I remember genesis coming out waaay before SNES or so it seemed. Genesis was killer compared to NES. But I owned the NES and was too young to conceive of upgrading. I’d play moonwalked and alteredbeasts at my friend’s but was truly content renting NES cartridges until SNES launched. I wanted to upgrade then and there! The joy factor from fzero and Super Mario World was all absorbing of my time. Then my new friend bought sonic and I loved playing it at his house. And another friend had Spider-Man and Venom. But I still had no interest at all in changing systems. Also, I was more content playing a graphically superior version of Mortal Kombat than having a blood code on a genki version. I thought the sega marketing was the stupidest thing I’d ever seen with the wack rappers and oddball logos. Even those my vote was decided, I never argued or thought of it as a console war. I loved being able to play those other games at friends houses! I tried to be a hipster sorta and bought a turbo graphics 16 but that turned into a mistake. Ninja Spirit and Bonk was super cool it was a cool experience for me until it broke from traveling.
