Sega Genesis is the best system of all time, hands down.
 

I bought a Genesis off ebay and have been playing it a lot lately and I've come to the conclusion that it's the best system of all time, and is far superior to anything out these days. Castlevania Bloodlines, Shadowrun, Dinosaurs for Hire, Eternal Champions, Maximum Carnage, Dune II, and The Avengers are the best games ever. If anyone disagrees, step up.

I agree. A few other consoles such as the DS, Neo Geo, and Dreamcast come close, but nothing tops the Genesis for me.

I actually thought the Genesis was the weakest one. Beyond Sonic and a few stray others, they had no real stand-up first party characters. And I hated the controller. I still love my Genesis though. It had the finest of wrestling games.

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for me, the super nintendo, also known as the snes, is the best console of all time...

but in all fairness, i've never played the genesis before, so who knows what i'm missing out?

honestly though, this is the one machine that i go back to, with games such as super mario world, starwing, f-zero, turtles in time, mario kart, and donkey kong country, this is my all-time favourite...

Well we all know perfectly well that the NES is the greatest console ever put to market, if not for its great games and innovative controller then for its undeniable impact on the video game industry. Who knows if we'd still be playing games right now had the NES not caught on? (And it was looking pretty bleak near the beginning, too, if I understand correctly.)

I'd have to agree about the SNES. Although I honestly never played much Genesis, either.

The sega genesis and dreamcast were 2 of the best sega systems I ever laid my eyes on..

I am so happy sega brought out sega genesis collection for the ps2/psp.. excellent game.

Genesis was a decent system. Sonic, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage were awesome. Still, NES is always #1 for me though. Sure SNES had some great RPGs and stuff but no other system I can name over 50 great games other than NES. Though the SNES rpgs are very overrated. Chrono Trigger I'd say is probably the 2nd most overrated RPG ever (FF7 being #1.) Good game but nowhere near as good as everyone makes it out to be.

No arguments here. For me, nothing beats the Genesis/SNES era, back when gameplay rather than graphics was most important aspect of a game. A lot of these games are just so fun to play, they keep you coming back to play them over and over. They didn't need gimmicky things put in to add to the replay value, the gameplay itself created it.

The Genesis in particular had some great original games/series, including Sonic (of course), Streets of Rage, Eternal Champions, Ecco the Dolphin, Vectorman, and Ristar, among others. My first and personal favorite system.

This guy knows what he's talking about, my friends.

Agreed 100%. About the RPG's at least.

I also agreed.. It's chrono trigger this and chrono triggerthat or ff7 this.. Hehe.. I can think of one rpg that is not overrated.. Lufia 2.

Nuff said.

I guess I love the Genesis so much because at the time it was out, I was actually old enough to buy my own games instead of randomly getting whatever at my birthday, like what happened with NES. I remember saving up forever to buy a copy of Maximum Carnage at Toys R Us, and a have a ton of memories of renting games like Rocket Knight Adventures and Warlock. Good times.

I never really played much SNES, because every kid I knew had a Sega.

You own the genesis version of maximum carnage? Really good game but the SNES version is superior. It actually has enough buttons and graphics and sound were better.

You remember Dinosaurs For Hire? My friend and I really got a kick out of that game. I loved the Streets Of Rage series, Golden Axe was good, and I liked how you could put just about any Sonic game into Sonic & Knuckles. Sonic 3 & Knuckles was probably my fav Sonic game.

I was foolish to give away my sega genesis I used to own when i was a kid.. There was this one game I forgot and it was a space shooter and you can change ur ship view where you can move left right up or down.. it was top down view.. There was this areas with square and turrets.. I have no idea what game it is.

I had sonic 1, steel of empire, Toki, Thunder Force 3 or 4 I dunno which one and Columns and that other game I mention.

If you can help me list all the North American space shooters and give pics, it would be very helpful..

Also I gave it up because I wanted a snes more but how could I be so dumb Lol.

genesis... genesis.... hmm,,, there's me thinking it was some sorta sega console that i'd never played, then reading other posts i'm thinking "some a these games look familiar..." so i google it aaaand it just so happens to be, over at my end of the big lake, the sega MEGADRIVE!!! d'oh! :goofygri:

me and my mate kyle, whenwewereyounger, used to go to each others houses and play the consoles. I had a snes, he had a megadrive. I had super mario, he had sonic. I had street fighter 2, he had mortal kombat. and so on. I prefered my machine, and he prefered his. But both had their merits. Games I loved on the megadrive include comixzone, streets of rage series and golden axe. I must say that i still prefer the snes, its my favourite console OF ALL TIME, (its still linked up in my bedroom) but I now own a megadrive (and a mastersystem, and a nes, yeah, i'm a retrohead) and I totally dig it. (but the snes'll always be my baby...)

I agree that Genises is the best console ever...because I had the SEGA CHANNELL!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel

Read that article and you will know why I had the best time with Sega.

SEGA Channel was...wow. Awful. That thing had so many problems for me. I ended up canceling after the first month.