Your genesis history

Curious but what is your history with this machine? What is your machine's history?

I'll start:

First played the genesis at a cousin's house (he had everything gaming tons of stuff) not sure which model probably 1 he had a cd as well

Bought my first genesis in 98/99 it was a genesis 3 I stumbled across at the local mall in a toystore-20 bucks and I was on my way to gaming goodness. Probably owned about two dozen games back then all from a local pawn or video store.

And just recently decided to go genesis again my genesis is a model 1 which according to a small plaque on the bottom was refurbished by sega at some point. I believe this accured in 1994. It also has a sega cd.

I wanted an NES in 1991. All my friends had one. A few had a SMS too, so that was my second choice. But my mom was more clever; she had seen Revenge of Shinobi and realized how far better the MD was technically, and that buying one of the older systems was investing money into something near death. So she persuaded me to take the MD, and some lucky day in 1991 it was finally mine, bundled with Sonic The Hedgehog....man, I am grateful to my mom for knowing more about gaming than myself!:D

I saved a MD1 (which turned out to be a clone later on, but a good one) from a dumpster in 1999 or 2000 then found a nice nifty shop (http://www.gamepood.ee) in Tallinn that sold Sega (compatible) stuff and I got the thing working... few years later it died :( Then I got lucky and someone happened to have a MD2 lying around, so I got it... and now this MD2 has served me well, and will do so in future, especially with its new MCD2 side-kick ;) My MD2 : http://www.hot.ee/tmeeco/MYSMD2.JPG

My brother and I got our Sega Genesis for Christmas 1989 with Altered Beast. We probably didn't buy a game until Sonic came out in '91 though...rentals only until that point. Our household's first video game console. Though my dad had a Commodore 64 with a couple of games (my dad was in love with the Commodore 64 and honestly did not buy a new computer until 1998! when the internet essentially forced him to) we still have all the manuals for it lying around.

I am still in possession of said genesis and I still have all the original hookups. Sadly our original 3 button and arcade controller are long broken BUT we do have our original 6 button controller. The genesis no longer works...almost a decade of near non-stop play & 6 moves did not help it. Both controller ports are finicky and the cartridge slot has soda or something spilled in there. I only hold onto it for sentimental reasons.

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Originally Posted by 108 Stars

she had seen Revenge of Shinobi and realized how far better the MD was technically

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How cool is that ? :D

I was 10 years oldand it was 1990. I walked into the local arcade and saw something that blew me away. It was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It destroyed anything I had ever seen on my Nes. I could go back to playing my Nintendo after that. Being an optimistic young kid I wrote a letter to Sega asking if they would ever make Tmnt for Genesis. When they repsonded (lord I wish I had tha tletter still) they gave me a very poilte no but did include a list of upcoming games and included a poster. I had wrote Nintendo before and their letters were always very snooty. Just that letter alone made me want to buy it. Little touches like plastic cases also helped. I saved every cent i could scrounge up. My mom promised if I got good enough grades she would buy me one and I did. I was stuck with Altered Beast for about 6 months though. That sucked but i did eventually did get to play TMNT in one form or another.

I can't fully remember, around 94 i guess. Once I got a PlayStation, my focus mainly shifted to that. I still played the Genesis and bought some games for it but after something broke, it would be years before I would get back to it.

Saw some screenshots of "Sonic 2" the summer of 1992 and by that x-mas I had Sonic 2 and the system.

That system is packed up because it is a later system with bad audio, the one I use I bought off Ebay about 5 years ago.

Here's a sorta different one:

When my family bought a new PC in 1999 it came bundled with Sonic and Knuckles Collection. I played that and became obsessed with Sonic, which led me to wonder where Sonic 1 and 2 were. One internet search later I found a Genesis emulator and a couple of ROMs. I played them on and off, and over the next few years grabbed 5 or 6 other ROMs (Megaman Wily Wars, Mega Bomberman, and Dr. Robotnik are the only ones I actually remember getting), not wanting to expand my horizons past franchises I'd known from NES emulators and my Game Boy for unknown reasons. The system never really was important to me at the time, except for the Sonic games. I mostly hung around the SNES emulators and games (and in fact a Christmas list I made in 1999 has a SNES on it, as I didn't realize that they weren't made any more)

So, about a year ago I bought a GP2X handheld, and its Genesis emulator performed extremely well compared to the other emulators available on the system at the time (and still does, in fact). So, hungry for games, I looked at the GP2X forums and got a couple of game recommendations, with Streets of Rage 2 the only one I remember. But I got essentially hooked! I realized the Genesis had a lot more interesting stuff out there for it. So more ROM downloading happened.
So, now we're getting closer to the actual Genesis. Time passed, I played a load of games, and decided I really wanted to actually have the console experience. My brother picked up a SNES about two years ago and we enjoyed the games even more than we had in emulation, so I knew that I could similarly get more fun out of the Genesis by getting one. However, I was pretty much out of money so most of the prices on Ebay looked ridiculous. Time passed again.

Enter late March 2008. I'm in school, and the English class I'm in has been a complete joke with the teacher teaching absolutely nothing. You could call it social hour. As usual I'm talking with this nice girl next to me. Kind of a geeky person, maybe not tons, but somewhat. Somehow we get on the topic of video games and I mention how much I've been enjoying Genesis stuff. She says "oh! I have one of those but I don't play it any more..." So I sort of take advantage of the fact she doesn't play it any more and state that I've been searching for one. She says I can have it. A few days later, on April 2 (wow, I remember the day!) before school, I recieve from her a plastic bag containing a Genesis 2, 3-button pad, Sonic 2, and Aladdin. It had some wear and tear (very dirty, and a sticker on the bottom states it's been refurb'd) and a nice green sticker on the front, but I got that removed and the whole system generally cleaned up. I had a Genesis. It was, and still is, wonderful. I'm addicted.

I bought a NES in the summer of '87 and was a total fan. Genesis and TG16 came out in 89, but I didn't pick up both until summer of '90 at age 14. I had played Altered Beast demo at "Play Word" quite a few times, but I wasn't really interested by the system. I was still in love with the NES.

Great NES games were coming out left and right, and were easy to rent. I wasn't overly impressed by the graphics or sound of the Genesis, being totally happy with the NES. It wasn't until my older brother brought home a TG16 and a bunch of games, that the NES dated graphics/sound started to bug me. I was hooked on the TG16. Through the TG16, I met a friend who had one in my neighborhood. He also had a Genesis that I got to play quite a bit. I had borrowed it a few times and my brother decided to get one that fall in 1990. I loved all those early titles. Now that I look back, I regret completely ditching the NES. There were some great games to come out in 90-92.

It all happened during 1991/1992... I think my interest in SEGA was fueled by having played Asterix and Sonic on a friend's SMS II. The thing had Alex Kidd in Miracle World built-in (crazy stuff!) and I was completely blown away by the fantastic quality of these games. They were great fun to play and had very colorful graphics and catchy music.

I've had seen various old consoles and home computers until then. I can't even remember what brands they were, but I clearly remember that none of them left much of an impression.

This time though, I started bugging my parents to buy me a Master System, but they didn't want to spent money on video games.

But there was no escape: At New Year's Eve '91/'92, my parents took me with them to spend the night at their friends. Their daughter had a Mega Drive with Sonic. Never again have I been more impressed by graphics and sound of a video game. After many hours, me and my brother made it to the first level of the Marble Zone.

At that time I stumbled across a 1991 SEGA catalogue at some toy store which had awesome photos of SEGA's hardware line up and great screenshots to some of the available games; and which I still have to this day.

Of course now that I've experienced Sonic on Mega Drive, I wanted a Mega Drive - although it was even more expensive than a Master System and although I was kinda sad that it had no Asterix game. And those that came out many years later weren't made by SEGA. Asterix remained a game exclusive to the SMS, and which I never played again until 11 years later - via SMEG on Dreamcast. :)

Anyway, that year SEGA launched the "Cyber Razor Cut" commercial which I taped on VHS and watched again and again. - The German version was edited for faster cuts and had way better music than the UK version you can find on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAAjQskHh-g

I started buying every video game magazine there was - which were only two: "Video Games" which had reviews of everything from NES to NeoGeo (and Factor5's Julian Eggebrecht as a staff writer); and "Gamers" which dealed with everything SEGA.

I kept bugging my parents for the entire year and we made plans on how I could possibly afford it. I finally got my Mega Drive at Christmas '92. During the months before Christmas, my mother drove me out to the only video game shop in our area a few times, so I could buy a second hand copy of Quackshot, an UK import version of World of Illusion and Sonic 2 at the day of its release (DM 79,- IIRC); all of which made waiting these loooong months until Christmas even longer.

One of my friends had bought a Genesis (@1989) and he mailed in the UPC code for 2 additional titles. He had Altered Beast (Pack-in) and two additional titles (PSII and Super Thunderblade) from the mail-in offer. I'd talked him into buying Herzog Zwei and we played it quite a bit.

He'd originally bought the Genesis, with hopes of it providing PC style games. He had decided he needed to sell it, because had wanted a PC, so he sold it to me for $150.

I had amassed a decent collection of games for the system and later bought a Sega CD to go with it. I had bought CD titles like Snatcher, Lunar 1&2, Prize Fighter, Dark Wizard, Silpheed, F-15 Tomcat and Battle Corps.

I had decided to sell my (boxed)Genesis and Sega CD collection to buy games for my Sega Saturn; A decision I later regretted. :(

I ended up buying a model 2 Genesis and about 50 complete games later on, but I do miss having the complete 1st model Genesis. I was at least fortunate enough to get Herzog Zwei back, in mint condition.

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Originally Posted by gamevet

I had decided to sell my (boxed)Genesis and Sega CD collection to buy games for my Sega Saturn; A decision I later regretted. :(

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A friend of mine did the exact same thing. Every now and then he mentions how much he regrets this decision.

I first played the Genesis a week or two before its release at a car show. A local game shop had a booth set up for whatever reason and there it was running Altered Beast. Although I was initially disappointed that the game lacked the scaling found in the arcade, I learned to like it anyway when I purchased the machine upon release a week or so later. I still have the same unit and it has played well over 600 or 700 games. It talks to me (though never directly) and I worship it. I will go to Genesis heaven when I die if I believe in it strongly enough. That helps me feel better about death and gives my limited mind some answers that I could not otherwise conceive of.

I first played the Genesis in 1991 at a local video rental store. They had a bunch of game systems set up so you could play them for a certain amount of time for something like $5 an hour. Upon hearing about the store from a friend, my parents finally took me after weeks of bugging them. The first game I tried was Altered Beast. I liked it right away, because it seemed so much more advanced than the Atari 2600 and NES I was used to. After that, I played Sonic. Needless to say, I was blown away. I ended up getting the system that Christmas and have been a Sega fan ever since.