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KungKras on 07 August 2009
megaman79 said:
The arrogance of it started when Genesis and Snes launched. Nintendo competed, or won, most of these fights. The Wii finished the argument.

Actually, Sega's blast processing won most arguments until Donkey Kong Country came out. DKC won Nintendo the console war, but it was close.



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luvtospooge on 07 August 2009

When games started to have color.



masschamber on 07 August 2009

graphics phase started pre-consoles with mattel and coleco's handheld games, basically saying my leds are prettier than your leds, no joke
anyway Mattel vs Atari started the whole graphics war, With George Plimpton in all his glory informing the public of how much more lifelike and detailed mattel's games were than atari's
so it has always been a graphics phase, evier since there were 2 competitors with commercial presence (atari did not need to compete with the Studio 2 and Fairchild so there was no graphics war for the first 2 years)



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sguy78 on 07 August 2009
masschamber said:
graphics phase started pre-consoles with mattel and coleco's handheld games, basically saying my leds are prettier than your leds, no joke
anyway Mattel vs Atari started the whole graphics war, With George Plimpton in all his glory informing the public of how much more lifelike and detailed mattel's games were than atari's
so it has always been a graphics phase, evier since there were 2 competitors with commercial presence (atari did not need to compete with the Studio 2 and Fairchild so there was no graphics war for the first 2 years)

Come on.



masschamber on 08 August 2009
sguy78 said:
masschamber said:
graphics phase started pre-consoles with mattel and coleco's handheld games, basically saying my leds are prettier than your leds, no joke
anyway Mattel vs Atari started the whole graphics war, With George Plimpton in all his glory informing the public of how much more lifelike and detailed mattel's games were than atari's
so it has always been a graphics phase, evier since there were 2 competitors with commercial presence (atari did not need to compete with the Studio 2 and Fairchild so there was no graphics war for the first 2 years)

Come on.

I'm not quite sure I follow you, but seriously the graphics war dates to the earliest days

I'll have to find the coleco vs mattel handheld ad, but here's atari vs intellivision graphics war ad,



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d21lewis on 08 August 2009

I was going to say "Intellivision" but masschamber brought visual aides!



sguy78 on 08 August 2009
masschamber said:
sguy78 said:
masschamber said:
graphics phase started pre-consoles with mattel and coleco's handheld games, basically saying my leds are prettier than your leds, no joke
anyway Mattel vs Atari started the whole graphics war, With George Plimpton in all his glory informing the public of how much more lifelike and detailed mattel's games were than atari's
so it has always been a graphics phase, evier since there were 2 competitors with commercial presence (atari did not need to compete with the Studio 2 and Fairchild so there was no graphics war for the first 2 years)

Come on.

I'm not quite sure I follow you, but seriously the graphics war dates to the earliest days

I'll have to find the coleco vs mattel handheld ad, but here's atari vs intellivision graphics war ad,

I stand corrected.



Mr. sickVisionz on 08 August 2009

16-bit. It may have started earlier but at the age I was aware of this stuff (like 7-12) was the 16-bit era. I remember seeing commercials on TV saying that the Genesis has "blast processing" and the SNES didn't... whatever tf that was.



sguy78 on 08 August 2009
Mr. sickVisionz said:
16-bit. It may have started earlier but at the age I was aware of this stuff (like 7-12) was the 16-bit era. I remember seeing commercials on TV saying that the Genesis has "blast processing" and the SNES didn't... whatever tf that was.

I think that is when it really kicked off as well.



Strategyking92 on 08 August 2009
sguy78 said:
masschamber said:
sguy78 said:
masschamber said:
graphics phase started pre-consoles with mattel and coleco's handheld games, basically saying my leds are prettier than your leds, no joke
anyway Mattel vs Atari started the whole graphics war, With George Plimpton in all his glory informing the public of how much more lifelike and detailed mattel's games were than atari's
so it has always been a graphics phase, evier since there were 2 competitors with commercial presence (atari did not need to compete with the Studio 2 and Fairchild so there was no graphics war for the first 2 years)

Come on.

I'm not quite sure I follow you, but seriously the graphics war dates to the earliest days

I'll have to find the coleco vs mattel handheld ad, but here's atari vs intellivision graphics war ad,

I stand corrected.

It all backfired when the colecovision console came out :P

They had to shut up then.



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