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I've always said I thought the Genesis was a way better system -- it just, overall, had better games. More, better games. Like, I can think of 400 really really good Genesis games. I can think of 100 or so on the SNES; lemme put it like this, I have every SNES and Genesis game ever made on my Dreamcast, and the Genesis disc gets played by me every day... the SNES one has only been played a few times. I think some developers got it right; for example, THE ADVENTURES OF BATMAN AND ROBIN on the SNES is fucking incredible. But, man, the Genesis just had SO MANY really really good games. The only problem was that it didn't have Tetris Attack and Super Metroid and Yoshi's Island. But it did have Super Turrican, Contra Hard Corps, Gunstar Heroes, Alien Soldier, Dynamite Headdy, Universal Soldier (which is actually Turrican 2, and a DAMN good game), RANGER X!, Mazin Saga, Vectorman 1-2, Streets of Rage 3; the list goes on and and on and on and on. I think the SNES really benfitted from all the wonderful Square and Enix games -- and both systems were incredible in their own way -- but there's just something about the Genesis that was cooler. The games were always a billion times faster, the music was always cooler (it didnt "sound" as good -- in other words, it didn't have string samples and all that stuff... but there are games like Biohazard Battle where the music is so fucking good, it's worth playing the game just to hear the music). SNES had better RPG's (though I'd take Landstalker and Beyond Oasis over any SNES RPG, aside from Chrono and FFIII), but the Genesis did everything else better, especially shoot em ups (the Thunder Force games/Lightening Force and ESPECIALLY that game MERCS, which is one of the top 10 best games for the system).
Goddamn, I love the Genesis. GUNSTAR HEROES 2-PLAYER. *drool* A game I played 50000 times was the X-Men game, the one where you had to literally reset your game in order to get to the last level. There's no way to emulate the game, properly, is there? Besides just using the cheat? (which is no biggy; when you make it to the last level, all your characters are restored) That game became really easy once you realized that you could just be Nighcrawler and teleport through the entire fucking game.
Remember X-Men 2, though? How the game started as soon as you turned it on? That really blew me away, haha. No Sega logo.. it just started right up. In fact, things were shooting at you and shit as soon as you turned the game on. Insane!
BTW, Joe, you know how you were talking about DEATH DUEL the other day? I remember going to buy it with my grandpa as a kid and there was a note on the front of the box that said "WARNING: THIS GAME HAS DISTURBING SOUND EFFECTS." that an employee had written. Weird.
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