SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?

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Which did you have?

SEGA Mega Drive
30
35%
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
35
41%
I owned both.
15
18%
Neither.
5
6%
 
Total votes: 85
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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by NickSCFC » Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:55 pm

The MegaDrive had a constant stream of good games while SNES owners had to wait months on end for a good title to come along. Overall SNES had more AAA titles though.

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by kommissarboris » Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:00 pm

NickSCFC wrote:The MegaDrive had a constant stream of good games. SNES owners had to wait months on end for a good title to come along. Overall SNES had more AAA titles.


don't really know if this is true or not, as it all happened when i was between 6 and 11, so i only got games at xmas or Bday, or with weekend swaps with mates in school, and occationally trading in for second hand jobs.

BTW, did the mega drive ever have any starwars games, i've got the trilogy of starwars on the snes, but don't remember any on the MD.

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by Mafro » Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:01 pm

SNES wins this hands down. Home to some of the best games of all time, whereas I'm struggling to think of anything on the Mega Drive that comes close to that.

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by Saint of Killers » Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:02 pm

JewishSanta wrote:BTW, did the mega drive ever have any starwars games, i've got the trilogy of starwars on the snes, but don't remember any on the MD.


Dunno about SW games in general but I'm pretty certain it didn't have the SNES ones.

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by kommissarboris » Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:05 pm

yeah, the snes ones were exclusive, along with the indiana jones jobby lucas arts did, all four are lush, and burtally hard.

surely there is tho, it would be one of the few consoles i know of that had no lucas sauce poured all over it atleast once, there must be one star wars game... to google.

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by Count Nood » Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:09 pm

Looking back the SNES had a much better line up and I'd have loved to have owned one, but I had to vote Mega Drive for nostalgic reasons. My first ever console and I have so many fond memories of it. :wub:

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by KK » Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:29 pm

Looking at the PAL console designs, I think the SNES has aged much better than the Mega Drive.

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by NickSCFC » Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:05 pm

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by Andrew Mills » Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:47 pm

As much as I LOVE my Streets of Rage 2, Thunderforce 4, and Sonic 1 (and I do), the SNES easily wins hands down for me. SO many fond memories of just so many good games.

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by TheTurnipKing » Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:14 pm

JewishSanta wrote:why? when i've got a 6 button SNES pad as standard. sega dropped the ball on that one[/img]

It wasn't really a ball-drop. It was SEGA designing their console to match arcade standards. Basic JAMMA cabinets only support three buttons (and a start button), and the Megadrive would have been designed years in advance of the extended JAMMA standards that would have included more buttons.

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by NickSCFC » Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:21 pm

Wasn't 3 buttons when the MegaDrive launched a new record?

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by Dig Dug » Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:24 pm

NickSCFC wrote:Wasn't 3 buttons when the MegaDrive launched a new record?

Well if you disregard the controllers with numbered keypads then yeah I guess. Actually I'm sure the PC engine controller had shoulder buttons, don't take my word for it I'm not 100% sure.

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by NickSCFC » Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:34 pm

Dig Dug wrote:
NickSCFC wrote:Wasn't 3 buttons when the MegaDrive launched a new record?

Well if you disregard the controllers with numbered keypads then yeah I guess. Actually I'm sure the PC engine controller had shoulder buttons, don't take my word for it I'm not 100% sure.


Doesn't appear to have shoulder buttons

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by Dig Dug » Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:35 pm

NickSCFC wrote:
Dig Dug wrote:
NickSCFC wrote:Wasn't 3 buttons when the MegaDrive launched a new record?

Well if you disregard the controllers with numbered keypads then yeah I guess. Actually I'm sure the PC engine controller had shoulder buttons, don't take my word for it I'm not 100% sure.


Doesn't appear to have shoulder buttons

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I got confused with the six button pad, it looks a bit like the sega saturn controller.

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by NickSCFC » Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:38 pm

Looks more like a white Panasonic 3DO. When did that version come out anyway?

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by tomvek » Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:35 am

MegaDrive all the way baby 8-)

Owned both but had way more fun on Sega's system. Sega :(

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PostSEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by Buffalo » Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:21 am

Mega Drive, easily.

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by Dig Dug » Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:44 am

NickSCFC wrote:Looks more like a white Panasonic 3DO. When did that version come out anyway?

I dunno, 1990. A lot of people claim the best PC Engine games were all on CD. I'll take their word for it because I found their hucard libary to be mostly dull generic crap.

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by Jam-Master Jay » Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:05 am

I had a SNES . Eventually got a Megadrive cheap but I didn't enjoy it as much.

Master System on the other hand. :wub:

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PostRe: SEGA Mega Drive or SNES?
by Death's Head » Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:24 am

Only had a SNES as I was sensible in those days and only bought one console. Before getting a SNES I had just an ST and a friend of mine bought an imported MD. He brought it over from time to time and although I enjoyed the games, I didn't feel it was worth the investment given the cost of the games (compared to free on the ST 8-) / :oops: ).

Then one Christmas another friend of mine got a SNES and offered to bring it round and as he didn't have or hadn't seen a MD I arranged for my other friend to come over too. So the stage was set for the console smack down.

First up was the MD with the 17 games my friend had. After that was the turn of the SNES with the mere 3 games my friend had for it (Mario, Zelda and some scrolling plane shoot-em-up). My friend with the MD didn't say much, but when I took him home after my SNES friend had left I asked him what he thought of the SNES and he said he thought it made the MD look a bit crap but didn't want to say anything. The following week he bought a SNES and sold his MD games to his colleagues at work.

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