I'm not gonna go and say Jumping Jack Flash and it's sequel were bad games. They weren't. But to be completely honest, the PS1 had a pretty "blah" lineup at first. The Saturn had FAR more going on, with Bug, Virtua Fighter, Panzer Dragoon, Clockwork Knight, etc. The best thing PS1 had early on was Tekken. It wasn't until PS1 started getting stuff like Symphony of the Night, FFVII and Metal Gear Solid, from 1997 onward,that it really took off. Saturn was actually a pretty hot item when it first launched, as was the N64. But Mario 64 really sealed the deal early on for the N64. It alone made people want to buy the system. It helped that the N64 was also the first 4 player (out of the box) console, so it was the king of multiplayer that gen.
But while Sega and Sony had their own attempts during the same time period at 3D rivals, those being Nights and Crash Bandicoot, both of which were excellent games for their time, Mario 64 was, again, the only one that was TRULY 3D, and it was just doing things that were so far advanced that nothing else could really keep up for many years.
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