Best games consoles: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis – when games consoles finally became cool

By Matt Hanson

The Sega Mega Drive (or Sega Genesis if you lived in North America) isn’t one of the highest selling consoles of all time, but it is easily one of the most important, and its fierce rivalry with Nintendo and its SNES machine brought about a golden axe age of home consoles.

As voted by you, the TechRadar readers, the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis has been rightly acknowledged as one of the greatest games consoles of all time.

Many console generations are defined by the rivalries between the major players, and the 16-bit era saw Sega pulling out all the stops in a bid to beat Nintendo. School yards across the globe were split between Nintendo and Sega fans, and while the Mega Drive/Genesis didn’t beat the SNES in the end, it was a revolutionary product that was in production for almost 10 years, and is home to more than 900 games.

There may be a little of the old Sega fanboy in me when I say this, but without the Mega Drive/Genesis many of the features we take for granted in modern games consoles would never exist.

The cool kids’ console

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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming