Kudos to Sega for pushing things forward when Nintendo was dragging their feet with innovation, but the NES has some fantastic games on it - so many beloved franchises got their start on the NES. When it comes to game consoles, the better products doesn't always come down to specs, it's all about the library.

Among pre-SNES era games on the genesis, 1989 - 1991, there's maybe a dozen games that I think are worth playing on the Genesis, most of them being from 1991. Looking at the same time period for NES releases, there's at least 3 times that amount, and that's not even including pre-1988 games. And some of these games, there's just no contest when comparing them with the early Genesis tittles. Megaman 2/3, Castlevania III, and Contra/Super C alone would make me an NES owner over a Genesis owner if it were 1990, and that's ignoring Nintendo developed games - Marios/Metroid/Zeldas/DKs/Punch Out

Sega did get shafted though, but they at least had their moment in the sun. TurboGrafx-16 - now they REALLY got overlooked despite pushing things forward, even more-so than Sega.

Kudos to Sega for pushing things forward when Nintendo was dragging their feet with innovation, but the NES has some fantastic games on it - so many beloved franchises got their start on the NES. When it comes to game consoles, the better products doesn't always come down to specs, it's all about the library.

Among pre-SNES era games on the genesis, 1989 - 1991, there's maybe a dozen games that I think are worth playing on the Genesis, most of them being from 1991. Looking at the same time period for NES releases, there's at least 3 times that amount, and that's not even including pre-1988 games. And some of these games, there's just no contest when comparing them with the early Genesis tittles. Megaman 2/3, Castlevania III, and Contra/Super C alone would make me an NES owner over a Genesis owner if it were 1990, and that's ignoring all the Nintendo games on the console.

Sega did get shafted though, but they at least had their moment in the sun. TurboGrafx-16 - now they REALLY got overlooked despite pushing things forward, even more-so than Sega.

Kudos to Sega for pushing things forward when Nintendo was dragging their feet with innovation, but the NES has some fantastic games on it - so many beloved franchises got their start on the NES. When it comes to game consoles, the better products doesn't always come down to specs, it's all about the library.

Among pre-SNES era games on the genesis, 1989 - 1991, there's maybe a dozen games that I think are worth playing, most of them being from 1991. Looking at the same time period for NES releases, there's at least 3 times that amount, and that's not even including pre-1988 games. And some of these games, there's just no contest when comparing them with the early Genesis tittles. Megaman 2/3, Castlevania III, and Contra/Super C alone would make me an NES owner over a Genesis owner if it were 1990, and that's ignoring all the Nintendo games on the console.

Sega did get shafted though, but they at least had their moment in the sun. TurboGrafx-16 - now they REALLY got overlooked despite pushing things forward, even more-so than Sega.