Let's Reminisce: Sega Saturn

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

If all you have is one platform to play games on, then yes. It doesnt matter.
But if you have multiple platforms ( which most of us do, and he did) then to play an inferior version of a game is silly.

[Yoshi]

The problem is that for whatever reason people who had an SNES and PS1 seem to be ignorant about everything else far too often. Unlike any other era, there were four very, very solid platforms from 1990-1995. And I still contend the SNES is the worst of those four unless you just had to play a large quantity of RPGs. The Saturn and N64 weren't slouches either. If someone went Genesis to Saturn and didn't know shit else, I'd have the same issue, but that doesn't seem to happen anywhere near as often.

[Fe 26]

That has been my experience too. I remember having freinds over for a birthday party meal, pizza, whatever. One guy thought I had some how already had a saturn when we played sonic cd. And I know he played a lot of snes and nes games.

But I suppose that is to be expect. Big hit consumer goods always attrack the most morons / ignorant consumers. Path of least resistance and all that.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

What attracks the most morons?

[Yoshi]

Yeah, I think you're right, cheeks. They're like the video game consumer equivalent of LeBron James, a jackass who likes the Bulls, Yankees, and Cowboys, because he was a huge frontrunner as a kid growing up in the 1990s.

[Diff-chan]

Genesis was more popular than the SNES in the early 1990's.

[Yoshi]

Yes, but I don't think the group I am talking about is likely to be early adopters, so they probably bought an SNES in like 1994 and a PS1 in like 1998. How close am I, jyoung?

[Fe 26]

Genesis was more popular than the SNES in the early 1990's.

maybe where you lived

[Diff-chan]

It definitely was - I didn't know many other people with SNES. But I was speaking more in general.

[Fe 26]

I don't know what the actual final sales figures were, but growing up, there were a lot more people around me with NES and SNES units than gen units (and forget about master system. No one had that).

I still haven't met anyone from the south who owns(ed) a sega CD or seen another one used. You could get games in Tupelo, Jackson, Memphis and Florence, so someone must have had one other than me, but fuck if I met them.

For the longest time, this worked out pretty well too. I could buy gen games and then go play snes and nes games at a friends house. I didn't see much if any Gen ownership until the model 2 came out. A lot of people got the Sonic 2 package deal in 92 or 93. And those people tended to buy nothing but piles of shitty sports games.