Actually, the SNES was never " crushed" by the Genesis. Yes, Nintendo handicapped their own machine by equipping it with a barely adequate processor and insisting on " family-friendly" games, but the 256 colours on-screen and the hardware scaling chip made quite a big difference. Case in point, MK2 SNES vs MK2 Genesis. :-)

good call dismiss, no way did the genesis crush the SNES. It was out earlier, but the quality of late gen SNES games over late gen genesis games isn' t even comparable.

Oh they were definitely comparable. Games like Donkey Kong Country and its sequels (starring Reggie) were awful as sin. Granted Genesis had crap like Vectorman which made me queasy. That Gunstar Heroes, though. Pure awesomeness.

You also have to take into account Sega stopped giving the Genesis full support once the Saturn came out. So it was like Nintendo had the 16-bit battlefield all do themselves once again.

Don' t get me wrong, I absolutely adored stuff like Strider, Revenge of Shinobi, Gunstar Heroes and Legend of Thor on the Genesis (Megadrive over here). On the other hand, the SNES had the best version of SFII on the market, and stuff like Chronotrigger, Zelda, FF3, plus some rather good 3d games such as Starfox, Vortex
and a cute little version of Doom. Both machines had their strong suits, my point is that there was no " crushing" involved on either side.

Oops , I take it back. Towards the end of their lifecycle, both machines were " crushed" by a deluge of mediocre licensed platformers.

i would comment on this, but alas, i did have a snes but i was too young to really take notice of how many colors it could display.

REALLY??!!!???!?!??!? I remember pausing each and every game on every new screen I got to just to count the colors. One, two, three, four, etc...

LOL!

Ok, THAT was funny. I like you Joe, you amuse me.

Joe amused me from day 1

Joe Amuses me. And Carnie' s amuse me too.

well i set it up!, joe is nothing without me anyway... good for nothing...

Sorry to bring us back on topic here, but I think the stupidest decision ever would be Nintendo bailing out on Sony after they asked them to make a cd drive for their console. Sony then enters the console world and systematically crushes Nintendo with the Playstation!!

I' ve always wondered how that would have turned out. Even if the SNES Playstation (yes, that' s what it would have ben called) would have been a failure worse than the Sega CD, would it have been worth it to get Sony out of the picture? Would Sony have just blamed Nintendo for the failure and come out with a Playstation 2 anyway (we' d be on the PS3 right now, and the PS3 would actually be the PS4 if all this had happened like I say)? Where does the TurboGrafx-16 fit into all of this? And would Sega have actually let Ancient have title screen credit for programming Sonic for the Game Gear (which they did)? Lots of questions remain unanswered.

its a mystery.......no, a conspiracy........