OdinHades said:
It did though. That controller was a friggin' revolution back then. |
Not really it was just a different direction input, flattened out instead of a standard joystick. I was there in the 80s, lol, I remember the reactions to it.
Sega Master System had basically all the same shit ... flattened d-pad controller, light gun, it even had 3D glasses.
The reason why no one wanted the Sega was because it didn't have any freaking games other than some really good Sega games (the irony is Nintendo has turned themselves into "Sega" of the Master System era in many ways. But back then Sega didn't have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (which was a big fucking deal circa 1989). It didn't have Ninja Gaiden. No Blades of Steel. No Castlevania. No Megaman. No Final Fantasy. No RBI Baseball. No Tecmo Bowl. No Batman '89. No Duck Tales. No Mike Tyson Punch-Out. No Contra or Super C. And of course no Super Mario Brothers.
If you wanted to play any of the "hot" games of the day, you had to get the NES and it wasn't just Nintendo's 1st party games by a long shot.
I actually specifically remember driving to the store to get an NES and my friends rushing alongside the car to yell "make sure you get the Nintendo not the Sega, it has all the games!", I remember too there was one kid on the block who's parents got him the Sega Master System and we all felt sorry for the kid but made fun of him anyway, lol.
Well I mean today that is basically the Playstation, Sony basically co-opted the real Nintendo console lineage because Nintendo made too many stupid mistakes in the 90s and handed them the keys to the market and Sony basically took those keys and locked Nintendo out of their own market.
