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- From: cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Cal Lott)
- Subject: Re: WHICH VIDEO GAME SYSTEM TO BUY? (SEGA GENESIS, SUPER NES,....)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.162442.9696@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: video games
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Nov16.220349.3043@leland.Stanford.EDU> <HOTLINE.6@calvin.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:24:42 GMT
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- HOTLINE@calvin.edu writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov16.220349.3043@leland.Stanford.EDU> tomcat@leland.Stanford.EDU (tom spearman) writes:
- >>Hi everyone,
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- >>I want to get a home video game system but I don't really know which one to
- >>get. Do I get a Sega Genesis, a Super Nintendo, a Turbografix 16, Neo Geo,
- >>or what? Cost is not really an object---I just want to know what you people
- >>think is best and for what reasons. Thanks a lot for your time...
-
- >Well, simply put, Neo Geo is the best....but games do cost about $200 apiece.
- >Not a good thing to many people. SNES is a good system, but does not have
- >the chip speed to run the games it is capable of. The graphics are better
- >than the sega, though. TG16 is a good system, but here in the USA its hard
- >to find games for it sometimes, and they are slow to come out with new
- >titles over here. I would go with the Sega, with the new CD player out (very
- >soon that is) it should remain the best on the market. Speed, sound, and
- >graphics make it the best system on the market.
-
- >ps. I'm sure to get flamed for this one! All you SNES fans out there, go
- >ahead....
-
- Sega just doesn't have the big name third-party developers that
- Nintendo does. In a few years, the SNES will dominate the cartridge market in
- the same way that the 8-bit Nintendo did. The only way that Sega and NEC
- will be able to stay ahead will be to dominate the CD market until Nintendo
- blows them away with the 32-bit CD Player system they intend to introduce in
- a few years (as rumor would have it.)
-
- Apparently the slow-down problem was due mainly to poor programming
- by the developers of the early carts and has been pretty well solved now.
-
- The new CD systems from both NEC and Sega do look awesome, though.
- Gate of Thunder and Sewer Shark are especially impressive.
-
- -Cal
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