I was a Nintendo fanboy during those years, so I got used to saying Super Nintendo. I couldn't really back it up because a blue hedgehog really did sound cooler than Mario or Donkey Kong. One time I went to my aunt's house and they had a Sega Genesis, and of course the kids were playing Sonic the Hedgehog 2, so I watched it and it looked pretty cool. When it was my turn I played as Tails, but I was always left 20 screens behind by the more experienced player playing as Sonic. I remember thinking the only thing I liked about that game was Tails. I looked at the other Sega games they had lying around, but they all looked pretty lame in comparison to Sonic.
In retrospect I can say I'm glad I went with the Super Nintendo. Maybe I'm just not used to Sega's library, but there seems to be a serious lack of good games on that system. Aside from the Sonic series I also liked Ecco the Dolphin and Comix Zone, and I'm sure there were some ports, but that's about it. Oh yeah, and as a kid if I did go with Sega, I would have snatched up every peripheral they announced. Imagine me with a Sega CD and 32X all hooked up to the same console. Would have made the AVGN video more relatable anyway (but it still would have been as funny).
With Super Nintendo I got to experience games like SMW2: Yoshi's Island and Super Metroid and Uniracers and the Donkey Kong Country series. I was introduced to RPGs with Super Mario RPG. Super Smash Bros. on N64 made me aware to give EarthBound a try. Only through emulation years later did I experience many other great games like Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana. And I also had one of those Super Game Boys which made playing Game Boys much more enjoyable (since I was getting tired of watching Mario on a small lime-yellow screen).
There's also the nostalgia factor of it having so many great games during one of those golden ages of 2D gaming and having the best controller I ever used. And according to Wikipedia the system was designed so that instead of becoming obsolete in a few years, games could use special chips put inside the cartridges to get an extra boost of whatever and stay ahead of the game, such as Super FX being put to use in titles like Star Fox and Yoshi's Island. Great move.
*looks up at Weegee's post, then the poll* Yeah. Though to be fair if I had sworn off Sega entirely, I would have never played Ecco the Dolphin which I called one of my favorite games of all time. Strangely, as soon as Sega got out of the console game and there was the announcement of Sega games on Nintendo consoles, I felt relief that the console wars were over, as if previously I had some desire to play Sega games but couldn't because it wouldn't be "right" to the side I belonged to. And now it was gone, I was free to experience what I had been missing all these years. So I snatched up Sonic Mega Collection and it was bliss, although most of the time I was only playing Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with it.
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