Nintendo did not make it easy for third-party companies, due to the strict rules they presented in their contract agreements. Here are 15 reasons the Sega Genesis is still better than the Super Nintendo. Though they eventually lost the war, Sega did do a lot of things right. So influential was this competition that years later, the internet geeks of the dial-up generation are still debating the 16-bit wars. If you were a preteen or teen, the Genesis was the clear choice for the cool kids. One point Sega wanted to present time and time again to the consumers was that the SNES was geared for family fun, and the Genesis was for hip and serious gamers.

It called for creative advertising campaigns attacking the prudish and tame nature of the gray brick known as the Super Nintendo. For Sega, taking down Nintendo, who were dominating the home gaming market for an entire decade, wasn’t going to be a cakewalk, but more of a food fight that featured numerous smear campaigns and dirty tricks. The age-old question of the nineties child: Genesis or SNES? Long before internet geeks flamed each other on forums and Reddit threads about specs and performance of the next-generation consoles, Nintendo and Sega were embroiled in the inaugural console wars.

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