Dunno I was to wittle to remember....

The Genesis/SNES war was definitely the fiercest.

I remember that all of my friends had a genesis. We had so much fun playing this console. Every new game had to be beaten. You didn't stop playing it untill you made your way through a game. The one who could play it best played it and 3-4 friends were just watching and enjoying it. They were like cheering for him. With 4-5 genesis in one apartment building, you had always games to play and share. as soon as somebody had a new game, everyone played it with him. Greatest time for a gamer, I guess.

 Your telling me

I would have loved a good bash on Starwing

So much Sega hate..... I loved my genesis....

I loved my Sega Megadrive and my neighbours Super Nintendo , too young to remember what generations they were.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkFnMHAyc-4

Love that movie...

aw, yes I remember that. good times. too bad I've never supported Sega. I've always bought Nintendo and Sony systems.

Actually there was this great study. They found that teenagers at the time would not under any circumstances admit they owned a Super Nintendo and not a Genesis. Genesis really did a good job at making it the machine the cool kids had (to the kidish Nintendo system image). Playstation did the same thing if you remember the Crash Bandicoot talking trash in the Nintendo parking lot. It's not hard to be the adult company vs Nintendo when it makes developers censor games like Mortal Kombat for violence (which Genesis did not do). After years of Nintendo when Cid and the rest kept saying s**t in FFVII I was amazed beyond belief. I didn't know people in games were allowed to say anything worse then damn after 10 years in Nintendo World.

That said when genesis vs SNES was picking up I was 8 so obviously I went SNES though I had friends with genesis. There just weren't many good Genesis games in the end, almost all the immortal 16 bit games were on SNES especially near the end. Despite that, Genesis was undoubtedly cooler (especially in the US) and I bet if the Saturn hadn't been so bad they could have passed up Nintendo the following generation like Sony did on the teenage and up market.

Ever since the PS1 took the adult market pretty securely from Nintendo I think there has been kind of a truce between the two companies. Nintendo dominates the child market (and family market by proxy) along with casual gamer markets (the kind of gamers who make carnival games a 2 million seller) while Sony takes the decided majority of teen and up gamers (the Genesis sweet spot). They really don't talk too much trash because they're not really competing.

They overlap a bit but Sony's real enemy is Microsoft and Nintendos....I don't think anyone really bothers fighting with Nintendo since Nintendo is so strong in its segment fighting with them for that kid/family demo is pointless. Besides, a lot of Nintendo players are introduced to video games via Nintendo systems then move to Sony as they got older and God of War starts to look better then Mario (some not all, some will want to play Mario till the day they die). I bet you anything at the end of the day Sony is thankful to Nintendo in a lot of ways, the market wouldn't be as big as it is without Sony, but it wouldn't have been to the point where the PS1 could sell 100 million consoles if not for 15 years of Nintendo. I would bet anything that 90% of Sony gamers have owned one or more Nintendo consoles over the years (I think I've owned 8 counting handhelds).

    I really believe the war would be about even between Nintendo and Sony if it was Nintendo and Sony like it was Nintendo and Genesis.  The big problem is that Nintendo still has its demographic solidly (because there is no low priced kid friendly console besides the Wii) yet Microsoft is trying to eat away at the Sega demographic (the teen and up gamer market).  People say things like Nintendo is owning, but that's only half true since one side has competition and the other doesn't.  If you want to play GTA4 or games like that there are two choices, if you want to play a Mario game or even games like Mario on a closed kid friendly console with things like friend codes what else are you going to buy if not a Wii?

    When MS finally drops out it will be interesting to see how the sega/Nintendo war of the 21st century plays out.