Retro Consoles Release Dates?
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Most of my early consoles were Christmas presents so no idea when they were released properly my first console buying memory though was the SNES & I picked that up the day after Freddie Mercury's Tribute concert was shown on telly so cant remember the exact date but it does stick in my mind for that reason.
Still the greatest console I ever bought & still gets regular use.
Neil
Still the greatest console I ever bought & still gets regular use.
Neil
skysnapper said:
I was referring to the date he said he got his though, not the launch packs available
o)... Streetfighter pack came out around Christmas of '92 though, probably November...I still have my 47 issues of Super Play in the cupboard somewhere.
daz is right.
The saturn wasnt too bad at 3d at all. In actual speed terms its better than a playstation at pushing polygons. the PS1 is actually 10% slower. The problem was that it used dual cpu's which coupled with the lack of good SDK meant that hardly any teams could make decent games.
Whilst its true they added this cpu to compete with the PS1 its a shame that they never fully tapped it, a side from panzer dragoon saga which looks great.
The saturn wasnt too bad at 3d at all. In actual speed terms its better than a playstation at pushing polygons. the PS1 is actually 10% slower. The problem was that it used dual cpu's which coupled with the lack of good SDK meant that hardly any teams could make decent games.
Whilst its true they added this cpu to compete with the PS1 its a shame that they never fully tapped it, a side from panzer dragoon saga which looks great.
). JaFFa said:
/looks at PS3, hmmmm...
Mega Drive remains my best console next to the X360. I played all the Sonics over, and over, and over, and over. I remember going to a friends house and completing Sonic & Knuckles in 2hrs cause they wanted to see what happened
I can't remember where I read it recently, but Sega has something like 65% of the market at one point during that time, and it was Nintendo's marketing that pulled them back and turned them into the dominant force by the end of it.
It was more of a close run thing in Europe, but Nintendo annihilated Sega in the USA and Japan. What with the Final Fantasy series, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger the SNES was incredibly popular in Japan. Plus you have all the other classic games, and it's plain to see that the Mega Drive was never able to match the sheer volume of the quality SNES games being released.
Towards the end of it's life, the Mega Drive had a bit of life breathed into it with the impressive Virtua Racing converted from the arcade machine... Nintendo hitting back with the massively playable, but slightly less impressive (graphically speaking) Stunt Race FX. Nintendo also made a big investment into Rare which started developing games like Donkey Kong Country, with the SGI workstations kindly provided by Ninty. As developers began to exploit the power of the SNES's specialised DSP processors, the Mega Drive was all but spent. :/
Towards the end of it's life, the Mega Drive had a bit of life breathed into it with the impressive Virtua Racing converted from the arcade machine... Nintendo hitting back with the massively playable, but slightly less impressive (graphically speaking) Stunt Race FX. Nintendo also made a big investment into Rare which started developing games like Donkey Kong Country, with the SGI workstations kindly provided by Ninty. As developers began to exploit the power of the SNES's specialised DSP processors, the Mega Drive was all but spent. :/
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