/vr/ - Retro Games

The SNES was being shit on in game magazines for struggling with fast paced action games. Many if the 1991 titles had slowdown which was blamed on the below average CPU speed (but more likely a result of inexperienced programmers on new hardware).

Sega marketing team put a massive emphasis on “speed” as a concept to try and exploit this perceived hardware weakness of the SNES. Sonic was just one part of this ad campaign. The blast processing ad campaign was the second part of the attack.

A few years later nintendo actually paid to publish fake tech articles in magazines to explain why a slow CPU didnt matter and how they could have made a game as fast as sonic 1 or 2 for the SNES but didn't need to. Pic related is one of these ads disguised as editorials.