Cacti Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 A lot of people of a certain age grew up with either one of these, traditionally, it was one or the other unless you were lucky enough to have both. My vote goes to the Mega Drive, since its what I had, and a lot of fond memories there. I did later get a SNES, but it didn't have the same sort of magic that the Sega games had. As far as favourite games go, the Sonic and Mario games are a given, but theres also: SNES Unirally Super Bomberman Mega Drive Mega Bomberman Gunstar Heroes Skitchin Home Alone ToeJam and Earl And then there are the cross platformers, like: Lemmings Desert Strike Mega Lo Mania Mortal Kombat Theme Park etc. So who gets your vote? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alibaba Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Road Rash on the megadrive was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilitantDogOwner Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Desert Strike FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 TBH both where good consoles in their day. My fav on the mega drive where super monaco GP and PGA golf. For the SNES my fav games where pilot wings and wing commander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hedgehog Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Clearly the megadrive. All Nintendo consoles are shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cacti Posted September 13, 2009 Author Share Posted September 13, 2009 Clearly the megadrive. All Nintendo consoles are shit. Aw now thats not true, the Gamecube was pretty spiffy, its just a shame it didn't have so many games for it. The Wii would actually be great if someone also manged to make some grown-up games instead of shovelware like Imagine Herpes and such. The N64 was great fun too, especially multiplayer games like Goldeneye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 For me: Mega Drive: Sonic 1 & 2, Thunder Blade, Bonanza Bros. SNES: Mario Kart, Pilotwings, SF2turbo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shill Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 To be fair the SNES came out a good year after the Megadrive so it was technically a better console. I remember getting F-Zero and Pilotwings and marvelling at the graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overdose Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 For me its: Megadrive: Sonic Mortal Combat SNES: Streetfighter 2 Turbo Mario Kart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cacti Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 To be fair the SNES came out a good year after the Megadrive so it was technically a better console. I remember getting F-Zero and Pilotwings and marvelling at the graphics. I guess at the time it was good, I try to play the likes of Starwing these days and it makes my eyes vomit. The MD however, I believe had the better sound capabilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shill Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 I think tghere were both 8bit sound. Yep, just looked it up. Here are the specs Megadrive CPU: Motorola 68000 at 7.61 MHz ROM: 1 MByte (8 Mbit) RAM: 64 KByte Co-processor: Z80 @ 4 MHz (Not Present in MK-1631) controls PSG (Programmable Sound Generator) & FM Chips Sound RAM: 8 KBytes Colors Available: 512 Colors on screen: 64 Pixel Resolution: 320 x 224 Graphics: VDP (Video Display Processor) dedicated video display processor, controls playfield & sprites. 3 Planes, 2 scrolling playfields, 1 sprite plane VRAM: 64 KBytes (Video Ram) CRAM: 64 x 9-bits (Color RAM) Sound: PSG (TI 76489 chip) / FM chip (Yamaha YM 2612) / 6-channel stereo / 8 KBytes RAM Signal/Noise Ratio: 14dB SNES CPU type: 65c816 (16-bit) CPU speed: 2.68 and 3.58 Mhz (change able) RAM memory: 1 Mbit (128 Kbyte) Picture Proc. Unit: 16-bit Video RAM: 0.5 Mbit (64 Kbyte) Max resolution: 512 x 448 pixels Colors Available: 32 768 colors Max colors at once: 256 colors Max sprite size: 64 x 64 pixels Max sprites: 128 sprites Min/Max Cart Size: 2 Mbit - 48 Mbit Sound chip: 8-bit Sony SPC700 Sound channels: 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cacti Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 The sound (just audibly) was far better on the Mega Drive though, which I assume is down to the sound chip difference. If you listen to cross platform games (just as means of a fair comparison) its a lot more noticable. Desert Strike for example Pretty kick-ass Bit naff. -__- Credit where its due though, Unirally had a fantastic soundtrack. Skitchin will always have the best Mega Drive music for me though, though the fact its actually dont by real instruments then digitilised probably helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Mega drive : Sonic (all of them) Desert strike (and Jungle strike) Dick Tracy (always liked that game, have no idea why as it looks crap now) still got it somewhere. Alien 3 PGA golf think it was 96' (crap game, but got a hole in one on my first ever play, amazed!!) Batman TMNT Shinobi. Also some game like the original R-type arcade version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgarian Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Clearly the megadrive. All Nintendo consoles are shit. Aw now thats not true, the Gamecube was pretty spiffy, its just a shame it didn't have so many games for it. The Wii would actually be great if someone also manged to make some grown-up games instead of shovelware like Imagine Herpes and such. The N64 was great fun too, especially multiplayer games like Goldeneye. What are you talking about? The Cube was a big... cube of shit! The 64 however had some of the best multiplayer games ever made - mario kart, goldeneye. Snes Vs. Mega Drive? Mega Drive FTW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Liked the game-cube myself, first game I played was Medal of Honour Frontline, was bloody good! Didn't really compare to the Xbox, but was on par with the Dreamcast (also had a few games I liked). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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