Console Battle #2

The winner of the last console battle was the Playstation(obviously).

This time we have the:

Sega Genesis
Released in 1989
It was 1989. Nintendo's NES had reigned supreme in the video game market for nearly five years, and it was time for a new system to take over the throne. Sega's Master System, while graphically superior to the NES, failed to make any kind of lasting impression in the U.S. market (although it was very popular in Europe), and Sega knew that their next system would not only have to be superior to everything else out there, but they'd have to have a lot of third-party developers lined up.

After two years of development, Sega introduced their "next generation" system to the world in late 1989. Known as the Genesis in the West, and the Mega Drive in the east, Sega began an aggressive marketing campaign, not only to customers, but also to developers.

Although NEC's TurboGrafx-16 had beat the Genesis to market by nearly four months, Sega quickly regained lost ground, thanks to their line-up of quality arcade conversions, killer sports games, and most of all, the full support of Trip Hawkins and Electronic Arts.

  And the:

NEC Turbo Grafx 16
Released in 1989
In Japan, shortly after the introduction of Nintendo's Famicom (Japan's version of the NES), the electronics giant NEC entered into the video game market with the introduction of their "next generation" system, known as the PC Engine (PCE). The PCE boasted a 16-bit graphics chip capable of displaying up to 256 colors on screen at once, at a number of resolutions. Although its CPU wasn't much more powerful that of the NES, its spectacular graphics chip and six-channel sound bettered the Famicom in every way. It utilized a sleek new card format (PCE games are either HuCards or Turbochips) to hold its software, rather than bulky cartridges. It was also the first console to boast a CD-ROM drive, for full orchestral soundtracks and even (gasp!) full motion video. The PC Engine was immensely popular in Japan, outselling the Famicom by a significant margin.

In 1989, two years after its Japanese introduction, NEC announced plans to bring the PC Engine overseas, to the booming video game market of the U.S. With a huge library of Japanese software, it seemed to many as though the system couldn't possibly fail.
 

Sega FTW!!!!

lol sorry it was my first console so its my fav out of all of the consoles :P

i love the genesis just cos i got all 946 games for it :P(for real)Wolf-Chief

946 games:shock: 

[QUOTE="Wolf-Chief"]i love the genesis just cos i got all 946 games for it :P(for real)ikhzo

946 games:shock:

Must catch up.

*Goes to gamestop*

Must catch up.

*Goes to gamestop*

bugbag

there's no gamestop on the moon:x 

[QUOTE="ikhzo"]

[QUOTE="Wolf-Chief"]i love the genesis just cos i got all 946 games for it :P(for real)nintendo_warrio

946 games:shock:

i have them all on my PC i wish i had a sega genesis and all of those games