Sega's best console

[TR0N]

It's Keranu.  He comes from the mirror universe where he likes everything most people hate and hates everything that most people love.

No that's Seldane. And yes, USA box art kicks ass!

I'm starting to think your are from the bizarro universe 

[Keranu]

No, I just have some respect for my country. 

[MrFulci]

Genesis was a nice system. Though, it lacked in some areas with it's competition (TG-16, SNES) it had some advantages in other areas and was able to hodl it's own pretty well. I've had no issues with the system, other than at times the speech is a bit garbled.

Each of the Genesis systems ahd their pros and cons. As a stand alone unit, the Genesis 1 is nice, Headphone jack is always welcome. For combining with a Sega CD, if it's a bottom loader, yeah, Genesis 1. If it is the top loader, gotta have the genesis 2. Still, if I'm hooking up a Sega CD, I'd rather have an X'Eye so I have one less AC Adapter plugged in.

The Genesis 1 model Doesn't support stereo through it's A/V jack, though it supports it from the headphone out (I think...) Genesis 2 the stereo is through the A/V cable.

[MrFulci]

Oh yeah, the Genesis commercials were very nice... SEGA!

[Hobo Xiphas]

Jesus Christ, you Japanophiles have serious aesthetic issues.

How can you not enjoy the Genesis box art?  The classic striped motif of Genesis game boxes is very nice indeed.

I'm still reeling over the shock that people can prefer the model 2 over the model 1 Genesis.  The model 2 Genesis just looks so generic. 

[runinruder]

The Genesis was a great system, definitely much better than the SNES. 

[FM-77]

I prefer the European MD boxes. The later, blue ones. The red american ones aren't bad either though. I want them all, even though most of them are crap games. I think the japanese boxes generally look pretty boring (the box layout, not the actual picture, which can often be nice). That red/green MD logo is nasty!


One of the not-crap games in a blue box

[SuperDeadite]

The Saturn wins my vote.  Back at the parents' house in the States, I have three of them:  US Model 2,
Japan Model 2 (White), and a HiSaturn (Model 1).  Whats really odd is that both my Japanese Saturns are modded,
and in both cases the sellers didn't know about them (White Saturn was from GameChoiceClub, HiSaturn was from ebay). 
When they came in the mail, I opened them up for a routine check and dust cleaning, and said "Strange this is modded."
When I bought the HiSaturn and it too came modded I was quite shocked.

Anyone have similar experiences?

P.S.   The HiSaturn has the coolest bootup animation ever 

[FM-77]

I've had a similiar experience... I once bought an untested PSone. Turns out it had a modchip installed. Additionally, I got two matching controllers and a memory card with it, none of which the seller said he'd include. It was a nice deal. I think I paid $10 for it.

[Joe Redifer]

I've had no issues with the [Genesis], other than at times the speech is a bit garbled.

Yes, but the SNES and TG-16 also had similar issues.  The TG-16 had lots of bad/garbled speech.  The SNES had a habit of applying too much reverb into any sound the console made in order to make it sound like the console was built in the future.  When these things happened, none was audibly pleasing.

As far as box art is concerned, I am a big fan of the minimalist Sega Master System box designs.  There was just something really cool about them.  When the Genesis first came out they used the same boxes except black and more space dedicated to artwork and custom fonts.  The instruction manual was also taller.  I thought that was pretty cool.  They eventually went to the RED Genesis boxes with the Cooperplate Gothic Bold Genesis logo font.  I didn't like those as much.  I really liked it even less when the boxes became made out of paper instead of plastic.  People who like paper boxes are complete and total losers who deserve to die by drinking sewer water.

The HiSaturn has the coolest bootup animation ever

Please post a video of it.

[Kitsunexus]

Remember that SEGA VR thing that got canceled due to safety concerns? THAT would have been the best SEGA console. (Think Model 1 with head-tracking in a lightweight helmet...)

[SuperDeadite]

The HiSaturn has the coolest bootup animation ever

Please post a video of it.

I'd be happy too, but my system is in America, and I'm in Japan.  There don't seem to be any online either from my quick google search.  Basically unlike a normal Saturn and V-Saturn's generic gray background boot sequence, the HiSaturn has a gold HiSaturn logo made of polygons, it sort of spins, pans, and zooms for about 2 seconds then fades into a blue background.  Really hard to describe... 

[Joe Redifer]

Is it something like this:

[MrFulci]

Joe, I can't think of too many examples of speech on the TG-16 chips, allt hat really comes to mind is Bravoman, haha. Genesis, at times the speech was alright, the other half of the time it was scratchy and garbled so much that I wondered why they had left it in the game. Then again, speech was "new" at the time, so even if it was a bit scratchy, I can see why they would have left it in there.

Commercials.. A few favs:

- http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=876
- http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=867
- http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=873

Some TG and PC Engine ads there also, http://gameads.gamepressure.com/

[runinruder]

Joe, I can't think of too many examples of speech on the TG-16 chips, allt hat really comes to mind is Bravoman,

Andre Panza, Davis Cup, Blazing Lazers, World Class Baseball, Parodius, the TV Sports games, Vigilante, and quite a few more.