It is human nature to want to pick a winner whenever the opportunity arises. This happens a lot in life,
especially if you are a gamer. Very rarely are things so cut and dry that picking a winner is easy when
it comes to opinions, feelings and “rose colored” nostalgic glasses. This article
originally began life
as a two page spread in our preview issue that was released way back in 2011. When we decided to
reboot Retro Gaming Magazine, that two page spread was shown online to various groups and it
sparked quite a bit of conversation and got us to thinking– maybe we need to answer the question of
which was better between Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. Voting was conducted on many
forums on-line, in many Facebook groups (both private and public) and votes were tallied amongst the
staff of RGM to arrive at the package of games that follow.
Now it would not be fair to compare the Genesis and SNES in a no holds barred contest because the
SNES clearly has an advantage later on, especially with many Japanese exclusives that never arrived
in the United States. Nah, that would clearly be unfair so we decided to keep this article true to the
original, only games that appeared on both consoles could be considered for contention (over 250
titles total). Even narrowing down the list to only those games available on both systems still left us
with a daunting task– which games were to be chosen for this article?
Through the votes we were able to narrow down the list considerably. The titles that are featured are
based on those votes, votes by our readers and friends. We understand that your favorite game may
not have made the list, that is fine, we are always interested in hearing comments on the matter. In
these cases, just remember, the final list is compiled from the votes we received. In the future we will
have more opportunities to vote and help shape what we feature.
Get ready to get mad because we answer the question– which system rocked more- Sega Genesis or
Super Nintendo?