Genesis VS SNES VS TG-16

November 2nd 1991, it was my birthday and I was gettin' shat on from every direction that day. I grew up in the the hills and spent my days on my grandparents farm. This day I had twice, almost 3 times the chores as usual. When I got back home I ended up also having to clean the entire house with my older brother. This was turning out to be the worst 8th birthday EVER! till 8 PM that night my father pulls in.

"Dylan, fetch the groceries out of the trunk."

"But DAAAADDDD!" whimper whine, its my birthday bs that all kids do.

"Do it now or I'll give you something to cry about!"

I walked out to the car, opened up the trunk and what did I see? SONIC, a big ol'd smiling face of Sonic. That day I was a fan, I worked so damn hard for that Genesis (which I hadn't even heard of before that day, although seen it a couple times at a friends house and didn't pay shit attention to it). From that day on Keith and I (my friend at the time) would battle with this kid in class over SNES and SEGA. It would get down to fist fights a lot.

Any games that were released on all 3 systems? See if we can make some sort of comparison?

Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting saw a port to all 3.

I can't think of anything else

No it didn't. As I said in the other thread, Hyper Fighting and Championship Edition aren't the same game. And anyway, I don't think that had a hucard release (if we're counting that separately).

Shadow of the Beast was on all three systems (well it was on Genesis, SNES, and Turbo CD), but whoever "ported" the SNES version took ridiculous 'creative liberties' with it.

Prince of Persia was on SNES, Genesis cart, Turbo CD, and Sega CD. Ys III was on SNES, Genesis cart, and Turbo CD (with significantly different gameplay for each). I think the only game that was ported to all three non-CD formats (SNES, Genny cart, Turbo hucard) was Populous.

Street Fighter II' did in fact get a HuCard release, and yeah, it's Championship Edition gameplay ... all twelve fighters, but none o' that fancy speed control. PC-Engine release only.

Oh that's weird. I thought Street Fighter II' was one of the Arcade Card releases.

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Originally Posted by j_factor

Oh that's weird. I thought Street Fighter II' was one of the Arcade Card releases.

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Nope, I own a copy.

It is kind of a weird looking HuCard.. beefier, one might say.

I was a big fan of the NES when a guy I worked who was into games to invited me up to see his Genesis. He put in Super Monaco GP and I was floored which is odd because I'm really not into racing games. It was the speed and the graphics that blew me away. He also had M.U.S.H.A and Gaires which, again, were awesome. I went out the next day and bought my Genny. I remember when the SNES came out and the initial reviews for the games weren't flattering. Super R-Type was SLOW and I remember my friends and I all laughed at the system, that is until I broke down and bought one with Super Mario World. Man, what a game. Then came games like Actraiser, Contra III, Castlevania and I realized that the SNES was a system to be reckoned with. As far as the TG-16 goes, I only picked one up because the video game stores were selling them off cheap. I never really got into that system, but Bonk and Lords of Thunder were great.

The last thing I'd say is that while the SNES had the Genny beat in terms of sound and colors, many of the Genesis games just felt better. Maybe it was the faster processor, who knows.

I initially went with the Genesis in 1992 for NHL Hockey... and stayed with the Genesis until early 1994. Then I got a SNES, and that console got the upper hand as far as 16-bit gaming was concerned, until I sold all my systems in mid-1996.

But since I got back to gaming in the last few years, my Genesis gets a lot more playing time than my SNES (and my Genesis games outnumber my SNES games by a ratio of nearly 3-to-1). I love its games, have many indelible Genesis-related memories from the early 1990s that I like to revisit, and I think that its supposed "drawbacks" (less colors, uneven sound...) have a B-film quality to them, i.e. their very limitations are endearing, to me.

I was a Sega kid from the very beginning, my first console was the Master System. I grew attached to action games with an arcade spirit, so naturally I prefered the MD. I enjoyed all the funny Nintendo-bashing but I didn't isolate myself from all those great games in pure ignorance like others did. I rented the SNES from time to time.

I could write a short novel about how I ended up buying a Genesis LOL.

I starting buying EGM`s in early 1991. I live in Mexico so I always saved money and go to the USA for the summer and buy games overthere.

That year I remember a kickass Atari Lynx advertisement on EGM. It was more like a 40-page advertisement with lots of cool pictures of games like Blue lightning, Ninja Gaiden and other. I decided to get a Lynx.

I waited a few months until the summer of 1991 arrived. I went to a Toys R Us in California and saw the LYNX in action. It was showing blue lightning in action. It looked better than any portable game I´d seen before so i bought the Lynx. Too bad that Toys R us didnt have ANY lynx games available!!!! I ended up buying the LYNX and hoping I could find the games somewhere else in the following days....

So I had the lynx inside the box for like 2 weeks....I couldnt find games anywhere! After many hours of thought I decided to return it and ask for my money back.

In the following days I started thinking that maybe the Lynx wasnt a good system to own (finding the games was a pain in the ass) So I went to a store in Dowtown LA and bought a Genesis (came with Altered beast Included) and got moonwalker too. As soon as I got to my aunt´s house and hooked the genesis Up, i noticed that there was something strange...the graphics were seriously messed up!!! I had bought a faulty genesis! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

So i returned to the store the following day, grabber another genesis. Went to my aunt´s house again.....and ANOTHER faulty genesis! Damn !!! I didnt know what was wrong with the quality assurance from sega! I told my mom about the faulty genesis (again) and she started crying! LOL (we had a little argument with the store owner when we went to return the first genny).

I was lucky one of my cousins gave us the idea of buying a genesis at a Toys R us, swapping the consoles and returning it the same day. Im not happy about this but i DID do it (i was leaving to mexico soon and I still had a faulty genesis). This is how i FINALLY got a working genesis (the third one!). That summer I also bought Super Monaco GP, Golden Axe, Sonic 1. ...what a great summer.

I was dumb enough to sell my genesis collection (around 40 games) back in 1995 when I dropped console gaming and started College. By the time I finished college in 2000 I was in the "console mood" again,,,,and now I have 345 games and MAYBE someday will have the complete set of genesis games..who knows!!!

LONG LIVE THE GENESIS! :)

The 16-bit era was my favorite time in video games so I love all of these systems. They're my top 3 systems ever. The turbo duo is my favorite, followed by the genny and then the snes. The snes was great for rpg's and nintendo games but the turbo and genesis had much better arcade-style games and I love those. Anyways these are all great systems in their own way. They're all hooked up in my game room right now along with a cube,sms and nes.

True to my roots: Joe Montana Football. Back in 1991 I went over to a rich friends house with another friend of mine. He had a Genesis hooked up to a big projection screen tv and sat us down to play Joe Montana Football, Altered Beast, Strider, etc. I had heard about the Genesis from friends and seen the ads on tv and in mags, but I was so tossed up over which system to ask for X-mas, the Genesis or the Turbo Grafx-16. For some reason I thought the ads for TV Sports Football looked pretty good. That was untill I got to see/play the Genny in it's full big screen glory! I was hooked then and there! When my mom & dad bought me my Genesis for X-mas '91 Sonic (as the pack in) and John Madden '92 were my first 2 games. Me and my lil bro and lil sis played the hell out of Sonic and Madden for years. I didn't get Joe Montana till a couple of years later, but to this day I'll never forget what got me hooked on the Genesis. :cool:

what keeps me playing the sega genesis is the music they have on the games they made :)