My parents bought me a SNES, so I played on the SNES. Didn't realize there was a war going on until everybody in the internet started talking like a grizzled battlefield vet reminiscing about plumbers and hedhehogs.
Poll: The first console wars
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I didnt have a choice and didnt know any better when my mother got me my Sega Genesis. But the first system I asked for was the Nintendo 64 and the generation after that I got a Gamecube first. If I knew about RPGS and such at the time I would have wanted a SNES.
The first Console war didn't have Nintendo in it. It was between Atari and Coleco Vision and other various consoles that appeared and disappeared during the early eighties.
Stuck with Nintendo from NES through to the Wii.
I never cared for Sega growing up (had 2 friends with one).
Even revisiting some of the 'classics' later on in life I just couldn't see the appeal.
The only exception was a football game whose name I don't remember.
Perhaps it's a secret bias deep down inside but that doesn't exist with the Playstation or Xbox or PC.
I never cared for Sega growing up (had 2 friends with one).
Even revisiting some of the 'classics' later on in life I just couldn't see the appeal.
The only exception was a football game whose name I don't remember.
Perhaps it's a secret bias deep down inside but that doesn't exist with the Playstation or Xbox or PC.
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So where are my damned internets?
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Seriously, though, nice job.
I didn't have a side. The first gaming platform I got was a Gameboy, but I wasn't loyal about it. I was a small child. It was just what I had so it was what I played.
I was a Nintendo kid through and through. Though to be honest I don't really think I had an understanding of different consoles at the time.
Sega obviously, it had blast processing!
Seriously though the Angry Nintendo Nerd's two part episode on this is a must:
First the console wars of the early days were nothing like today. They were childish face to face school yard arguments we kids used to have. Just look at those old Sega commercials and stuff like the Nintendo Power Glove, totally targeted towards 10 year olds. I suppose those arguments still happen today between Sony/Microsoft strong as ever, but now it spills out onto the internet for all the world to see where thanks to anonymity you have no idea how old the people arguing are.
For the poll I voted Sega, though really in my family through the 8 and 16 bit consoles we went through both sides, trading a console in at the used game store every once in a while to get the other one. I tend to lean towards Sega because most of my friends were strictly Nintendo kids so I always felt I had to stick up for it a little, but we never really went full on console war.
The only time I ever felt really involved was with my Sega Saturn. In my opinion, the first 2 years of the console was great. It came out first, and had a strong line up of games. But from my view seemed wary of Sega from the Sega CD and 32X, they all jumped on board with the Sony Playstation when it came out. Having played both I always thought the PS games were shit at first. If you play some of the early ones (Ridge Racer, Tekken) they really haven't aged well, where what Sega was offering were games ported from their successful arcade lineup and were much more polished. But Sega never got support, eventually the PS started getting games like Need for Speed, Tekken 3, and FFVII, and from there it was lights out.
Seriously though the Angry Nintendo Nerd's two part episode on this is a must:
First the console wars of the early days were nothing like today. They were childish face to face school yard arguments we kids used to have. Just look at those old Sega commercials and stuff like the Nintendo Power Glove, totally targeted towards 10 year olds. I suppose those arguments still happen today between Sony/Microsoft strong as ever, but now it spills out onto the internet for all the world to see where thanks to anonymity you have no idea how old the people arguing are.
For the poll I voted Sega, though really in my family through the 8 and 16 bit consoles we went through both sides, trading a console in at the used game store every once in a while to get the other one. I tend to lean towards Sega because most of my friends were strictly Nintendo kids so I always felt I had to stick up for it a little, but we never really went full on console war.
The only time I ever felt really involved was with my Sega Saturn. In my opinion, the first 2 years of the console was great. It came out first, and had a strong line up of games. But from my view seemed wary of Sega from the Sega CD and 32X, they all jumped on board with the Sony Playstation when it came out. Having played both I always thought the PS games were shit at first. If you play some of the early ones (Ridge Racer, Tekken) they really haven't aged well, where what Sega was offering were games ported from their successful arcade lineup and were much more polished. But Sega never got support, eventually the PS started getting games like Need for Speed, Tekken 3, and FFVII, and from there it was lights out.
My older cousin used to own Dendy-Taiwanese or Vietnamese bootlegged version of NES. I used to have Sega Mega Drive in all its glory and easily breakable joysticks.
My first console was a "brick edition" GameBoy followed by a few years later my father sent me from Belgium (to Romania) a Sega Mega Drive 2.
That was the last console I had, before I switched to PC and never looked back.
That was the last console I had, before I switched to PC and never looked back.
I will simply state my answer with this old motto:
Genesis does what Nintendon't!
I had a Sega Genesis/Megadrive as my first console and then I had a Game Gear and a mighty Dreamcast. After Sega dropped out of the race I went to Sony. I didn't get my first Nintendo console until 2004 when I got a GameCube from a pawn shop for $35. So I didn't grow up with Nintendo and that is why I have no allegiance to them when it comes to them mistepping a lot recently, same goes for Sony. My love died back in 2001, and even though she died she still gave me some awesome games...*salutes old Sega consoles*
Fun fact, my Genesis still works perfectly and I sometimes hook it up to play Aladin and Sonic 2.
After looking at the poll though it would appear that I am in the minority here...
Genesis does what Nintendon't!
I had a Sega Genesis/Megadrive as my first console and then I had a Game Gear and a mighty Dreamcast. After Sega dropped out of the race I went to Sony. I didn't get my first Nintendo console until 2004 when I got a GameCube from a pawn shop for $35. So I didn't grow up with Nintendo and that is why I have no allegiance to them when it comes to them mistepping a lot recently, same goes for Sony. My love died back in 2001, and even though she died she still gave me some awesome games...*salutes old Sega consoles*
Fun fact, my Genesis still works perfectly and I sometimes hook it up to play Aladin and Sonic 2.
After looking at the poll though it would appear that I am in the minority here...
I had an NES but not a Master System and an SNES and them later a Genesis. I guess I was TECHNICALLY on Nintendo's "side," but I wasn't picking sides so much as only buying one console.
All three. Although Sega exclusives like Shinobi and Phantasy Star were some of my favourite games, I had to accept reality and recognize the NES library was like 10 times the size (I knew one kid in school who had a Master System). Even so, I didn't like Nintendo. I played almost no first-party titles, preferring Castlevania, Mega Man, Contra, Dragon Warrior/Quest, Final Fantasy, etc. I really wasn't a fan of Nintendo's shady business practices back then, so when the Genesis came out, I got one. Although I didn't really stick with console gaming for too much longer--I probably spent a lot more time on the Commodore 64 and later, the PC, briefly. I didn't own another console until the PlayStation 2.
I had a N64 when I was a kid. I didn't know Sega made consoles back then. To me, it was "that company that makes Sonic games"
So Nintendo automatically wins that console war for me.
So Nintendo automatically wins that console war for me.
I can't say I remember the 8-bit Sega and Nintendo consoles being a huge thing in the UK. They were around and people had them, but I don't think there was what you could call a war, mainly because 8-bit meant pc and it was either the Sinclair Spectrum, the Commodore 64 or the Amstrad CPC and their own little war of supremacy.