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The SEGA Genesis Turns 20

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I love video games especially the older “retro” ones from my youth. I started playing games on an Atari 2600 but did not become addicted until the Nintendo Entertainment System. The NES was great to me in middle school and the start of high school, but in the early 90’s I moved to “the next level.”

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The SEGA Genesis was released 20 years ago today in the US and while I was not one of the first to have the system, it still goes down in the record books as the system I put the most time into. I played my Genesis all through high school and college spending all of my hard earned money on expanding my library of games to play instead of studying.

Most of my friends had a Genesis, but friends who I would consider “gamers” all had Super Nintendo and claimed it was superior. I love my SNES, but back then and even today I will still claim that the Genesis was/is better because of the library of games I had and the amount of time I played the system.

So today the 20th anniversary of the Genesis’ release I plan on playing some Genesis today. Maybe I’ll pop in and play some Streets of Rage 2 and Sonic 3 today.

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Posted by Fred on August 14, 2009 @ 9:23 AM Under: Throwback, Video Games
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