Sega Mega Drive or Super Nintendo?

[pentarou]

SNES all the way!

[kernow]

snes, no question, better effects, better games for me, and no stupid moon pads

*but the six button MD pad* I hear you cry

especially for "SF2 - sore throat edition"

[Skull Commander]

Snes all the way. I love the megadrive as well for sonic 2, streets of rage 2, golden axe, but the snes had these:

Super Aleste
Area 88
Street fighter 2
Final fight
Mario Kart
Mario World
Yoshi's story
Batman returns
Gradius 3
Turtles Tourny Fighters
Super Ghouls n Ghosts
Super castlevania
Mario all stars
Super metroid
Super punch out
Metal Marines
F-zero
Zelda
Secret of Mana
Pilotwings
Contra 3
.........and bundles more

[tokyochojin]

I actually wanted a megadrive for micro　machines. ：D

[Wools]

No question, it's the Mega Drive for me.

So many happy memories, play time and good will during that fantastic era.

[Team Andromeda]

Oh good not this again .

I have to say the SNES. Yes the MD kicked the Snes ass for sheer number of great games , never mind sports or shooters . But NCL and konami (pains me to say that) were just at an all time high , and almost no corp could come close . NCL were just perfection inthe Snes era , there no other words for it .

While Revenge, and Ghost N Ghouls came close, the MD or SEGA just didn't have a answer to gaming perfection that was Mario IV (along with Exhumed the most perfect game I've played) , F-Zero, Pioltwing or Super Metroid, and then Konami just took the piss with POP (still the best vesion) and the like of Castlevania IV and Contra III , for me both games the best in thier Respective series too

[Shez]

MD for me - Although for multi player, I would say the snes

[kernow]

Alien 3 !

Oh good not this again .

I have to say the SNES. Yes the MD kicked the Snes ass for sheer number of great games , never mind sports or shooters . But NCL and konami (pains me to say that) were just at an all time high , and almost no corp could come close . NCL were just perfection inthe Snes era , there no other words for it .

While Revenge, and Ghost N Ghouls came close, the MD or SEGA just didn't have a answer to gaming perfection that was Mario IV (along with Exhumed the most perfect game I've played) , F-Zero, Pioltwing or Super Metroid, and then Konami just took the piss with POP (still the best vesion) and the like of Castlevania IV and Contra III , for me both games the best in thier Respective series too

[Team Andromeda]

snes, no question, better effects, better games for me, and no stupid moon pads

*but the six button MD pad* I hear you cry

especially for "SF2 - sore throat edition"

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The Snes D-pad like every NCl d-pad is poor, the Mega Drive 6 button pad is the best gaming pad there's ever been , thats not even up for debate , I only wish all console pads had the D=pad and classic ABC button layout of the MD pad

And as for better effects , I recommend you go and play Adventures of Batman and Robin , Red Zone or the likes of Thunder Force IV all of which had effects the Snes could only dream of matching

[moonwhistle]

As far as D-pads go I think the dualshock 2 is by far the best in existance. I won't use anything else for fighting games.

[On The Edge of Insanity]

I actually found the original (non-dual shock) PS1 pad to have the best D-pad of all the PS pads. Still used it for Pro Evo right up until this year as it was much more responsive than the Dualshock 1 and 2.

On topic: Megadrive for me. It just seemed so much more edgy and exciting than the SNES to me as a child, even though I never owned either of them myself. I've never really been interested in Nintendo's games though, save handhelds, whereas Sega

[Ouenben]

Hmm can't work out how to vote in the polls (or something is wrong and it wont let me) But I'd easily chose SNES with the superior Street Fighter 2, and many awesome games like Zelda, Mario world, mario kart, mario allstars, super metroid, tonnes of great RPGs, yoshi's island, sim city, donkey kong country etc. The megadrive was good too but not at SNES levels of brilliance

[Hohum]

I've always preferred the SNES, mainly for the better quality audio it produced compared to the Megadrive. Soundtrack and effects have always been a big decider on whether I bother with a game beyond the initial stages, still stands true today. Of course, gameplay does factor in too, but I just find that good audio makes the whole experience so much more enjoyable. As for graphics... not that fussed.

Oh, and the SNES controller is the best controller ever made in my opinion

[Kieran76]

This is a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. The MD was my first import console and the first one I bought with my own cash. However, the quality of the snes games and absolute joy it gave me means I have to go with the Snes. Strangely though, I no longer own a snes but do have an import megadrive still and I am slowly rebuying all those 2-d shoot em ups I loved as kid.

[kyo_244]

This IS a tough one.. But I like em BOTH!! AArghh!!! Too.. hard to choose!!!!

..OK!! Im gonna say MD purely for the fact that I got it first and it was my second EVER console and I got it when it was in its prime. (1994) Saying that however, I probably would have said SNES if I had gotten that first.

But seriously I think they're both as good as eachother.. I mean they truely do represent THE GOLDEN ERA OF GAMING. The Dreamcast era coming a close second.. NO amount of halo 3 or tekken 5 will EVER come close to sonic 2, mario allstars, DK Country.. Ah fond fond memories