Over 100 Lost Sega Genesis ROMs Recovered by VGHF

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Over 100 Lost Sega Genesis ROMs Recovered by VGHF

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You know that feeling when you’re binge-watching a show and suddenly realize all the deleted scenes just dropped? That’s what happened to Sega Genesis fans this week.

The Video Game History Foundation just unearthed 144 lost Sega Channel ROMs—yes, the ’90s service that delivered games over your cable TV. Think Netflix… if it required a special box, cost $20/month in 1995, and occasionally froze mid-game while your mom yelled about the phone bill. When Sega shut it down in ’98, most of the games vanished like a dial-up connection mid-download. Poof.

But thanks to a lucky tape backup from a former employee and an old exec’s dusty filing cabinet, we now have everything: rare exclusives like Garfield: Caught in the Act – The Lost Levels, The Flintstones with extra levels, and even unreleased prototypes like Popeye in High Seas High-Jinks (yes, Popeye on a pirate ship). There’s also proof of Express Games, Sega’s secret plan to turn PCs into game boxes. Imagine that.

The best part? This means we now have digital copies of every U.S. Genesis game ever released. No more “I heard it existed…” rumors. Just pure, crunchy, 16-bit nostalgia. And no—we won’t give you the ROMs. But we will say: if you’ve got a Genesis and a time machine, you’re officially ready.

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