Appeal of the Sega Mega Drive?

DS86DS

I'm going way back to the early and mid-90s here. The first computer console I ever owned was the Super Nintendo...got it for my Christmas present in 1992.

And even though my console of choice and use today is the Xbox One X..... I still have a soft spot for the SNES.

I got the mini-SNES last year and Ive been playing it ever since...... particularly Super Ghouls N'Ghosts, Super Metroid, Street Fighter and Zelda.... whenever I get sick of modern flashy gaming.

But seriously, whatever was the appeal for some people with the Sega Mega Drive? I had an uncle close to my age and some friends back in the 1990s who had this system.

Not only did I dislike it back then......but even now I don't like the system or its games. I couldn't even be bothered to buy the €20 sale price Sega Mega Collection for Xbox One.

It feels like paying €20 just to play Sonic....which I do like, but it feels like the only good thing the Sega Mega Drive had going for it.

I love my Xbox and SNES... including some other consoles.....but I could just never warm to the Sega Mega Drive. No offense to Sega fans...but it always seemed boring to me and not worth the time.

I'd happily fork out €100 for a mini-SNES....but would struggle to get myself to buy even a €20 Sega collection for the Xbox One

It was a brilliant console, better than any nentendo by miles. Sonic was one of the best games ever on any console.

Stacksofwacks

Sega Mega Drive was awesome. I will forever treasure the countless hours playing Sonic and Knuckles, Street Fighter 2 and Senna Grand Prix when I was 8

KungPao

Blood and gore on Mortal Kombat, albeit with a cheat. Great laugh on the SMD.

Stacksofwacks

If I had known what the tech boom would bring and the liberal monsters it would spawn I would have set the bloody thing on fire, but nice memories all the same

DS86DS

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

Sega Mega Drive was awesome. I will forever treasure the countless hours playing Sonic and Knuckles, Street Fighter 2 and Senna Grand Prix when I was 8

Actually like the first two games, not familiar with the third.

Used to be interesting back in the early 90s acing Ken and Ryu on the SNES....but feeling like having to learn a new game when playing in friends houses that had the SMD.... could never get the hang of the controller.

johnnyryan89

Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Revenge of Shinobi are three great games for the Sega but do prefer the SNES myself.

Stacksofwacks

DS86DS wrote: »

Actually like the first two games, not familiar with the third.

Used to be interesting back in the early 90s acing Ken and Ryu on the SNES....but feeling like having to learn a new game when playing in friends houses that had the SMD.... could never get the hang of the controller.

Im not sure about Senna GP it could have been on Nintento 64

KungPao

johnnyryan89 wrote: »

Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Revenge of Shinobi are three great games for the Sega but do prefer the SNES myself.

I’d play streets of rage again if even only for the music. Amazing stuff.

Jordan 199

F-Zero on the SNES. Good times. Good times.

AllGunsBlazing

As a brand Sega seemed just that little bit more dangerous than Nintendo. And even though PlayStation was originally a Nintendo - Sony project, it is really the spiritual descendant of the Mega Drive.

Stacksofwacks

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

As a brand Sega seemed just that little bit more dangerous than Nintendo. And even though PlayStation was originally a Nintendo - Sony project, it is really the spiritual descendant of the Mega Drive.

I never thought about that but you're right the original playstation was definitely a progression on the megadrive, even in appearance. But the Megadrive 2 was a beautiful machine in itself

OwaynOTT

Blast processing man!
And genesis does what nintendon't.

Balanadan

Streets of Rage, Sonic

blue note

Everyone has an attachment to the one they grew up with. I had a mega drive so prefer that. If I'd owned a snes I'd now prefer that. As regards games that haven't been mentioned ;

Micro machines
Golden axe
Dungeons and dragons
Mega lo mania
Eswat
Premier manager
Dune
Lemmings
Flicky
Micky and Donald's world of illusion
Sunset riders
Road rage
Mercs

Loads more too if I could remember them.

It's gas though - I loved computer games as a kid. Haven't owned a console since going to college though.

suicide_circus

do you know what I got for Christmas '92? A kick up the hole

Billy86

Alright mods, lock 'er up. We're done here.

valoren

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

DS86DS wrote: »

Actually like the first two games, not familiar with the third.

Used to be interesting back in the early 90s acing Ken and Ryu on the SNES....but feeling like having to learn a new game when playing in friends houses that had the SMD.... could never get the hang of the controller.

Im not sure about Senna GP it could have been on Nintento 64

Super Monaco GP 2?

Senna fronted it, provided voice over.

RobbingBandit

Toki a fire breathing Ape so good he has just been relaunched on Nintendo Switch.

Six button pad for Megadrive was great for Mortal Kombat

valoren

Mario Kart sways it for the SNES.
A truly brilliant game.

OldMrBrennan83

The sound was always atrocious on the mega drive which meant it was awful to use after a SNES. There was a bit of thought behind Mario games too which Sega never had.

They had the blood on Mortal Kombat though.

liam7831

Terminator was class

mojesius

I still have my SNES and games such as Mario Kart, Mario all stars and donkey Kong country.

We had a mega drive in the house too. I loved sonic, mortal Kombat and road rash, great games.

But the sega had no rainbow road or bowsers castle (world 8,iirc)

OldMrBrennan83

blue note wrote: »

It's gas though - I loved computer games as a kid. Haven't owned a console since going to college though.

Same. Used to do nothing except play games since I got my first C64 but the PS was the end for me really (Nothing will ever beat the N64 for me in my life of gaming). Everything became either first person online or constant buying of cards.
Bought an XBox One S this year as it was cheap and I've turned it on about 6 times.

mloc123

Balanadan wrote: »

Streets of Rage, Sonic

This sums it up

OldMrBrennan83

mloc123 wrote: »

This sums it up

Yep. SNES wins, close thread

RasTa

You now have the Mega drive in your xbox

MadYaker

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

If I had known what the tech boom would bring and the liberal monsters it would spawn I would have set the bloody thing on fire, but nice memories all the same

Hahahahahaaaa

chupacabra

Atari Jaguar

Starscream25

Has anyone mentioned gun star heroes and thunder force 4, both fantastic games, also With the likes of golden axe, streets of rage, micro machines, sonic, shinobi, desert strike, Aladdin, mortal kombat.

The sega for me easily matched the enjoyability factor of the snes. Love games from both consoles tho and Still play a lot of these games to this day. The snes classic was a great release, especially if you can hack it and add a bunch more.

McMurphy

We had both in our house growing up, they were both good machines in their own ways.

Megadrive had such classics as Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Sonic and one of my own persoanal favourites - Populous, but as already mentioned , the sound from it never compared with a SNES.

The SNES had some genius games too mind you, Mario World was a classic, as was Mario Kart , and we had hours upon hours of fun with super tennis, and my favourite for the SNES was pilot wings.

The stereo audio, and mode 7 meant the SNES takes it for me overall though.

Kidchameleon

Megadrive had blast processing so it was better than SNES

*edit* beaten to it

RayCon

super_furry

Everyone knows that all the cool kids* had an Amiga.

*Really ****ing nerdy

theteal

Wasn't the Mega Drive out quite a while before the SNES?

We had he Sega and a mate had the SNES so we were pretty much covered for everything. Granted, it was the 90's and everyone was poor so new games were a xmas/birthday affair. I always remember that he had a football game that we were addicted to (you think I'd remember the name!) but after years of playing it to death, there was a random free kick awarded in a game and we both looked confused. . .then the info popped up on screen to say "hand ball". Little minds blown!

McMurphy

RayCon wrote: »

Was sensible soccer the one where the ball didn't 'stick' to the players feet, as in you had to actually dribble the ball, or am I thinking of a different one?

myshirt

johnnyryan89 wrote: »

Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Revenge of Shinobi are three great games for the Sega but do prefer the SNES myself.

I came on here to post exactly the same as you.
Op, the console was worth it purely for these games. Your thread should really be about the Dreamcast.

Or if you are brave...... Atari Jaguar.

scurnane

valoren wrote: »

Super Monaco GP 2?

Senna fronted it, provided voice over.

Or maybe Nigel Mansell GP?

TheValeyard

Megadrive was awesome.

So we're many of the games. Like playing Micromachines with your mates. Some laugh.

Greyfox

I remember this "war" so well as you couldn't afford to have both. All my friends had a mega drive and I had a super nintendo. Both had lots of good games but what nintendo had that sega didnt were games with depth and games that stood the test of time. Both super Mario world and Zelda a link to the past are still amazing games and are usually near the top of best game ever lists.

Yamanoto

Road Rash 2 player mode with the Bro was possibly the most fun I've had while gaming. International Superstar Soccer 98 on N64 was a hoot too.

Lorelli!

Greyfox wrote: »

Both had lots of good games but what nintendo had that sega didnt were games with depth and games that stood the test of time.

Yea I agree. We had the Sega. My friend had the Super Nintendo which I did prefer.

I had forgot about alot of the Sega games. We had a Sonic game and glad to be reminded of Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Super Monaco!

theteal

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Was sensible soccer the one where the ball didn't 'stick' to the players feet, as in you had to actually dribble the ball, or am I thinking of a different one?

Yup, if you tried to turn 90 degrees, the ball would carry on straight ahead of you

Starscream25

theteal wrote: »

Yup, if you tried to turn 90 degrees, the ball would carry on straight ahead of you

I'll never forget the day I won the World Cup with Les Ferdinand scoring an absolute screamer from The half way line in the last minute against Brazil. What a game.

Scott Tenorman

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

If I had known what the tech boom would bring and the liberal monsters it would spawn I would have set the bloody thing on fire, but nice memories all the same

Is there ANY thread that people won't shoehorn in whining about liberals??

Dry your eyes FFS

Sgt Hartman

Starscream25 wrote: »

I'll never forget the day I won the World Cup with Les Ferdinand scoring an absolute screamer from The half way line in the last minute against Brazil. What a game.

International Sensible Soccer was also available on the SNES. I was addicted to it. My best goal was a Nigel Winterburn rocket from the halfway line right into the top corner.

I was always more of a Nintendo man when I was younger. I just thought that games such as Super Mario World, Zelda and Secret of Mana were far better than anything Sega could offer on their machine although Sega's Mortal Kombat offerings were superior to the SNES ones due to Nintendo's censorship policy at the time. The Mode 7 and the excellent sound chip were also huge pluses over the Mega Drive. Check out the mode 7 effects and soundtracks in games such as Super Castlevania, Axelay, Secret of Mana, Super Mario kart etc. Most of the Megadrive's offerings couldn't hold a candle to those games.

blue note

Now that I read this thread I realise that snes owners were like the apple product owners of a few years ago.

tobsey

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Megadrive was awesome.

So we're many of the games. Like playing Micromachines with your mates. Some laugh.

Was it micro machines that allowed two people to play with one controller?

Insect Overlord

World Cup Italia 90. Now that was a football game!

griffdaddy

tobsey wrote: »

Was it micro machines that allowed two people to play with one controller?

You could plug controllers into the micro machines cartridge on the mega drive, how fcking awesome was that?!

Also, up, down, left, right, a, start.

Kidchameleon

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