purplerat :
I forgot the ultimate tribalisation of single player games back in the day sonic or mario. Thats a discussion as tribal any mmorpg forum
That's really more just Super vs Sega than Mario vs Sonic. I knew lots of people who had an NES and then got a Sega Genesis and happily played both Mario and Sonic games. When the Super NES came out the tribalism between consoles was pretty fierce and Mario and Sonic as characters not the actual games where the face of each console. But I don't think anybody really spent much time arguing which game was actually better purely in terms of the games themselves.
They did argue in terms of game play over herein the UK, Personally I was on the side of the technical superiority of sonic along with the (to my eyes) better graphics, I havent looked at either in a long time so thats just going by memory of how the discussions went - I obviously didnt pay attention as I dont remember what the arguements for mario was at all... The speed of the action they managed to get out of the hardware was very impressive.
I considered mario to be a standard platform game no better than alex kidd. With no outstanding features. (As a side note I also hated alex kidd) My mario vs sonic arguments were largelly theoretical and probably less tribal than they could have been as I wasnt a huge sonic fan either. Sadly enough I was busy writing my own software for z80 based systems about the time that was all kicking off
I was never a platform game fan
Funnily enough I did like one of the wonderboy games also a pretty standard platformer, but I liked the upgrading armour and weapons.
When it came to the format war itself I liked the segas, based on my favourite 8bit processor the z80... How sad is that
Of course the gameboy and gamegear were both based on the z80 as well
Looking back it was very irrational and tribal, the z80 fanboyism based on nothing more than my parents brought spectrums when I was younger, then brought sega, my preferences were dyed by what my parents brought in
I set up my tent firmly in the z80 camp and after that the sega camp. to defend against all comers. I have no rational logic on which to hang my z80 fandom Im afraid.
Of course I later went on to review games for the nintendo official magazine :lol: (CD32 gamer as well - but then I liked Amigas)
[majorly off topic]
Whilst typeing this up I did a quick bit of googling and actually found a reference online to an issue of the magazine which I did nearly entirely by myself being classed as a trend setter
We did an issue which was a complete solution to a game called quik the thunder rabbit and the issue included a full copy of the game
Im going to selectively ignore the section that says this though :-
Whilst the magazine had never attracted advertising to a great extent, the 4th quarter of 1995 saw a dramatic fall in quality of the magazine as CD32 software began to dry up. Facing stiff competition and a smaller market share, the writers appeared to be unconcerned about the magazine, using pointless features to hide the lack of CD games. The editorial comment during the final issue served only to promote the Saturn and Playstation as gaming platforms. CD32 Gamer had always been written very dryly with random attempts at humour that often missed the mark, patronizing readers regarding their game playing skill.
Dry homour that often missed the mark, ouch, surely not
. Although I would point out that I quit in the summer of 95 before the major quality downturn :lol:
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