The ultimate question...

The Bollox

SNES or Megadrive?

this was inevitable, and oh so neseccary, considiring the latest threads. so vote for your favourite and mock those that oppose your view (just like in the early to mid 90's)

for me it was, and ever will be, the SNES. I have had it since 4th year in Primary school, and it takes pride of place at our tv in my college gaff. it will never die!

Ruu_Old

Megadrive, I was a Sega boy and brought up on Sonic.:)

trout

Ruu wrote:

Megadrive, I was a Sega boy and brought up on Sonic.:)

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seo-ireland

What's a MageDrve?

Seriously though I can't answer this question. There should definitely be a 'I love both in equal measures' option.

Helix

snes all the way for me

had a master system and then a megadrive, and was a late adopter to the snes, but my god what a machine

Retr0gamer

SNES, it had the better games, but that isn't to say that the MD was without a whole heap of classics.

The Bollox

seo-ireland wrote:

What's a MageDrve?

Seriously though I can't answer this question. There should definitely be a 'I love both in equal measures' option.

where's the fun in that. if you like both equally it makes you a bi-16bit-ual... how do you like them apples!

seo-ireland

The Bollox wrote:

if you like both equally it makes you a bi-16bit-ual...

Then I guess that's what I am Ooh I feel so dirty!

If it makes any difference I preferred the SNES joypad.

LovelyTom

SNES, was brought up on it even though mines broken (which i only found out last night)

Tar.Aldarion

I can't decide. Oh, I'm amking a similar thread, the real ultimate question.

o1s1n

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zlulSyBI2aY

If it weren't for some of the RPGs on the Super Nintendo, I'd be screaming Megadrive. Damn you Chrono Trigger!

Feck it

MEGADRIVE!!!

Duggy747

Def the SNES for me, bigger amount of great games and graphics; i.e. Mortal Kombat games looked too brash and choppy on the Mega Drive.

That said Mega Drive had great games too, though everything bar the console's sound chip sucked balls compared to the SNES.

Enhancments for 3D-ish games had to be bought = 32X System, etc
Whereas chips were added onto the carts for SNES = Super FX chip, etc

Oh and we can't forget the then advanced graphics of Killer Instinct, Donkey Kong series, etc.........

I rest my case, m'lord.

Fysh

I'm hard pushed to choose between them, but if it's only one then I'd have to go for the SNES - the Mario games have more replayability than the Sonic games for me, plus there's Super Metroid, Mario Kart, Star Wing and many many others.

I do remember feeling that the division between Nintendo and Sega fanboys was stupid at the time, since without the Megadrive I'd never have played Gunstar Heroes, a game whose sheer greatness still lures me back regularly years after I first played it. Or the splatterhouse series. Or-no, I won't start listing titles, we'll be here ages...

o1s1n

Duggy747 wrote:

Enhancments for 3D-ish games had to be bought = 32X System, etc
Whereas chips were added onto the carts for SNES = Super FX chip, etc

Sega had their own version of the Super FX chip. The Sega Virtua Processor (SVP). It's in Virtua Racing. Pity we didn't see more use of it. Made the games too expensive.

Duggy747 wrote:

Oh and we can't forget the then advanced graphics of Killer Instinct, Donkey Kong series, etc.........

I rest my case, m'lord.

Am I the only one who found all this pre rendered stuff extremely ugly?

Duggy747

Pre-rendered games have dated really badly (meh, possibly bar the Kong series) Compare the Killer Instinct arcade & snes version, obviously MASSIVE graphical difference but after you play the arcade version the cracks in the SNES version explode open.

I forgot about the SVP chip too, my bad!

dulpit

SNES, and thats based purely on the fact that more people i knew had it than the megadrive (i had neither ) Only knew 1 person with megadrive...

Mega drive for me, was a fantastic system. Robocop vs. Terminator was class on the mega drive, as was Zero Tolerance.

jhegarty

Sonic makes this a non-contest

Mcj metroid

jhegarty wrote:

Sonic makes this a non-contest

I agree mario is THAT much better:)


I thought the megadrive would destroy the snes in this poll because the megadrive had sold more here. Nintendo were never popular as over here as much as they were in the US and this leads to perhaps the reason they hate Europe. Why we get Wii and ds games later.

The snes was better for in-depth single player games like super metroid,super mario world and final fantasy

The megadrive is better for multiplayer like micromachines 96,sonic 2,streets of rage,golden axe,alien storm the list goes on.

16bit era was the best era.

Mcj metroid

Duggy747 wrote:

Def the SNES for me, bigger amount of great games and graphics; i.e. Mortal Kombat games looked too brash and choppy on the Mega Drive.

.

Don't be saying things like that. You will trigger the' blood' argument again:)

um7y1h83ge06nx

SNES.

Better joypad.
Had an excellent batch of games that had arguably better graphics and better sound.

Still if I could have had, I would have had both!

Games such as Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country series, all the Konami shooters, Super Metroid, Zelda, Chrono Trigger and the Final Fantasy series are still talked about to-day.

djsim

I voted for the megadrive (the poll is now 50/50 ooooooooooo)

I only ever had a megadrive but I played the SNES a couple of games.both are very good. I owned every Sonic game on the megadrive so I guess they were better than Mario:):)

I still play two player in Sonic 2, what a class game. Dont you just love the "slow down" in the cave level:0

And yes, the "blood" issue with the SNES just puts me right of. I mean RoboCop vs. the Terminator on the SNES, what a joke!!!


The SNES may had better graphics but didnt the Mega CD and 32X make up for that:eek:

A-Trak

Eh, Atari Jaguar, where art thou?

Mcj metroid

A-Trak wrote:

Eh, Atari Jaguar, where art thou?

A 64 bit machine(So they say) plus it sucked anyway.

A-Trak

Mcj metroid wrote:

A 64 bit machine(So they say) plus it sucked anyway.

Surely the above is cause for a banning, MODS, MODS!

Games Charter wrote:

4a. Dissing the Jag
Do not diss the Jag.

http://wiki.boards.ie/wiki/Atari_jaguar



Megadrive FTW by the way.
All thanks to it's super 6 button Joypad and SFII

Mcj metroid

ha the jag had every problem imaginable with a games console. The only good thing is it's logo:)

Shigsy

Mcj metroid wrote:

The megadrive is better for multiplayer like micromachines 96,sonic 2,streets of rage,golden axe,alien storm the list goes on.

I believe the official defiinition of multiplayer in the dictionary is 'Mario Kart'...
No contest here, SNES by a mile

~Marky~

I voted for the Snes because I spent days of my childhood playing it and with games like Mario World,Mario Kart,Mario All Stars its by far the best

Timans

MegaDrive please.

Sonic, Streets of Rage.

Simple really.

SEEEGA

o1s1n

Shigsy wrote:

I believe the official defiinition of multiplayer in the dictionary is 'Mario Kart'...
No contest here, SNES by a mile

Look up multiplayer in the dictionary and you'll find Street Fighter 2 and Bomberman long before Mario Kart

I always found Mario Kart a bit too slow paced.

Much prefer multiplayer Micro Machines myself.(Megadrive version only mind you, the others are pretty awful) More players supported. Gets a lot more frantic and seems faster placed.

Shigsy

Timans wrote:

MegaDrive please.
Sonic, Streets of Rage.
Simple really.
SEEEGA

I know alot of people really liked Sonic, but for the life of me i've no idea why You just hold down the run button and he runs really fast through the level to the point where you can't really see whats going on, but it doesn't matter anyway because Sonic will just run right through enemies and collect most of the gold rings anyway

o1s1n

Shigsy wrote:

I know alot of people really liked Sonic, but for the life of me i've no idea why You just hold down the run button and he runs really fast through the level to the point where you can't really see whats going on, but it doesn't matter anyway because Sonic will just run right through enemies and collect most of the gold rings anyway

Well it would seem you've never played passed Green Hill Zone