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Whut? Megadrive was based on sega's arcade hardware.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pulstar
edit: lol, I just noticed that link is for 'uncyclopedia'. Pretty funny stuff.
They share a few common components, but it's not 'based on' the Amiga. It's what made it attractive to companies like Codemasters who saw the value in porting over their Amiga games to familiar hardware with relatively little hassle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pulstar
Anyway, everyone knows that videogames = Nintendo up until 1996, maybe then they either got a Playstation for Christmas or an N64 if your parents didn't love you. After that they bought a PS2 and are now posting on IGN about how casual gamers are destroying their gamer childhoods, beacuse the Wii something something *cough*
My nephews know all about the Classics..
Heck my 2 nephews Ben & Chris loves to play TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist
I don't know about now
Heh, I was in a serious discussion one time where soemone had stated the lawsuit by Atari Corp at Sega in the mid 90s was because of the genesis being a rip-off of the Atari ST hardware :lol: ... I countered with a rambling response including the system 16 and master system's ties to the MD hardware. (the actual lawsuit was over soem unrelated patents -not to the controller interface either, that's another misinformed assumption)Quote:
Originally Posted by old man
Anyway, it turns out my reasoing was actually wrong as the Genesis is in fact not based on any of Sega's Arcade hardware unlike soem articles claim. Or at least in no other than a very general basis of wanting a home system with soem rough capabilities of supporting soem of Sega's arcade games.
It's not much based ont he Master System either it seems; the VDP (the main peice of custom hardware on the board) has almost noting in common with the SMS's and msot likely, a fair chunk of the VDP is used for providign SMS compatiblilty and otherwise wasted. (and possibly preventing soem additions like a larger palette and more indexted colors)
The Genesis VDP was used in arcade games though, but following the release of the MD, not prior to it. (and it does have some unused features -as did the SMS- which apear to have been included for later use in arcade systems -though they could have proved useful ont he MD had they actually been conected to the cart port or expansion slot)
This seems to be the common opinion among kids these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rusty Venture
They think the SNES was gold, (despite never playing one) and that no one had a Sega Genesis because it sucked.
IMHO we can thank wikipedia, and Sega not making consoles any longer.
Meh. My bf's sister doesn't even know who Mario is, and she's 21...
As long as Genesis prices are low, the little whippersnappers can think whatever they want about it and the SNES.Quote:
Originally Posted by PimpUigi
^^thisQuote:
Originally Posted by Rusty Venture
I dunno, I've always loved the SNES... in fact, I think it's one of the greatest console systems ever made!
I miss the 16-bit era.
It was.
IMHO the only great consoles were the Genesis, SNES, and Dreamcast.
GameCube is a distant fourth in my book, followed by PSX, Xbox 1, and NES.
I can easily live without these four, but you need the Genesis, SNES, and Dreamcast.
Wow, I really don't like the NES at all...despite my favorite video game of all time being on there.
JVC Star Wars (actually Sonic CD is close to taking it's place, surprisingly enough)
Video Computah System!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111 1111111111111111! :mrgreen:
I'm not sure if I'd consider Turbo Grafx 16 to be fairly obscure, sure it was no where near as popular as the Genesis os SNES, but I've known a few people who have had them, and I've seen several of them in thrift stores.Quote:
Originally Posted by Why-Disciple
In comparison, I've never seen an Atari Lynx in a thrift store, and until about a month ago, when I saw one in a video game store I'd never seen one around anywhere, [except mine] since they were new in stores.
These are some other systems I would consider obscure from that era:
SNK Neo Geo
Panasonic 3DO
Philips CDi
Atari Jaguar
Pioneer LaserActive
Nintendo Virtual Boy
but I would'nt put Turbo Grafx 16 in this category.
I do see your point though, I just thought it was funny that a guy working in a place that sells classic video games and systems did'nt know what a Tufbo Grafx 16 was.
I never recall TG-16 software being anyplace. Toys R Us might have had it, maybe even Walden Software/Software Etc. but the stores like Wal-Mart, K-Mart & Best Buy (aroud here) never, ever had any TG-16 stuff.
I personally would never put the 3DO in the "obscure" class as I remember seeing games and systems being sold outside "specialty" stores.
I would put both of those, TG16, as well as 3D0 into the obscure category.