SNES vs Genesis hands down.

I went ahead and voted for SNES vs. Genesis;

Like others here I remember when this was a big deal, and todays market battles seem tame in comparrison.

The main thing was that each console took a different take in technologies so you could get very different results in the quality of the games in a side by side comparison, rather than what amounts to a more trivial debate nowdays.

Take Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II for example, Depending on which console you had, essentially led to getting a different version of the game. Third party support was paramount in all aspects, and we can see that whichever side you were on, SNES won. Genesis Does. but did not have Final Fantasy, among other things and that was a big coffin nail.

I will say it is exciting that we have such huge numbers, and a lot going on even to the end of the gen. I mean PS3 is looking likely to beat 360 globally, though not in NA region and 360 could pass the Wii in the U.S.... This is highly unprecedented.

This gen is the most brutal (360 vs PS3).

We now live in social media generation.... Youtube, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. It fuels the flames a lot more.

The answer is obvious.. SNES vs Genesis.

They were the perfect rivals. Similar in hardware and in certain games, but different in the marketing image and the difference of "mature" games in the libraries. Lots of mudslinging, mostly from Sega with clever slogans like "Genesis does what Nintendon't. The race was also very tightly contested the whole way, with SNES only barely edging out the Genesis, thanks in large part to the Donkey Kong Country games and Mario RPG. Both were great consoles with great libraries. Simply an epic battle for the ages..

Let's ask this very same question in 20 years and I'm positive that the whole PS3 vs 360 spectical will be a sidenote in the grander scoop of video game history! The Nintendo vs sega wars were so epic People is STILL debating this! I don't see the PS3 vs 360 debate lasting two decades!

When I grew up there was no rivalry between what consoles our friends had over our own, rivalry between the two companies themselves, yes! I had a sega mega drive but when we went our friends we went on the snes!!

Whats wrong with the poles???

It was a one sided fight with the SNES and Genesis

Snes vs. Genesis of course. That was some though shit haha.

So you must have LOVED going over to your friends house and I bet you went there a lot.

Infact you were probably ALWAYS there.

I didn't even know console wars existed before this gen. We played whatever we had access to and we were happy about it. So this whole concept of being ridiculed for the console you own or the games you like is still kinda new to me.

The only "war" I remember was Amiga vs. Atari ST, but that wasn't a real war - just some snide remarks here and there. I wasn't part of it though, since I owned neither.