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(12-22-2012 04:30 AM)Zaliphone Wrote:  Yeah...
SUCK IT SEGA!!

As a Sega kid, i am obligated to defend Sega with every will of my being.

Sega dominated Nintendo for a time because Nintendo failed in a few area's with the NES.

First, their 3rd-party support sucked, Sega had a superior 3rd-party support which appealed to a large number of developers. This was in part due to the 10NES lockout chip, they were made in limited supplies which meant that developers were limited on how many copies they could release, Sega didn't have this, so dev's could make more money off of Sega.

And of course, the graphics were innovative for their time, people were impatient to buy the next Nintendo console, so some people got the Genesis instead for its graphical capabilities, basically SEGA sold the Genesis at an excellent time.

Then of course there was Sonic...

I also think John Madden was in their somewhere, not to mention Moonwalker. The fact that these games had Celebrities in them was a great marketing strategy while they were popular.