My first console was a Genesis, but I really wanted an SNES - my parents randomly bought the Genesis for Christmas by mistake lol.

I ended up getting a ton of the original carts for the Genesis because eventually my local video rental place sold them all when they went out of business. There's some solid stuff on the Gen but I definitely prefer the Snes library overall. Gen I guess was technically more powerful in some ways - though the controller maybe wasn't the greatest, even if by today's standards the Snes controller is only passable at best (but Ninten has really struggled since with decent controller design, except for maybe the Switch pro. I still can't get used to their sticking to the oldschool button placement tho.)

Sega had a weird trajectory - often ahead of the curve in terms of hardware, and possessing some real talent (like Yu Suzuki), but failing to manage things on the business side by flooding the market with failed consoles and expensive peripherals. I don't know what things would have looked like if the Dreamcast had been more successful (because it certainly had the potential to be as a console, aside from the issue of easy pirating with burned discs) - but I don't know that the current state of the industry could really support 4 heavy-weight console platforms - it struggles enough with 3 as it is.