Ok, I'm not a fanboy but I will admit, even though the SNES was a better OVERALL system in my OPINION, the Sega Genesis did have a few Games that had more Bonus, extra perks and sometimes were just better as if the developers cared more about Sega than Nintendo when it came to design, let's go through the list of games I can't remeber that weren't already mentioned.
1. MORTAL KOMBAT 1: Genesis Perk = Arcade-style "Blood" is intact, reason as stated by Nintendo: "We're Nintendo. We don't do Blood." this hurt MK I on the SNES and annoyed SNES owners quite a bit, but then Yamauchi annoys a lot of people.
2. Disney's "The Lion King" had crisper graphics, better sound and an extra level, granted it's not the best game out there, but still, the extra level in the Genesis version made a big differance at the time.
Back when Yamauchi ran Nintendo he had some "rules" he forced upon his 3rd party developers and would only change when he knew he was losing profits:
1. No Blood
2. No Nudity
3.No cartridges not manufatured by NCL.
4. No Optical/CD Technology
5. Do things our way or go away.
When Nintendo was sued for restrictng the ammount of games produced, they had to change oneof their rules, the blood rule was changed when MK sold like hotcakes for the Sega Genesis but not the SNES and Nintendo was like Sony is in the sense that they only changed when forced to by competitor's for quite some time, Sony avoided VHS VCR's until they lost money on betamax, Nintendo avoided Optical Drives until they lost money on Cartridges and even now, only NUdity is done by 3rd parties and Nintendo needs to loose the Superiority complex now that Sony has humbled them with the PSX/N64 conflict and Nintendo can do better, but back in the day, the SNES was better overall but most multi-platform games seemed tos wing twoards the Genesis, trhe exceptions are few but occasionally Nintendo did better, they usually bought this on themselves, by stopping the production of games with blood and nudity to the point where people avoided them and even in the N64 era the loss fo Square and Yasmauchi's mouth hurt them, at leasty Iwata is smart and is listening to fans, many of whom don't want online play because of the price.
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#1. A short time in the future, ina living room nbot so far away...
"CONSOLE WARS IX"
It is the dawning of the 9th Console war; 23 years after the first shots were luanched from the Big "N", A new player has been screwing with the world of gaming while a former rival is developing a massive Behomth, the PSX, the Big "N" is outnumbered but theyhave a secert weapon.. he GameCube II!
#2.Freedom of speech and freedom of idiocy are not synonymous-Lady Iapetus
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