In the 90s we got games only on christmas, birthdays and maybe one after finishing the school year. Then, if you got money from uncles in those 2 days, you saved them and got another game. Also, a little brother could mean the possibility of another game if he wanted one for christmas.
Gaming in the 90s wasnt like binge watching shows on today's netflix. Each game was special in its own way, even the shittier ones, but the good ones like mario, zelda, sonic, streets of rage, dkc, you squeezed them dry
Could be worse. I was a varsity football player from 99-2003 and popular. Now I spend all day shitposting and pretending to work and the only friends I have are fat chicks who want to frick and drunks.
Todays kids on Ganker wernt there.
Genesis was beating the shit out of the SNES. It was outselling them 3 to 1 on multiple Xmas seasons. People also tend to forget (since overall winners dictate history) that the SNES took almost 18 months AFTER the Genesis was removed from shelves and well into the life of the Saturn that the SNES overtook their sales numbers.
Hell, the game that even allowed them to catch up was DKC, and that came out months before the end of the Genesis's life (we're talking months)
Success is an odd choice of words for the saturn because at launch in japan, it was massively successful due to virtual fighter being a launch title. We're talking sold out in hours.
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Anonymous
>at launch in japan
One time, in one place, for a brief moment it was considered successful. Flash in the pan.
Weird to have this ready. 64 being on the market for two years more and failing to close the gap despite Saturn basically getting nothing while keeping the lead shows how much of a flash in the pan it was.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Weird to have this ready
Not really, Saturngays for at least a decade have nonstop felt the need to remind everyone it sold 1 copy more in Japan.
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Anonymous
shit at every turn
This is funny coming between these two:
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Anonymous
No ones saying the Saturn was a worldwide success.
Now, if they didnt pull the Saturnday bullshit in the US, it would have competed hard, but they did and it didnt. But also ignoring how successful it was in its home country is just moronic.
Also "flash in the pan" belittles how hard fought and won the Genesis was. Do you even understand how large the gap nintendo had in the gaming market? 93% at the launch of the genesis. Sega had around 2%. Seeing as when Sega discontinued it and launched the Saturn in the US, it had around a 54%, thats an amazing fricking turn around and not even remotely a "flash in the pan"
3 months ago
Anonymous
>thats an amazing fricking turn around and not even remotely a "flash in the pan"
It becomes one when in 1997 they were reduced to 2% again as per their own internal document leaked last year.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>it would have competed hard
it wouldnt have since it was worse than the playstation in every way
both the saturn and the 64 are failed consoles
3 months ago
Anonymous
>both the saturn and the 64 are failed consoles
Both found plenty of success 🙂
3 months ago
Anonymous
N64 sold more than any Sega console ever released and the original Xbox.
3 months ago
Anonymous
and it was still a failure with a pathetically small library of games
3 months ago
Anonymous
Objectively speaking it was not a failure.
3 months ago
Anonymous
the N64 is still talked about and played today in dorm rooms and whenever boys come over to open cold ones.
>SNES diehards >refuse to play anything beyond Nintendy slop >it's a miracle if they play anything that isn't by Capcom or Square >play 1 or 2 games at most >ignorant and proud, smugly shit talk games they haven't played >either hate RPGs or love them to an autistic degree
You can't be this condescending and have such shit basic taste at the same time you're such homosexuals
>Genesis diehards >have the biggest chip on their shoulder with Nintendo despite the fact it's been 30 years >start shit at every turn >balcanized amongst themselves, bring up the most moronic meaningless comparisons
Shut the frick up you bitter shithead treadshitting gaymeisters, you're so annoying
Best generation of games, worst dedicated fanbase. PC Engine gays can be obnoxious but they're not as rampant, they're alright.
this
the only things worth playing on it are the phantasy star games and that one castlevania
the genesis simply has no games if you arent into sports and sonic
this
the only things worth playing on it are the phantasy star games and that one castlevania
the genesis simply has no games if you arent into sports and sonic
Hate this reductive talk, not everyone's gonna be into Super Metroid. It's not even the best mainline Nintendo game for the system (Super Punch Out for me). Also, I'm not into them, but there's definitely some great sports game on both systems, people still swear by some Genesis football games and that one SNES Baseball one. They can't be any worse than the yearly EA drek that persists to this day.
Genesis has Bloodlines though which is best classic Castlevania behind Rondo
Bloodlines is pretty great, even if I like SCIV a little more because it's such a unique game in the series. On the other hand Contra Hard Corps is also way the frick better than Contra 3 and comes with the japanese version which is the best Contra to play with a friend. SNES has the Natsume games which are almost on par with the Genesis's amazing arcade action games and lots of weird esoteric RPG shit like the ones Neverland or Quintet put out. Lot's of worth playing things in both, even if you wanna split hairs, you got that amazing technical wonder Batman TAS game on the Genesis, and the Batman Returns SNES beat em up being one of the best on the system. You want something typical of the competition: SNES had Majuu Ou and Rendering Ranger, Genesis had Ristar and those awesome licensed Disney games.
These two consoles have way more than a couple dozen games worth playing, you should expand your horizons beyond Mario and Sonic man.
The sports games yes, but everything else I mentioned I did play and beat except for Rendering Ranger lmao. I don't even understand why you would think otherwise I've only mentioned like 10 games, is that such an outrageous amount for you?
Im a sega guy, and as much as I hate to admit it, console war's was originally a marketing invention of Steve Race who was the head of SoA's marketing department. So Him (and by default sega) are the cause of ALL console war fights... so I really cant caste blame on any nintendo baby for that one.
Genesis was fine. It's funny to see people arguing over it online because I'm 40 and can't recall every arguing about consoles as a kid iirl. I still run through Shinobi 3, Landstalker, comix zone once in s while
>It's a Gankerirgins don't bother to explore the library outside of what ads they saw on TV episode
I remember one thread some anon was asking for platforming recs that weren't Sonic. I told him to try McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure. He took offense to the suggestion. I guess he thought I was calling him a baby and to play baby games. That dumb frick missed out on a Treasure Co., Ltd certified classic. It seems when you do offer suggestions, no one wants to try them because they never heard of them.
my favorite is when someone wants suggestions for something to play and their only feedback for suggestions are "x sucks" and somehow you're the idiot for trying to get clarification
>It's a Gankerirgins don't bother to explore the library outside of what ads they saw on TV episode
I remember one thread some anon was asking for platforming recs that weren't Sonic. I told him to try McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure. He took offense to the suggestion. I guess he thought I was calling him a baby and to play baby games. That dumb frick missed out on a Treasure Co., Ltd certified classic. It seems when you do offer suggestions, no one wants to try them because they never heard of them.
I think this game is OK, the reputation of treasure outpaces it as an average licensed game. For Genesis I'd sooner suggest Monster World 4 or Marvel Land.
>What did you play before 1996?
Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Test Drive 2, Magic Pockets, Turrican 2, Stunt Car Racer, Chaos Engine, Cannon Fodder and such. It was a used system and the seller gave us like 200 floppies of pirated games with it, good times.
Your post reads to me like a youtube expert. You have to at least recognize that there are lots of people here that get their opinions from youtube wethther you're one or not.
I actually got most of them from /vr/ and watching SNESdrunk lmao. The recs, not my opinion, that is. People think a lot of bullshit no matter where. If you actually play the games yourself and form your own opinion, in the end it doesn't matter where you got the rec from honestly.
Alright Nintenbros. I'm tired of fighting. Post your hidden gems. We'll post some of ours. This is not a competition. Let's discover some vidya together.
I'll start. This is an isometric horror/comedy game where your goal is to scare a family out of the new houses they moved into by possessing various objects and scaring them with demonic transformation. You can set up chains to get their fear spiking and get them packing.
Any other Satellaview games work checking out?
Here's a cancelled game of our own. It's a 2D action game where you go around rescuing people and can navigate the levels on foot or jump into your vehicle and fly around searching for more.
Energy Breaker, devs, a very interesting and pretty SRPG by the Lufia devs. Very unique battle system where you have to build character's negative and positive elemental affinity for them to do stuff. Every battle has a turn limit, every character has its own gimmick. Definitely not your typical grindfest. Art and character design by the Trigun guy, and it's the one SPRG where you can actually walk around between battles.
Music's great.
Oh shit. That came up on my radar. I've been meaning to try thar. Thanks for reminding me.
Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman Zero is a run and gun for the Satellaview that got a translation just last year. Technically the translation is for the 2017 cartridge release but its still the same as the Satellaview original. Just a few weeks ago F-Zero Deluxe was released which is a recreation of the lost levels from the Satellaview sequel and is now the definitive way to play F-Zero since it's added on top of the original game.
Energy Breaker, devs, a very interesting and pretty SRPG by the Lufia devs. Very unique battle system where you have to build character's negative and positive elemental affinity for them to do stuff. Every battle has a turn limit, every character has its own gimmick. Definitely not your typical grindfest. Art and character design by the Trigun guy, and it's the one SPRG where you can actually walk around between battles.
RPM racing uses it for everything. That game sucked though and showed the limitations of using that mode for gameplay. Their next game Rock n' Roll Racing uses the standard resolution for everything and is much better.
>Resolution >512x448 >Presenting it as if every SNES game ran the Mode 5 hi-res mode for gameplay purposes
This still vexes me. Not even being a Genesis gay about it. AVGN just did 0 research into this.
Very few people had both. We had one and then went to our friends' house to play the other one.
I had a SNES but enjoyed many, many Genesis games and still do. While I think the SNES had a better top-tier of games, Genesis had a lot of great games, good exclusive licensed ones made by Sega (like X-MEN 2), and also often the better version of multiplatform games.
I had a Sega Mega Drive 2 I remember having all treasure games save for Alien Soldier. And never tried any Sanic games until pc. Console favourites were Probotector, Final Fight CD -amazing ost-, Dragon Ball Z L'appel du Destin and Super SF2.
My cousin had a Snes, but he was a cheapass and I Saw only Mario.
Which retro console from the 1990's would be ideal for me? >I hate nintendo >I hates the SNES And hate nintendo 64 >i hate game boy >anti-nintendo console >console that has never been available in the Nintendo Virtual Console
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Console >consoles with anti-nintendo design >console whose target is opposite to that of Nintendo >I hate Pokemon >i hate the legend of zelda
The Genesis has shit for racing games.
Super Monaco GP
What about Road Rash? What about Outrun?
road rash games are fantastic, I was surprised to learn the only nintendo one was a crap port of 3d.
I only had a genesis and I regret it every day of my life. Sonic was not that good everyone was just coping.
I don't know, streets of rage and having a sega channel subscription was all you needed
I had to watch my friends playing classic after classic like Megaman X and Zelda while most of my collection was sports trash. I hate it!
Why did you only buy sports trash?
Not that anon but
>>Buy
In the 90s we got games only on christmas, birthdays and maybe one after finishing the school year. Then, if you got money from uncles in those 2 days, you saved them and got another game. Also, a little brother could mean the possibility of another game if he wanted one for christmas.
Gaming in the 90s wasnt like binge watching shows on today's netflix. Each game was special in its own way, even the shittier ones, but the good ones like mario, zelda, sonic, streets of rage, dkc, you squeezed them dry
Yeah you really needed a Genesis for great games such as Sonic and....
SEGA
I only had genesis growing up in early to mid 90s and it was enough. I also played outside more than I sat inside gaming because it was the 90s
>I also played outside more than I sat inside gaming because it was the 90s
Could be worse. I was a varsity football player from 99-2003 and popular. Now I spend all day shitposting and pretending to work and the only friends I have are fat chicks who want to frick and drunks.
Todays kids on Ganker wernt there.
Genesis was beating the shit out of the SNES. It was outselling them 3 to 1 on multiple Xmas seasons. People also tend to forget (since overall winners dictate history) that the SNES took almost 18 months AFTER the Genesis was removed from shelves and well into the life of the Saturn that the SNES overtook their sales numbers.
Hell, the game that even allowed them to catch up was DKC, and that came out months before the end of the Genesis's life (we're talking months)
DKC and the 32X came out on the same day. Sega's success was the definition of a flash in the pan.
Why do you speak in slogans?
It's a perfect phrase for a brief success sandwiched between failures.
Why do you load every post with presumptuous conclusions based on limited information?
Because you're a Black personhomosexual and need to have a nice day immediately.
The SG-1000 and Saturn were successes now?
Success is an odd choice of words for the saturn because at launch in japan, it was massively successful due to virtual fighter being a launch title. We're talking sold out in hours.
>at launch in japan
One time, in one place, for a brief moment it was considered successful. Flash in the pan.
It ended up outselling the N64 in Japan
Barely
Weird to have this ready. 64 being on the market for two years more and failing to close the gap despite Saturn basically getting nothing while keeping the lead shows how much of a flash in the pan it was.
>Weird to have this ready
Not really, Saturngays for at least a decade have nonstop felt the need to remind everyone it sold 1 copy more in Japan.
No ones saying the Saturn was a worldwide success.
Now, if they didnt pull the Saturnday bullshit in the US, it would have competed hard, but they did and it didnt. But also ignoring how successful it was in its home country is just moronic.
Also "flash in the pan" belittles how hard fought and won the Genesis was. Do you even understand how large the gap nintendo had in the gaming market? 93% at the launch of the genesis. Sega had around 2%. Seeing as when Sega discontinued it and launched the Saturn in the US, it had around a 54%, thats an amazing fricking turn around and not even remotely a "flash in the pan"
>thats an amazing fricking turn around and not even remotely a "flash in the pan"
It becomes one when in 1997 they were reduced to 2% again as per their own internal document leaked last year.
>it would have competed hard
it wouldnt have since it was worse than the playstation in every way
both the saturn and the 64 are failed consoles
>both the saturn and the 64 are failed consoles
Both found plenty of success 🙂
N64 sold more than any Sega console ever released and the original Xbox.
and it was still a failure with a pathetically small library of games
Objectively speaking it was not a failure.
the N64 is still talked about and played today in dorm rooms and whenever boys come over to open cold ones.
>SNES diehards
>refuse to play anything beyond Nintendy slop
>it's a miracle if they play anything that isn't by Capcom or Square
>play 1 or 2 games at most
>ignorant and proud, smugly shit talk games they haven't played
>either hate RPGs or love them to an autistic degree
You can't be this condescending and have such shit basic taste at the same time you're such homosexuals
>Genesis diehards
>have the biggest chip on their shoulder with Nintendo despite the fact it's been 30 years
>start shit at every turn
>balcanized amongst themselves, bring up the most moronic meaningless comparisons
Shut the frick up you bitter shithead treadshitting gaymeisters, you're so annoying
Best generation of games, worst dedicated fanbase. PC Engine gays can be obnoxious but they're not as rampant, they're alright.
shit at every turn
This is funny coming between these two:
Genesis doesn't have anything as good as Super Metroid
this
the only things worth playing on it are the phantasy star games and that one castlevania
the genesis simply has no games if you arent into sports and sonic
Genesis has Bloodlines though which is best classic Castlevania behind Rondo
Hate this reductive talk, not everyone's gonna be into Super Metroid. It's not even the best mainline Nintendo game for the system (Super Punch Out for me). Also, I'm not into them, but there's definitely some great sports game on both systems, people still swear by some Genesis football games and that one SNES Baseball one. They can't be any worse than the yearly EA drek that persists to this day.
Bloodlines is pretty great, even if I like SCIV a little more because it's such a unique game in the series. On the other hand Contra Hard Corps is also way the frick better than Contra 3 and comes with the japanese version which is the best Contra to play with a friend. SNES has the Natsume games which are almost on par with the Genesis's amazing arcade action games and lots of weird esoteric RPG shit like the ones Neverland or Quintet put out. Lot's of worth playing things in both, even if you wanna split hairs, you got that amazing technical wonder Batman TAS game on the Genesis, and the Batman Returns SNES beat em up being one of the best on the system. You want something typical of the competition: SNES had Majuu Ou and Rendering Ranger, Genesis had Ristar and those awesome licensed Disney games.
These two consoles have way more than a couple dozen games worth playing, you should expand your horizons beyond Mario and Sonic man.
>I played them on youtube
The sports games yes, but everything else I mentioned I did play and beat except for Rendering Ranger lmao. I don't even understand why you would think otherwise I've only mentioned like 10 games, is that such an outrageous amount for you?
>You really needed both at the time
100%
Best gaming generation hands down
I wish Nintendo fanboys didn't turn this 4th gen thread into 5th gen console wars, but I guess that's what zoomers do these days.
Im a sega guy, and as much as I hate to admit it, console war's was originally a marketing invention of Steve Race who was the head of SoA's marketing department. So Him (and by default sega) are the cause of ALL console war fights... so I really cant caste blame on any nintendo baby for that one.
Genesis was fine. It's funny to see people arguing over it online because I'm 40 and can't recall every arguing about consoles as a kid iirl. I still run through Shinobi 3, Landstalker, comix zone once in s while
>It's a Gankerirgins don't bother to explore the library outside of what ads they saw on TV episode
I remember one thread some anon was asking for platforming recs that weren't Sonic. I told him to try McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure. He took offense to the suggestion. I guess he thought I was calling him a baby and to play baby games. That dumb frick missed out on a Treasure Co., Ltd certified classic. It seems when you do offer suggestions, no one wants to try them because they never heard of them.
my favorite is when someone wants suggestions for something to play and their only feedback for suggestions are "x sucks" and somehow you're the idiot for trying to get clarification
I only had an Amiga 500 until we got a family PC in 1996.
What did you play before 1996?
I think this game is OK, the reputation of treasure outpaces it as an average licensed game. For Genesis I'd sooner suggest Monster World 4 or Marvel Land.
>What did you play before 1996?
Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Test Drive 2, Magic Pockets, Turrican 2, Stunt Car Racer, Chaos Engine, Cannon Fodder and such.
It was a used system and the seller gave us like 200 floppies of pirated games with it, good times.
That's the best, must have been a fun childhood. Sadly I didn't discover a love for racing games until my mid 20s.
Your post reads to me like a youtube expert. You have to at least recognize that there are lots of people here that get their opinions from youtube wethther you're one or not.
I actually got most of them from /vr/ and watching SNESdrunk lmao. The recs, not my opinion, that is. People think a lot of bullshit no matter where. If you actually play the games yourself and form your own opinion, in the end it doesn't matter where you got the rec from honestly.
Alright Nintenbros. I'm tired of fighting. Post your hidden gems. We'll post some of ours. This is not a competition. Let's discover some vidya together.
I'll start. This is an isometric horror/comedy game where your goal is to scare a family out of the new houses they moved into by possessing various objects and scaring them with demonic transformation. You can set up chains to get their fear spiking and get them packing.
Special Tee Shot. Both the near complete prototype build and the final Satellaview version. It's the game that Kirby's Dream Course was made out of.
Any other Satellaview games work checking out?
Here's a cancelled game of our own. It's a 2D action game where you go around rescuing people and can navigate the levels on foot or jump into your vehicle and fly around searching for more.
Oh shit. That came up on my radar. I've been meaning to try thar. Thanks for reminding me.
Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman Zero is a run and gun for the Satellaview that got a translation just last year. Technically the translation is for the 2017 cartridge release but its still the same as the Satellaview original. Just a few weeks ago F-Zero Deluxe was released which is a recreation of the lost levels from the Satellaview sequel and is now the definitive way to play F-Zero since it's added on top of the original game.
Energy Breaker, devs, a very interesting and pretty SRPG by the Lufia devs. Very unique battle system where you have to build character's negative and positive elemental affinity for them to do stuff. Every battle has a turn limit, every character has its own gimmick. Definitely not your typical grindfest. Art and character design by the Trigun guy, and it's the one SPRG where you can actually walk around between battles.
Music's great.
ACK-
Aha, 7,6 mhz, blast processing
Resolution on there is misleading.
The sad thing is that image is 20+ years old and has been spreading misinfo for that long
Most SNES games ran at 256x244. The high-res mode was limited to stuff like the main menu in Secret of Mana.
RPM racing uses it for everything. That game sucked though and showed the limitations of using that mode for gameplay. Their next game Rock n' Roll Racing uses the standard resolution for everything and is much better.
>Resolution
>512x448
>Presenting it as if every SNES game ran the Mode 5 hi-res mode for gameplay purposes
This still vexes me. Not even being a Genesis gay about it. AVGN just did 0 research into this.
The Genesis was just a Sonic machine for me. SNES was superior.
Very few people had both. We had one and then went to our friends' house to play the other one.
I had a SNES but enjoyed many, many Genesis games and still do. While I think the SNES had a better top-tier of games, Genesis had a lot of great games, good exclusive licensed ones made by Sega (like X-MEN 2), and also often the better version of multiplatform games.
I had a Sega Mega Drive 2 I remember having all treasure games save for Alien Soldier. And never tried any Sanic games until pc. Console favourites were Probotector, Final Fight CD -amazing ost-, Dragon Ball Z L'appel du Destin and Super SF2.
My cousin had a Snes, but he was a cheapass and I Saw only Mario.
Which retro console from the 1990's would be ideal for me?
>I hate nintendo
>I hates the SNES And hate nintendo 64
>i hate game boy
>anti-nintendo console
>console that has never been available in the Nintendo Virtual Console
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Console
>consoles with anti-nintendo design
>console whose target is opposite to that of Nintendo
>I hate Pokemon
>i hate the legend of zelda
Virtual Boy.
Atari Jaguar, they removed ram and you could not even run the games
Reasons why the Atari Jaguar would be my ideal 1990's retro console?
Just go with the NeoGeo nigra, it was super pricey and few people had one, plus you get to play arcade perfect games
Do your own research gay
There isn’t anything I really like on the genesis. The dreamcast, however, has a great library
>shit posting stops
>game discussion starts
>thread dies
I had both. I also had a 32X. No regrets, Virtua Racing was b***hin'.