I loved my MD and SNES, but the PCE wins the day for me. I had so much fun with it. It's such a shame it never got an official release in the UK. It is the main factor which made me get the other 2. I only knew 1 other person who owned one, and he moved down south lol.

It meant playing fresh titles was very sporadic, while all my pals swapped games frequently. Plus mean machines dropped, well didnt even begin with their promised coverage of it, so it became more difficult to source reviews.

SNES for me. While it did the usual thing of playing host to Nintendo's finest games of the day (which include several seminal titles such as Mario Kart, F-Zero and Pilotwings for starters) it also seemed to inspire the top dev houses too - Capcom and Konami in particular hardly put a foot wrong on the console.

The brilliant sound and colour palette gives SNES games a great and very particular look that makes it stick out for that generation.

The SNES came around at a great time in my life too - I had got the job I always wanted and so was having a great time in general and the SNES library evokes great memories of that time.

The SNES of course, but I didn't need to tell you that!

I do really like the Mega Drive though, fantastic machine with some superb games. Road Rash and Streets of Rage have nothing to better them on the SNES. The EA titles were usually better too.

At the time when I had a SNES, one of my mates had a Megadrive so between us we had the best of both worlds.

I have an MD with region and 50/60hz switch and RGB out cable - makes a big difference to it -  it seems PAL games got no effort from Sega at all. Most SNES games were the same but Nintendo did expend some effort on the bigger titles re PAL.

Exactly the same here. I had the SNES and my friend Peter had the MD. We used to play Mario and Sonic, Axelay and Streets of Rage.
He had that awesome big joystick for the MD too.

Ha - so did mine! He got it for Desert Strike as the auto fire helped quite a bit. Was a cool stick that.

Unfortunately, I didn't make it to the 16-bit era.

I had a Pong game (one of those Sears Tele-Games thingies) in the 70s, then the Intellivision throughout the early 80s, then a Commodore 64, and then... well, I guess I switched passions.

I was a DJ throughout the late 80s and 90s, and didn't touch a computer or video game console until sometime in the mid 90s. (Yeah, I almost missed the Internet, even though I was in on the ground floor during the BBS heyday!)

My first console after the gap was the Playstation 2, which was already 32-bits, if I recall correctly.

  dZ.

Unfortunately, I didn't make it to the 16-bit era. 😮

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