Woot! PS2 wins! What a match.

The PS2 really did deserve to be top of the chain ...

If nobody cares, I'll just pick the series for the next game. Nobody is posting recommendations so I figure there will be no issues with my choices...

I was just kidding, dude.  I've got nothing against Nintendo.

Though, I guess it also depends what you like.  I was never really into JRPGs.  And the Genesis really did have some of my favourite franchises on it.  Shinobi, Golden Axe, Strider, Sonic, Thunder Force, After Burner, Streets of Rage, Ghouls 'n' Ghosts...

Mind you, I don't know how much overlap there was between the two systems.  No doubt some of them were Sega exclusives, but I'm sure there would have been those available on both.  Still, one of the biggest draws for me was the Streets of Rage series - my favourite 'beat-em-up' - and I know that was published by Sega.

Interesting note - I just looked it up and one of SoR's listed platforms is Wii's Virtual Console.  That actually surprises me a little.  I know Sega don't do hardware any more, but it's kind of ironic that they'd release their old exclusives on a Nintendo platform.  I can't help but wonder what the reaction was in whatever board meeting that was first suggested.

Indeed.  I for one didn't expect it to get anywhere near that far.  As I said before, I'm pleasantly surprised by how fair people were with their voting.  I thought a contest between consoles was just begging to be turned into a fanboy war where all but one company quickly disappears from the list.  I was expecting one of two things to happen: Either all but the Nintendo consoles to quickly be voted off, or all but the Sony consoles to be voted off (though I wasn't sure which).

Instead, people actually voted the lesser consoles off first leaving the better ones from each company.  Well, MS admittedly got the short end of the stick, but the rest enjoyed a good competition.  So, yeah, all round a good game.

Sigh!  Remember when the console wars weren't... well, you know... serious?

These days, they're... well, you know... serious!

Not my experience. The games I liked the most on Genesis were not available on SNES (as far as I know):

- One of the best tennis games I've ever played: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Capriati_Tennis

- One of the best arcade games I've ever played: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicky

- A really fun racing game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4dNc3YLnQk

- Sonic games (of course)

- And the almighty boss of arcade games that I mean to play forever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyo_Puyo_%28series%29

These are just the best of the best. Then there were a lot of others that SNES lacked too.

Maybe for JRPG fans SNES was better, but surely not for me.

It easily won. I'm not adding the votes again but it had about 110 or so.

Ah, is that what was happening?  Now that I think about it, I did notice at one point that the Genesis was getting curiously few votes one way or the other.  That suited me because I was hoping the PS2 would come down in the meantime, but alas, it wasn't to be.

Sorry Rain, I wasn't really clear on what you wanted us to suggest?  Do they have to be exclusives to each platform?

Don't worry. I'll just pick. Thanks anyway.

Ok, no problem.  Sorry if I'm being thick.  I read your explanation several times and I couldn't figure out if you just wanted any third-party games, or games specific to the platforms you're using.  No biggie.

Fuck... I wanted the SNES to win.. >_<