camineet said:One of the first (if not THE first) Japanese Mega Drive commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stt0Z-LR08k
Tain said:The second best console of the generation, but it was an awfully close one.
And it's still better than the SNES.
Diablohead said:Love you Megadrive, easily one of my fave consoles of all time, so many good games for it also.
Lambtron said:My parents got a small amount of money from my grandfather every year which they used to buy my brother and I a more expensive present, because they didn't have a ton of money at the time. We had to decide between a SNES and a Genesis, and after going to a friend's birthday party and loving Super Mario World, we got the SNES.
What was best console of that generation in your mind then, PCE/TG16 or NEO-GEO?
Hive said:And it's not like there were eight or nine different ones to choose from.
Rlan said:
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While not the same year, Megadrive was released on the 28th of October - my birthday.
No wonder I was such a SEGA nerd.
Tain said:The second best console of the generation, but it was an awfully close one.
And it's still better than the SNES.
Tain said:Definitely the NeoGeo. It wasn't a huge library, but it was big enough (though it certainly spanned a huge timeframe, for the better), and it's a ton of true arcade games with zero filler.
*looks at avatar*jman2050 said:Hard to believe Sonic didn't come out for almost two years after the Genesis released. I can't remember a time when the Genesis *wasn't* associated with Sonic.
Mario Lemieux Hockey or bust!!!Hive said:NHL '94 and '95 were clearly better than the '93 version (just called NHL Hockey).
But i grew up with that one first, and it has teams that '94 doesn't, like the Hartford Whalers!
Slowest teams in the game are: Penguins, Sharks, and Whalers.
$312 in 2007 dollars, and the dollar has tanked since then.MobiusPigeon said:its so rediculous that what was considered state of the art gaming then at $189 at lauch is fucking $399-599 at launch these days. WTF.
mosqito said:Back in the days (I was a Nintendo Nerd), me and my cousin, played the shit out of the Sega Games. Sonic, ToeJam and Earl, Earthworm Jim, Shinobi where so much cooler than Mario an the rest of the Nintendo games. Nowadays I bought myself a Genesis and i have to say, i love it more than the Snes.
One of the fav. game of that time : Kid Chameleon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q15t0KGCVl8&feature=related
My last purchase:
Getting older and older...
Yeah, I knew six people who got one at launch, but I didn't get my own until they were clearing out the last Altered Beast bundles with a Sonic mail-in offer. At least I got one with a headphone jack.lordmrw said:Ah yes, I was one of the lucky few that got to play the genesis when it came out in 89. My buddy down the street had an older brother who sold drugs, and he bought the system and just about every game that came out for the first few months of the system's life. When you're 9 years old, this shit is mindblowing, man. So many awesome memories. Coop Altered Beast, Forgotten Worlds, Golden Axe, damn.
Vorador said:SEGA did an incredible job with the Genesis/Mega Drive. One of the best systems ever.
I take it you mean the base hardware, right? There were plenty of fuck ups with the Mega Drive, they just happened down the line.camineet said:I agree. SEGA got almost everything RIGHT with Genesis/Mega Drive. It went mainstream, was super-popular, had hundreds & hundreds of 3rd party games and was as close as SEGA would ever get to NES-like success.
camineet said:I agree. SEGA got almost everything RIGHT with Genesis/Mega Drive. It went mainstream, was super-popular, had hundreds & hundreds of 3rd party games and was as close as SEGA would ever get to NES-like success.
Bootaaay said:Anyways, one of my favourite series on the Megadrive is Shinobi, i'd love to see SEGA making a HD re-make of Shinobi III/Shadow Dancer for XBLA/PSN. Chances appear slim
No, get out. Everything doesn't always have to be about fucking Nintendo. =)Grug said:I think it would be oddly appropriate to turn this thread into a SNES vs Genesis/Megadrive childish playground war. That whole discourse defined that 16 bit generation to me.
SNES (Real 16 bit) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Genesis (fake 16 bit) BTW.
Gagaman said:No, get out. Everything doesn't always have to be about fucking Nintendo. =)
I live in the UK, where they didn't use that bullshit advertising.Grug said:All that Blast Processing has gone to your head son.
umm.. the 68K was sure as hell real 16-bit. Just ask the Amiga, Atari ST, or even the Sega System-16 arcade boards. The only 8-bit processor on the system was the Z80 that assisted with audio processing, and even though the SNES had a 16-bit audio co-processor it was still actual 8-bit sampled audio and FM synthesis.Grug said:SNES (Real 16 bit) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Genesis (fake 16 bit) BTW.