega Channel for anything other than promotion
and trial marketing of new games?

Is there any upstream (to the CATV headend from the Genesis modem)
signalling capability?
--
Becky Chan email: bec...@bnr.ca

[Robert Hawkins]

In article <342073$a...@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> Becky Chan, bec...@bnr.ca writes:
>
> Sega Channel is not available where I am. Are these *new* games
> that you are playing?
>
> Does Sega intend to use Sega Channel for anything other than promotion
> and trial marketing of new games?
>
> Is there any upstream (to the CATV headend from the Genesis modem)
> signalling capability?
> --
> Becky Chan email: bec...@bnr.ca

There is a "Test Drive" section that allows you to play games that are
just being released or have not been released yet - but you only get to
play that game for 10 - 20 minutes, or it has some features disabled,
or...
However, the majority of the games are older games, and you are allowed
to play them fully. There is also a "Classics" section that allows you
to play even older games such as Sonic I or II, etc. Right now some of
the games we have available are:

Mortal Kombat
Chakan
Hulk
EA NHL 94
X-Men
Sonic II
Caesars Palace
Mig-29
Outrun 2019?
Super Battletank
Sportstalk Football
UItimate Qix
Columns
2 or 3 soccer games
Champoionship Pool
Tennis
Jack Nicklaus Golf
A real large variety of disney games..
Etc.

The Genesis modem is not used, and there is NO uploading of info.
Everything is downloaded, and then you use it. The only uploaded info
would be commands to download new stuff...