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How SEGA won the 16-bit wars [top ten]
 
Most gamers today look fondly back at the period from 1989 to the mid-90s as a golden age for SEGA, with Genesis hardware and software sales simply trouncing Nintendo's 16-bit console, the Super Nintendo (what an original name, huh guys?). The reasons for such a clear and decisive victory are multifaceted, so join me, fellow Segative World readers, as we examine some of the clever tactics and downright genius innovations SEGA utilized to ensure the Genesis would cement its place as one of the greatest consoles. Of. All. Time.
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Cool name

One word; the beginning of all that is holy.
 
Sleek design
Sexy and curvy black finish served only to entice the very best in game development, especially compared to the pale gray and purple monstrosity engineered by Nintendo.

 
Famous people starring in Genesis games
The Genesis clearly had the edge over Nintendo on this one! Pat Riley Basketball, Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf, James 'Buster' Douglas Knockout Boxing, Joe Montana Football, Tommy Lasorda Baseball, Mario Lemieux Hockey, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker. Who did Nintendo have? Some obscure baseball player from Seattle?
 
Fatality
Mortal Kombat had blood. 'Nuff said.

 
Perfect controller
The Super Nintendo launched with an overly complicated controller scheme that simply had too many buttons to count. Gamers only have two thumbs, and SEGA hit the sweet spot with their oh-so-perfect ABC button control scheme. SEGA also gave gamers even more options by releasing their own complex controller (ABC-XYZ) that gave players the necessary tool to play the enhanced versions of Super Nintendo ports.

 
Killer soundtracks
In addition, the Genesis had two primary sound chips: the Yamaha YM2612 FM synth chip and the Texas Instruments SN76489 PSG chip, allowing for a true electronic soundtrack that pumped up the excitement to fantastic levels. Who needs more realism in their game music?


 
The most (and best) exclusives
The number of quality SEGA exclusives far outnumbers anything on the Super Nintendo. ToeJam & Earl, Ecco the Dolphin, Dynamite Headdy, Altered Beast, Phantasy Star, Golden Axe, Shinobi, ETERNAL CHAMPIONS... the list goes on and on!

 
Innovation
No matter what 'innovations' Nintendo could come up, SEGA always found a way to outdo them. Stunt Race FX? Forget that, Genesis had Virtua Racing. Computer rendered graphics? Vectorman does it even better and never misses a beat. Perhaps the most innovative piece of technology to have been born of the Genesis era was the Activator, which could actually read your body movement as inputs to martial arts games. Motion controls began here, suffice it to say!

 
The power of add-ons
All the add-ons made the Genesis a versatile and powerful system that the SNES simply could not keep with. First came the Sega CD, which allowed developers to include full motion video, something unheard of on Nintendo's platform. The power of the Genesis was tapped even further with the release of the 32x, which, amazingly enough, doubled the number of bits from 16 to 32. Even though Nintendo made attempts to keep up with SEGA, they couldn't even get their Sony CD add-on released. I think we all know what happened to Sony after that!

 
Sonic
The Genesis had Sonic. Nintendo did not. Sonic was the perfect embodiment of all that was cool and righteous in the world of video games, and his games clearly demonstrated this was the case. Nintendo's own mascot, the chubby little Mario, was already aging and could not keep up with gamers' desire for a mascot that oozed with so much blue energy. Aside from the larger number of quality titles he starred in on the Genesis console itself, his presence in the comics, cartoons and spectacular merchandise tie-ins ensured gamers knew where to turn for the best in entertainment. In fact, there's an entire top ten list on why Sonic is better than Mario.

 
This is just a short list, but I'm sure you can add many more.

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As long as this thread is completely off the rails now, I want to tell you guys how much I love this shitpost of a song:

04/21/20, 18:07   
@Captain Fawfull

You are 42 years old.
04/21/20, 20:54   
You are 42 years old. You have just survived the most powerful virus of all time. You are easily the most powerful being ever known. What do you do?


STOP WATCHING THE MOVIE

Turn your back on the TV and go outside. If you know the site, watch it. If you don't, stand in your yard and watch the sun for a while. Let your mind be a blank until the next movie hits.


GET IN THE LATE STAGE METHOD

Stand in a small space, facing the stage. Grab your camera, put it on a tripod, get ready, and take pictures of yourself in the next five minutes.
04/21/20, 21:16   
This thread is now a showcase for Nate's talents!
04/21/20, 21:43   
nate38 said:
Sega has clever tactics and downright genius innovations that they utilized that would never make it into more traditional 2D 3D games. Did you know that you can pass a switch to make things die or, even better, cause things to fly? Did you know that it's possible to knock objects off a ledge using a certain item in a given game? Did you know that you can rotate the camera to look at a great new maze of a level, even if it's too close for your character to take a good picture? The very idea of player choice and exploration is brilliantly done in Sonic the Hedgehog. While we might praise the game's innovations (if only the creative ideas weren't so mediocre, or shamelessly pushed into a remixed and tried  potential single by Tay-K, in an attempt to improve this song's reception.  With Selena gone, the working title for the second single was "Mean" by Taylor's producer Meek Mill.

Additionally, 2017 marked the release of Miss  Americas, a smooth and sultry cover of an old Eve with a different artwork by Varien.  The duo eventually released it to the public after two intense rounds of work by Varien, taking his artwork, coloring and adding their own production, as well as performanceals with him. Â

Of course, this, my friends, is an icebreaker, and gives the lid on the whole thing. That's why you use these. Here's a graphic from a CIA report made in 1989 when a CIA / Pentagon Mossad official, code named "Sir," made an exhaustive, though incomplete, history of Iran's clandestine military and intelligence services and told all to an audience at a conference on Operation Cyclone. My guess is that this presentation was classified. Maybe we'll ever know, but that's the extent of our knowledge: "Following the wartime ISA [Inter-Services Intelligence] structure, the Mossad's role was to carry out contingency operations of secret war and to evaluate operations. After the war, the Moss urs had become sellers of cheap hats, or so it appeared. People kept buying them and putting them on their heads. Mr. Mirbach would buy one, pack it up in a sack with some pennies, and continue selling it to other people, for a few cents more. It must have been a good thing to keep his head so clean.

I asked him if he was still making them.

"Of course," he said.

Is this around now, I asked, or have you retired?

"If I retired, why should I put them away, with all the other stuff that I've got? When they're dry, I'll sell them to people."
Sega doesn’t have not have clever tactics and downright genius innovations that they utilized. Nintendo does. Player choose for your character isn’t. Done brilliantly in Sonic the hedgehog. And is this guy a bot? The game has no innovation Nate.TheBigG753 said:
Mario 64 wishes it was as good as Sonic 3D Blast!
Mario 64 KNOWS it’s as good if not better than sonic 3d blast. Sonic 3D blast wishes it was good.
04/21/20, 22:29   
Secret_Tunnel said:
As long as this thread is completely off the rails now, I want to tell you guys how much I love this shitpost of a song:

That song is NOT a shitpost. Hero_Of_Hyrule said:
@Captain Fawfull

You are 42 years old.
And that’s suppose to mean?TheBigG753 said:
This thread is now a showcase for Nate's talents!
Bruh Stop. And wtf are you guys talking about?
04/21/20, 22:30   
Edited: 04/21/20, 22:30
Captain Fawfull said:
Mario 64 KNOWS it’s as good if not better than sonic 3d blast. Sonic 3D blast wishes it was good.

Alright, this guy HAS to be a troll. Who the heck actually thinks Super Mario 64 is a good game?!
04/21/20, 22:39   
Nate's talents? NATE'S TALENTS!? I'll have you know that he's incapable of any kind of technology or pattern recognition!" —While Kimblee prepares to knock Nate out

Characters Current

Pre-Game

Months Later

" "I really like your skills, Nate! Take a look at this!" " —The 'real' Nate laughing to himself

"I'm returning the favor! Without you, we can't really do a thing! Don't go anywhere! ...Thanks, Nate!" —The 'fake' Nate making fun of him

Nate won and the bad guy is in shock, but not going to let Nate go either. After about a minute of the
04/22/20, 00:29   
Zero said:
Alright, this guy HAS to be a troll. Who the heck actually thinks Super Mario 64 is a good game?!
I'd give it a 64/100.
04/22/20, 00:47   
After about a minute of the 'fake' Nate making fun of him, jumping him is a fair enough response. These interactions are limited to the active control board (i.e. the board that the active player has control over when you are talking to him, but doesn't have to be visible to you). (So, if you start pointing out what his robot arms do in a way that all players see, no one really wants to talk to you anymore!) But that will only get you so far, so the rest of the game really gets engaging as it becomes about making Nate behave or negotiating and clarifying with your rival players' positions, other players, and even the AI (who I'll get to later,
04/22/20, 01:08   
Captain Fawfull said:


Bruh I’ve been playing video games in the early 2000s.

Psh. n00b.
04/22/20, 01:57   
You know the problem with this thread? LUDONARRATIVE DISSONANCE!
04/22/20, 03:27   
Ludonarraitive dissonance is cringe.
04/22/20, 03:51   
[ref=id=9610&pagenumber=3#533223]Zero said:[/ref][quote][ref=id=9610&pagenumber=3#533221]Captain Fawfull said:[/ref][quote] Mario 64 KNOWS it’s as good if not better than sonic 3d blast. Sonic 3D blast wishes it was good.[/quote]
Alright, this guy HAS to be a troll. Who the heck actually thinks Super Mario 64 is a good game?![/quote]And you have to be an idiot. What kind of retard thinks SM64 is a bad game?[ref=id=9610&pagenumber=3#533228]TheBigG753 said:[/ref][quote][ref=id=9610&pagenumber=3#533223]Zero said:[/ref][quote]Alright, this guy HAS to be a troll. Who the heck actually thinks Super Mario 64 is a good game?![/quote]I'd give it a 64/100.[/quote] Uh no. It’s gets a 97/100.[ref=id=9610&pagenumber=3#533231]Shadowlink said:[/ref][quote][ref=id=9610&pagenumber=2#533203]Captain Fawfull said:[/ref][quote]

Bruh I’ve been playing video games in the early 2000s.[/quote]
Psh. n00b.[/quote]Psh f------

Guillaume edit - Adios, muchacho
04/22/20, 18:18   
Edited: 04/22/20, 18:36
Sega wins again.
04/22/20, 18:45   
TheBigG753 said:
Sega wins again.

04/22/20, 20:28   
Edited: 04/22/20, 20:32
It looks it's time to trade in my Switch for a 32X and get down to some real gaming.
04/22/20, 21:21   
Edited: 04/22/20, 21:21
Ah bummer. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
04/22/20, 21:22   
See you, space cowboy...
04/22/20, 22:33   
WrathOfSamus777 said:
It looks it's time to trade in my Switch for a 32X and get down to some real gaming.
Keep the Switch. Discard the 32X.

nate38 said:
TheBigG753 said:
Sega wins again.

Nope.

TheBigG753 said:
Sega wins again.
Nintendo wins again. Sega never won.
04/23/20, 00:00   
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