Poll: SNES vs Megadrive?

[stulid]

So I had a SNES and my brother sold his soul to the devil..he had a Meagdrive.

Having both in the same house made it very easy for me to judge the better console.

• Better sound from the Sony DSP
• Mode7 scaling
• SuperFX chip (3D polygons and multiple sprite scaling)
• A better controller with 6 buttons not including start/select (the megadrive got a 6 button controller later on in its life)
• Better games? very possibly (starts a flame war)

The SNES won it for me.

 

[DirtyRaver]

Megadrive - It had conversions of all the great Sega arcades of the time.

Altered Beast
Golden Axe
Turbo OutRun
etc......

 

[seldNofSparta]

SNES any day for me.

 

[Nimdok]

SNES here, far more fondly remembered games from my childhood.

 

[Nymins]

Megadrive here, far more fondly remembered games from my childhood.

 

[Warbie]

SNES. Better in pretty much every way

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Definitely the Megadrive for me, I loved my Master System II as well though.

 

[Tute]

Classic Sonic > Classic Mario, so Megadrive for me.

 

[mame]

I'd say SNES but they were both good. The main difference with multi-platform games from then to now is that, although there were plenty of games that were released on Megadrive and SNES, they were usually quite different from each other whereas now with the Xbox 360 and PS3, they are much more similar.

 

[Ephemera]

I owned both when I was younger and preferred the Megadrive growing up.
I think it's much closer now that I'm older but the Megadrive just edges it.

 

[elmuzzy66.]

megadrive for me. £60 for streetfigther 2 turbo was just too much. PLus hate the plumber and his gay brother.

 

[d_brennen]

Mega Drive all the way, or my dad will come round and knock your dad out

megadrive for me. £60 for streetfigther 2 turbo was just too much. PLus hate the plumber and his gay brother.

Ha, I remember handing over £59.99 of pocket/birthday money for Sonic and Knuckles on launch day. The cardboard box was a bit crumpled too

Was an epic game and I had £60 worth of enjoyment out of it though

 

[malachi]

Snes, SuperFx games, Street Fighter and all those Square RPG's did it for me.

 

[DeanV255]

Well i was always more of a Sonic fan and i loved my Megadrive. But then i love my NES and SNES with epic games like Mario of course and my personal fav Zelda: Link to the past.

I think im going to have to sit this one out, i have no clear choice as i'd have to do it cold and calculated comparing the consoles in every sector based on some opinions and some facts so i couldn't win on a simple choice haha.

Here's one for you though. Wii or the Atari 2600..

 

[Weebull]

The SNES had Chrono Trigger. Therefore the SNES wins.

 

[m4rk84]

SNES by far for me, and we also had both in our household!

 

[StonedPenguin]

Megadrive all day long.

 

[stulid]

Neck and neck.

Hows this possible, its clear the SNES is the best

Donkey kong Country (Silcon Graphics rendered)
Secret of mana (beautiful)
Starfox/wing (3D polygons from SUperFX chip)
Super mario world (best platform game ever?)
Yoshis island (multiple sprite scaling/rotation from SuperFX chip)
Super street fighter Turbo was better than the megadrives Championship version.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

SNES all the way...

Secret of Mana
F-Zero
Super Mario World (and later All stars)
Zelda
Metal Marines

 

[orderoftheflame]

Snes.

Zelda, F-Zero, DKC, SMW, Mario Kart, Starwing, Super Metroid, etc