sega vs. nintendo

though really, nintendo

I just answered the one I grew up w/,Nintendo.

me too

I never liked the "SEGA!!!" commercials, either. When those were playing on tv I was engulfed in the middle of epic RPGs and the very worst advertisement for the other console was something suggesting fleeting intense thrills. A more effective advertisement for me would be "Seeeeeggaaaaaaa....you'll neeeeeeveeeer cooooome baaaack". My mom never would have purchased a second system for me anyway (damn right, too) so I guess it's a moot point.

was mad jealous that genesis got mortal kombat WITH BLOOD whereas SNES MK just had these greyish sprays of gooey sweat

that's another good poll: would you EVER even CONSIDER buying a SECOND SYSTEM for your children? xp

Yeah, that's true. I remember months of checking all the magazines at Wal-Mart for cheat codes to allow blood on SNES, disappointed every time.

sheeeeeeit, i wouldn't allow my child to grow up in the tyranny of a single system house anymore than I would allow them to torture kittens. That shit ain't right!

ok clay davis

i had genesis AND turbografx

thank u bar mitzvah

you spent ur bar mitzvah money on a turbogrfx?!

tough call, old sega better than nintendo in my eyes. minus points for making me purchase the 32X joke.

nintendo wins just for the great little thing called a DS

but i accidentally voted sega anyway!

master system vs NES- prob Sega
Game Gear vs Game Boy- Sega better system, game boy kills it for games. Nintendo
Megadrive/Genesis vs SNES- Sega tbh
evrything since- Nintendo in a walk.

Nintendo; Sega was kinda the "evil empire" for me as a kid ("this Sonic is such a Mario ripoff" I'd think) though I did envy Madden on the Genesis. I loved my Dreamcast though, RIP.

tbh was very jealous of game gear and its 30 minute battery life

up until N64, sonic > mario for me tbh.

30 min battery life? played it at home plugged into the wall.

haha wasn't meant as a diss! full color portable gaming in 1992 was like, jeeeeez

never had a console, home computers all the way.

otoh i did start that 'mario [...] never meant shit to me' thread, had a soft spot for sonic. plus, sega rally.

xp but again i don't remember a single decent game for it apart from the 4-in-1 that included columns and the tennis game.

although hwe rarely got consoles when they were new, over the years we had:

Atari 7800 (awesome)
Game boys (awesome, still play)
Game gear (long gone)
Megadrive (pretty good, got years out of it)
SNES (picked up for a fiver in the late 90's with about 100 games lol college)
PS1 (awesome)
N64 (fuck the haterz, this is my favourite non-portable console)
PS2 (pretty good, don't really have the time at this stage though)
DS- (great)
Wii (pretty good)

oh my brother did have a gamecube, that was actually pretty rubbish iirc.

road rash!

but you know I didn't care after I started playing link's awakening

agree with you about n64 love I was gonna do a DC vs. N64 but no way I could pick DC conscionably xp

link's awakening might well be my favourite game across any system

^ got a gameboy color & links awakening (and 2 other games) for £4.99 from oxfam a couple of weeks ago.
wasn't expecting much but absolutely loved it, as good as link to the past.

i get lost when trying to remember some of these zelda games, i think i really loved links awakening but can't recall if i'm thinking of oracle of seasons.

which one had the part where you're inside some kind of revolving large barrel, and you need to rotate it to find the correct way out?

or was that minish cap?

they're all amazing though

link's awakening is the first zelda game on the original gameboy

there is a big fish, you get to eat it at the end

Games I loved in the 90s - Nintendo
Games I loved in the 00s - Sega

(Er, games I loves in the 80s - Microdeal)

lol

i'd start a poll for best 80's software company, but i fear i'd be giving into my too often head rearing nostaligic self

Voted Dreamcast.

i guess i did have a gameboy which i <3ed muchly

nes vs. master system
SNES vs. genesis
gameboy vs. game gear
N64 vs. dreamcast

the only one sega even has the chance of a look in is N64 vs. dreamcast but N64 had ocarina of time so

any other analysis stands only as proof of the existence of ur own tiny balls

SATURN

N64 vs. saturn, yeah. N64 wins by a country mile

it should be gamecube vs. dreamcast, dreamcast probably takes that one. just

N64 vs. saturn, yeah. N64 wins by a country mile

you
are
smoking
glue

maybe if you're talking in the context of jap saturn and shmups but otherwise nahhhhhh

how long till the retro services on current gen consoles start to dole out saturn games

supposed to be really difficult to emulate, something to do with the dual cpu

I have 10 cpus in my tiny balls, get on with it

sega 'nostalgically', nintendo 'critically'

so, you know, sega

i was very much pro sega as a kid because i got a master system then mega drive. When i finally got a snes one christmas after it became pretty cheap i ws absolutely blown away by super mario world and zelda. So, yeah, nintendo by a long way.

gamecube vs dreamcast is a difficult one. both two of the most aesthetically pleasing consoles of all time, gamecube maybe edges it for having most comfortable ever pad. dreamcast had some features that were 2 future 4 u

i was a nintendo kid. started out on a colour gb then graduated to the n64. so obv nintendo. but i did enjoy a fair few sega games as well. for example over time, outrun has become an important game to me. i'm sure the same goes for the sega kids. not once did i ever feel any gamer's envy toward the other side

I always wanted to play shenmue. Maybe not anymore

I guess I'm amplifying the console rivalry that was happening while I was growing up too much, I didn't even realize this was about more than SNES vs. Genesis.

while I was growing up too much

lol pre-coffee typo
I am now 8 feet tall and my voice is deep enough to communicate with blue whales

SATURN

hi5 bro, hi5

moon landing, more like

keep it to the modern family thread

although I bought the dolphin game but couldn't figure out how to get past the second board, or even to win the damn practice race. It was fun to swim around though.

i bought a dc because owning a saturn taught me absolutely nothing

dreamcast was DOPE: Chu Chu Rocket, Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, JGR, Shenmue, Seaman, SF3 Alpha, Rez, Power Stone, Dino Crisis, Grandia II...

DC game I should probably be embarrassed that I loved but fuck it: 18 Wheeler

its kinda bcum standard gamer challops 2 say but dc really did have an unfuckwithable line-up for the whole 18 months it was on the mkt. and btw on-line standard, vmus, fishing controllers, samba de amigo &c &c sega put mad innovation into the console.

realistically tho no1 can fuk w/the snes for all-time

vmus were pretty strange: I had two of them but never really played any of the games on them and kinda thought wtf at the whole idea

Yeah, at first it's kind of a neat thing to see but it wasn't really utilized at all. Nintendo tried to use a similar idea with the GC/GBA connectivity with horrible results.

DC, oxymoronically, ahead of its time and behind it simultaneously

there's a good doc up on youtube abt the rise and fall of the DC btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3NfgF08EQE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e27kjhZXQqE

i will say that the dreamcast might be my all-time least favorite controller.

yeah seriously.

great lil' system while it lasted though!

I bought it on day one and played the shit out of Soul Calibur for years

why was the cord attached facing the player and not the system? Never got that.

yeah! that always confused me too.

I bought it on day one it started selling for $50 (i.e. the day it was discontinued).

The controller sucked but it's been a great toy for my son, who used it as "his xbox" before he was old enough to know better.

That's adorable.

18 Wheeler

lol loved this too

crazy taxi mini games, just fucking addictive beyond belief.

I played the hell out of Crazy Taxi to get that S-ranking... I think the bowling minigame made me turn it off for good, though.

dreamcast controller is my second favorite controller of all time ;_;

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

No contest.

jesus

faith in board reaffirmed

segdon't

i somehow completely, completely missed this so 36-9 really

the real way to know is WHOSE PORT OF MK2 WAS BETTER and then the answer becomes clear. FATALITY

there's a reason sega had to quit making games systems.

sony vs. microsoft next?

more like your mom vs a jar of mayonnaise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_3HTqD-rGA

So: Sonic 4 apparently doesn't suck, if reviews are to be believed. Has anyone tried it?

Oh for cripes JUST UPDATE THE PSN STORE WILL YOU

yeah, yeah, i don't have anything better to do

My considered verdict: eh is ok

Physics are weird, it feels slow, level design is too reliant on bottonless pits (Casino Street zone is cordially invited to lick me), music is bland and unmemorable, yet still the best the franchise has been in 15 years.

Dimps can make decent Sonic games (see also sonic advance series and sonic rush 1)

It's all over here except for the final boss, and I'll be damned if I can remember a single tune from the soundtrack. Which, considering that the series used to sound like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsS-UDyNKf0
and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih8c6I1zH7I
and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONQKGcuHsg0

Is just incredibly depressing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqMGYy5btJQ&feature=colike

YES

re: upthread, i tend to just assume people who didn't like the dreamcast controller have fat deformed midget hands

No idea where to put this, so this will have to do...

This is an insane amount of work to put into such a ridiculous product:
https://www.theverge.com/21519010/sega-game-gear-micro-review