Who here experienced the amazing 4th gen console wars ?

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I remember the advertising well which extended into gaming magazines like Nintendo Power.  I don't remember anyone comparing Genesis and SNES except briefly someone telling me Genesis was better because it had blood in Mortal Kombat.  But for the most part I don't remember hardly anyone, other than myself, having either a SNES or a Genesis.  I got a SNES when I was a Junior in high school and it was stolen when I was a Senior.  Then I bought a Genesis in my first year of college, but I have a hard time remembering anyone else with either system.  

This was in stark contrast to the NES.  The NES was everywhere.  After a couple of years every kid on my block had an NES.  Kids I was only mildly acquianted with at school would swap NES games with me for a week.  The NES was a huge cultural phenomenon.  There are several people I know who had the NES as their last console and never got anything after.

By the time the 90's came around I mostly remember my friends being into PC gaming.  PC gaming had turned into something amazing in the 90's.  It was far beyond the clunky bullcrap that was 80's PC gaming, and it was also far more innovative than 21st century PC gaming.  In fact, in the past few years I have gone back to playing Genesis and SNES games more because I missed a lot of good ones in the 90's.  There were too many good PC games at the time.