I had a bunch of Sega consoles from that generation but don't remember the Sega Channel (granted I wasn't in a Time Warner service area). It just blows my mind

I had a bunch of Sega consoles from that generation but don't remember the Sega Channel (granted I wasn't in a Time Warner service area). It just blows my mind that a system for essentially downloading games from the 'cloud' so to speak was available 20 years ago.