what gen did the fanboy wars begin???

[Cougarman]

Kasz216 said:

Generation?  I think we can narrow it down to the commercial.

Seriously, the "fanboy" wars were basically started by Sega as a marketing ploy after the Genisis couldn't dethrone the NES in japan despite being way more powerful and graphically superior.

It worked too... it's also what started the "Nintendo Systems are kiddy" stereotype.

sega should've tried something like this ad when dreamcast first came out, too bad their marketing budget was non existent by then