Which was Sega 's best console?

Sega 's best console?

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I'm torn between the Master System and the Mega Drive, but in the end, Mega Drive has the edge.. Just barely.

Master System is criminally underrated though. What a fantastic little console with such amazing games.
 
Genesis, but Saturn probably has my 3 favorite Sega exclusives. It's just the console didn't have the depth that Genesis had.
 
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Extremely difficult to choose between Genesis and Dreamcast.

It's like comparing Super Nintendo and GameCube. Sure the former has a much larger game library and comes from simpler times when Nintendo was on top of the world. But SNES doesn't have Smash Melee and Rogue Squadron at launch. Smash alone is worth like 100 SNES games.

Genesis was just an outstanding platform and it birthed Sonic. I have great memories of going to the rental store and picking games to try as a kid from their box art like QuackShot. But it doesn't have PSO, the first 3D Sonic or Grandia II. This is just the tip of the iceberg...
 
Oohhh you guys got me playing the "how I would save sega" game. Talk about evergreen.

This time I'm going to do a run with a surprise sonic game for saturn surprise launch.
 
Gun to my head - MegaDrive. Compared to Nintendos condoles back then tho they all kinda second rate crap.. yeah I said it.
 
Memati187 said:
Dreamcast. Seeing resident evil code veronica on that machine made me wet and I don't even have double X chromosomes.
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Men can have wet dreams, so maybe your experience was something similar?
 
Duellist said:
Master system. Man I loved that thing, so underrated imo.
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Not that I disagree, but I am curious. Are you North American, European or from Brazil? It had such an extended life in Europe, some great later titles and conversions. It was so rare to find anyone with the system in my area when I was a kid. But when people used to come over, they were really impressed with what it could do.
 
You only voted Game Gear if you had stocks in Duracell batteries during the nineties!

My vote is Dreamcast. Yes, I was a fool at the time and waited for the PS2 with its DVD drive. I can only apologise to Sega. I bought a Dreamcast in 2010 and realised what fool I'd been when it released. It has a lot of excellent games.
 
for overall, Megadrive IMO.
had lot of fun with Megadrive.
although... i fond of memories with shenmue in dreamcast.
first time i play it, I know this will be blueprint for lot of games later on.
 
Topher said:
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internet what GIF

because I'm also old
 
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All the others are nowhere near as good in terms of catalog quality or sales, a system that could beat Nintendo in the West coming from the NES.
 
My preference goes to the Game Gear.

Of course the screen and backlight made the system itself not super practical (because it drained the battery, and the LCD screen as with all handhelds, aged super poorly). But the hardware specs were amazing for a handheld.

Many games played like an absolutely dream on this console. It punched way above its weight. And this was already the case of the Master System, but the Game Gear pushed it even further, thanks to the lower resolution and the 4096 colors.
 
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I think a lot of people who voted for the genesis could change their vote if they knew there was the lobotomy trilogy on the Saturn.


Exhumed (the OG Metroid Prime)
Quake
Duke Nukem
 
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Tell me poster is american w/o telling me.
16-bit sega console was called megadrive here in europe/pal region, had it, was amazing piece of hardware with top software, but gotta vote for dreamcast- it had crazy potential but customers lost faith in the brand on top of being part of gen6- most competetive console gen where juggernaut like microsoft with crazy investments, having most powerful console only sold 24m worldwide ltd, industry veteran with its GCN sold 21m units total :P
 
Fat Frog said:
I think a lot of people who voted for the genesis could change their vote if they knew there was the lobotomy trilogy on the Saturn.


Exhumed (the OG Metroid Prime)
Quake
Duke Nukem
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I absolutely loved the master system (Phanstasy Star, Zillion), loved the Saturn and the Dreamcast. But for me personally, overall I spent more time paying Genesis than any other console .
 
Ozzie666 said:
Not that I disagree, but I am curious. Are you North American, European or from Brazil? It had such an extended life in Europe, some great later titles and conversions. It was so rare to find anyone with the system in my area when I was a kid. But when people used to come over, they were really impressed with what it could do.
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I'm in Canada. I think there was one more person in my town that had one. lol Had to order my games from the sears catalog and pick em up at the local hardware store. Not sure why I picked the master system over the Nintendo. Thought it looked cooler I guess lol.
 
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Saturn for me. It has the best library imo (if you know Japanese).
I do kind of want to get into the Dreamcast though, I've got mine sitting on the shelf, not sure if it still works. The thing is yellow as all hell though.
 
Dreamcast is my favorite console of all time so I obviously voted for that but there are certainly valid reasons to vote for Genesis or the Saturn.
 
This question is "no-brainer", the Mega-Genesis was Sega's best console, sales figures would tell you that, it was their "one-hit wonder", probably one of the only other times when the whole corporation was singing from one-hymn sheet as to what the console should be capable of, (the other time being the development of the Dreamcast..) unlike what happened with it's successor(s) from 1992 onwards...
 
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Voted MD, scrolled the page agreeing with MD posts, then realised I was humming a track from MS.

Still, the Mega Drive had the library and the success. By all metrics it's surely Sega's greatest hardware accomplishment.
 
REDRZA MWS said:
I absolutely loved the master system (Phanstasy Star, Zillion), loved the Saturn and the Dreamcast. But for me personally, overall I spent more time paying Genesis than any other console .
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I understand but i really think that a lot of Xbox players didn't properly play the Saturn and aren't aware of FPS gems on the system (a lot of people prefer the n64 for Golden Eye, Perfect Dark and didn't know the Lobotomy trilogy on tge Saturn...)
 
RAIDEN1 said:
This question is "no-brainer", the Mega-Genesis was Sega's best console, sales figures would tell you that, it was their "one-hit wonder", probably one of the only other times when the whole corporation was singing from one-hymn sheet as to what the console should be capable of, (the other time being the development of the Dreamcast..) unlike what happened with it's successor(s) from 1992 onwards...
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The 32x was the only actual lemon.
 
I think the big difference between Gen and DC for me is that Genesis, while their most successful console, really just VERY competently competed with SNES at doing the exact same thing SNES did. Hook up console, play an assortment of cart based 2D games with chiptunes on your TV. The consoles were very similar and the differences came down to marketing, semantics, exclusive games and mascots.

Dreamcast was NOT the "same thing" as other consoles when it came out. It was a quantum leap in video games that hasn't been replicated since. It's all been a slow attrition of iterative upgrades ever since DC. It was truly trailblazing. That's why it edged out Genesis for me in the poll, despite what a tough call it is.
 
choosed Dreamcast
great but sadly short period, fresh new titles at a very acceptable price back then
a couple of years of good quality-quantity

bright and very detailed image even on the crappiest crt's :)
 
BlackTron said:
Dreamcast was NOT the "same thing" as other consoles when it came out. It was a quantum leap in video games that hasn't been replicated since.
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It is truly astonishing looking back.
Would the leap from 2D to 3D be comparable?
 
Plies said:
It is truly astonishing looking back.
Would the leap from 2D to 3D be comparable?
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Well #1 is definitely the 3D leap with Mario 64 carrying the torch.

#2 would be advent of Dreamcast with better art, textures and not-shit framerates. That was a total "holy shit" moment. Previously, we were wowed by 3D but accepted the characters were not that lifelike or expressive, and didn't know Soul Caliber II, fast Sonic levels in 3D, and online action RPG was around the corner.
 
Fat Frog said:
I understand but i really think that a lot of Xbox players didn't properly play the Saturn and aren't aware of FPS gems on the system (a lot of people prefer the n64 for Golden Eye, Perfect Dark and didn't know the Lobotomy trilogy on tge Saturn...)
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Duke nukem was brilliant. I think a lot of Saturn owners thought they'd get more games and 3rd party support. Saturn Bomberman is still the best bomberman ever !
 
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My two favorite games that originally were only on a Sega console were Lunar 1 and 2, so I voted Sega CD.

Despite owning Genesis, Sega CD, Game Gear, Saturn and Dreamcast, I spent a very small proportion of my gaming time on Sega consoles. The games always felt inferior to what was on Nintendo and, later, PlayStation.
 
I only have the Saturn so I've voted for it.

Just wish someone would translate Devil Summoner. :lollipop_pensive:
 
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