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 ignoresme2 days ago#47

ClunkerSlim posted...

As someone who was a kid that generation....

Sega won. It's funny that the SNES is remembered as being the better system. It did have some great games (Super Metroid). But no one I knew was playing SNES. We all traded Sega cartridges. The SNES was something your kid brother would have. Even Mario at that time was waning. He was seen as last gen's slow dumb mascot. Everything about Nintendo at the time screamed little kids toy.

Meanwhile Sega was pumping out commercials like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65E53rNC1io

"Genesis Does what Nintendon't !!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YV5jV3olWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIcdpxTi_gE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvihdjRakbQ


Not to mention that Sega just had funnier, almost subversive humor...

"Welcome to the next level..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3xZUSr2JAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fljWadi93w

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I hope no one ever actually fed their dog a cartridge. 

Kids now don't realize that Sega went for blood. They won that generation. They were b**** slapping Nintendo all over the airwaves. I've never seen gaming commercials like that to this very day. Tech specs don't even matter. Sega was winning hearts and minds with an unstoppable ad campaign. But Nintendo's legacy carried on and Sega later failed. So people look back and think "that Genesis craze must not have been that great." But it was. 

Think of it like this... The NES single handily saved the gaming industry and resurrected it from the dead. Nintendo was king. So how big do you think the Sega Genesis had to be to unseat the king who saved gaming? We look back and think Super Mario World is a great game (and it is). But I don't know any kids who were playing it at the time. You know that one weird kid in your class who ate paste and the teacher had to escort to the bathroom? That was the kid playing Super Mario World.

I think I got several different kinds of cancer from this post.

http://i.imgur.com/ZrnUI3A.jpg ~drawn by United_World