16 Bit era Nintendo VS. SEGA take a stand

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Yo jew gamer!
in the 16 bit era sega had the genesis and nintendo had NES and SNES. take a stand on who u think ruled that era not who rules now.
I have to say SEGA because i love the genesis to death but NES and SNES were definately two of the greatest consoles ever made.
 
I was pretty young then, and hence was only allowed by my parents to own one of them. I went for the SNES but I had a friend who had a Genesis.
 
Early in the 16 bit era/Generation 4 I played the SNES more often, but as the Genesis gained popularity and started releasing some great games I ended up playing it the most. People assumed that Nintendo would continue to dominate Sega the same way they had in Generation 3 but then Sonic rushed in and ran circles around Mario. It was a great era of competition between the two that produced a lot of great games.

I think if you're a fan of traditional RPGs then the SNES gets the nod, which is kinda strange in retrospect because all Nintendo consoles since have been strangely lacking in RPGs. Genesis definitely had better sports games, though. I'm still waiting for a sequel to Mutant League Football. :'(

If I had to chose just one it would be the SNES, just cuz I play it more often nowadays than my good ol' Genny.
 
I'll have to say Sega, as much as I loved the RPGs on SNES, the Mega Drive (sorry, Genesis) did action games better.

But then, Sega also released the Mega CD and 32X, two of the worst gaming peripherals in history. (Sonic CD was awesome though).
 
At the time, my cousin (who is one year younger than me) was living here and the Genesis had better co-op games. We played Golden Axe so much the game is actually messed up now. :lol We also were big fans of Forgotten Worlds. And some games, like Tommy Lasorda Baseball, were only good to play multiplayer (because if you played the computer they were cheap). So I'd give that the SNES vs. Genesis argument to the Genesis.

But the SNES has some great single player games. LoZ: Link to the Past and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars are still in my top 20 all time, definitely.
 
hammerofdawn said:
But then, Sega also released the Mega CD and 32X, two of the worst gaming peripherals in history. (Sonic CD was awesome though).
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They were not the worst in history. They just weren't supported quite like the Genesis was.
 
Dart said:
They were not the worst in history. They just weren't supported quite like the Genesis was.
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I've heard there were a wealth of good Sega CD games, guess I was never able to track any down.

The only games I ever had for it were Sonic CD, Ecco CD and Road Avenger. My only other two choices in Australian stores at the time were: Make Your Own Video: INXS, and better yet, Make Your Own Video: Marky Mark. *shudder*
 
hammerofdawn said:
I've heard there were a wealth of good Sega CD games, guess I was never able to track any down.

The only games I ever had for it were Sonic CD, Ecco CD and Road Avenger. My only other two choices in Australian stores at the time were: Make Your Own Video: INXS, and better yet, Make Your Own Video: Marky Mark. *shudder*
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The Lunar games and Dark Wizard were good, and I liked Popful Mail for the kitsch value but the difficulty was way off balance so you had to spend many boring hours leveling up. Most other games I had were crap. Lately I've been emulating Shining Force CD but I never actually owned a copy. I also liked Thunderstrike back then but after playing it again recently I have to say that it hasn't held up well.
 
SNES won hands down, but it was a whole lot closer of a contest than in the 8 bit ear. WHY? Early on Nintendo implemented a strategy similar to wal mart and microsoft in that they bullied software developers. Nintendo had the lion's share of the market back in the day and refused putting their liscense on a 3rd party developers game if they developed on multiple platforms. Sega compensated by making a hugely sucessful platformer out of sonic, getting superior sports games, and trying to bring in an older demographic with said sports games and allowing more violent games to be produced. Nintendo was scrutinized on their business practices and eased up on the 3rd party developers allowing more multiple platform games. Games like Mortal Kombat showed up for both, helping out sega but the blow back from the 80's seemed to be too much. Sega didn't really get many RPGs for the genny which wasn't a huge deal in the US but probably hurt them seriously in Japan.

I loved both systems and owned and regularly played both but nintendo had the name and the support and sega just came in second.
 
Sigh, Haven't we had like 10 topics like this?

Nintendo - Better games
Sega - Always trying to be ahead of it's time.
 
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