I Guess People Are Stealing Games from Redbox...

[flamepanther]

What the hell is that!?

Seconded

[CFFJR]

I'm assuming its something "shocking" and poorly researched.

I mean, they have a picture of a CDX with the headline "HACKED".

Look out folks, the hackers are attacking 20 year old video game systems!! They might get your credit card number! Quick, into the panic room!

Yeah I'm being negative. Maybe it is something worthwhile, but my guess is that its bunk.

On another note, news anchors make some funny faces if you pause at the right moments.

[jfrost]

It's from when Sega's website got hacked last month. They put up that stupid picture that had nothing to do with it.

[DinnerX]

ther note, news anchors make some funny faces if you pause at the right moments.

You have to pause?

What really gets me is the melodramatic way they inflect their sentences.

[KillerJuan77]

I'm assuming its something "shocking" and poorly researched.

I mean, they have a picture of a CDX with the headline "HACKED".

Look out folks, the hackers are attacking 20 year old video game systems!! They might get your credit card number! Quick, into the panic room!

Didn't the Sega Channel thing for the Genesis allowed digital purchases?

But yeah, it was suppossed to be a report about Sega being hacked but instead they time traveled into the 90's.

[CFFJR]

It's from when Sega's website got hacked last month. They put up that stupid picture that had nothing to do with it.

Oh yeah, I forgot that happened. That one ended fast.

Love the picture then. Very topical. I suppose they couldn't be bothered to take 10 seconds and scrounge up a Sega logo on google.

First result:

You have to pause?

What really gets me is the melodramatic way they inflect their sentences.

That's always fun too.

Didn't the Sega Channel thing for the Genesis allowed digital purchases?

I think it was a paid subscription though wasn't it? You didn't actually make credit card purchases through a storefront like we do now.

Even so, its long gone and unhackable now. I was just being an ass and making fun of general media paranoia.

[KillerJuan77]

I think it was a paid subscription though wasn't it? You didn't actually make credit card purchases through a storefront like we do now.

Even so, its long gone and unhackable now. I was just being an ass and making fun of general media paranoia.

I know and well...

For a monthly subscription fee (usually $14.95 depending on location), along with a $25 activation fee, the subscriber would get an adapter, which plugged into the Genesis cartridge slot, and was connected to their cable television connection. The service would provide them with unlimited access to 50 games, selectable through an on-screen menu, with new games appearing every month. In its later years, this was changed to a selection of 35 games which rotated every two weeks. The games would be downloaded in about one minute and play just like the retail versions. These games were organized by genre, such as Action, Fighting, Adventure, and Family. Text-based instruction manuals for each game could also be accessed through a separate help menu download. Each month, there was a special theme with originally composed music, artwork and game categories.

So yeah, it was subscription based from AT&T.

[CFFJR]

I would have loved to have that back then.

[KillerJuan77]

I would have loved to have that back then.

The only Sega Channel exclusive I want is Mega Man: The Wily Wars so I wouldn't have considered it to be that awesome for just one game.

[flamepanther]

The only Sega Channel exclusive I want is Mega Man: The Wily Wars so I wouldn't have considered it to be that awesome for just one game.

I dunno. 35 to 50 games for $15 would have seemed pretty awesome to me at the time, considering the number of games I owned or could afford to rent in a month was much less than that.

Anyone know if the Sega Channel version of Wily Wars was ever dumped for emulation and copiers? I was never able to get past the region lockout on the PAL version on an actual NTSC Genesis, and I'm too cheap to pay the prices people want for repro carts that work. Well, that and I never pay for pirated stuff of any sort just on principle.