From: oliveira@bbn.com (John Oliveira)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Re: A bad OMEN for the GENESIS from Japan
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Date: 1 Sep 92 20:08:16 GMT
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In article <la7f25INN5lk@sal-sun104.usc.edu>, tehyang@sal-sun104.usc.edu (Teh Kao Yang) writes:
> In article <BtwKGs.DH4@apollo.hp.com> rehrauer@apollo.hp.com (Steve Rehrauer) writes:

> Despite what all you SNES fans say, I think that all signs are pointing to a 
> much better future for the Genesis than the SNES.

I doubt that, I have a Genesis at home sitting on the closed creating dust.
Its been close to a year now and I haven't seen any games been released from
Sega that will bright my future. The last game that I played was Tazmania and
I didn't like the game at all, the graphics were good but gameplay sucked.

> There doesn't seem to be much quality stuff coming out for the SNES from now
> until the Christmas season. For those of you who can't to play Axelay, Space
> Mega Force, and Turtles 4, let me tell you that I've tried all those games
> and none of them live up to all the hype. On the other hand Sega has a killer
> line up of games that include Sonic 2 and Streets of Rage 2. And don't forget
> the Sega-CD with its own lineup of impressive games. 

You sound like a Genesis devote..:-)
A friend of mine has the SF version of Axelay and Megaforce  and let me say that
Axelay is an excellent game. In my opinion its better than anything I've seen in
a long time even better than anything I've seen on the Genesis. Again in my
opinion better than Thunderforce 4.
And to be honest yes, I'm hyped about these games plus other games been released.
So, Sega has only 2 killer games wheres the rest of the killer games?
I've seen some of the games for the Sega-CD and I wasn't impressed at all, 
specially with the lack of color.

> 
> The delay of the SNES CD-ROM means that Nintendo will once again be playing
> catch-up with Sega in the CD-ROM market. On a side note... I think that stuff
> about Nintendo delaying the CD-ROM because of a poor market is all B*S. They
> were never ready to release the CD-ROM in January 1993 in the first place.
> Especially since they haven't even decided on the specs of the machine and no
> games are ready for it. I think that they just announced the bogus release
> date to discourage potential Sega-CD buyers.

I don't think so, I think Nintendo is taking their time so that they can come out
with a kick ass CD-ROM..:-)
They  don't want to make the same mistake that Sega did, releasing a CD-ROM that
is not at all what we expected.
I rather wait a year and get a CD-ROM that has all the features that will satisfy
me, rather get a cheesy one..:-)
When is the Genesis  CD-ROM been released? and how long have we been waiting for
it to be released? A Lonnnng time and its not out yet!
>  
> And here is the clincher...if the Genesis is losing ground to the SNES, 
> then why did two of Nintendo's most loyal 3rd party supporters, Konami and 
> Capcom, decide to join the Sega camp?  When I heard this news I thought it
> meant that Sega has won the war. Obviously Konami and Capcom are dissatisfied
> with the SNES market and decided to cash in on the larger Genesis user base
> in the US.
> 
> -Teh Kao
> 
Again, I don't think so. I think Capcom and Konami is trying to cash in big bucks.
Hey, why not I would too..:-)
John
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