Genesis > SNES

It's true. The Genesis had the more comfortable controller, and it catered to MK/SF2 more. Also, the Multi-Plats like Aladdin, Jurrasic Park, Shaqfu (don't diss)and it's exclusives were all better like Xmen 1 & 2, Streets of Rage, Sonic, Kid Chameleon, Comix Zone, Vectorman, Castlevania Bloodlines, Toejam and Earl, Moonwalker.

Anyway, best console ever next to N64.

thoughts?

Oh for sure...a game like Shaqfu is what made the Genesis...

But uhh one game comes to mind about the SNES:

Super Mario World.

Oh for sure...a game like Shaqfu is what made the Genesis...

But uhh one game comes to mind about the SNES:

Super Mario World.

siLVURcross

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Oh for sure...a game like Shaqfu is what made the Genesis...

But uhh one game comes to mind about the SNES:

Super Mario World.

dotWithShoes

Sega does what nintendon't.......I miss my childhood:cry:DanteSuikoden

The saying I think was "Genesis does what Nintendon't "I do think the games on SNES were better I did like the sonics

You are incorrect.

And I'll leave it at that, because if I were to list the SNES' legendary library of games, you might just lose control of your bowels and crap all over yourself after realizing how uninformed you are. However, I will meet you half way in saying the Genesis was a great console, just not better than the SNES.

[QUOTE="dotWithShoes"][QUOTE="siLVURcross"]

Oh for sure...a game like Shaqfu is what made the Genesis...

But uhh one game comes to mind about the SNES:

Super Mario World.

Rahnyc4

i can't believe i just read a thread praising shaq fu. that's all for me

[QUOTE="DanteSuikoden"]Sega does what nintendon't.......I miss my childhood:cry:tek91

The saying I think was "Genesis does what Nintendon't "I do think the games on SNES were better I did like the sonics

Yea I know but I always thought replacing genesis with sega added more "umph" to the statement:P

It's true. The Genesis had the more comfortable controller, and it catered to MK/SF2 more. Also, the Multi-Plats like Aladdin, Jurrasic Park, Shaqfu (don't diss)and it's exclusives were all better like Xmen 1 & 2, Streets of Rage, Sonic, Kid Chameleon, Comix Zone, Vectorman, Castlevania Bloodlines, Toejam and Earl, Moonwalker.

Anyway, best console ever next to N64.

thoughts?

speakhard

both were great consoles

[QUOTE="siLVURcross"]

Oh for sure...a game like Shaqfu is what made the Genesis...

But uhh one game comes to mind about the SNES:

Super Mario World.

speakhard

Hey man, believe it or not, Shaqfu was the shyt back then. Unlike SNES's Michael Jordan Chaos in the Windy City, which was really bad

[QUOTE="speakhard"][QUOTE="siLVURcross"]

Oh for sure...a game like Shaqfu is what made the Genesis...

But uhh one game comes to mind about the SNES:

Super Mario World.

Andrew_Xavier

Hey man, believe it or not, Shaqfu was the shyt back then. Unlike SNES's Michael Jordan Chaos in the Windy City, which was really bad

You listen to Gametrailers/AVGN? What a load of garbage. They're really biased and only reviewed 1 or 2 N64 games. Not to the mention, the main reason the AVGN said he didn't like it, was because it was too difficult.

Shaq Fu was on the SNES too...LightReflection

read the op before replying

[QUOTE="Andrew_Xavier"][QUOTE="speakhard"]

Hey man, believe it or not, Shaqfu was the shyt back then. Unlike SNES's Michael Jordan Chaos in the Windy City, which was really bad

speakhard

You listen to Gametrailers/AVGN? What a load of garbage. They're really biased and only reviewed 1 or 2 N64 games. Not to the mention, the main reason the AVGN said he didn't like it, was because it was too difficult.

SNES >>>> Genesis (but not by a long shot)

Both had amazing exclusives and 3rd party support. But SNES had the slight edge IMO because of:

1. Innovative controller - the L/R shoulder buttons gave the controller comfort (though I do love the 6-button Genesis controller too), the D-pad was way more precise and every company to this day (360's L/R Bumper and Sony's D3 all have shoulder buttons) followed suit because of SNES.
2. Powerful Hardware - who doesn't remember Nintendo's Mode 7 and Scaling & Rotation capabilities? Contra III ALien Wars prove this. As well as Star Fox.
3. Franchises - Mario, DK, Zelda - the same company that made The Company - Genesis only had one Sonic. Alex Kidd was once the mascot, but unfortunately faded away into obscurity.

2_Quiet_2_Riot

I enjoyed both equally, but if I had to choose it'd be the SNES.....pretty much solely because of Super Metroid. Genesis was the "cooler" console though. Shinobi, Mortal Kombat with blood, Phantasy Star, Sword of Vermillion, Gunstar Heroes, Alladdin, Ecco the dolphin, Toejam and Earl, and let's not forget.....BLAST PROCESSING!

But Super Metroid is Nintendo's saving grace for me. Without it, I'd choose the Genesis over the SNES.

In my opinion, the Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo catered to 2 different crowds.

On one hand we have the Sega Genesis, with its fast processor and cpu able to put out visuals at striking speeds, this console was built for arcade style games that were usually a lot of fun to play and had a grip on the trigger happy crowd.

On the other hand we have Nintendo, which could usually come close to the amount of speed that was output on the Genesis, but typically went more for depth, story, and originality.

In my opinion, the Super Nintendo was my console of choice in the 16-bit war. You could just tell that the people at Nintendo cared more about their games then Sega did. Hence why among other reasons, Nintendo still has its own system now and Sega doesn't.

And for the record, Shaq-Fu was on both systems, and sucked a lot on both systems. Yes I owned this game. Stop talking about it. It hurt my brain then, it still hurts my brain now.

What the hell happened to Sonic btw?

[QUOTE="dotWithShoes"][QUOTE="siLVURcross"]

Oh for sure...a game like Shaqfu is what made the Genesis...

But uhh one game comes to mind about the SNES:

Super Mario World.

Rahnyc4

Genesis was superior

Sonic 1-3

Streets of rage 1-3

Kid Chameleon

Contra Hard Corps.

Castlevania Blood lines

MUSHA

Hellfire

Sonic and Knuckles

Shining Force

Over SNES

Super Mario World

Super Metroid

Super Mario All Stars

Mario RPG

Earthbound

Final Fight 1-3

SNES had Star Fox, could genesis do that? SNES did Doom without an addon and it had better quality sound than the Genesis versionl. Nintendo dropped Donkey Kong country and amazed a ton of people. Genesis was good, but I got way more usage out of my SNES.DazedDarkness

[QUOTE="2_Quiet_2_Riot"]

SNES >>>> Genesis (but not by a long shot)

Both had amazing exclusives and 3rd party support. But SNES had the slight edge IMO because of:

1. Innovative controller - the L/R shoulder buttons gave the controller comfort (though I do love the 6-button Genesis controller too), the D-pad was way more precise and every company to this day (360's L/R Bumper and Sony's D3 all have shoulder buttons) followed suit because of SNES.
2. Powerful Hardware - who doesn't remember Nintendo's Mode 7 and Scaling & Rotation capabilities? Contra III ALien Wars prove this. As well as Star Fox.
3. Franchises - Mario, DK, Zelda - the same company that made The Company - Genesis only had one Sonic. Alex Kidd was once the mascot, but unfortunately faded away into obscurity.

Fire-of-Njozi

play alien 3 on the genesis then play the same game on the snes, the snes versions of this game is completely different and clearly superior, same with games like ghouls and ghosts, strider, syndicate, turrican,street fighter 2 and lemmings and the snes had the super starwars trilogy which quite frankly blew anything the genesis had away apart from flashback which i suppose was a good reason to own a genesis (megadrive)delta3074

It's true. The Genesis had the more comfortable controller, and it catered to MK/SF2 more. Also, the Multi-Plats like Aladdin, Jurrasic Park, Shaqfu (don't diss)and it's exclusives were all better like Xmen 1 & 2, Streets of Rage, Sonic, Kid Chameleon, Comix Zone, Vectorman, Castlevania Bloodlines, Toejam and Earl, Moonwalker.

Anyway, best console ever next to N64.

thoughts?

I beg to differ. I think it's fairly obvious that Contra 3 and Castlevania IV are better than the genesis versions /QUOTE] Contra for the SNES: Better graphics Better sound Contra for the Megadrive: More characters More Moves More Weapons More level variety Different Paths Different Endings Castlevania 4 was a major letdown, it was a step backwards from castlevania 3 in every way, you only played as one character and had no special moves. The megadrive version had two characters, more weapons, every weapon had a normal atack and a special attack and levels had different paths [QUOTE="Gamingcucumber"]super Mario World, Super Metroid is far superior to anything genesis providesGamingcucumber

and Donkey Kong Country 1-3 could obviously not be done on the Genesis. Gamingcucumber

I think it's vague to make some random claim that Genesis is better than the Snes gameplay wise. That's like saying that the PS3 has better gameplay than the 360. It doesn't make any logical sense in any sense of the word.Gamingcucumber

SNES and Genesis are both right up there with ps1 as my fav consoles ever.

Genesis had greats like General Chaos, NHL series with blood, Xmen series, etc...

SNES had Super Mario world, Earthbound and lots of others.