what gen did the fanboy wars begin???

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Espresso on 21 October 2008

I love fanboy wars.

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pichu_pichu on 21 October 2008

I'm guessing the gen when the Internet was created.

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sega4life on 21 October 2008

It started on my street around 1985, with all the kids on my block owning either a Master System or Nintendo Entertainment Center.

It was a great war.

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Cougarman on 21 October 2008

Kasz216 said:

Generation? I think we can narrow it down to the commercial.

Seriously, the "fanboy" wars were basically started by Sega as a marketing ploy after the Genisis couldn't dethrone the NES in japan despite being way more powerful and graphically superior.

It worked too... it's also what started the "Nintendo Systems are kiddy" stereotype.

sega should've tried something like this ad when dreamcast first came out, too bad their marketing budget was non existent by then


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c03n3nj0 on 21 October 2008

Yep SNES VS Genesis it was the start of it all!

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konnichiwa on 21 October 2008

Snes VS Genesis I don't know if it started with the Sega commercials though for me it started with all those mags....

Mario VS Sonic
Final Fight VS Street of Rage
Final Fantasy VS Phantasy Star

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