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Poll Question: Sega Mega Drive aka Sega Genesis versus SNES aka Super Famicom. Fight!
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    Posted: May 25 2020 at 15:51
SMD/SG vs SNES were the epitome of the console war at the time. Let the fair fight decide! 
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Neo Geo?
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I had (and still do have) a SNES and loved it. Never had a Sega Genesis so no vote
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Neo Geo?
 

I understand your choice! Really! Great design, colourful dynamic games. Everything is big, controllers are top design and top quality. Very classy thing. 

However, the places I am from, the former USSR, hardly ever had a chance to taste the Neo Geo thoroughly. We, much like Brazil, and, probably, Korea, witnessed the grandeur of Mega Drive. Some of could buy Super Nintendo. Most of us only played the cheap 8-bit NES clones. 


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Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

I had (and still do have) a SNES and loved it. Never had a Sega Genesis so no vote
 

Sega made faster games. Since I adore scrolling shooters, I should say Sega MD definitely wins in that niche. SNES, in my opinion, on the other hand, had greater Adventures Of Batman, had excellent Super Mario World, three DKC's... 

To me personally, Mega Drive kept a decent balance between retro opportunities and modern day gaming. Thus, I think that in many SNES games melodies sounded too orchestral and too much the same. Similarly, the unique benefits of Mode 7 appeared too often here and there, where they were needed and where they weren't. Just my opinion, for sure. 
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Never had a game console, except for the early Atari consoles and a bunch of cheap crappy consoles. I was always an arcade guy. I just love the vibe of it.

Yet, I played on various consoles in my friends' homes, and from time to time borrowed them for a week or so.

If I'm not mistaken, I played on the two that you mentioned, but Sony Playstation's original console was the best. It was simply mind-blowing. One of my friends bought it immediately after it was out in the US, and invited me many times to play together, as I was the best gamer he knew. It was really an awesome game console. My same friend had also a Sega Saturn console, it was also close and very fun. Yet, I think Playstation was groundbreaking at that time.

One of the biggest reasons I never bought a game console is also related to the fact that I hate gamepad control. Jus' gimme arcade joystick and those buttons anytime.

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Ah, sorry you said "early" 90s. If 1994 is counted as early, my comment is valid. If not, forget about it. Haha.
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Also if handheld consoles are counted, Nintendo Game Boy was also very cool, if you could come across some good games. A version of Super Mario was very fun to play, for instance. Gamepad control is not a problem on such games, but an element of displeasure for me while playing the games that require more complex and specifically circular, semi-circular motions etc. Also I can use my reflexes with my wrists and hands, better than my fingertips. So I prefer joystick control.

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Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

Ah, sorry you said "early" 90s. If 1994 is counted as early, my comment is valid. If not, forget about it. Haha.
 

I can't forget you Smile. No, that was interesting for me to read your recollections. Indeed PS1 appeared a bit later. And it introduced the powerful full 3D epoch. 

The consoles that I've mentioned were 2-D powerhouses, at best. Humble in resources, humble in memory (Sega Mega Drive's natural graphical resolution was 320*224 if I remember it right?), humble in opportunities. Anyway, lots of tricky decisions, lots of exquisite memory management quirks were devised by those days' programmers. And unlike the 8-bit where you can't confuse the screen's picture with real life, on 16-bit consoles like Mega Drive or SNES at best the games did looked like a real professional cartoon. 
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I voted for the SNES which I still have and play occasionaly (unlike the Wii Dead). I was never into shooters so a great part of the Mega Drive catalogue never appealed to me, although I played many hours of Sonic and Streets of Rage.
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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

I voted for the SNES which I still have and play occasionaly (unlike the Wii Dead). I was never into shooters so a great part of the Mega Drive catalogue never appealed to me, although I played many hours of Sonic and Streets of Rage.
 

I am probably too vivid to play step-by-step'ed RPGs, so the whole bunch of them on SNES are not of any interest to me, at all. My views are not canonic, anyway - for I prefer the first Sonic game, hate Global Gladiators and see nothing special in Golden Axe series. I like the game with specific atmosphere. To my taste, Donkey Kong trilogy was rather about solving the puzzles - the same with Super Mario World 1&2. I played them all a bit - and it always looked to me like "Get! Set! Go! Prepare for the obstacles! Wow, we've made it!". In games like Sega's Tiny Toon or Twinkle Tale or Steel Empire it was for me just playing within the true atmosphere of the world seeming to be true, not solving puzzle number 2 on page number 3. 

But that's my view, personally mine. 
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PS2 and its generation was when the games were going to look much greater visually than the covers for their cartridges/discs. Because in the 80s' games it was Conan the Barbarian on the cover and the circle with five sticks (the fifth one stood for a sword) in the screen. 

However, Sega 16bit & SNES and their generation happened when the games were becoming realistic cartoon-wise, though obviously not real-life-wise. 

But, hey, the titles like Sega's Disney's Aladdin or rarer stuff like Empire of Steel and Gynoug - I love this feeling that it's realistic but not to the extent of real human life. 

The whole 3D concept is alien to me, then. I like good old 2D computer games. And for me it was Sega Genesis/Mega Drive that kept a pretty nice balance between realism and gaming nature. 
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