Topic: ~~The Real Console Wars~~

(Apologies if this has been done before, I did try searching but couldn't really find anything)

If like me you grew up in the late 80's / early 90's you'll know that the real console wars were between Sega & Nintendo, not the half hearted wars of today between Sony & Microsoft where most games are cross platform anyway apart from the odd exclusive

Back in the day did you side with Sega or Nintendo? Oh and which console / consoles did you have?

My first console was the SNES (I dont really count my attari ST as a console) but I did also have a Sega Master System.

The Snes was my favorite though, I remember in School lots of friends had a Sega Megadrives and pretty much back then if you had a Sega you loved Sonic & hated Mario and vise-versa if you had a NES or SNES.

I have been with Nintendo all the time, from the days of the NES. I have also owned every Playstation system since PSone, but it has always been the secondary system for me.

I would have been quite young in the early 90s so I missed that war.
When I was a kid, it was Sony vs Nintendo with the Nintendo64 and Playstation. I've always been a Nintendo supporter, our family's first home console was a SNES so they practically introduced me to video games.

I've always been a Nintendo supporter. My older brother got a NES (though I was too young to be aware of any sort of console wars). When we got a SNES, when I was 8, that's when I totally fell in love with video games, but while of course I was aware of the Nintendo/SEGA war, in my experience there was never really any animosity between the two sets of fans. It was never an issue among my friends at least. It wasn't until the N64/PlayStation era that I noticed obnoxious fanboy wars (I guess because Nintendo was on the back foot now).

i was a nintendo fangirl, however i still had respect for SEGA as they had so many great games and I.Ps. so i wasn't one of those nintendo fans that hated SEGA. the whole SEGA vs nintendo war might have been a bit nasty for some fans, but it was hugely competitive moreso than today's console wars where it involves one company making rude remarks about another.

i.e. sony against nintendo.

i like SEGA a lot but not as much as nintendo but moreso than capcom, sony, microsoft. wish SEGA would return to the hardware market but that is probably never going to happen. would be cool if SEGA teamed up with nintendo though.

You guys with your growing up in the 90s and SNES and Blast Processing and good Nickelodeon and I'M JEALOUS.
hmph.

@Jumbif
Me too. D:<
Growing up in the 2000's is lame.
Even if my first console, the GameCube, is still freakin' awesome

I've just always owned all of the consoles in each generation, ever since I was a freshman in high school in 1985 and got both the NES and SMS. I then followed suit with the Genesis, Turbographx-16, and Super Nintendo just after high school. Having said all that, I did tend to own far more Nintendo carts than Sega or Hudson games.

Ah, yes! The good old days,
Sega does what Nintendon't! Which so isn't true XD.
Growing up I had a SNES, so I was a Nintendo fan. I haven't even played Sonic till Adevnture DX.

nes, snes, and genesis
i brought peace to the console wars...

I can say I liked one more the the other. My introduction to video games was a NES so I had an NES and than later a SNES, but than when Genesis came out I also had one of those for games that I couldnt get on Nintendo systems. Games like the Street of Rage series, their sports exclusives like Joe Montana Football, and of course the Sonic series. Now the only reason I had more games on my SNES than the Genesis was the fact that I loved the RPGS on SNES so a good amount of my SNES games are RPGS. I dont remember too many RPGS on the Genesis. I couldnt really say I hated one more than the other even though alot of kids at my school(s) did I just never understood the logic behind it.

During that time I owned the following NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, and the Sega CD add on.

i had genesis and a gameboy and a snes never owned a nes sadly but i love the snes but the only reason i played my genesis more was for games like sonic street of rage golden axe and a game i forget what its called but i reminds me of meroid in some ways when n64 came out i owned that never owned a saturn or a ps1 then i bought the dreamcast which is one of my favorite systems to this day i had a genesis snes gameboy but i was born in 1995

Well I had a genesis but the thing was I was 7 so I ways got my butt kicked when I played the arcade games that I mostly had.whenI finally got my game boy advance the sega was nowhere to be found though. Easier stuff made me like video games and since nintendo had easy stuff to learn like Pokemon the banner of the blue blur was taken down and replaced with a 1up mushroom and a cheep cheep regurgitated golden cup.

I didn't get into it for a while, but in 1995 at age 10, I got a Sega Genesis as my first console. I loved that thing and even later upgraded it with a 32X. I also enjoy Sonic's 16 bit masterpieces much more than Mario's earlier 2D platformers. Once Sega dropped out of the hardware business, I went with the GameCube for my second console, in part because of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (but also because of Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader and Super Smash Bros. Melee, although at the time I was really only familiar with the Mario and Pokémon characters), and I've been a proud Nintendo supporter ever since.

i never knew anybody who had a turbo grafix, i don`t even remember seeing them in the shops. although i did see one shop had a neogeo and a selection of games when SNK still had them in production.
most of my friends were nintendo fans, we just didn`t see the appeal in sega games much.
i would of happily had a neogeo if the prices weren`t so damn high, i loved playing their games in the arcades.

I grew up in the 70's/80's so I had an 8 bit Nintendo at around 10 and remember that there was a very small rivalry with the NES and Master System. Nintendo had Mario and Sega tried to use Alex Kid as a mascot, but he never really caught on as big so Nintendo dominated. Having said that Sega had some great games also though. I had both NES and later the MAster System when it became Master System 2 and was cheaper. Later when Super Nintendo and Genesis came out Sega was able to finally create a mascot that not only was appealing, but it really caught on with a great game in Sonic. (I had both systems) So the rivalry began and the funny thing about it is that I think that the gaming magazines probably blew up the rivalry more then the companies themselves. Buit then a few years later Sega used that and decided to target Nintendo in their advirtising. (Sega does what Nintendon't, etc) I always had both systems, but always seemed to prefer Nintendo. I have to say though that Playstation and X-Box has never really been able to grab my attention like Nintendo and Sega did/do.

In terms of software, I don't even know how there ever was a war. If it really was a war, and the quality of the video games meant the quality of the soldiers, it would be like the U.S. (SNES) fighting....oh I don't know, Iceland (Genesis).

You really are not accurate between the two systems because of the fact both systems had very good game libraries depending on what you are after in a game genre.

The Sega Genesis and the Snes did not have the same strengths in game libraries. If you have booth game systems, they actually compliment each other well. There is no excuse in today's age for a person not able to afford both systems and this war has been dead since 1996 at least. The Sega Genesis had games from 3 party publishers that were not the best known, but made very good games.

Sega Genesis was know for great sports games and great space shooters. The Sega Genesis also had very good games outside sports and shooter genre like the Shinobi Series, Sonic Series, Street of Rage Series, Shining Force Series, Crusader of Centy, Landstalker, Rocket Knight Adventures, Phantasy Star 4, Alisia Dragoon, Quackshot, Beyond Oasis,Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse, Castlevania Bloodlines, Chiki Chiki Boys,Decap Attack, Golden Axe Series, Marvel Land, Mega Bomberman, Outrun, Rolling Thunder 2, Strider, Valis Series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Hperstone, Ultimate Qix, Wonder Boy in Monster World, and X-Men 2: Clone Wars.

I am not naming droping those Sega Genesis games that are not Shooters or Sports games for the sake of it. These actually are good or great Genesis games that I have in my Sega Genesis collection that I played. My Sega Genesis Collection started in 1992.

Consoles can't have wars. They are hunks of plastic that play game simulations of fairytale lands. In other words they aren't humans.

wow