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We will never know what SNES vs Genesis sold in the U.S.

Anecdotally, what was your experience irl? For console gens ...
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Most gamemos i knew had both
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Not unlike N64/PS1, no?
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We can solve this imho. The fact that Sega was Scummy as hel...
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I got hooked with NES and saw no reason to switch brands unt...
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Scumbags are often relatively late adopters before they go a...
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I was first in line for an N64 too, having been a loyal NES/...
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I could never get into any of the 2D fighters after ssf2 tur...
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The first console I bought as an adult was a Sega Dreamcast ...
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Don't bring up the Dreamcast with me. I loathe the revisioni...
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Never knew anyone who had a Sega CD/Saturn/32X. I would read...
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I played 32X because a Scumbag would come over with one, and...
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i was a sophomore in college when NES came out
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55 year old man
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I’m an outlier but literally everyone I knew as a kid ...
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My console journey was: NES (age 7 I think), genesis, super ...
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Gorgeous journey, IMHO.
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SNES was still riding the brand halo of NES, which was a hug...
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Genesis was more like Red Man Tobacco to SNES' big league ch...
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SNES had more longevity. genesis won the early part of the g...
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More playtime, absolutely, because Losers play way more than...
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conversely though Losers preferred single-player games while...
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I don't think 16-bit games were addictive as what came later...
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SNES and N64 were way more common in my experience.
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I knew way more people with N64 because I was a little kid, ...
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born 1981. early years i had an atari 2600, a ti-99/4a and a...
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Snes raped genesis in upstate NY
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You're in Sully country, champ. `` Author: sull56ivan2...
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I got a Sega Genesis sometime in 1995. Played it for about 1...
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you really sound like Scum
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Only guy I knew with a Genesis was from a broken home and ha...
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It would always seem like these kids never wanted to play So...
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I remember thinking Sonic was cr but still inferior to Mario...
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I never played SNES or compared side by side, but I thought ...
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Having “better graphics” seemed like a huge fuck...
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It was all pixelated crap on a big huge crt tv back then. I ...
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Yeah in retrospect it was all retarded. I remember another...
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Wikipedia shows the same release date and Genesis had Blood,...
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Interesting
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it is true, SNES can produce more colors and layers and has ...
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The catalogs were arguably quite different imo. Ports were i...
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3 SNESes for every 2 Genesises.
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Date: July 3rd, 2022 8:43 PM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

Anecdotally, what was your experience irl? For console gens with published figures, mine tends to align with that of the public record (PS1 @ 30m in the U.S. versus N64 @ 18m units. Basically most people with N64s ended up getting PS1s once the gen was Lost, but not necessarily vice-versa).

Ime, irl, SNES was 100% associated with Losers and Genesis with Scumbags. My family had both bc we were Hybrids. The Scumbag Clique did pretty well in the 90s prior to the passage of NAFTA by the Republicans in Congress so I reckon they could all afford a Genesis. OTOH, SNES *seemed* more popular, both contemporaneously and atm. Discuss.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790412)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 8:58 PM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 9:11 PM
Author: Hilarious black woman gay wizard

Most gamemos i knew had both

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790508)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 9:32 PM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

Not unlike N64/PS1, no?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790600)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 9:14 PM
Author: Vermilion stirring faggotry sneaky criminal



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 10:01 PM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

We can solve this imho. The fact that Sega was Scummy as hell any probably lied about sales tips the scales in Nintendo's favor.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790741)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 10:03 PM
Author: pink thirsty fortuitous meteor

I got hooked with NES and saw no reason to switch brands until PS1

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790749)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 10:04 PM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

Scumbags are often relatively late adopters before they go all-in. They would've thought gaming was for fags in the 80s before getting drawn in by Sega. Similarly, they were on the fence on gaming as a pastime until GTA3/Halo came out and they went all-in on Xbox.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790759)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 10:08 PM
Author: pink thirsty fortuitous meteor

I was first in line for an N64 too, having been a loyal NES/SNES consumer. Eventually got a PS1 though because of its much better catalog. In particular, I wanted to play Metal Gear Solid and Capcom fighters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790777)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 10:11 PM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

I could never get into any of the 2D fighters after ssf2 turbo because every little thing is different and more complicated even though it's superficially the same basic game. And it was hard to tell if it was better or just different.

But yeah I think a lot of us N64 bros moved over to the dark side at some point. The Slow Trickle of games eventually just turned into No Games after Zelda basically.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790794)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 10:13 PM
Author: pink thirsty fortuitous meteor

The first console I bought as an adult was a Sega Dreamcast so I could play SF3 lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790800)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 10:17 PM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

Don't bring up the Dreamcast with me. I loathe the revisionist history on that console and Sega writ large. People act like the 32X and Sega CD were the death knell for Sega when it doesn't matter. The Saturn was literally the polar opposite of what the U.S. Genesis crowd had come to expect; no one writes about this or analyzes the Clique aspect. Sega went from 1995-1999 being fucking dogshit in the U.S. because the Saturn literally just had anime games and the western games were basically all ports of games the Genesis could handle. and people blame the 32X because it's an easy (and Scummy) target.

I'm not even going to mention the fact that the Dreamcast's failure was a Controlled Demolition. It would've outsold the Xbox and/or Gamecube if they fought tooth and nail.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790821)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 10:27 PM
Author: pink thirsty fortuitous meteor

Never knew anyone who had a Sega CD/Saturn/32X. I would read about these consoles in GamePro every month but they just seemed like something from another planet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790851)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 10:31 PM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

I played 32X because a Scumbag would come over with one, and he had like an impossible number of games too, probably all stolen.

I played Saturn because a homosexual intellectual kid had one.

A kid I knew who probably spent 14 seconds total playing video games in his entire life had a Sega CD as an apparent status symbol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790870)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 10:20 PM
Author: yapping brilliant bbw

i was a sophomore in college when NES came out

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790828)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 10:21 PM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790832)



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Date: July 3rd, 2022 10:33 PM
Author: nofapping tan piazza liquid oxygen

55 year old man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44790874)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 12:45 AM
Author: Supple double fault indian lodge

I’m an outlier but literally everyone I knew as a kid had genesis while 1-2 people had SNES. may have been a bay area effect due to sega’s SF headquarters.

my understanding is that SNES slaughtered genesis in rural areas where sega had poor distribution and nintendo had preexisting relationships with retailers. also that urban black and hispanic communities vastly preferred genesis over SNES.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44791353)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 6:07 PM
Author: Lemon awkward foreskin



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Date: July 4th, 2022 12:49 AM
Author: opaque soggy juggernaut

My console journey was: NES (age 7 I think), genesis, super NES, ps1, Xbox, ps3, ps4, ps5. Don’t think I’ll ever buy another one again.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44791355)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 12:50 AM
Author: Lemon awkward foreskin

Gorgeous journey, IMHO.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44791356)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:05 AM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792270)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 12:51 AM
Author: bright faggot firefighter

SNES was still riding the brand halo of NES, which was a huge step up from Atari and the first mass produced awesome console.

Sega was like a knockoff Nintendo trying to run on hype, akin to Reebok with its pumps trying to compete with Nike's Jordans. Sonic was the Reebok pump Mario.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44791358)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:08 AM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

Genesis was more like Red Man Tobacco to SNES' big league chew

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792285)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 12:51 AM
Author: ultramarine quadroon hospital

SNES had more longevity. genesis won the early part of the gen while SNES won the tail end that overlapped with N64/PS1 (which is what most millennials remember). it’s not clear which of those translates to more units sold, but the typical SNES probably had more play on it (including as hand-me-downs and such)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44791359)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:10 AM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

More playtime, absolutely, because Losers play way more than Scumbags. This was especially the case back then, when the addictive qualities of video games weren't so deliberately Engineered into them (Scumbags are highly prone to addictions; Losers just have nothing else to do)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792293)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 4:23 PM
Author: ultramarine quadroon hospital

conversely though Losers preferred single-player games while genesis chads were all about the multiplayer experience and using it as a party console. so if we consider it in terms of person-hours rather than just hours the genesis might be in contention.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44794121)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 4:35 PM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

I don't think 16-bit games were addictive as what came later. No matter how much of a Loser you were, you didn't just keep playing Super Mario World.

I think that people played NHL '94 on Genesis for like 27 minutes at a birthday party. Those matches didn't last until midnight imo. NHL '94 supported 5 players but who the hell had a multitap? I've never laid eyes on a multitap in my entire life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44794200)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 1:43 AM
Author: Claret kink-friendly kitchen partner

SNES and N64 were way more common in my experience.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44791534)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 1:45 AM
Author: Supple double fault indian lodge

I knew way more people with N64 because I was a little kid, the older people I knew were 50/50 N64 and playstation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44791545)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 1:50 AM
Author: Well-lubricated Aphrodisiac Parlour Puppy

born 1981. early years i had an atari 2600, a ti-99/4a and a 286 IBM-Compatible PC. i begged for years for an nes and never got one, then one day in 1991 my cheap father just randomly drops a sega genesis on my brother and i. no christmas, no birthday, just "oh i got a deal at the scratch and dent place". looking back its like he wanted us to be weirdos. later i managed to talk him into getting the sega channel for a few months.

confirming your theory - yes i am a scumbag, and my best friend from that era who had an snes is a loser.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44791552)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:04 AM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792264)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 1:50 AM
Author: infuriating plum idiot

Snes raped genesis in upstate NY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44791555)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:05 AM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

You're in Sully country, champ.

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Author: sull56ivan2010

I have been playing a lot of systems since I was one in 1993. First systems were an NES and Genesis. Never played SNES until 2000, and never owned one until late 2005. I have been helping Sega-16 with reviews for over a year. It's time to see what I can cover for the SNES via SNES hub.

``

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792269)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:15 AM
Author: navy curious legal warrant whorehouse

I got a Sega Genesis sometime in 1995. Played it for about 1 year. Skipped PS1. Got a PS2 in about 2006. Got a PS3 in 2010. Got a PS4 in 2014.

On Genesis I played Columns, Sonic & Knuckles, Lion King, Mortal Combat, Mortal Combat II, and Ecco the Dolphin.

On PS2, I had games like NCAA Football 2003, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.

On PS3, I got into Skyrim.

On PS4, I played Last of Us, and tried to get into Witcher III, but I just ended up getting Skyrim for PS4 and went with that. My kids now use the PS4 to play Minecraft.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792303)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:21 AM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

you really sound like Scum

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792317)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:21 AM
Author: pink thirsty fortuitous meteor

Only guy I knew with a Genesis was from a broken home and had a somewhat erratic home life. It was the only opportunity I recall being able to play Sonic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792315)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:22 AM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

It would always seem like these kids never wanted to play Sonic. It would be the first thing I wanted to play but they were always into some depressing dystopian shit like X-men or dinosaurs killing each other.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792318)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:35 AM
Author: pink thirsty fortuitous meteor

I remember thinking Sonic was cr but still inferior to Mario and provided insufficient reason to own a Genesis instead of an SNES. Beyond the Mario Sonic thing, I thought the catalogs for both consoles were largely the same but that SNES had better graphics (no idea if this is actually true).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792342)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:37 AM
Author: navy curious legal warrant whorehouse

I never played SNES or compared side by side, but I thought that Genesis was way better than Nintendo for some reason.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792344)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:40 AM
Author: pink thirsty fortuitous meteor

Having “better graphics” seemed like a huge fucking deal back then. I haven’t played video games regularly since like 2006 so I don’t know what the thought is anymore.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792354)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:46 AM
Author: navy curious legal warrant whorehouse

It was all pixelated crap on a big huge crt tv back then. I remember I used to sit so close I could see the red, green and black that the TV was made up of. We had a Zenith brand. I thought it was a big deal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792372)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 10:52 AM
Author: pink thirsty fortuitous meteor

Yeah in retrospect it was all retarded.

I remember another advantage of Genesis: it had Mortal Kombat first. I remember being pissed that I had to wait longer to get the home version. Didn’t the Genesis version have red blood too?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792389)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 11:04 AM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

Wikipedia shows the same release date and Genesis had Blood, SNES didn't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792418)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 11:12 AM
Author: pink thirsty fortuitous meteor

Interesting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44792439)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 4:34 PM
Author: ultramarine quadroon hospital

it is true, SNES can produce more colors and layers and has better video output. DKC could never be done on genesis, and that game tricked a lot of people into thinking it was 32-bit (closest thing on genesis was probably Toy Story). genesis on the other hand is better at sprite physics and animation.

the catalogs would've been the same from the POV of the average american consumer back then, but SNES had way more support from japanese devs which is what retrospective players tend to care about. almost every long-running console game franchise with a devoted fanbase (megaman etc) had an entry on SNES while only a few had one on genesis.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44794195)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 4:42 PM
Author: Domesticated arousing meetinghouse background story

The catalogs were arguably quite different imo. Ports were incredibly different. In practice, Genesis had Sonic, 180 sports games, Aladdin, and throwaway side scrollers, some of which were Scummy. There were some hidden gems like Castlevania or Phantasy Star but these were easy to overlook amidst the Scum zeitgeist. You also had random Scummy games like the one where dinosaurs fight to the death, or the Jurassic Park one where you play as a dinosaur. The whole zeitgeist was Scummy. Sega CD and 32X augmented the library's Losery and Scummy qualities, respectively.

In retrospect, DKC was no more impressive than Mortal Kombat. DKC digitized 3D renderings. Mortal Kombat digitized guys in costumes. Earthworm Jim, for that matter, digitized 2D graphics and looks pretty good still imo. With that said, DKC2 is a triumph.

Also, the enduring franchises are a tough one. Nobody cares about Mega Man X, or Actraiser, or JRPGs imo. SNES persists in being popular simply because the fans are Losers instead of Scumbags. But literally NO ONE ALIVE cares about Vectorman. Anyone that did is dead by now, anyway.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44794225)



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Date: July 4th, 2022 7:07 PM
Author: cowardly talented locale wagecucks



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Date: July 4th, 2022 8:36 PM
Author: Metal multi-colored school cafeteria

3 SNESes for every 2 Genesises.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5145915&forum_id=2#44795256)