I became a gamer in that generation with the SNES, but didn't find out about the whole console war thing until I read about it in a gaming magazine at a friend's house in 1998.
I knew several people with an SNES, but the only folks I knew who owned a Megadrive were my cousins in the city; I used to play it at their place and just thought it was cool to play something different, I was intrigued by this strange console they had that wasn't a Nintendo.
Years later, I asked them whatever happened to it and they said it had been in a cardboard box in the shed for many years and that I could have it if I wanted. I still have it to this day.








