The second was the marketing of the two main consoles, Sega were very aggressive towards Nintendo and more power to them. So my idea of winning an argument was he who shouted loudest won, which is obviously not the case. Two factors where the driving force behind it. I think the 16-bit era was probably the time when I was most invested in a console war. I’ve been buying PlayStations ever since.Ĭurrently playing: FIFA 22 and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order I lapped up the propaganda from the official Saturn magazine, sure that sales would pick up and more games would come out, but we all know how that turned out.ĭon’t get me wrong, I have fond memories of the Saturn – Virtua Fighter 2, Marvel Super Heroes, and Panzer Dragoon Saga and NiGHTS are all classics – but as soon as I saw Metal Gear Solid in action I knew it was game over for the Saturn and I jumped ship to the PlayStation. It didn’t help that I was with the underdog, the Saturn, and I defended the console against any naysayers. I was a teenager during the PlayStation/Saturn years, so due to my lack of mental maturity I was heavily invested in the console wars. It is strange to consider that many modern gamers now only play online when roughly three decades ago, this was simply not an option! We didn’t even have the Internet back in those days, so if somebody had to suggest the possibility of competing against an opponent not in our immediate friendship group, and indeed thousands of miles away, we just wouldn’t have been able to fathom it. I believe that this has had a profound impact on the way that gaming is played. Mega Drive debate, would have been the introduction of online gaming. I think the one main thing from the modern gaming industry that I would have found perhaps most surprising and indeed revolutionary at the time of the SNES vs.
I certainly had no regrets about opting for Nintendo’s product over Sega’s back then, but ultimately, did switch to PlayStation later on that decade, which I believed was a game-changer in the industry and has proven to be in the superseding years. Being relatively young and also naive, I’m sure comments that I would now realise would be deemed insensitive, were made in the direction of the Mega Drive owner: ‘The SNES is much better than the Mega Drive!’, a parting shot one evening before retreating to our own addresses for dinner. Don’t get me wrong: we also enjoyed many hours of fun on the Sega console on games such as Sonic, World Cup Italia ’90, and Streets Of Rage.īut, I think only naturally, I felt that Nintendo’s offering overshadowed that of Sega. We would compete furiously for victory, no matter the genre. Games such as Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Sensible Soccer, Super Soccer, Kick-Off, and WWF Wrestlemania provided endless hours of entertainment. The SNES was super in more ways than one. Obviously, the two SNES owners were at a bit of an advantage during any argument, with the 2:1 ratio effectively meaning that we would back each other up on most points leaving my Mega Drive owning friend rather disgruntled. What I would learn later on in life was termed ‘banter’, we certainly had a lot of in our youth, when we were challenging each other over who owned the superior console.
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