Any traitors during the 16 bit console wars?
My first console ever was a Sega Genesis. However during that time I loved donkey Kong country and super Mario world. I actually preferred the snes to my genesis! My buddy down the street would let me borrow his snes for my genesis for weeks at a time and I enjoyed it.
Now a days I think the genesis is much better because I love shoot em ups. Anyone else a traitor to their console back in the day?
Now a days I think the genesis is much better because I love shoot em ups. Anyone else a traitor to their console back in the day?
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My good friend has lent me his Genesis after I replaced the power switch for him. It's been two years and maybe it's just his lame collection, but the only game that's grabbed me is the steam punk SHMUP Steel Empire.
Street fighter 2 then came out on the SNES (before coming out on the Megadrive), then I jumped ship because I had to experience that arcade experience at home! Continued to love both Sega and Nintendo in equal amounts ever since.
Wish I still had my original genesis but that's the way it goes.
Games in bulk are relatively cheap compared to back in the day ($50-60 each) so building entire sets of your favorite consoles is generally fairly easy. Except Saturn. Those prices are whack.
In the day no I had a SNES, the traitor in the house was family. He decided that the NES was ugly and out of date because he was younger and ate the lie sandwich Sega peddled in TV ads and in print. He used to be what we'd call now a huge troll. Making insulting comments, turning up those ads on TV about Nintendon't and having to be a pea brained dog IQ black and white fan to not want a Game Gear ultimate tool of Sega fanboy. I guess I was a Nintendo fanboy for some time, but it was also just my personality because I found having to lie in ads even as a kid made me mad which is what Sega did, same with other brands like Pepsi vs Coke, and so on. I stuck with the Gameboy and the NES until the SNES. He got so fanboyish he left the NES to get dusty as he had his own, and refused to ever use it unless I offered him money for his games or a trade. Eventually I did get some of his games I wanted, and ownership of a couple we co-owned. In time he started to whine once the SNES was around but never could afford his own and I got revenge not sharing mine, and i wouldn't let him use the games I got off him or my own either when the NES looked interesting again too. He never waivered off Sega, but he did come back to Nintendo but it wasn't by any help of mine for years of putting up with his arrogant rude childish comments and behavior.
I didn't go multi-console until the late middle 1990s and because it looked interesting I ended up getting a Duo. In time I did end up getting basically every Sega system, but it was never a priority. And honestly I think between the SNES, TG16-PCE, and the Genesis, Sega had the crappiest offering as I liked the games least and I thought the audio and visual output sucked the most too. Knowing what I do now I didn't then, it's kind of sad the NEC system looked and sounded better generally given it was partly 8bit. Sega really could have done better with their parts given the console and the companies arcade roots.
My brother ended up buying a Dreamcast after the N64. He then went to Xbox, and now back to Sony. My "traitorous" history is going from PS2 -> Xbox 360 -> PS4. Still owned Nintendo consoles in that time, but during those days their handhelds (DS and 3DS) captivated me more than their home consoles. Today I'm enjoying PS4, Switch, and my retro stuff.
I am back on Nintendo consoles now and will likely pass on PS5 for a long while. We have worked through it.
The 16bit era was the only gen where my primary console was a non-Nintendo system.