| alabtrosMyster said:
- Both graphics and sound capabilities were amazing for the time - It's 68000 CPU was fast enough to allow games with nice special effects without the use of special chips!.. games with little to now slow downs, very few flickeing, etc. that was a UGE improvement over anything else available before (and even after to some degree)... the architecture was common so programmers knew how to program for it from the get go! - These machines just do not die, compared to them Nintendo consoles are just un-reliable - It has a great library and it has a CD add-on! Second would be the Dreamcast... PS4 if it was not so noizy!the PC Engine was an amaxing thing to have has well... SNES was a graphics processing powerhouse upon release too. Maybe the first xbox would fit in a list of well engineered consoles... the 360 missed on HDMI, was probably the least reliable console ever, it had some good benefits, but the downsides are too big to ignore, engineering is about trade offs, trading off reliability to this degree is never a good choice. |
Not quite sure what you're saying here, or if joking. My 1989 NES still works to this day. I've actually never had a Nintendo console (or handheld) fail on me. But, I will agree to the Genesis' durability. The one I bought off a college dorm friend in 1995 (don't know how long he owned it) also still works today as well.
