The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same

[ZedIsDead]

This is an old(as in 1989) Usenet thread debating the merits of the Genesis against those of the TG-16. It seems the console wars haven't changed much in 23 years.

Nintendo vs. SEGA genesis - rec.games.video | Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.video/browse_thread/thread/20a424131aa87d20/8e3a43d51ba0a8a%20d?lnknum=4&pli=1)

My favorite quote:
Personally, I think the Nintendo is a piece of right wing garbage akin to the IBM PC. Slow, out of date, but heavily marketed so that mindless dweenies will think it's the hottest thing since Zelda had her first period.

Good to know there were mindless fanboys back in the day.

[Seahawk]

And both the Genesis and TG16 have the same 6-channel FM sound generators, but in addition Genesis have 4 more other sound
generators.

Nice to know that misinformation was out there as well......

if I had to choose from a machine that sometimes have flicker problem in grafx, (suffering from it 8-bit CPU) and a machine that doesn't, I'd definitely choose Genesis.

CD-Rom is great, ignoring the price, but I also noticed that it takes too much time loading up the things to memory to play (thanx again to its 8-bit input/output).

Note that Genesis/Mega Drive is also coming out with their own CD-Rom unit that takes advantage of *TRUE* 16-bit processor.

No amount of fail can describe the stupidity going on here.
Please kill me......

I got sick of Mario Bros. at part I on my Atari 800. I found Shamus far more fun than Zelda.while I found the idea of Shamus to be neatSHAMUS ARAN.

Especially given the fact that Japanese companies are allowed to walk all over us on their home turf....

Someone's mad.

[Dudebro]

Nintendo is a piece of right wing garbage
What does this even mean?

[warghoul]

What does this even mean?

Ask JG he would know.

[Slime Slayer]

Wait, is that guy calling Metroid "Shamus"? LOL I'm gonna start calling games by the (incorrect) name of the character from now on.

[ZedIsDead]

It sounds like they were actually referring to this:

Shamus (video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamus_%28video_game%29)

[Slime Slayer]

It sounds like they were actually referring to this:

Shamus (video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamus_%28video_game%29)
Oh lol, well the guys an idiot either way. Shamus does look fun though.

[Tails]

Shamus - Nintendo Game Boy Color (http://www.retrouprising.com/game-menu/game/11351/)