Sheesh, why is it always NES vs. Genesis?

Doesn't anyone remember the Master System?

Anyone?.... Hello?... What's with those blank stares?

Reminds me of the PS3 and 360..

I mean the 360 has a few better games on it right now, while the PS3 has more power.

Not to mention 360 has that classic gaming thing.

@BPMγ: How about the GameGear?

Ah, back when console wars were all in good fun, instead of the hate-filled bile fanboys spit out nowadays.

Damn you Fahey, now I'm feeling nostalgic again... :p

@ShaggE: /co-signs the post.
fanboys lately are just boring. invest in the company's stock or get off its dick and just enjoy the systems you got.

@BPMγ: well, at least 2 of us so far remember the SMS.

@TheIrishNinja: Make that 3. I remember it well.

I remember kids arguing at my school all the time like fanboys, it's just the internet makes things worse.

I promise you, it was just as bad IRL as it is now.

SEGA DOES WHAT NINTENDON'T.

Reminds me of the days when I actually enjoyed Nintendo products!

@ShaggE: What's odd is that despite being better natured, the war was also much more OTT back then than it is today. Fan art depicting huge, sprawling battles between Sonic and Mario, with blood and gore everywhere - that's my main memory.

These days the combatants ostensibly focus more on the consoles themselves, but they do it with a violent religious fervour that completely shatters any semblance of rational thought.

It's almost paradoxical: the war's been made less ridiculous, but what's left of it gets handled ridiculously.

I am glad this shows the NES vs. Genesis. People always compare the Genesis to the SNES without realizing the real battles was with the NES.

Two words. Blast Processing.

No, I cannot keep a straight face as I say that.

Sega beats out Nintendo with the remixes.

Song wise I'd say: Link > Sonic Labyrinth > Sonic Spring Yard > Mario
The link tune had an amazing riff halfway through, it blew the competition.

(blew away)

so the 'NES vs. Genesis' is now '360 vs. PS3' ?
just swap em in / out and its spot on!
the 360 being the NES and PS3 being the Genesis.
and who won that console war? hmmm

@DigitalHero: You speak truth, sir.

I LOVE that "Geez!"

Sorry to nitpick here, but shouldn't that be a Master System in that pic, not a Genesis/Mega Drive?

@LedRush:

No, the real real console war was the Sega CD vs. the Snes! ;-P

@ShaggE:

You seem to be remembering a different console war than me.

Outside of that, the thing that strikes me as funny:

Does Nintendo win on sheer variety...

Hearing Nintendo being accused of variety is kind of funny now, as they haven't had a new IP since Pikmin.

The feud is over? All those years spent constructing an orbital death ray station capable of remotely eliminating all of Sega's dev facilities simultaneously were wasted?

The guys at Nintendo Fanboy central control are gonna be so disappointed :P

@LedRush: Yeah thats the thing, by the time the SNES hit it was Nintendo's game to lose basically in terms of sales.

Also an interesting parallel to the current Wii sales killing the 360 and PS3 situation, not to mention the odd phenomena of the PS2 continuing to sell well but not necessarily boosting the PS3 in any specific way (that is obvious at least). Not that I care either way (I'll probably own all three by the end of '08 one way or another), but I wonder if it will play out to where the Wii2/whatever has an "assumed" advantage the way the SNES did.

Thats not to say the Genny didn't have some hot titles, and obviously did better in other territories than the USA, but yeah ;)

@PapaBear434: Yeah that console war was just as bitter as this one, if not more so since I was actually an obnoxiously pre-teen/teen at the time ;)

Thats why while I dislike fanboyism I try to hate the sin and not the sinner, so to speak :)

You might want to listen to this:
[www.chapter6.net]

Probably the best Sonic remixes I've heard

@PapaBear434: inclined to agree, but i think wii sports might be the next IP, no?

@TheIrishNinja: A collection of mini-games shouldn't be allowed to be a franchise. -.-

Who Remembers...

"Genesis Does... What Ninten-don't"

ahahaha...

Best. Console war. ever

lol i had to do that

@TheIrishNinja:

Not really. As Maldron says, it's a collection of minigames, not really a name brand. No real characters.

Plus, the games are pretty limited. Not a WHOLE lot of depth. I'd consider it more of a free tech-demo if anything.

That was back when console wars were fought on all fronts. Good times.

@TheIrishNinja:

"fanboys lately are just boring. invest in the company's stock or get off its dick and just enjoy the systems you got."

Dude, that's the best remark against fanboyism I've ever read.

Hero'd

Whoa, this is a way higher caliber than I expected. Might have to get the old Nomad out again. (yup, Nomad, I was in the Sega camp back in the day)

I remember the Atari Vs Intellivision fued. The Atari 5200 vs Coleco Vision fued. The NES vs SMS fued and the Genesis vs SNES fued, but never the NES vs Genesis fued. It's no contest in terms of power, plus while the Genesis was being released NES was peaking.

Fanboyism is a part of human nature and always will be. We've always gone back and forth over which political party is better. Which football team. Which make of car. Which religion. I'm sure the cavemen fought back and forth over buffalo skin vs. bear skin.

I say the PS3 is buffalo skin and the 360 is bear skin! Take that fanboys!

That was dancetastic! If Daft Punk or Justice remixed video game music, this is what it would sound like.

@robinandtami: YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT REMARK WITH YOUR BODILY FLUIDS EXCEPT AGH I CAN'T DECIDE WHICH ONES, IF ONLY I WERE LOUD AND OPINIONATED ABOUT THAT TOPIC ALSO

Geist and Nintendogs are both newer than Pikmin,aren't they?
Anyway,I'm only on the second track,but I've allready decided Sega wins,since oldschool Sega music is pretty much the best game music there is. Sonic,Streets of Rage,Outrun,Space Harrier,etc. The day Dreamcast died was when I stopped being a "1337 g4m3r" and just became someone who kind of likes video games.

Genesis sound was crap. Snes had digital sound!!
Anyway, play Samurai Shodown on snes and genesis and tell me which one is better..

Lol, so in decades time, which one will it be?

- God of War on XBox, or
- Windows on Playstation

So NES is like Hillary Clinton: the bitchy console that everyone likes. And the Sega Mega Drive (Genisis for the noobies) is like Obama: we need raw power to get shit done! Plain and simple as that.

@TheIrishNinja:
# 4 here.

Played alex kidd in miracle world at a friends house all the time. Never owned one though, I didn't get into it until genesis
Original sega fanboy 4 life!

I love nintendo but damnit my first games were sonic 1, 2, and 3 (and sonic and knuckles). But agreed classic fanboyism on the playground was much more intelligent and good-natured than today's OMG PS3/360/WII IS TEH SUXXORZZZ!!!!11!

Ah......good times

I remeber gettnig a sega genesis back in the day. i was so pissed i really wanted a nintendo nes. but i was realy happy with it. i remeber hooking it up the the family tv and everyone wanting to play. great childhood memory. Thanks Sega!!!

Ahh yes.. the picture of the classic "NES vs. Genesis" console war...

It's right there in my memory with the "Xbox 360 vs. PSX" console war.

Nice tunes though ;)

SNES vs Genesis is where it really heated up.

@QuickPick:

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Devilish on Genesis had some of the best music around. At 3:58 pay attention to the music. That's the most amazing thing ever written for a game. It sounds like TRON. It comes out of nowhere. It's like this lame game and yet the music is some of the most amazing 16bit music ever produced!

All sega music sounded the same

@Weasel3689: i beat Alex Kidd in Miracle World, six years after originally getting it. its still one of my proudest achievements.

@gils0n: i does what i can, sir.

@Maldron: but...but they're fun! oh, i bet you said Mario Paint was just an MS paint clone in the day and missed that boat, too.

@ShaggE: the four of us should form a club.

@Terance: haha, you're prolly right, at that. i just imagine it was more fun 's all. now, its hard for me to even read this site's comments sometimes, for all the hate.

@nypad5: someone didnt play ToeJam & Earl.
Or Streets of Rage, or Phantasy Star II.
seriously, i know it was bad MIDI music but there was some classic shit there.

Oldschool Ninty fanboy here... I hated everything about Sega, except the gamegear, for which I secretly hated Nintendo for refusing to release a color Gameboy... There were like four incarnations of the monochrome Gameboy before they finally moved on to color, but then color only lasted like a year before they made the advance... GBA made me love Nintendo's portables again, but I had already moved on to Sony by that time, so it was like "I want a Playstation and a Gameboy Advance"

Now I can play Gameboy advance and Gamegear / master system (they're exactly the same on the inside) games on my PSP, as well as watch movies and play PS1.5 games... Ah, emulation.

Oh, I'll take the NES's music over the FM Midi on the Genesis any day... Mother's (NES) music was actually better than Mother 2's music on the SNES... They did the best they could with those machine sounds that predate FM Midi and the wav manipulation in the SNES (SNES has it's own basic midi, too, but the better soundtracks never used it)

I didn't end up buying a Genesis until after I got my PS1. I bought a Genesis, several games, and a 32x with Doom... I never actually hooked up the 32x, though. I gave the genesis to a friend who was going to conservation corps... He sold it for food money later on, I believe... Along those same lines, I didn't get a Dreamcast until after I got my PS2... Still love that little system, especially the VMUs... I with the current gen had those. I would love a next-gen VMU.

I really hope you guys listened to the song that is the feature of this article.

From Atari to the current-gen, I still place SNES as the top of the bunch, Atari 2600 sits somewhere between #1 and #2.

@BPMγ: I'm with ya BPM. I remember Teddy Boy. SMS was awesome. Just never hit it to hard. It will die on you.

@Fyren:

What's awesome about the article is I don't have to put on my glasses to read it.