>or 00's?
2010s for the most part. No one in the 90s or 00s cared that much, either you had something or you didn't. If you had stuff, you were cool, simple ass. Not saying it was "right."
It isn't. Aside from some amusing advertisements, kids didn't give a shit. Although, it was basically agreed that any kid caught owning a Neo Geo needed to get beaten up because of jealously.
We all knew that system was an arcade home system for real and it rankled us all.
I think the only time I ever saw any console warring on the playground or at recess was when one the really weird kids from another class did it, and everyone thought it was weird. He insisted Sega was so much better than Nintendo and Playstation, which 'were for idiots.'
We were kinda thinking later "Ok, he's a dick about it, but maybe Sega is pretty good?" and a few other kids could attest that Sega was pretty cool, but most didn't know. Thing is few people had Sega anything around here back then, they barely existed on the market at all, I think I saw a Genesis exactly once ever.
Beyond that it was Nintendo, Playstation, and then PC, those are what you played videogames on. It was this unspoken fact that it was a little exciting and novel when you went to someone else's house, and they had games you didn't and you got to try them, and it was fun to show people games they didn't have.
I didn't have PSX until much later, so it was cool to try out stuff like Tekken, it was like Street Fighter except not, and people who didn't have an N64 thought it was cool to see what the games were like and how they were different.
Not even a diss on Sega either, Genesis was sweet as frick, but to me and a bunch of others our actual introduction to those games were through emulation in the very early 2000s.
this
as a kid born in 87 with a genesis growing up, my older brother said it best:
"super nintendo kids were the ones who drank milk with dinner"
No one called that a war, at best you had kids that said one or the other was "gay" because it didn't have (x)) game, which will eternally be stupid. Even the Atari Jaguar has a few cool games.
honestly the only true console war was the SNES vs Genesis. the 360 vs PS3 came close but that was just a battle for 2nd place. every other console gen was a blowout for the winning console with hardly any competition.
Since anons are obsessed with wars and making everything a war, then the real first shots were fired when everyone junked everything made from 1971-1976 and a bought a real game console, the Video Computer System, aka the Atari 2600.
Moreover when Mattel hired a celebrity to lambasted the 2600 by showing how "realistic" the Intellivision was when compared to the 2600.
That's part of the irony since there wasn't a whole lot of difference between what the Genesis and SNES could do. Yes, both had their strengths over the other, but for the most part, the difference was negligible. It's more ironic, that' the Intellivision was the PS5 of its time and many anons can't comprehend it.
>there wasn't a whole lot of difference between what the Genesis and SNES could do.
You have to remember that Genesis was competing with NES and not SNES in the first two years of its life. That's when the "Genesis does what Nintendon't" ad was made. And when you compare the graphics on Genesis to the NES, it's night and day difference. Of course, Nintendo caught up with the SNES.
>You have to remember that Genesis was competing with NES and not SNES in the first two years of its life.
True, I did forget that and it does change it up.
>the Intellivision was the PS5 of its time and many anons can't comprehend it.
I'm out of touch. what does the intellivision have in common with the PS5?
>I'm out of touch. what does the intellivision have in common with the PS5?
The Intellivision was the most advanced home video game system of its era, even being the first 16-bit console ever beating the PC-Engine by 8 years. It had graphics, sounds, and voice in a few cases, all amazing features in the 70s-early 80s.
So the Intellivision being the PS5 meant it was up against a more popular Computer Space (1971)cabinet standing in for the Atari 2600, that's the best approximation of it.
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is xsx the more popular computer space machine today.
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You're saying it can be emulated on an Xbox series X? Just trying to understand. And it can't be emulated, just simulated.
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no I'm aaking if in this analogy, the xbox series x is the popular computer space machine.
>or 00's?
2010s for the most part. No one in the 90s or 00s cared that much, either you had something or you didn't. If you had stuff, you were cool, simple ass. Not saying it was "right."
>2010s for the most part. No one in the 90s or 00s cared that much
This is some funny revisionism. Here's your (You).
It isn't. Aside from some amusing advertisements, kids didn't give a shit. Although, it was basically agreed that any kid caught owning a Neo Geo needed to get beaten up because of jealously.
We all knew that system was an arcade home system for real and it rankled us all.
I think the only time I ever saw any console warring on the playground or at recess was when one the really weird kids from another class did it, and everyone thought it was weird. He insisted Sega was so much better than Nintendo and Playstation, which 'were for idiots.'
We were kinda thinking later "Ok, he's a dick about it, but maybe Sega is pretty good?" and a few other kids could attest that Sega was pretty cool, but most didn't know. Thing is few people had Sega anything around here back then, they barely existed on the market at all, I think I saw a Genesis exactly once ever.
Beyond that it was Nintendo, Playstation, and then PC, those are what you played videogames on. It was this unspoken fact that it was a little exciting and novel when you went to someone else's house, and they had games you didn't and you got to try them, and it was fun to show people games they didn't have.
I didn't have PSX until much later, so it was cool to try out stuff like Tekken, it was like Street Fighter except not, and people who didn't have an N64 thought it was cool to see what the games were like and how they were different.
Not even a diss on Sega either, Genesis was sweet as frick, but to me and a bunch of others our actual introduction to those games were through emulation in the very early 2000s.
You don't like milk?
People said console war in the 2000s. I always used to see it on Ganker during the 360/ps3/wii era.
when this unknown console called sega genesis began advertising itself with blast processing and doing things that nintendo couldn't.
No one called that a war, at best you had kids that said one or the other was "gay" because it didn't have (x)) game, which will eternally be stupid. Even the Atari Jaguar has a few cool games.
This. I don't recall anyone referring to the competition between Nintendo and Sega a "console war" until at least the early 2000s in my IRC channels.
this
as a kid born in 87 with a genesis growing up, my older brother said it best:
"super nintendo kids were the ones who drank milk with dinner"
SNESchads have strong bones, confirmed.
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Sometime in the early 90s.
The term "Cartridge Wars" was published in the August 1988 Computer Gaming World magazine, issue number 50.
honestly the only true console war was the SNES vs Genesis. the 360 vs PS3 came close but that was just a battle for 2nd place. every other console gen was a blowout for the winning console with hardly any competition.
i do remember a lot of console warring on the internet (gamefaqs i suppose) just before the PS2 and Gamecube released, lot of graphical comparisons.
I don't know, but console wars as we know them today certainly started with this ad: https://youtube.com/watch?v=k7nsBoqJ6s8
probably SNES vs Mega Drive
Since anons are obsessed with wars and making everything a war, then the real first shots were fired when everyone junked everything made from 1971-1976 and a bought a real game console, the Video Computer System, aka the Atari 2600.
Moreover when Mattel hired a celebrity to lambasted the 2600 by showing how "realistic" the Intellivision was when compared to the 2600.
*lambaste (singular, sorry)
both of those look extremely simple and I see little difference between them
That's part of the irony since there wasn't a whole lot of difference between what the Genesis and SNES could do. Yes, both had their strengths over the other, but for the most part, the difference was negligible. It's more ironic, that' the Intellivision was the PS5 of its time and many anons can't comprehend it.
>there wasn't a whole lot of difference between what the Genesis and SNES could do.
You have to remember that Genesis was competing with NES and not SNES in the first two years of its life. That's when the "Genesis does what Nintendon't" ad was made. And when you compare the graphics on Genesis to the NES, it's night and day difference. Of course, Nintendo caught up with the SNES.
>You have to remember that Genesis was competing with NES and not SNES in the first two years of its life.
True, I did forget that and it does change it up.
>the Intellivision was the PS5 of its time and many anons can't comprehend it.
I'm out of touch. what does the intellivision have in common with the PS5?
>I'm out of touch. what does the intellivision have in common with the PS5?
The Intellivision was the most advanced home video game system of its era, even being the first 16-bit console ever beating the PC-Engine by 8 years. It had graphics, sounds, and voice in a few cases, all amazing features in the 70s-early 80s.
So the Intellivision being the PS5 meant it was up against a more popular Computer Space (1971)cabinet standing in for the Atari 2600, that's the best approximation of it.
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is xsx the more popular computer space machine today.
You're saying it can be emulated on an Xbox series X? Just trying to understand. And it can't be emulated, just simulated.
no I'm aaking if in this analogy, the xbox series x is the popular computer space machine.
Yes.
Thank you, anon, I couldn't find a large one.
You realise it's all fake and manufactured right? It's done to raise awareness and boost sales for both while making it appear one has the upperhand.
Moreover, the Intelllivision was the world's first 16-bit home console.
It was here. https://youtu.be/DOUhpBQKw6o
were having one right now? but the switch beat the ps4 and PS5 ultimately.