4th.
A bunch of great platformers, Japan dominance, A Link to the Past, and of course, the best thing was the endless selection of amazing RPGs.
Chrono Trigger, Mario RPG, Earthbound, Final Fantasy VI are pretty much my favorite games ever.

4th gen, super nintendo, thats it

lol, im sorry to say, but.. there is a reason people dont remember the sega saturn

I say a mix between 4th and 5th generation.

I can't decide between awesomeness of SNES, Gameboy and Sega Mega Drive and the magnificence of PSone, N64 and Gameboy Color.

The 16-bit generation was a golden era of gaming. Sega and Nintendo each owned about half the market. The direct competition benefited gamers like no other generation.

When Sony entered the market for a three way split things changed. We lost Sega right when the Dreamcast set things right. Then Microsoft entered for another three way split and the fanboy wars really got out of hand. It used to be you either had a Sega or Nintendo console and you'd play what you didn't have at a friends house and have fun regardless of who made the game. Now the fanboy wars have ruined gaming culture to the point that some people won't even consider the other side and are incapable of enjoying a game exclusive to a rival company.

Yeah, the 16-bit bit generation was a better simpler time. The games have aged remarkably well too.

7th...
The best improvement in visuals and gameplay I've seen. Sony and Microsoft really took a big jump from there previous previous consoles and changed the whole gaming world with online gameplay and amazing visuals

The Megadrive Aladdin game is different from the SNES one.

As for RPG's, that was one of its weaker genres. Megadrive had some western RPG's like Dungeons and Dragons, Shadowrun or Landstalker, most of which are probably pretty outdated. As for japanese ones, Sega themselves made the Phantasy Star games, of which II was ground breaking for its time (1989) but hasn't aged well, III is bad, and IV is awesome. Shining Force 1 and 2 are great tactical RPG games. Shining in the Darkness is good. Super Hydilide looks really outdated but might be worth checking out.

Lunar I and II are, aside from phantasy stars the best competitors the Final Fantasy games of the SNES, but they were released on the Mega CD, and are super rare, so you'll only be able to play them through emulation (unless you are super rich and have the patience to track them down). If you do want to play them, I recommend using the Kega Fusion emulator, it's the best one I've used, and it does 32X games and Mega CD games as well as regular Megadrive games.

Gonna say 4th gen because that's what i grew up with (SNES all the way!). I actually still have my SNES, i dont think id ever sell it :D Otherwise definitely 7th gen best new IP's coming out of Sony.

That's a very good point. Maybe fans of Sega and Nintendo didn't hate eachother becuase if they saved their pennies they didn't have to choose just one. Now fanboys don't just prefer one console over another, they actualy wish harm on the other consoles and hope they fail.

I think the problem is that too many people today don't just buy a product and treat it like a product. They identify with companies as if they are part of some exclusive club just because they bought their stuff.

The things I like are part of who I am, but I am not a part of those things. The mistake people are making today is thinking that what they buy makes them who they are.

Here's a very interesting clip from a documentary. It's about crazy Apple fans, but it applies to all rabid fanboys who have lost touch with reality and can no longer empathize with regular human beings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewJ6Wzmr_V0

What he's talking about applies to everyone who has ever looked down on someone based on choosing to buy a rival product to that which they identify with.