/vr/ - Retro Games

>>11015676
It did occasionally happen during the dark ages before Sonic stole the show from Mario and wholly defined how a platform game should be like.

None of the Mario games have ever been that great. Sonic took they're very barebones and basic platforming and evolved it into an awesome physics and momentum based game that had never been seen before. The mascot platformer trend of the 90's and early 2000's began because of Sonic and the amazing influence of those games, not Mario.

>>10753692
I'm sure.

"We have Sonic at home"

>>10078078
2D Mario died as soon as Sonic hit the market, and didn't come back until 2004, for an ill conceived retro revival that nobody likes. Games like Bubsy, Aero the Acro-Bat, Cool Spot, Earthworm Jim, Radical Rex, Jazz Jackrabbit, the list goes on, were all copies of Sonic, not Mario. Even Nintendo was attempting to clone the Sonic formula, albeit poorly, with games such as Donkey Kong, Yoshi. Sonic buried Mario.

>>9939682
Above is the "master of colour" SNES. Below is the "dull, desaturated, lack of vivid" Mega Drive.
I am sorry, but the truth is very apparent, with even a cursory glance at the Mega Drive library, it commonly has a richness and vivid to it's colour palette and shades that the SNES can only dream of.

Really, this arguement was settled in 1991. The SNES never did catch up, and indeed, it could not catch up, thanks it's shoddy and poor hardware.