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Hold my beer. This is the one game I can actually kind of play.

The picture sucks, but that is 1865.

The picture sucks, but that is 1865.

The picture sucks, but that is 1865.

Hold my beer. This is the one game I can actually kind of play.

Hold my beer. This is the one game I can actually kind of play.

Hold my beer. This is the one game I can actually kind of play.

Let's start an Atari I/O war. Well, not really. More like a friendly argument.
I have long been perplexed by Sega Genesis fans. I don't hate the Genesis, in fact I actually like it quite a bit. Sonic Spinball, Goldenaxe, Gain Ground, Columns III-- all great titles. The Nomad simply kicks ass, and the Power Base Converter is an excellent peripheral, from what I've seen. What's more, it had a ton of ad-ons, which are... debatably good.
However, when it comes to people preferring it over the SNES is where I get a little peeved. The Genesis had FUN games, but the SNES had true masterpieces. Some of, if not THE BEST games around. It also had a much better controller than its counterpart, and you never needed to get another one with more buttons once the newer games came out. The Power Base Converter was fine and cool, but did it really hold a candle to the Super Game Boy? If you had a Master System already, there was no need for Genesis owners to buy a PBC. On the flip-side, the SGB offered Game Boy owners a little something extra; playing on the TV, better controller, custom borders, special features for some games, saving battery life, COLOR. There was good reason for SNES owners to buy an SGB even if they had the black-and-green-screened brick in their possession already. Sure, the PBC offered Genesis and Master System owners more convenience and less space wasted, but it didn't offer nearly as much as the SGB did.
I think of some of the highest-regarded games on the Genesis, and similar games on the Genesis. Sonic the Hedgehog versus Super Mario World, for example. Probably the most famous comparison.
Sonic was a lot faster than "that nice boy Mario". The game moved at a rapid clip compared to World's relatively slow and methodical pace. However, Sonic didn't really change the platforming genre that much, though it had plenty of imitators and rip-offs. Sonic, at its core, was a lot like the original Super Mario Brothers. You had to beat it in one single sitting, no saving, completely linear, same world layout. Sonic was more advanced than OG SMB, but in the end it played very similarly.
Super Mario World, by contrast, changed what a platformer was. You could save now! There were loads of secrets to find. Each level was still linear compared to things like Metroid, but they were much more open-ended than Sonic's and past platformers. There was the world map, returning from SMB 3. There were lots of levels to play. It was a lot more forgiving and a lot less frustrating than Sonic was. And most importantly, Super Mario World holds up infinitely better today than Sonic the Hedgehog does.
Maybe the Genesis looked cooler. Maybe it had more "tude". Maybe it had a better processor (though the SNES had better specs for pretty much everything else). But the SNES is just plain better in my opinion.
So Sega fans, please tell me!
WHY do you prefer the Genesis over the SNES?
Please tell me, as I'd really like to know and I honestly can't figure out for the life of me why people prefer it!
And if you say "Blast Processing" as an answer, I will kill you!
Just kidding about that last part. But seriously, please let me know what the Genesis does that Nintendon't. Is it the faster, more arcadey games? Is it the ad-ons? Is just nostalgia? Please let me know!

I knew this was going to happen...
You have wounded me, Justin! Now I'm angry!
Don't think you're getting away with this; last night, @RickR told me about your only weakness. MUA HA HA HA!

When I was a kid, I couldn’t get into it. We had the Trilogy version on our Wii’s hard drive since it was modded. Last year I tried that version again and I liked it a lot more, but fell off it eventually for some reason. I really like this original version better though. The controls feel weird at first since it’s not twin stick like a lot of stuff that came out after, but it clicks after a while and I vastly prefer it over the motion controls of the Wii version.

Grabbed my first game since getting the system!

Really enjoying playing this game again. What are your thoughts on this one? It’s probably the most divisive Mario game.

Seaquest and Enduro?

WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

For those of you who don't have time to watch this video or are looking for a specific game's ranking and don't want to watch the whole video again, I have compiled @nosweargamer's rankings in list form here, from highest to lowest ranked:
BallBlazer Food Fight Ninja Golf Ikari Warriors Commando Ms. Pac-Man Alien Brigade Xevious Dig Dug Midnight Mutants Xenophobe Donkey Kong Junior Tomcat F-14 Desert Falcon Galaga Joust Mario Brothers Mean 18 Ultimate Golf Donkey Kong Centipede Crossbow Winter Games One-on-One Basketball Rampage Planet Smashers Asteroids Pete Rose Baseball Basketbrawl Motor Psycho Super Skateboardin' Double Dragon Super Huey Kung Fu Master Impossible Mission (Broken US version) Robotron 2084 Fatal Run Ace of Aces F-18 Hornet Dark Chambers Choplifter! Pole Position II Scrapyard Dog Summer Games Tank Command Water Ski Karateka Crack'ed Hat Trick Tower Toppler Barnyard Blaster Jinks Sentinel Fight Night Mat Mania Challenge Meltdown Realsports Baseball Touchdown Football Title Match Pro Wrestling

WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

Wow, that's a huge improvement! 
 

WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

I replaced this GBA screen lens with a nice glass one. The old plastic one was really cheap and super prone to scratches. Like, REALLY prone. I also cleaned out the innards, so it looks a lot nicer now. You can really see that with the speaker. Unfortunately I didn’t take any “before” pictures, so this picture I took around Christmas is the best I could do for a comparison.

I replaced this GBA screen lens with a nice glass one. The old plastic one was really cheap and super prone to scratches. Like, REALLY prone. I also cleaned out the innards, so it looks a lot nicer now. You can really see that with the speaker. Unfortunately I didn’t take any “before” pictures, so this picture I took around Christmas is the best I could do for a comparison.

WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

Some things never go out of style.

Some things never go out of style.

I love the decor from @socrates63 ☺️

Been a while since I updated this last. A few things have changed down here since then.