/vr/ - Retro Games

Why are Genesis games generally so much shorter than SNES games?
Did Sega just have a hard time adjusting to the home console market? It was even worse with the Saturn compared to PS1 and later N64.

Why did the Genesis library consist predominantly of arcade ports and sportsball games when its rival had a much greater variety of genres?
Did Sega just have a hard time readjusting their design philosophy to the home console market?

>more than half the library is literally just arcade ports and sportsball shit
Did this shitbox really compete with the SNES on a level playing field? Was it just a budget alternative to the SNES and that's why kids who grew up poor in the early 90s have so much nostalgia for it?

>uumm yeah it has sonic... and... and... sonic 2... and sonic and knuckles... and tons of arcade garbage
what a piece of shit

>>8252932

Why is every top 10 best Genesis games list is always the same?

Sonic entry (usually 2 or 3&Knuckles), Shinobi entry (usually 3), Streets of Rage (usually 2), Phantasy Star IV, Shining Force 2, Contra: Hard Corps, Castlevania: Bloodlines, Gunstar Heroes, some Disney game, either Aladdin or Castle/World of Illusion and wildcard 10th entry

And you guys are saying N64 had no variety

Can SNES do this?
https://twitter.com/arkagis/status/1436142331976200192?s=19

Reminder that sega genesis was objectively the most ergonomic console controller until the 5th gen consoles came out. Just look at that little curve going downwards to help the grip be more comfortable, as opposed to the flat NES and SNES controls that weren't a good grip at all

I know Sega have Shining series, Phantasy Star series and some others, but in that gen the number of quality RPGs (particularly JRPGs) on the SNES dwarfed those of Sega. Is there a reason for this? Why weren't Square's and Enix's big hitters on the Mega Drive?

I don't mean arcade hard but harder than Snes and Japan mega drive.

Why do we call the Sega Genesis (MegaDrive) a 16-bit console when it has the same CPU as the Amiga and Atari ST that are classified as 32-bit machines just with a 16-bit data bus.

We don't call the original IBM PC with an 8088 a 8-bit machine, just because it has a 8-bit data bus while being a 16-bit CPU.

Why does the Genesis have so little anime games compared to the SNES?

>C++
There's a compiler for pic related. Pier Solar was made with it iirc.