[Fowl Fax]

I slightly favoured the SNES due to games like Mario World, Mario Kart, Secret of Mana and Super Probotector but I also had a Megadrive.

Games likes Streets of Rage 2 and Sonic 2 are timeless classics.

[Bester]

Although you can't compare the technical capabilities of machines from that era to those of today's era, I would say that I probably got more enjoyment out of the SNES/MD era than I ever have done since, with the possible exception of the PS One.

MD - always preferred Sonic to Mario and loved the EA range of games, particularly EA Hockey (not the NHL version, the original EA Hockey that had nations rather than NHL teams).

SNES - Zelda was just freakin' awesome (Link to the Past), and ISS and Super Tennis were great sports sims.

[bob2005]

Mega drive for me can't beat a bit of Streets of rage.

[DirtyBarrySpeed]

SNES and Megadrive was the last time I was a true game nut.

Legend of Zelda, I couldn't put it down until I cleared it.

Skyrim I am struggling to get into it along with most of the other new RPGs.

[JSemple3]

I had a MD as a console. Many a day/night we're wasted on there sonic's fifa's hockey, the strike series etc etc but I have appreciated more the SNES (even though I never owned one) due to emulation so many classics on there too. I would personally class both of them as just about even stevens

[NorfolkBoy1]

There are few decisions in life I've regretted more than swapping my SNES for a Mega Drive. Silly 13-year-old me wanted to play Mortal Kombat with all the blood.

[bob2005]

Almost forgot about Mortal kombat wish gaming was like the old days. Sega v Nintendo will always be the greatest rivalry gaming has ever seen.

[gdjman68wasdigi]

Originally Posted by bob2005

Almost forgot about Mortal kombat wish gaming was like the old days. Sega v Nintendo will always be the greatest rivalry gaming has ever seen.

and now Segas totally in Nintendos pocket

oh, the irony..


they will be going cap in hand for a loan next

[BinaryDad]

The 16-bit console era. Oh. My. God. Where to start?

For those of us living in the UK, it was a great time with magazines like Mean Machines waving the flag for the games industry at the time. I was 14 when the console scene started to take off again, in 1990-1991 and to me, it was almost like a golden age.

I owned both consoles, and while the SNES was technically the superior machine, it was the Mega Drive that really stole my heart. Sega released a whole bunch of amazing first party titles, esepcially with the appearance of Sonic but, and this is important, it had an AMAZING collection of third party titles too.

And this is something that the SNES really lacked, in comparison to the Mega Drive. Don't get me wrong, the SNES had a few good third partyt titles, and a great collection of 1st party titles (somebody already mentioned Zelda LTTP. What a game!) but it couldn't match the Megadrive with the stuff that other publishers produced.

It helped that EA were pretty much leading on the Mega Drive for a long time. But it's easy to see why...the MD was such a straight forward piece of kit to work with when compared to the SNES. Also, the rather plain CPU in the MD made it much easier for people to roll their own, or adapt existing c compilers for it.

The SNES's CPU a 16-bit version of the 6502 called the 65c816. But it was such an odd beast, that at the time, adapting a c-compiler for it was pretty much impossible, or at least so hard, it wasn't worth the effort. Although later in life, WD did release a c-compiler for it, but it didn't produce very good code.

The end result meant that for the most part, programmers could work very quickly with the MD as they could write in C/assembler and the guys working on SNES stuff were stuck with working in assembler most of the time.

So it's obvious that I was firmly in the Sega camp as a teenager.

[gdjman68wasdigi]

Originally Posted by BinaryDad

The 16-bit console era. Oh. My. God. Where to start?

For those of us living in the UK, it was a great time with magazines like Mean Machines waving the flag for the games industry at the time. I was 14 when the console scene started to take off again, in 1990-1991 and to me, it was almost like a golden age.

I owned both consoles, and while the SNES was technically the superior machine, it was the Mega Drive that really stole my heart. Sega released a whole bunch of amazing first party titles, esepcially with the appearance of Sonic but, and this is important, it had an AMAZING collection of third party titles too.

And this is something that the SNES really lacked, in comparison to the Mega Drive. Don't get me wrong, the SNES had a few good third partyt titles, and a great collection of 1st party titles (somebody already mentioned Zelda LTTP. What a game!) but it couldn't match the Megadrive with the stuff that other publishers produced.

It helped that EA were pretty much leading on the Mega Drive for a long time. But it's easy to see why...the MD was such a straight forward piece of kit to work with when compared to the SNES. Also, the rather plain CPU in the MD made it much easier for people to roll their own, or adapt existing c compilers for it.

The SNES's CPU a 16-bit version of the 6502 called the 65c816. But it was such an odd beast, that at the time, adapting a c-compiler for it was pretty much impossible, or at least so hard, it wasn't worth the effort. Although later in life, WD did release a c-compiler for it, but it didn't produce very good code.

The end result meant that for the most part, programmers could work very quickly with the MD as they could write in C/assembler and the guys working on SNES stuff were stuck with working in assembler most of the time.

So it's obvious that I was firmly in the Sega camp as a teenager.

think i will download the streets of rage vintage collection on XBLA..

[JaiJai]

Originally Posted by BinaryDad

The 16-bit console era. Oh. My. God. Where to start?

For those of us living in the UK, it was a great time with magazines like Mean Machines waving the flag for the games industry at the time. I was 14 when the console scene started to take off again, in 1990-1991 and to me, it was almost like a golden age.

I owned both consoles, and while the SNES was technically the superior machine, it was the Mega Drive that really stole my heart. Sega released a whole bunch of amazing first party titles, esepcially with the appearance of Sonic but, and this is important, it had an AMAZING collection of third party titles too.

And this is something that the SNES really lacked, in comparison to the Mega Drive. Don't get me wrong, the SNES had a few good third partyt titles, and a great collection of 1st party titles (somebody already mentioned Zelda LTTP. What a game!) but it couldn't match the Megadrive with the stuff that other publishers produced.

So it's obvious that I was firmly in the Sega camp as a teenager.

Sorry but I must politely disagree with that line.

The third party support for the SNES was astonishing and sadly Nintendo has never had a console since then that had that level of support.

It had games the Megadrive never saw all over here which range from very good to brilliant.

Final Fantasy 2 & 3
Secret of Mana
Chrono Trigger
Final Fight 1,2 & 3 (2 & 3 were rubbish mind)
Megaman X trilogy & Megaman 7
Konami mega hits like
• Castlevania
• Castlevania X
• Cybernator
• Tiny Toons
• Animated Adventures of Batman & Robin
• Batman Returns
• Turtles beat em up
• Contra 3
• Mystical Ninja
• Pop n TwinBee
• Turtles in Time
• Parodius 1-3

Doom
Indiana Jones (from the Star Wars developers)
The Star Wars trilogy
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Mickeys Magical Quest 1-3
Actraiser
Axelay
Super Aleste

I still own 90% of the games above in mint condition

All the EA games mentioned were also available on the SNES.

On the Megadrive I can think off the top of my head - Toe Jam & Earl (which I absolutely loved), Streets of Rage 1-3, Sonic, Shinobi, Aladin, Earthworm Jim, World of Illusion, Micro Machines and Golden Axe but only three I think were 3rd party on that list.