What 16bit Games Would Be Great Online
 

Let's pretend in an alternate universe that phone cord adapter thing for SNES and Genesis really took off and we're making gamertags and shit in 1994. What games do you think would be the absolute business had it had online multiplayer?

mario kart

I was gonna write that but I figure like 4 of you would anyway.

Jeopardy!

sonic 2

Some emulators can actually do this now right?

GGPO's network does this with old fighting games.

Cant we include 8 bit games too?

Double Dragon 2
ExciteBike
Guantlet

Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball.
College Slam
NBA Jam.

There's a need for it now but Turtles in Time.

RBI Baseball
Streetfighter
Love the Excitebike pick Savior.
Super Wrestlemania

Super WrestleMania didn't even have finishers.

If they released for us in North America I'd say Gundam Wing: Endless Duel(only released in Japan) and Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension(released in Japan and Europe).

Streets of Rage, Final Fight, and Golden Axe.

Also, with your anachronistic tinkering at play, The Sega Channel would've been what Steam/Gamefly is now.

Totally forgot the Sega Channel.

F-Zero

Donkey Kong Country

Original KI

so basically any multiplayer game

but mario kart, since it's the best

Mario Kart, or some sort of 16 bit Final Fantasy MMO.

Yes, but it can be laggy, and choppy

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The Genesis version did which was bs.

Nah just more proof that the Genesis was the better 16 bit system.

pfft

River City Ransom would be awesome with online multiplayer TDM.

Saturday Night Slam Masters

Streets of rage was fun to play on xbox with people.

Road rash would have been awesome as a thing.

Is the Genius the voice of the ref?

You disagree with Bobholly138's assertion, Kalyx? Because Genesis actually outsold SNES.Know why? Sonic.

it wasnt multiplayer originally but I thought it could have been.

X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse

And marketing ahead of its time that attracted the precursor generation of the 'dudebro'. So what?

Better games. Better GRAFIX. Better arcade ports. Mode 7. And Nintendo 1st Parties.

There is nothing to talk about.

FUCK YEAH! ROAD RASH! Played the hell out of RRII on the Genesis. Snatching the chain and whoopin' ass with it was SOOO satisfying!

It wasn't just due to the marketing. When the 16 bit era was in full swing, Nintendo completely solidified itself as "family friendly/for the kids", so while they were busy launching awesome and theoretically superior games on paper, Sega was happy to launch the "darker" stuff and, of course, the blood-laden port of Mortal Kombat. Disposable income coupled with 90's teen angst was a cash cow the big N rarely milked.

They did it to themselves. And that's what really hurts.

Monopoly Party

(i.e. the best game ever created)

In other words; the marketing.

Boulderdash on the NES would have worked if everyone was tunnelling at the same time. Blocking other peoples tunnels, stealing the diamonds, releasing enemies into other players tunnels etc.

Maniac Mansion on NES if each kid was controlled in real time by another player.

Starfox could have been cool online. Zombies Ate My Neighbours. Stunt Race FX.

If the Genesis sold so well, why did everyone I know have a SNES? Or was it just a US thing and everywhere else went with SNES?

It was pretty split from what I know, a lot of people bought Genesis because Genesis did what Nintendon't.

I only saw a Genesis once in my entire childhood. Every other time, it was the SNES. It was that one sided in my experience.

Same.

Oh and btw:

I knew this for many years instinctively but never really looked it up. Thanks for putting that to rest, guys.

Vortex! Imagine a Transformers game using the Super FX chip with an Autobot that had multiple transformations mixed with a little Starfox. That's Vortex.
Now imagine an online co-op or deathmatch mode. It could have worked.

It was slightly open world in it's level lay out too. By SNES standards, at least.

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You can transform into a jet too but it's not shown in the video.

Did not play that. I should have.

It is your kind of game. They should add it to the VC.

Sonic,Plus all the sports games ran faster on the Genesis. What killed Sega was how badly promoted and managed the Saturn was in teh USA. Then how easy it was to copy games on the Dreamcast. In both the 8 and 16 bit eras the Sega home consoles were more powerful. Just in the 8 bit era they got off to a late start.

Had a snes in my youth although it seemed the megadrive/genesis was "cooler" amongst my peers. Got a megadrive after the Saturn came out though, to be honest I can't think of any snes games I'd care to revisit much, still love road rash and streets of rage, although maybe that's cause you can't find that type of game anymore.

Just like your sales comment (Genesis sold more than SNES? LMFAO), this information is incorrect.

The Genesis had a faster processor than the SNES. The SNES had far better video and sound chips. The Genesis could display 256 colors on screen at a time out of roughly 65k possible colors on their palette; SNES could display them all on screen out of roughly the same number of colors (65k). The only benefit Genesis had was that raw processor speed, which allowed some games to run a bit faster but at the cost of inferior graphics/sound.

This shouldn't even be a question, the SNES came out like 2 years after Genesis, of course it was the more powerful system. The SNES had a plethora of features that the genesis never had as a result.

Of course it was 'cooler'. It had blood.