A bit of a toughie for me, since I qutie enjoyed both of them. But I'm going to go with Genesis.

Yes, it is. A desktop.

Ehh, well I'm currently unemployeed right now and I make 20 each week for doing a simple chore for the family. Sucks, I know but it's only thing I can do for money till the economy picks up over here. So, I'd say the price range I can go for is 80-100. But if the card I provided can run Team Fortress 2, than that's all I'm worried about.

It'd "work" with those games, and you'd certainly experience superior performance than an integrated card. Still, don't expect to play those games on high quality with that card. As suggested you should try aim for something higher, or at least newer.GhoX

How much of a quality dip will I have to take? If I can play it on medium or heck, even lowest setting I'm fine with that.

Okay first and for most, let me list my system specs.

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2140 @ 1.60GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.6GHz
Memory: 1014MB RAM
Page File: 1671MB used, 832MB available

My computer is currently using a built-in graphics card so pretty much, it's horrible. I play games like Gary's mod and it works fine whenever I'm on a map that has literally no texture, for example, gm_flatgrass or whatever it's called. But when I play on maps that are from games like Half Life 2 and etc, I get major lag. I'm looking to buy a graphics card and I'm currently saving up money for it.

My question is this, with this new graphics card will I be able to play games like Team Fortress 2 and others with an overal much better performance? I don't mind adjusting the quality a little to enhance the performance, since I'm not picky about graphics.

It's gonna be epic.

Phew, I was expecting alot of negative responses to my surprise most of you agree with me. Yeah, I've heard that the later Earthbound games were loads better, Mother 3 specially. I might give that one a try and see if I like it any better.

I've heard so many great things about this game and I've read on websites that claimed that Earthbound is "Hands down the best video games on the SNES." With claims like that I thought it must have been really really good, but when I finally tried it for myself I fail to see what all of the hype is about it. The battle system is bland, the graphics are pretty awful specially for 1994-95's standards and the only redeeming quality that I can think of for this game is I like some of the songs, not to mention the final boss is pretty scary. But aside from that, I see it as nothing more than a typical cliched RPG that is nothing to write home about.

I understand that by saying this I'm going to tick off alot of people as I'm sure Earthbound bashing is a pretty controversial thing, but don't get me wrong, I don't "hate" the game persay, I just fail to see what's so great about it. But to each their own, I suppose.