Sega Did what Nintendidn't

[the7k]

Well, the only reason these whole console wars exist is because most of us can't afford to buy two or more consoles. If someone told you back then that Sega sucked, then you'd get pissed because they basically said you spent $200+ on trash.

It's the same reason people get pissed when they say consoles suck now - they're saying, in so many words, that you are a retard with money.

As for why there is still a Sega vs Nintendo mentality... I guess people got too heavily entrenched in the console war, and it's like a Vietnam vet who can never get along with Asians. There's no reason for the Sega vs Nintendo crap anymore. It's over. The consoles - and many of their gems - can now be had for dirt cheap. There's no reason not to double dip.

[DCsegaDH]

I like both,but I prefer Sega because they always had lots of fighters/arcade games on their systems.I thought Donkey Kong Country was so fun when it first came out,I remember playing this game at the store along with Vectorman on the other side.

[Briomoto]

Well, the only reason these whole console wars exist is because most of us can't afford to buy two or more consoles. If someone told you back then that Sega sucked, then you'd get pissed because they basically said you spent $200+ on trash.

It's the same reason people get pissed when they say consoles suck now - they're saying, in so many words, that you are a retard with money.

As for why there is still a Sega vs Nintendo mentality... I guess people got too heavily entrenched in the console war, and it's like a Vietnam vet who can never get along with Asians. There's no reason for the Sega vs Nintendo crap anymore. It's over. The consoles - and many of their gems - can now be had for dirt cheap. There's no reason not to double dip.

Yeah, they should have console war trauma counseling or something. The 16 bit console wars were very exciting and composed what is arguably the greatest generation video gaming has ever seen but when Mario and Sonic start jumping hurdles and throwing shot puts together, it's time to move on.

[ZeroAX]

I want a super nintendo that plays sonic games. Am I asking too much?


Personally I was going to buy a super nintendo but the thing was freaking expensive. (36k drachma for a mega drive 2 + sonic and knuckles and 56k drachma for a snes and yoshi's island.) besides sega owned europe. we all new nintendo from the game boy and nes. I still played on my cousins nes super mario bross (the first one) in the year 1995 instead of super mario world on the snes.

and yes i bought my mega drive in 1996. The drawbacks of not having information about the gaming industry at a young age


so sega wins by default cause nintendo are a bunch of soulless money grabbers (jk, thought not really)

[jfrost]

I want a super nintendo that plays sonic games. Am I asking too much?

Not really. I was walking downtown last Thursday here (in Recife, Brazil) and some street peddlers were selling Sonic carts for Super Nintendo. They were also selling Pokémon Pinball for Mega Drive, effectively putting an end to console wars forever.

[riseup]

guys tribalism is stupid, especially for something which is supposed to be enjoyable and for kids..

look at football, everyone cares only about their rival losing. liverpool, dam scousers. manure, cheatski, arsescum, all shite. antimadridistas.. etc

you know the saying, hate will consume you

with that said, nintendo is a company for small kids & retards. i mean look what happened to them during the 90s. the mario brothers & donkey kong.. zelda.. all so stupid, like a bad pixar film the voices aren't cute, just stupid. there is no difficulty, and why would i want to play zelda when there is shenmue? it's like substituting a ferrari for a car that runs on wood.

but both are huge corporations with very greedy elements so there are no definately no good guys here. but, in the glory days i lived in what was sega of north america's domain, san francisco. back then they were offering their fans tons of gamer jobs. $15 an hour starting wage to test games! want to play virtua-on 1 year before it comes out? yes please!!!!

it was just a cool company particularly targeting 15-19 year olds. everyone younger wanted to be this old, which fitted me better than being toned down and spoken to like a moron (aka through a midget with curly hair and a horrible italian accent). unfortunately sony stole this strategy of target age group of "19" and has made millions off it

you have to remember it's not the games or game developers which won or lost the war, it was the executives. while sega had some if not all of the best developers in the world working for them, they also had some major jackasses up in the boardroom. but what do they care. for example once peter moore doomed the dreamcast he simply switched over to xbox.

the world isn't fair and the market is not swayed by quality or innovation. it's about illusions created by advertising - among other things and subsequent perceptions and peer pressure. look no further than the gameboy. let's face it, it was garbage when it came out and it only got worse until the ds finally arrived. but it totally owned the handheld market. does that mean the game gear, the snk pocket, and many others such as the gp32 or wonderswan are worse? no ofcourse not.

what it comes down to is that sega was a super power, (ie Nintendo) but acted like a niche market company (ie SNK, Philips,etc), pushing too far ahead of the times, taking too many risks. i mean nintendo releases an add-on to play gameboy games on the Snes, Sega releases an add-on to play sms games on the game gear. a floppy disk add-on is launched for the Snes, Sega releases a cd one (at a time when many pc's did not have one yet). N64 launches with a world-shattering 4 ports for their rubbish controllers, Sega brings out the Net-Link, allowing long-distance multiplayer through the phone. N64 gets StarFOX, Saturn gets Panzer Dragoon. N64 gets Killer Instict, Saturn gets arcade perfect Virtua Fighter 2. Dreamcast launches with integrated modem for online gaming (when almost no one has broadband yet and online gaming consists mainly of unreal tournament), Nintendo launches GamePoop and a good year or two after SegaNet is launched, Yamauchi the founder of Nintendo announces gamers are not interested in online gaming , (not on the gamecube nor in the future) despite modern civilization nearly collapsing thanks to the counter-strike epidemic.

and now nintendo's gimmicky, false dawn gaming platform has been given a kick up its arse by microsoft's announcement of project natal

i don't care about being on the winning side, i don't get any more enjoyment out of it. i don't get any money in the mail and my dick doesn't grow any larger, so you can keep any false trophy of and love your blissful ignorance. one thing that pisses me off about nintendo and sony fan boys is how much they love the company. we fans of the blue hedgehog have a love-hate relationship with the company. they make us so frustrated we bang our heads against the wall. "my nomad has 30 minutes of battery life after $5 worth of batteries!? ARRR!!! "..."I just spent $50 on this Sega CD/Saturn game and the plastic case is already broken!!"... "my vmu won't stop beeping!!" that's true love.

one thing sega did back in the day that others did not was release games on the pc. even when i couldn't afford a $500 saturn, i could at least play many of the first-party titles on my pc. i wish there was more of that, because honestly, the best console of all is the computer.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

the best console of all is the computer.

Oh dear, now all the PC elitists are going to put their 2 cents in. They are at the top of the douchebag list of douchebag fanboys.

1. PC
2. PS3 Owners (and Playstation in general)
3. Xbox 360 owners
4. Nintendo
5. Sega "glory day" fanatics

As far as I'm concerned, the Saturn still is the best console of all time through my eyes, but in reality, I think the NES is the numero uno of gaming. Can you argue with MegaMan 2? If you think you can, you have got major psychological problems and should check yourself in to the insane asylum immediately.

edit: You are also correct, in the coorprate side, there is no good, only greedy bastards plotting to make tons of money off of lonely videogamers and more recently there mums.

[riseup]

i didnt say the pc i said the computer. amiga was the best computer of all. and i'm not an douchebag i dont have a next gen console (had a xbox just for shenmue) and (a ps2 just for virtua fighter 4) and my current computer is a 4 year old jpnese laptop, while my desktop or "gaming rig" as pricks call it, is the same one i built in 2003 (3.0ghz - not duo or quad core) for almost no money (well actually the 19" LCD costed a fortune back then. $500 on super sale from $900 ) though arseholes regularly spend over a grand for fancy shamcy 20"+ widescreens so i don't feel that guilty anymore (personally i'd just connect 3 17" lcd's together and play racing sims). oh well i did upgrade the video card from the TNT2 to some nvidia geforce but the motherboard's not new enough to support PCI 16 so i didn't touch the good stuff

you sound like an ignoramus (remember when kids would say that, drove me crazy ) by comparing saturn to the all mighty computer which has infinite possibilities. i've used the internet since the beginning and don't like the direction it's gone but you gotta try to avoid stereotyping.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Meh. People make the stereotype for themselves.

[riseup]

what does that even mean. nothing better on a forum than an empty response. and don't use "meh" ,puts you in the very 'doucebag' list you hate so much.