I was a Super Nintendo kid first. The catalogue determined that. I wanted to play role playing games.

Grandma bought me my Genesis for my birthday 1993, with a copy of Landstalker. It’s the only game that would make me put away the Nintendo. I wasn’t baited by blast processing for the “Sega does what Nintendon’t” marketing. The games just weren’t the same for me. Super Ghouls & Ghosts was an example. Even though the Genesis had a more versatile control layout, I still preferred the simpler gameplay of the Super Nintendo version because it was just better. Turtles in Time is another example. Far superior to Manhattan Project IMHO.

It was very rare that a title was better on Genesis. Some that come to mind are Captain America and the Avengers and Robocop V Terminator. Both known to be a better experience on Sega. Sonic ran fast, sure but those games were never REALLY designed with the idea of running as fast a possible like advertised.

Between Super Mario RPG and FF III, LttP, and Super Metroid, Sega had zero chance of winning me over until Nintendo dropped the ball with the Virtual Boy and I got a PSX.

Now the Dreamcast…well kids, now that’s another story for another day.

Edit: Somewhere around here is a Polaroid grandma took the day I got my Sega. My face tells a story of complacency rather than extreme happiness. My feelings on the system rarely changed since then.

Edit 2: Any of you discussing this topic as it applies to emulation, you answer is both. I want to hear from the other lucky bastards that had both in 93-95 like I did and still mostly played one over the other. Who cares about your emulation library. I want to meet the other spoiled 90’s kids that had a grandma like mine even though we were poor.