From James D Pollock <xxxxxx@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
Date
At 01:05 AM 4/22/99 -0400, you wrote:
>system basically had NOTHING going for it, and it was tremendously
>overpriced too. It looked like complete crap with the Genesis out, and few
>people were going to play Bonk over Sonic. The only thing that piqued my
Bonk had over a year's head start on Sonic. Sonic debuted at the same CES
as the Super NES...the original pack-in for the Genesis was Altered Beast
which is better than Keith Courage, but no SMW or Sonic. The Genesis got
a better initial push though because of a couple of factors: European
publishers who could fairly easily port from Amiga to Genesis, and EA which
never became an NES licensee but put out a lot of Genesis sports games.
Sega also had the Sega coin-op licenses to pull from, which NEC had no
such library.
For me, the answer was simple: NOA and SOA both censored games heavily.
NEC did not.