FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT GENESIS IS SUPERIOR TO SNES

>>389430849
It is all shit talk, but my favorite Mega Drive game from childhood "Warlock" is so god damn shitty on SNES, i was baffled.

>>389430849
Kirby has more SNES games than Ristar.

Checkmate Hindus

>>389430849
genesis was stronger but snes had better sound and colors

snes also shipped games with expansion chips to get around having weaker hardware

>>389430849
>>Sonic is better than Mario

2D Sonic is good but no.

>>389431475
>genesis was stronger
I kek'd greatly.

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>>389430849
>those songs
>that cherry picking

i had both consoles growing up so im superior than all of you in this thread

I know this is copypasta but
>music on genesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDCO-2c0h3E
>music on snes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RW7E3AmfdM

>>389430849
>using that choice for music and not lightning force, Contra Hard Corps, Jewel Master, or cool spot

C'mon son.

>>389432142
Genesis version is better.

>Ristar
>Better then kirby superstar
>anything on the Genesis being better then super metroid or link to the past


So how about those good Castlevania games on genesis?

grow the fuck up OP.

>>389430849
>Sonic is better than Mario
Yes
>Streets of Rage is better than Final Fight
Yes
>Phantasy Star is better than Final Fantasy
No
>Ristar is better than Kirby
No
>Contra Hard Corps is better than Contra 3
No
>Castlevania Bloodlines is better than Super Castlevania 4
No
>Aladdin on Genesis is better than Aladdin on SNES
Yes

Also let me make things clear. Sonic was better than Mario but not dramatically so. Streets of Rage is definitely better than Final Fight. Dat Haggar though.

What made Genesis great wasn't that it was better necessarily. It is that it was different. It was a true alternative to the SNES. Something modern day consoles lack. Everyone is pointing and laughing at the Switch because it doesn't offer something truly alternative. It is more a gimmick than a true alternative. It is a weaker PS4 with a gimmick. Where as Genesis was like apples to SNES's oranges.

>>389432279
>the one that sounds like somone is farting through a trumpet
>sounds better than something that sounds like a proper band
Genesis fags are this delusional

>>389430849
>le blast processing maymay
fuck off m8, everyone knows that Jaguar is the best

>>389431789
SNES had a lot of fancy tricks and effects up it sleeve but the Genesis could brute force a lot of them.

>>389431475
(You)

>>389433273
The SPU on the SNES is still amazing to me.

The music files are just frozen in there, and decoded by a separate device.

>>389433154
Nope. In genesis version you hear every instrument like it is there, and you have bass. SNES version is bland all instruments together and has no weight to melody what so ever.

>>389430849
Kek'd hard at that Yoshi music.

>>389430849
Are you smoking crack? Of course you are... trailer park sega trash are all either crack babies or crack heads. You must be both.

>>389433418
>You can hear every instrument seperately
You can do that on DKC, which Genesis could never ever have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjRw9X2Hxro

>>389432554
I prefer super but bloodlines is legit. Everything konami touched back then turned into gold though.

>>389432142
Look I agree that the SNES has better music than the genesis but this is as horrible example.

Both are shit.

>Chrono Trigger
>Earthbound
>Star Fox
>Secret Of Mana
>Illusion Of Gaia
>F-Zero
>Contra III: The Alien Wars
>Mega Man X
>Donkey Kong Country trilogy
>Super Castlevania IV
>TMNT: Turtles In Time
>Final Fantasy II
>Final Fantasy III
>Street Fighter II
>Super Mario World
>Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
>Super Mario Kart
>Super Mario All-Stars
>Super Mario RPG
>Super Metroid
>Kirby Super Star
>The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past
>Zombies Ate My Neighbors
>ActRaiser
>Mortal Kombat II
How can ANY console compete with the Super Nintendo?
>"b-but the Mega Drive version of Mortal Kombat had blood!!1!"

>>389433864
That list is just the start of it. It's almost overwhelming to think about how many good games there were for the snes. You could play it forever.

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SNES was better in every way except the processor and its clockspeed.

>>389433273
The Genesis has a faster cpu the SNES was superior in every other aspect.

>>389433864
>Zombies Ate My Neighbors
It was on the Genesis too, you know.

I'm thinking of digging into the SNES library lately, recommend me some neat games you dont often see mentioned /v/.

>>389430849
This thread sucks and is now about SNES and Genesis music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pim1s_DBR64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa4Z7UpFA6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOb0CcSA04c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVp5G7wraRg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8zIaaU5i_Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0nLSaMprEA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvNoU5qz6tg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGDVVh68MOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmDgcbJv0E8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGwG0FhU_UU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH4UUK_b_KA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU1Cm72NflU

>>389435351
Ninja warriors. Super turrican 1 and 2. Super buster bros. Dino city. Metal warriors. Cybernator. Space megaforce. Want me to keep going?

>>389435769
Ye, I want you to go all the way anon

>>389435651
>no Gleylancer
You fucked up anon
https://youtu.be/y68mENG2VlI

>>389435651
>no TF4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnLAC5AJPuM

SNES blows mega drive out of the fucking water and it amazes me how people still debate this
>donkey kong country 1-3
>kirby superstar, dream course
>yoshi's fucking island
>super metroid
>FF4 and FF6
>Dragon Quest 5 and 6, also dank DQ remakes (lol USA and Europe)
>earthbound, chrono trigger, SMRPG
>MMX-X3
>Secret of Mana 2 and 3
>turtles in time
>actraiser
>star fox
>f-zero
>Almost every multiplat is better on SNES since they have the same graphics but the SNES ones have better music.

What can Genesis bros POSSIBLY argue?
>streets of rage is better than final fight!
I agree though
>sonic is better than mario!
maybe
>aladdin on genesis is better!!
Yes but who cares
>Altered beast, comix zone and ristar are pretty neat!!!!
okay but that's like 3 good exclusives versus like 20

>>389435805
Lol you're funny. Just look it up, you'll find another 100 gems most people never talk about.

>>389435805
Terranigma

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>>389430849
>16 bit console wars
>in CURRENT YEAR
just emulate that shit, you don't have the "i'm too poor to get both" excuse anymore

>>389430849

While you are a raving lunatic if you think Ristar is in any way or form a decent game, i agree with some of the options you provide.

I have not had the chance to enjoy Phantasy Stare due to time constriant, but when i have more free time i will try to dust of my old Genesis and give it round.

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SFC > SNES > mega drive > FC > NES

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>>389432554

There are a few hidden gems in the Mega drive library such as wonderboy in monster world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQerU3rN0yY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuytyUvv2pk

Genesis are you even FUCKING trying

Castlevania 4 is superior.


Does anyone remember the game Metal Combat Falcon's Revenge, the super scope game?

>>389436508
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGFUzXDjASY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8JdQ8Y0G6Q

genesis soundchip isn't that bad actually it's just burgers suck at composing music. Japanese developers had no problems making good music for it

>>389436139
SNES has more quality games but MD is still good.

>Shinobi revenge/3
>Gunstar heroes
>Comix zone
>Sonic 1/2/3/CD & K
>Streets of Rage 1/2/3
>Golden Axe 1/2/3
>Mickey Castle of Illusion & DD Quackshit
>Contra Hard Corps
>Mega Bomberman
>Alien Soldier
>Rocket Knight
>Castlevania Bloodlines
>Vectorman 1/2
>Ranger X
>Phantasy Star
>Shining Force
>Pulseman
>ECCO 1/2

SNES is like PS1 to MD's N64

U.N. Squadron

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>>389437210
nice list anon. It baffles me that SNESfags only know the genesis as the sonic machine. There's a bunch of good titles on it.

>>389437210
No, it's more like the SNES is the PS1 to the Genesis' Saturn.

>>389430849
Why did Americans call the SMD the GENESIS?

>>389436508
>>389436638
Am I the only one who actually likes Aero? Especially the second one.

>>389437910
Because they wanted to pretend that the Master System never happened.

>>389437910
because biblical references were once acceptable before the fedora wearing cucks took over

The impressive thing about the Mega Drive is that even some of the Western games were good.

>>389437210
Alien Soldier is the bomb, it really shows off the console's strengths.

Genesis really is an awful name lmao.

Dumb Americucks

The good thing about the 4th and 6th gens is that, no matter what console you choose, you win.

>No comparisons to Super Metroid
>No comparisons to Zelda
>No comparisons to Chrono Trigger
>No comparisons to Yoshi's Island
SNES still wins

>>389438350
Do they still call it Genesis?

>>389430849
Your post clearly shows what Genesis had on its belt: pathetic marketing

The SNES was vastly superior. No question. But people who said Genesis/Megadrive was shit are narrow-minded retards, it was awesome.

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>>389434930
>the SNES was superior in every other aspect.
That is incorrect

>>389438550
>Super Metroid
Ecco Tides of Time
>Zelda
Crusader of Centy
>Chrono Trigger
Phantasy Star IV
>Yoshi's Island
Sonic 3 & Knuckles

All better games than the overrated SNES equivalents

>>389441508
Fuck no. Kill yourself trailer trash.

>>389430849
Genesis
>cancer inducing color pallete
>atrocious sound sampling
>dudebro gamepad
>dudebro console design (the old one)
>dudebro marketing campaigns
>dudebro mascot and pathetic flawed gameplay
>addon jew galore
the only good thing i can remember about the Genesis is:
>aladdin
>sega cd fmv games
>the whole aesthetic 90s vibes

>>389430849
I wish Aladdin had the best aspects of both. the genesis was better in animation, but the final boss and sound was dogshit. why can't we just get a definitive version ever?

>Contra Hard Corps is better than Contra 3
>Aladdin on Genesis is better than Aladdin on SNES
These are objectively correct.
As for the rest, not really. I enjoyed both consoles a lot.

>>389432554
Landstalker is better than ALttP.

Fight me.

>>389443364
You don't remember any of them because you weren't alive yet. They are false memories induced by watching e-celeb retro channels.

>>389439729
I wouldn't call it pathetic, marketing is the only thing Genesis really had going for it, designing your console from the ground up with marketing in mind was probably the smartest move Sega ever made, still surprised they managed to fuck that up on their next two systems, as if Sega thought that they could sustain their mediocrity without their strong marketing tactics.

>>389443691
>Isometric platforming

>>389444095
I am 35, lad

>>389444227
it is sad. i honestly enjoyed the console wars back then a lot. the whole blast processing stuff. Anyway, once Street Fighter II appeared on SNES, the whole thing went into overdrive
that game on a home console was a true revolution back then

the dreamcast was an amazing system, desu

>>389443691
It's good but it's not better

>>389444227
>marketing is the only thing Genesis really had going for it
Are you still mad that

>Genesis didn't have rampant slowdown
>It was 2 years older but more powerful
>Got fantastic arcade ports
>Got plenty of extremely innovative and creative games instead of just warmed up NES games with better graphics
>Didn't require expensive cartridges with add on chips since the vanilla console was good enough
>Had the choice of adding CD technology if you wanted it
>Actually had working hardware based backwards compatibility
>Had the best range of Western games back when they were good
>Authentic arcade style sound chip

Did 4chan get sent back in time to the early-mid 90's?

>>389444636
>Got plenty of extremely innovative and creative games
what?

>>389444636
>Authentic arcade style sound chip
it sounds like a coin slot machine

>>389444636
>>Had the choice of adding CD technology if you wanted it
the SNES too, but the deal got fucked up, and spawned the playstation

>>389444740
Literally the best time to be alive, anon.

>>389444753
>what?
Stuff like Ecco the Dolphin, The Ooze, The Haunting, etc were truly inventive concepts that defied genre.

>it sounds like a coin slot machine
Because you don't know anything about it.

>the SNES too, but the deal got fucked up, and spawned the playstation
Then it didn't

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>>389444985
wtf

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>>389444985
>The Ooze
oh, boi

>>389444985
what do you think about Yoshi's Island or Starfox?

i honestly find Dynamite Heady quite entertaining

>>389445149
Practically all of the 16 bit game pages on Wikipedia were written by Nintendo fanboys who cherry pick only the bad reviews.

Ironically, Sega Retro is a more impartial source than Wikipedia.

https://segaretro.org/The_Ooze

That being said, not all experimental games were good, but I'm glad Sega took creativity seriously.

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I enjoy the Genesis because it has more action orientated games that are expected to be completed over a single sitting. Probably why I enjoy and replay the first two Sonic games over Sonic 3 & Knuckles since it had saves in mind. Though Rocket Knight Adventures is easily the best game from that generation for me.

>>389437210
>SNES is like PS1 to MD's N64
but the PS1 and Mega drive suck.

>Blast processing

https://youtu.be/gNrtuIKru-Y

>>389445194
Starfox is great but the choppiness harms the game a bit. Yoshi's Island is certainly a good game but I've never understood people that put it on a pedestal. I don't think the game is any better than Donkey Kong Country or Dynamite Headdy for that matter.

Many SNES games are good, but the best ones aren't as far above the competition as Nintendo fans would have people believe. Sometimes they are outright inferior.

>>389445335
Good taste anon. RKA is 16 bit GOAT

>>389445524
thinking about it, the reasons behind my purchase a million years ago were
>smw
>sf2
>mario all stars
>starfox
>that firemen game
>joe and mac
>actraiser
>that capcom gargoyle game
>castlevaniaIV
and i guess that is all
then i literally went crazy when the dbz games started to drop
also loved the hardware design (I am EU)
then i found out about gems like PLOK! or superswiv
the rest is history
i got jelly as fuck when the megacd launched, but then the 32X converted the thing in a joke

from then onwards, it was PC for me
while i was playing Quake, people were wasting hundreds of dollars in a Sony console that looked like shit in comparison
Resident Evil though

>>389445816
oh i forgot: i enjoyed the capcom arcade ports a lot
the whole final fight franchise
that beat em up were you can chose a baby controlling a robot (commando whatever)
megaman x

good times, fuck

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>>389430849
>genesis sold 3 to 1 on its first few christmas's vs the SNES
>genesis was normally outselling the SNES 2 to 1 in almost every market in non holiday time except japan where it was roughly 1:1
>sold a ton more units than the SNES
>only reason SNES has more units sold is because SoJ forcefully discontinued the genesis worldwide for the saturn while the SNES continued to sell until 03
>the game most credited to getting the SNES out of the horrible slump it was in and bring it any form of glory (still didnt outsell it at christmas time) was DKC, which came out at the literal end of the genesis life (6-9 months before the genesis was removed from store shelves)
>from launch till death, the genesis took sega, who only had 3% market in a 9% non nintendo market, to an astounding 62% at exit

Only reason sega got crushed post genesis was sega of japan
Those little shits hated every god damn thing about sega of america and did EVERYTHING in their power to fuck it over. Im not talking about simple things like backstabbing and internal politics, im talking straight up fucking everything up at any chance they had

>fucked up the first world wide simultaneous launch because SoA came up with it and it was a game SoJ canceled.
>refused to put Sonic or Sonic 2 as genesis packins because SoA came up with the idea
>hated things like "genesis does what nintendont", the SEGA scream, and pretty much all of their marketing that made them sell well. They demanded it be more "nintendo like"
>all but the CEO hated the head of SoA because he was white and forced him to pay for the sega mall tour out of pocket (only to reimburse him when it was an amazing success... 4 years after he quit)
>refused to give SoA the specs to any of their upcoming consoles
>was going to have the PS1 be the sony-sega PS1 with a 60-40 split (sega being 60) with the sole exception of sony/sega produced games, where all profits go to that company
>SoJ gave the n64 chip to nintendo because SoJ didnt make it

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>>389445951
blowing a 62% market share is just so...Sega. Of course those incompetent fucks could pull it off. Just when you think nothing could go wrong BAM things go wrong that's the SEGA tradition. A tradition of dropping the ball

>>389445951
what if it was just that people didn't like the console?

>>389435651
>Earthworm Jim OST from the SNES version is better than the original Genesis one

You are not funny, stop

>>389446340
There's a persistant retrospective mythology that the reason SNES outsold Genesis worldwide is just because the SNES had better games or whatever.

The cold hard sales data doesn't show that, however. SNES only had a higher total because they anhiliated Sega in Japan thanks to a monopoly. In the West, Sega outsold Nintendo for like 5 or 6 years in a row.

Why are we pitting the two GOAT consoles against each other. 4th and 5th Gen was a brilliant age when original amazing games were made special for each platform. Not like today where the Xbone and PS4 are essentially the same and Nintendo makes a few sweet games on their platform.

Megadrive had a great lack of RGS, that is all. Snes had all the fun about that. Not that I cared for RPGs when I was a kid but they are a very important genre for any console. Overall SNES had better games.

>>389446792
>mythology
I don't know the figures
i just remember nobody wanted the genesis
you had SNES bros, gameboy bros, some genesis autists, some absolute gamegear/lynx wizards, and PC players talking about dark forces and Lucas arts games

the dbz games were a huge selling point back then, from a 3rd party perspective
also the was a huge surge of RPG normie fags, playing earthbound/illusion of time....

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>>389433864
>not listing Soul Blazer

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>>389446074
its an amazing read of how they did it too. While reading, I legit had to say outloud "the fuck are you people doing" because it literally made no god damn sense.

They ran steve race out of the marketing job because "he simply doesnt understand how we do things in japan", despite him coming up with the ENTIRE marketing strategy that made sega a household name, including the invention of the console wars (which still happen to this day)

They killed sonic after 1 because of botches handling in japan and SoJ being mad as fuck that SoA redesigned sonic (the original sonic had a leather jacket, 3 neck guitar, vampire teeth, a bad hair job, leather studded wrist cuffs and other just bad designs) and the only reason we got sonic 2 was because after they forced naka out, SoA's CEO told him he could come to america, make his own team and he would protect him from SoJ. SoJ proceeded to make kalinske (segas CEO) a living hell and forcefully fucked up the Sonic 2 launch

Kalinske told them not to launch the 32x and the sega CD because people dont want addons, they want a new generation because thats what nintendo and sega programmed the masses into expecting. He was told to shut up he doesnt know what hes talking about.

when a spy he had in SoJ snuck him out the proposed final specs for the saturn (SoJ refused to share this info with SoA or any american based game publishers/devs who came in through SoA), Kalinske saw how badly designed it was and how expensive it would be to make, so he started, on his own free time, exploring other alternative chips. He was also working with Sony's olaf olafsson to help him navigate the shitstorm nintendo was making


When nintendo fucked over the PS1, olafsson and kutaragi sent their proposed PS1 specs to Kalinske in hopes of a sega/sony partnership. Sonys heads wanted to kill the deal because they refused to go into the gaming scene without a well known name backing them. SoJs head of R&D killed it because he didnt design it

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you sell a HUEG amount of consoles
you have the edgy market on deck
you spent your dosh on marketing stunts
you sell the autists a million add-ons to jew them even further
then you finally end losing badly

let me think who is doing exactly that right now

>>389447602
>>389433864
>Not listing Terranigma

>>389439725
Yep. Even to this day. Haha.

>>389431789
Genesis had blast processing, what did Nintendo have again? Oh yeah, nothing.

>>389447762
That too.

>>389447626
heres some more

After SoJ burried sonys deal, sony's head went full batshit japanese and said fuck em all. They ALL disrespected us and now we will go in alone and crush them. He then hired Sega's head of marketing, Steve race and said "we will pay you 4x what sega is and give you 100% control of marketing." Just to let sega know how bad they fucked up, SoA spent all night tying saturn balloons to the back of chairs in the main hall. When they woke up, they found out race went in 30m after they left and popped every single balloon and spelled the words "Playstation" with them in the foyer

Kalinske went to SGI and found their new chip was 3x as powerful as the saturns and would cost almost half as less per unit with the added benefit of being easy to code for as it was designed to work with windows NT. He sent this data, along with the proposal for exclusivity contract to SoJ. Segas head of R&D said no because it was too big. Upon asking what he ment by that, the head of R&D hung up and went directly to SoJs boards and called an emergency meeting to explain to them just how much better his personally designed chip would be than the silly american chip.

Kalinske told SoJ not to surprise launch the saturn that day as there was no such thing as same day coverage for something like this, it would piss off every single retailer they had, every single publisher they had (since neither knew it was happening) and most importantly, it would have only 3 or so games for several months since everyone else was expecting a sept. launch. He was forced to do it anyway

Kalinske told them NOT to go on first because they dont know what Sony is going to do. This console is an expensive piece of hardware with little games, no 3rd party support yet and its going to be a bombshell. Soj said they must be first. This is when they announced it was going to be $499. Sonys entire press conference was race walking out and saying "...$299"

Should I post more?

>>389448349
You should honestly do a YouTube video or something with pictures and clips and shit

>>389430849
as a megadrive fanboy,final fantasy was better desu

>>389433864
Blast processing? No? Fuck off, then.

Blast processing? More like ass processing

>>389448757
What even is blast processing?

>>389430849
both are shit consoles with shit games, go back to /vr/ grandpa

>>389448868
Something N*ntendo lacks, along with a headphone jack.

everybody knows PCEngine is the future

>>389448868
Could mean anything, either the general speed of the CPU or sometimes the GPU DMA

>>389448868
Basically, something the genesis did.
If there where to many pixels on screen and the processor needed a little boost, it would reroute power to the processor. Think of it like a very very VERY limited and extremely basic Overlocking.

When the SNES had the MODE 7, but also neglected to mention that it wasnt the SNES that had it but a secondary processor and chip in the SNES cartridge, so everyone assumed it was some hidden part inside the SNES. To combat this and to make the genesis sound JUST as cool as the new MODE 7, they announced that the genesis had blast processing, which was true because it was in the service manual that every genesis was given.

Its akin to the ps4 going "EVERY PS4 HAS DDR5 RAM"

>>389449118
I used to be a massive Sega fanboy, saltily arguing against like five kids on the school bus screeching MUH BLAST PROCESSING without even knowing what it is.
Still don't know, but it shut them up because they didn't either.

>>389449262
This whole post is literally nonsense.

All blast processing is that Genesis had higher memory bandwidth than SNES, so data could get quickly 'blasted' around.

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>>389449303
The CPU being fast is something I think is pretty easy to understand. The Motorola 68k is just fast and easy to program for.

The DMA thing is a little hard to understand. Basically, the Video Display Processor of the Genesis was able to very quickly obtain data from the main RAM.
It's well known that the Genesis had a limited color palette, being able to display only 64 colors at once. Using the DMA, it could very quickly fetch a fresh new palette of colors. For the upper half of the screen it's using one set of colors, then it gets glitchy around the waterline, then it stabilizes on a new set of colors.

>>389441308
If the specs mattered, Sony's videogames division would've died with the PS1.
Nintendo made a console which was versatile enough so that it was easy to program, and games of very different styles were rendered in a consistent quality. Not to say that Genesis was shit. It was an awesome console. But, on a technical level, you often had the impression of playing a game that was botched in one domain compared to a SNES game. Sometimes the colors were odd. Sometimes, the sound. Sometimes, the animation. Developers had the certitude they could make games on SNES without sacrificing one of those domains. If it wasn't for US sales, I don't know what Sega would have done...
Sega made the same mistake just after with the Saturn. It was better on paper than the PS1, but difficult to develop for.

https://youtu.be/5GAo1Q1XVoY
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>>389450216
It's debatable if the Saturn is even better on paper than the PS1.
The Saturns two CPUs couldn't keep up with the PS1's one CPU and its dedicated coprocessor when it comes to polygon math (T&L).
And VDP1 has godawful fillrate, it simply cannot keep up with the PS1 when it comes to drawing polygons. VDP2, which is supposed to help, is close to useless when you don't have a somewhat fixed perspective.

For the average 3D game the PS1 isn't just easier, it's better.

>>389445951
You are delusional. Sega got a headstart in America, and their dudebro marketing worked quite well, there. Once the SNES was out, it caught up quickly. By 1994, Sega had declining sales, while Nintendo sold SNES like hotcakes everywhere. By 1995, Sega declined to give regional sales numbers just not to admit that even in America, Nintendo sold more consoles than them.

>>389450216
>But, on a technical level, you often had the impression of playing a game that was botched in one domain compared to a SNES game. Sometimes the colors were odd. Sometimes, the sound. Sometimes, the animation.
You're crazy dude. There are a litany of botched SNES multiplatform games like Mickey Mania and Earthworm Jim that run at a lower resolution, have muffled music, missing animations and slowdown.

The Genesis was easier to develop for than the SNES except for sound production. The Genesis used two sound chips, an FM chip and PSG chip. FM is notoriously difficult to use well but godlike when used properly e.g. Streets of Rage 2

>>389450778
>Once the SNES was out, it caught up quickly. By 1994, Sega had declining sales, while Nintendo sold SNES like hotcakes everywhere
Dude lmao, there are literally old sales figures out there that show Sega outsold Nintendo in USA in every year up to and including 1995

I agree.

>>389445335
Best taste itt more for this:
>Probably why I enjoy and replay the first two Sonic games over Sonic 3 & Knuckles
While if someone ask me which is really the best Sonic game I would say 3&k due to its content I replay the other two more.
Rka is excelent, tho. The sequels are underrated

>>389430849
>>Sonic is better than Mario
Nah. SMW shits all over so many platformers to this day, and Sonic was kind of mediocre at best (I love how they look and sound, though).

>>389449689
thats literally what I said.
It was a basic form of OC that was in the genesis from the start and they used it as a marketing gimmick.

l2r

>>389450778
none of this is true, even by a long shot.
Its well fucking KNOWN that the genesis was taking huge amounts of market shares.

And head starts mean nothing when your head start is 3% compared to 91%.
By your logic the PCengine should be the top dog right now

>>389430849
Nah. SNES smashed the genesis. It was also the peak of nintendo in general.

>>389448868
t. snes only gamer

>>389450515
You are right, but in fact, you expended on my opinion on the subject. Sega just crammed more of everything in the Saturn, but, ultimately, it wasn't practical and architectured like shit.

Genesis was for kids who really wanted to see 'hip' and 'cool'; the equivalent of "mature games for hardcore gamers such as myself" at the time.

SNES was for kids who just liked to play video games.

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>>389430849
HOW MANY TIMES ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE THIS FUCKING THREAD

I LOVE THE GENESIS MORE THAN THE SNES BUT FUCK YOU ANON STOP MAKING THIS THREAD SO FUCKING MUCH

TIME AND TIME AGAIN I KEEP SEEING THIS THREAD AND I BEGIN TO PONDER WHAT AILS YOUR MIND

DO YOU DEMAND THE ACCEPTANCE OF OTHERS TO JUSTIFY AND RATIONALIZE YOUR OWN OPINIONS?

FUCK OFF AND STAND FOR YOURSELF. CARVE YOUR OWN PATH. DO SOMETHING BESIDES SIT HERE AND MAKE THE SAME FUCKING THREAD DAY AFTER DAY.

>>389454347
>SNES was for kids who just liked to play video games.
And yet all they ended up doing was buying JRPG """"games"""" and watching 16-bit cutscenes

>>389451760
Well known by who ? Cause Nintendo's numbers have always been known. But Sega's regional numbers about the Genesis are, to this day, a subject of debate. Just look up google.
Sega created console wars and was salty because they lost it.