| Entroper said: The SNES was just where it was at in the 16-bit generation. Sonic was great, and I played plenty of it at my friend's house (and I now have the Mega Collection -- thanks Sega!), but the SNES had tons of great exclusives and better versions of multiplatform games. |
The SNES was definitely a better piece of hardware (it should be, it wasn't released until 2 years after the Megadrive) but that didn't change the fact that Nintendo kids would get atomic wedgies from the Sega kids in the playground. Nintendo was (and probably still is) considered the geeks choice, while Sega was considered cool. That changed a bit when Street Fighter 2 was released exclusively on the SNES. Sega kids had to stop beating on the Nintendo kids so they would be allowed round their house to play SF2 (the beatings started again when a version of SF2 finally came out on the Megadrive).
Streets of Rage, Micro Machine & Golden Axe are some of my personal favourites from that era and until Tekken came along, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 was easily the best fighter available, as it had the most advanced combo system (not to mention the Fatalities, Animalities and Babalities). I can't believe there are so many people that prefer MK2, although I guess that is just a case of nostalgia dictating opinion.
