Sega Channel Goes Down

The Sega Channel, the first nationwide video game service to let you download new games through your cable box, announced that it will stop broadcasting on June 30, 1998. The service's main New York offices will close by the end of this year.

While it was a revolutionary service when it was introduced in 1994 at the end of the Genesis' life, the service had only 150,000 subscribers out of the 20 million homes it was available to.