Early V.S NEW

[Blaze]

What was ur fav era in the Genesis's life span? Its early years or later years? Personaly I only started diggin Genz when Sonic 2 & SOR2 had arrived. When lookin bak, i dunno...the early years seemed kinda "empty" in my opinion. There wusnt really nothing comin out besides arcade ports, few platformers N Rpg's here n there....meh (some good classics like WBIV tho). Even the first sonic game never hooked me all dat much compared to super mario world.


92-95 were great years for Sega

[Joe Redifer]

The whole thing up to the cardboard box craze when Sega of America decided to begin hating their customers with a blazing, unstoppable passion.

[Iron Lizard]

I loved the early years but my favorite will always be when Sega started really sticking it to Nintendo with games like Sonic and Streets of Rage. I miss the playground arguments over Nintendo vs Sega. Them were the good ol days.

[Mr Smith]

How do you define "early" and "new"? Certainly the golden era was the early 1990's and this lasted right up to the point Sega trying to use the Mega Drive to compete with the Playstation. After Toy Story the Mega Drive was never the same again (chronologically speaking of course)

[Alianger]

'89-'95

[108 Stars]

2008.

[Genesis Knight]

I preferred the second half. Most of the first and second runs of games don't really appeal to me.

So I would say '93-on.

[Zebbe]

1988-2006... Eh, seriously, most of my games are from the most intense console war years, meaning 1992-1995. During that time, they were really forced to do their best when developing games.

[Vehemont]

Zebbe is right. I enjoy both "early and "new" titles.

[megabomberman]

Sonic 2 was the spark that really said the Megadrive was here to stay, I think sega really hit their peak then before peetering off a bit...

[Blaze]

How do you define "early" and "new"? Certainly the golden era was the early 1990's

yea sure but we're talkin about the Genesis here. If u look at its early days (88-91) there was mostly Sports & Arcade ports. During its second generation (92-95), more Rpg's and Quality Platformers came on the sceen.


Some Arcade fans loved its early years better (Strider, Golden Axe & more) while the Newer Sega fans were more into the whole Blast Processing mania (Ecco The Dolphin, Sonic 2 & more)

[Mel]

idk, they feel like totally different worlds but both very nice. i am fond of the older style games like ghouls and ghosts and the first sonic. the later games were still great though.

[Alianger]

Some Arcade fans loved its early years better (Strider, Golden Axe & more)

Well I liked the early stuff because of games like MUSHA, Mystic Defender, Spider-Man vs. Kingpin, Thunder Force 2-3, Herzog Zwei and Revenge of Shinobi. I never really played the arcade ports because I had played most of them on the SMS already and now I think they are pretty shallow games. Ghouls 'n Ghosts and Strider are exceptions..

[megadriveworld]

Definitely the earlier titles for me when Sega had to prove themselves and become recognised as the best console/game manufacturer. So.. the original Sonic and number 2, though all of the 2d sonics are great.. Streets of Rage and number 2. Etc.. Though of course there's some great later titles aswell.

[tomaitheous]

Definitely 89-91 were the best years. After that games/quality starting going down hill. I didn't like the new advertising/image either. It really felt insulting, I guess it was geared towards the younger crowd who bought into that whole media/image thing. The '89-91 era had a totally different feel - it was kickass and that's how I like to remember Sega.

Heh - you later gen fans can thank us first generation supports for the system getting the support it needed

Also, some have mentioned playground arguments/fights. Guess I was too old to experience that. In High School, we gamers all got a long. We did talk about the 16bit wars(they weren't called that then), but we never debated which system was better. You can thank all the magazines (mostly EGM) for starting that crap. A real gamer wasn't loyal to one company/system