I was always partial to the shining force series and thought it was underrated.

Of Sega's platforms, I only experienced the Megadrive growing up, but in retrospect I find a lot to like about the Saturn and the Dreamcast as well.
I definitely feel like it was a loss for gaming that they departed the hardware business. While I preferred Nintendo, Sega brought some welcome variety and a bold spirit of their own to console gaming, and I don't feel like any of today's big three entirely replace that.

For me, I grew up in the 2000s with Xbox and Nintendo in the 6th and 7th generations. When the PS4 and Xbone came out in 2013, I switched to PlayStation and its at that point that I became fascinated with gaming history and the types of games I'm interetsed in to this day (Japanese games, RPGs, etc).

When I learned that Sega used to make consoles, my mind was blown. The first year of the PS4 (2014) was very bad imo, so I learned all about the history of Sega and its consoles and the tragic downfall of the Dreamcast always resonated with me so I rushed out to buy one along with Shenmue I and II, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Power Stone, Crazy Taxi, etc. I then became the annoying 14-15 year old hipster guy at school whose side in the console war was "Dreamcast" or "Sega" instead of PS or Xbox.

Because of this, I have a soft spot for Sega despite not growing up with them and still having many awesome Sega games still in my massive backlog (so to me, in a way, I still get to experience new Sega games!) In the modern age though, I do feel like, as a big fan of Square and JRPGs in general, PS is the ecosystem for me, and objectively PS1 and PS2 are better than Saturn and Dreamcast even if they're a bit less exciting.

I still like Nintendo too, and with Sony's unrelentingly hostile approach to Japan and Japanese games I can certainly envisage a futue where Nintendo become my no.1 if Sony alienate Japanese devs like Square, Atlus, and Sega (ofc) too much that they decide to prioritise Nintendo and the home market.

Of course, if Sega ever do make another console (I know it won't ever happen and would likely fail if it did) then I would be there day one and it would instantly have my heart :)

Well, Genesis does what Nintendon't

I'm glad nintendont want genesis does.  

Joking aside my brother loved sega growing up.  So we had a genesis, cd, 32x and saturn.  I will say sega was an experience.

I got a Genesis as a Christmas gift back in 1991. I knew it existed thanks to old Sears catalogs, but other than that I knew very little about it and wasn't interested in it. I was all about Nintendo at the time. My parents probably got it because it was cheaper than the SNES was. I was pleasantly surprised by the Genesis. While I only own like six games for it, I did rent quite a few for the system until I finally got my own SNES on Christmas 1994. It was a solid system all things considered, even though I still always preferred the SNES.

I never owned a Saturn. I remember its high price, poor reception, and lack of a proper Sonic game, and I remember being utterly disinterested in it. By time I got my first job back in June 1998, it had already been discontinued.

I was however interested in the Dreamcast. Pre-release coverage in gaming mags seemed pretty promising. It had a reasonable price point, too. I bought one on the 9/9/99 launch day, with Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure being the games I got with it, and I had a lot of fun with them. I never owned any other games for the system, though, and throughout most of 2000 I didn't really have the money for games. By time I did have some spending money again in 2001, the Dreamcast was already on the way out, my interest in gaming was at an all-time low during Gen 5, and I was spending most of my spare money on anime DVDs.

I haven't really ever had a console maker that I would call "home".  In the 80's I had an Atari 2600 and a NES, my favorite system of all time.  During the 90's I thought PC gaming was the best, but I also had a SNES, Genesis and PS1 which were all good systems.  PS2 and PC were my main systems during the early 2000's.  During the Wii and Wii U era I liked these systems about as much as the PS3 and PS4.

However, I've liked the Switch much more than any other current system since it launched.  Right now that is my "home", but that could easily change in a couple of years if I think another system has better games than the Switch 2.

My best friend also had a Dynavision, had lots of fun with random games on it, lol.

Fun fact, I've only gotten my PS2 in 2010 as well! After playing the whole gen on my best friend's house, and already having played some PS3 games there as well xD

Yeah, people in USA will obviously recognize it as Genesis instead of Mega Drive, but that's only there, and let's be real, Mega Drive is a way better name xD

My take on the SNES vs MD:

SNES was hands down the best system, not only it had better hardware as a newer console, it also had a ton more good or great games than the MD.

That being said, the MD was not an inferior version of the SNES, but a different thing altogether.

MD and SNES had quite different aproaches, and that is were a lot of personal prefference takes come from.

Even when the SNES had way more good or great games IMO, the MD still have my favorite game from that generation, which is Sonic 2, and the best Beat'em Up of all time that is Streets of Rage 2, that's how much a few games can weight up when people talk about which systems are their favorites.

So even as the SNES is the superior system objectively, the MD would be my favorite one of the two.