Topic: Did you buy into the Nintendo VS Sega game?

I always preferred Nintendo because I liked them more. I was given a Genesis but didn't care much about it. Mostly played NBA Jam because it was a gift, not because I thought it was better than the SNES version. I played my sister's Game Gear a bit, but aside from one Sonic game I liked that I beat in an afternoon, there was nothing on it to interest me. I even rented Sega CD, 32x, and Saturn back in the days when you could rent systems (and back in the days when I was young and spoiled by godmother), but none of them impressed me, and neither did the eventual Dreamcast.

I think they make awful games and made awful systems (Genesis seemed good, actually, but the controller was just bad), but it's not because I bought into some sort of "game." I gave them opportunity after opportunity to impress me, so it's not blind favoritism at play.

i loved my first consoles n64 and genesis ....and to think i final fantasy is my favorite video game series

You can't count Castlevania, the jackasses at Konami kept ALL their great games in Japan only for the system. Quite a few companies did it to a lesser degree too unfortunately. They helped doom the thing outside Japan by only putting out select titles they stupidly felt would work more with western types and much of them were arcade ports or crap. I had a Turbo Duo for some years buying mine from TGExpress.com (NEC's company store) in the mid-ish latter half of the 1990s. I ultimately started to import or burn(Castlevania was like $120 then and that's bs) certain games to play and often the stuff I did play was Japanese CD titles. I think I had more CDs US and JP than HuCards due to NEC's ignorance of the market. It's a shame too as the system was fantastic and could do a good bit, hell check out Street Fighter II Championship Edition, it looks, sounds, and plays better than the GENESIS game Sega had which was sad.

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You can't count Castlevania, the jackasses at Konami kept ALL their great games in Japan only for the system. Quite a few companies did it to a lesser degree too unfortunately. They helped doom the thing outside Japan by only putting out select titles they stupidly felt would work more with western types and much of them were arcade ports or crap. I had a Turbo Duo for some years buying mine from TGExpress.com (NEC's company store) in the mid-ish latter half of the 1990s. I ultimately started to import or burn(Castlevania was like $120 then and that's bs) certain games to play and often the stuff I did play was Japanese CD titles. I think I had more CDs US and JP than HuCards due to NEC's ignorance of the market. It's a shame too as the system was fantastic and could do a good bit, hell check out Street Fighter II Championship Edition, it looks, sounds, and plays better than the GENESIS game Sega had which was sad.

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I wouldn't blame Konami too harshly. Nintendo practically forbid third-parties to multi-platform releases, until the courts made them change in about 1991. Konami's first non-Nintendo console releases (Genesis) were TMNT: Hyperstone Heist and Sunset Riders in late 1992, I believe. It would seem the TG was already doomed in the US by that point. (and Johnny Turbo didn't do it any favors)
Also, I thought TTI (a company formed by some NEC and Hudson staff) was responsible for licensing and publishing all games in the US.
Though it does make us wonder why EGM reviewed Gradius II as coming to the US in 1993, but it never did.

Oh I know NIntendo had the monopoly on the SMS/NES era but they got sued and lost so that went away the next generation so it was much a third party choice. But also I will admit with Konami it's a little personal because after getting online in 1995 I learned they had been screwing us Americans for years removing batteries and heavily (beyond Nintendo controls) censoring up their titles as they left Japan so I lost a ton of respect for them. EGM was Exaggeration Gaming Monthly, mostly lies with bits of truth. They were the gamespot of the day, bought off opinion and fanboy ramblings as 'media' long before it was standard.

I didn't get into it. I loved both my Genesis and SNES. Although I do prefer the Genesis.