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Sega does what Nintendon't

Er... actualy I was a bit of a Nintendo fanboy back in the day... despite owning the Genesis before the SNES. My dad bought it and I would play it on the weekends...

Eventually I got bored of it and just brought my NES over and played Final Fantasy over and over and over again... I beat it using a 4 Black Belt party...

I didn't own a Sega Genesis back in the 90's. Heck, I barely remember the Super Nintendo!

How was it better?

I thought each were good in that they had console-specific games that I enjoyed.

SNES:
Breath of Fire (I and II)
Zelda (ALttP)
Mario Kart (Come on...you know that was awesome.)
Super Mario World (See above)
Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Secret of Evermore
...I'm sure there were more, but that's a good sampling.

Genesis:
Crusader of Centy (I'd kill to be able to download that for the Wii virtual console...)
Ecco the Dolphin
Golden Axe (I, II, III)
Beyond Oasis
...I'm kinda drawing a blank, I know there were more than those four that I liked.

It's a shame a lot of those games aren't remade. It would be awesome to play old games.

Well as any well developed gamer should tell you, it's all about the games. And towards the end I think the SNES just had a massive amount of games I liked better.

From a purely hardware point of view, the Sega Genesis had more raw computing power, but the SNES had more sophisticated sound and graphics chips.

This resulted in games for the SNES looking overall better yet often had annoying slow down. And especially in regards to the sound, SNES had amazing sound... and great game composers to take advantage of it. (well genesis did too, and it's sound wasn't bad... I may have nostalgic goggles on)

The Genesis got those add ons, Sega-CD and 32X... which segmented the market and didn't have many games to drive the platforms.

Nintendo did it's own special tricks though, by putting hardware directly on the cartridges. Star Fox and Yoshi's Island are the notable examples to use this technology.

If you said video game history is an obsession of mine... you'd be right...

SNES was the best.
I never really found much on the Genesis to keep me occupied.

What about Shining Force and Phantasy Star?

Sega had some good games, actually a bunch sort of went under my radar... I need to pick up Beyond Oasis for Wii virtual console...

From my experience (which wasn't much since I played it from 4-6 years of age) the SNES was great. I wouldn't mind trying out the Genesis though, just to see what it was like.

Also, I think my favorite SNES games was Raiden 1.

After doing some research on various websites and wikipedia, the levels had the same bosses that I remember (lvl had 1 huge tanks on rails, level 2 had a huge aircraft, etc)

I wish I could play that game....but anyway.

The age of 2D games were when the most awesome games came out. Everything was new at the time too so that probably helped a bit.

I'm of the mindset that 2d games are not less fun compared to 3d... and am sad that most 2d gameplay is becoming extinct.

They are all fun. It's just that majority (as far as I know) of 2D games were great. Compared to the mediocrity that is being released nowadays.

It's a shame that people care more about graphics than gameplay.

I still have a button that says "ASK ME ABOUT STARFOX!" From some convention or expo of my brother's.

The Phantasy Star series was decent. I played the ROMs.

Hiya Beth!

Yup, Katamari Damacy is my shining example of a game where graphics really don't matter... the "crappy" graphics is half the fun.

Actually one of my few examples of a game that is more fun just because it is 3d... I don't think the game design would work quite the same as a 2d game.

Clearly it wouldn't. You can't really have as much fun rolling balls around in 2D than in 3D.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers
Soundgarden
Ice-Cube
Ministry
Pearl Jam
Jesus & Mary Chain
Lush



I still have my Sega Genesis with 32-X and CD add-ons. I have the following games:

Star Wars Arcade
Star Wars Rebel Assault
The Software Toolworks Star Wars Chess
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
California Games
Taz-Mania
Taz In Escape From Mars
Sewer Shark
Sonic
Sonic 2
Sonic Spinball
Jordan VS Bird
Lakers Versus Celtics And The NBA Playoffs
NHL Hockey '92
NHL Hockey '93
NHL Hockey '94
NHL Hockey '95
NHL Hockey '96
NHL Hockey '97
Madden '92
Roger Clemens MVP Baseball
World Series Baseball
FIFA '95
Dragon's Lair
Dune
Ecco The Dolphin
Ecco The Tides Of Time

I also still have my Atari 2600 and about 50 games. Some of you just don't know how good you have it.

Whoa. Those are some old games.