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I guarantee my Genesis has way more history than any of yours. I bet it has played more games and run more code than any other Genesis. It was way more experience. My Genesis did line scroll long before anyone else's Genesis. Only Japanese Mega Drives did line scroll before my Genesis, but my Genesis played Populous and Budokan before any Japanese Mega Drive so it all evens out. My Genesis should run for president.
I'd for your Genesis!
Yeah the few Genesis fan boys got us when MK came out... but we got them back when MKII came out... the graphics are so much better on the SNES version and it has all the blood!Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
I think a general rule of thumb is in NA the SNES did MUCH better than the Genesis and had more fans. But I know many of you guys are from Europe and it may have been different over there. Would anyone agree with that?
It must have varied from state to state and city to city. It was fairly even here. There were a few hardcore fanboys around but many people I knew had one or the other or and wanted both. There was not a whole lot of shit talk where I lived. We used to bring our systems over and play them. I bring over Streets of Rage and my buddy would bring over SFII OR SMW. Tucson is or last was a very cheap place to live so maybe the cheaper price kept the Genesis going. I knew some sheep like kids that waited for the SNES instead of the Sega but that did not stop Sega from expanding. I think Sonic helped alot. When I first bought it only Toy'R'us, Kay Bee, Target and few others sold Genesis games. When it was over everyone did, Walmart, Kmart, Office Max. Someone must have been buying them. I really think wht out he SNES over the edge was was lowering there price and sticking to there guns with the SNES near the end which is what Sega should have done despite my love of the Sega CD. THE MK thing was huge deal here. Oddly enough I dont remember anyone buying MKII. Infact there was a huge stack of unopened shrink wrapped MKII's at the local Thrift Store here.
Germany was SNES-Land, the UK were MD-focused...
I remember magazines always telling us how successfull the MD was in the US.
I donīt remember anyone buying MK II here either; mostly because it was banned too soon after release and never seen again on shelves!^^
Mortal Kombat was a big deal here. Ahh..."Mortal Monday".
I'm trying to imagine the look on unsuspecting SNES gamers faces when they found out their game wasn't like the one in the arcade.
I remember the MKII arcade game being popular, but I don't remember the home game being as highly anticipated as the original.
The SNES version of "Mortal Kombat", despite being sanitized and having noticeably sluggish gameplay, still completely blows away the Genesis and Sega CD versions (the latter of which included the "Mortal Monday" commercial with snippets of the SNES' version playing!!!) in graphics and sound. I'm still surprised by how close the SNES replicated the coin-ops' graphics, sound and music. If it just had blood and wasn't so laggy then it would've crushed the UGLY, drab, color-starved Genesis & Sega CD versions (though I still do very much enjoy the Genesis versions' soundtrack). The Genesis version didn't even seem to have as much blood as the coin-op, but it outsold the SNES version 3 to 1 due to it. Afterwards, the SNES ports of II & III would dominate the Genesis ports and best them in the sales charts, but the Genesis ports of MKII & MKIII are still amongst the handful of Genesis games to have sold a million copies or more.
I'm pretty sure North America was Sega's best region for the Genesis. Even people that didn't play videogames, knew the Sega scream.Quote:
Originally Posted by MN12BIRD
Madden pretty much made the Genesis a household console for sports gamers and I'd seen several people that only had sports games on their Genesis.
It may have been an age thing for you, because the Genny was very popular with the older crowd.
yep, that's Sega for you, they always seemed to care about the customers more than Nintendo. The only problem was that they always gave the customers what they wanted, but the customers couldn't always afford it (Sega CD, Sega CDX, Game Gear, Nomad and 32X come to mind).Quote:
Originally Posted by Iron Lizard
I was more impressed with how good MKII looked and played on the SNES. It wasn't until a couple of years ago, that I'd have the chance to compare it side by side with the arcade game, using the Midway Arcade Treasures 2 disc on the Xbox. The first thing I'd noticed was that there was some graininess to the sound of the SNES version. The characters were also slightly shrunken and the overall screen had quite a bit of pixelation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aarzak
oh come on! you could've done a guts swap or AT LEAST mounted it on your wall or something, its not like its going to rot or anything, how dare you bury it in the ground!Quote:
Originally Posted by mick_aka
I'm pretty sure the SNES out sold the Genesis in North America by a long shot. I'm also quite certain the Genesis sold BETTER in Europe overall. Worldwide the SNES outsold the Genesis by apx 20 million units (30 Million MD to 50 Million SNES)
The NES sold over 60 million units worldwide hence I think the SNES did better AND it was better timing IMHO. The SMS sold 13 million worldwide.
All I'm saying and I think I'm correct in saying this is that Nintendo in NA in the early 90s was a MUCH bigger name.
In 1991 I wouldn't say they were the bigger name. When did the Snes sales finally eclipse the Genesis.? Wasn't something like 1994.
I'm sorry man but the numbers tell the facts. NES + SNES VS SMS + MD sales worldwide are %225+ higher in Nintendos favor!! Not even in the same ballpark. Also everywhere I read these numbers are saying the Genesis was MORE successful in Europe making my NA claims even more likely. Nintendo had more of a fan base from the NES by a multitude I don't wish to account for and that carried over into the early 90s. Forget the 16-bit era all together in 1990 NES games still outsold any other system combined! Thats going to carry over to the SNES no doubt. Despite its 2 year head start SNES sales caught up to the Genesis in mid 1992... in otherwords it only took the SNES one year to catch up! I'm sorry but Nintendo owned the damn market you can't deny history!
That would be correct. Nintendo consoles don't sell as well over here (well, untill the Wii) due to it being fairly obvious that Nintendo don't care about Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by MN12BIRD
My Mega Drive history - well I never really payed attention to home consoles because, to be fair, arcades were far better at the time. (The time being the late 80's). One of my friends got a Master System and after playing Double Dragon to death on it I decided I wanted one. But, my Mum decided I would be better off with a Mega Drive as it was more powerful and, in her own words 'I can't be bothered upgrading you in a couple of years'. So she bought me one for x-mas '91.
Following that I got a Mega-CD in '93 and built up about 60 MD and 20 MCD games before I sold them all in 97 to get a N64.
Around '99 or so I really began to miss the game Flashback, which was my favourite game for the MD, so I decided to buy a MD2 with a load of games with my first Uni student loan. I then bought a friends MCD2 with 20 games for about Ģ50 a couple of months later after I felt the need to play Sonic CD again. I then spent loads of money on games in retro shops and on ebay, before deciding to buy a region modded MD1 a few months ago. At this moment in time I have approx 220 MD games and about 50 MCD games, and have just bought that new Atgames model MD from Play-Asia, which I promptly shorted out by mistake because, well, I'm an idiot. So another one of them is on the way...