I personally would say the 8 bit era was the most fought but hey :) Seen as this is a 16bit thread I would have to say the amiga thrapwashes the snes and genesis into oblivion but if you never heard of the amiga (please come back to real gaming lol) The snes was the best console by a mile. Neogeo was cool but way too expensive. After playing Rock n Roll Racing on the snes i just couldnt bear to play any genesis games, the music was just so awesome!! Not only that secret of mana was on the snes, NO BRAINER!
"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.
""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""
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