Hindsight: Which Console was REALLY more powerful? Super Nes or Genesis

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d21lewis said:

ethomaz said:
SNES overall but Mega Drive did have some powerful features... SNES had a chip inside the game cart that simulates 3D effects making games like Star Fox and Donkey Kong a gen ahead.

Donkey Kong Country didn't have any special chips, if I remember correctly.  Yoshi's Island, Starfox, Stunt Race FX and a few others did but Nintendo was pretty proud of having DKC run with just the power of the console.  Now, if you're talking about NES games like Castlevania 3 and Super Mario 3, then yeah.  Donkey Kong on the SNES?  Nah.

Yeah. DKC was the first SNES game to use CGI. But all the items and map graphics where done on a PC. Then they digitized the objects the same way Mortal Kombat digitized the people. That's what simulates the 3D look.