haxxiy on 31 October 2019
Fourth. All gaming magazines of the time considered it a 16-bit system and thus automatically a generation ahead of the NES/Master System. That was pretty much what defined generations back then. By the way, "bit" marketing actually lasted all the way to the middle of the sixth generation. Some people even had to be called out of calling the prospective PS3 etc. 256-bit consoles, back in the days of next-gen speculation.
