Quote Originally Posted by Spooniest View Post
When the SNES came along, it was kind of a joke.
I'm not sure it was a joke, but I agree it certainly didn't have an immediate impact. In fact, when it was released the only two games that were released were Super Mario World and Pilotwings. Not much in the way of launch titles even though both games were excellent.

Nintendo certainly didn't rush the release of the SNES. It was over a full year after the Genesis/Megadrive was released before the SNES appeared which would be unheard of today. The main reason for this is because the NES was still making them so much money they were in no rush at all to release the SNES.

Quote Originally Posted by Spooniest View Post
It just doesn't get better or faster than a SNES.
Technically, the Genesis/Megadrive was more than twice as fast as the SNES. While the SNES could handle more colours and sprites and was more powerful, the Genesis/Megadrive ran at 7.67 MHz whilst the SNES was only a meagre 3.58MHz. This is the reason that many SNES games suffered a lot from slowdown. Anyone who has played Super R-Type can attest to this!

Quote Originally Posted by Spooniest View Post
Sorry, Sega...the gamers of the 90s had spoken, and they decided to play it loud.
Agreed. There was just no touching the SNES at the time for the sheer quantity of quality games for it. Still my favourite console of all time.