Well, Sega had the Saturn, which I still think was a criminally underrated system. Of course, it helps that I preferred (and still do) sprite based games over polygons, but the Saturn had some games that were incredible - all of Capcom's titles spring to mind, plus VF2 which did walk all over the PS1 Tekken games, both for graphics and gameplay.Lightyear wrote:And I think the only reason the PS1 really took off was it's format at the time.. Sega tired the Sega CD and it bombed.. but Super Nintendo was huge and just couldn't compete..and the game selection wasn't anything to write about.. But when PS1 came out with the Disc format.. Nintendo didn't have anything to really run against it.. Maybe the N64 gave it a close call.. but people wanted more for the money.. the N64 was/is a great system..
I still wish they made games (in the states) for the dreamcast.
All tho.. My fav all time system is the Sega Gen.
As for the Dreamcast, a big
to you Sir Lightyear! Another vastly belittled system. Nothing annoyed me more than the wait until the PS2 launch when magazines and the media fell over themselves to advise people not to buy a Dreamcast, but wait for a PS2. The same people who were always hyping the latest PC 3D technologies, with no hit of advising people to wait rather than buy the latest PC 3D-Card, even though everybody knew PC technology is superceeded every 3-4 months anyway.If a person bought a Dreamcast, they could play excellent games while waiting for the PS2 launch, and then they could play better games for about another year while everybody waited for an actual decent PS2 game to be released which actually used more than a quarter of the consoles potential.
I still play my Capcom fighters on my Dreamcast today. I often wonder why everybody who is so critical of Disney stopping handdrawn animation have no complaints about the death of spritebased games on modern consoles.
