Awesome video

What you need are the killer games. Make a cool FPS shooter. Make a cool RPG like Final Fantasy 7 Make a bunch of cool stuff so that people are interested in playing it. You just produce banger after banger and sell the units and you don't stop. After just a year, they stopped selling units. That's not how you support a console. Even if you released a console and it was a flop, you can still sit down and produce a good game for it, even if that game comes out a year or so later.

I'm actually happy that the Jaguar didn't use CD's right out of the box. By using cartridges, while they are more expensive, you get faster load times. Also because its a cartridge system, you can possibly create enhancement chips for the system like they did on the SNES. You could possibly create the sytems CPU and GPU and overclock them and put them on a cartridge via FPGA and increase the power of the console by 10 fold. You could theoretically make the Jaguar more powerful than the 3DO, PS1 and Sega Saturn.

Truly excellent analysis... comparison, historical context, humor and consistent editing style. 👍👌🤙

Were is donkeykong jr,mariobros,ms pacman and sky skippier etc… because those games are interesting to compare as well. Now while it is true that the stock 2600 could only do square like graphics, however with enhancement chips in certain games it is possible to do near arcade quality games on the 2600 like honebrew pac man,galga,donkeykong etc…

Fantastic review. You sold me on the 2600+

Pinball over Starmaster? WTF?

The graphics are better on the genesis and it's more accurate, however I like the snes one better. You are ridiculously bias. Even in your opening video you show you hating on genesis. Aladdin on genesis is far better. You are absolutely a snes fan boy. I loved the video regardless of your love for the snes

I sure was afraid of those 1940s era sheet -ghosts during one of those nightmare on elm Street movies

Jungle Hunt on 2600 was fairly decent 👍

Every time he says "The SNES has better color" I think "Does this guy not know the Genesis has only 64 colors while the SNES has 256?? I only had a Genesis which I bought solely to play Street Fighter II on. AFAIK it was the biggest cartridge for the Genesis ever made. But as he noted, they still had to compress the hell out of the audio files. It played great though with the 6 button controller...

This was a very important comparison video for me. Arcades were my first video game true love, but the Atari 2600 also has an enduring impact to me

Altered Beast came with the Sega Genesis, you don't need a port, it already comes in a cartridge

It was a good system for the time. It's a shame Coleco suddenly dropped it.

lol nes alien syndrome is less like the arcade, the sms is closer imo

first time I’ve played a pc engine game today, never was a thing in the uk or never caught on. Very suprised I’ve tried side arm,decent indeed of a shooter. feels and looks very sega like compared to Nintendo I’m very impressed I’m going to delve into the library and savour some new experiences

There's a game called "Space Taxi" for the C64

Tom Wilson is gold man, So awesome.

Atari Baseball is more like Atari Wiffle Ball 😆

My mom & dad didn't wanna buy a Nintendo. Then I saId well the Atari 7800 system is cheaper. And it'll play our 2600 games. It comes with a 7800 game. Pole Position Two. They was going to buy it when my older brother went with them to Sears & talked them into a Nintendo. Thank God we got the Nintendo. Only 58 games released for Atari 7800. NES had thousands of releases. I thank my older brother for that. He bragged if it hadn't been for him we wouldn't have got it. He was probably right. They was gonna go buy an Atari System. Compared to Nintendo it was a joke. Dad told my mother you bring that into this house you bring the devil in. Everytime he scream for us kids to serve him we was on that damn game. 😂 I just wished Pole Position & Pole Position Two would have been released for the Original NES. But Rad Racer was cool. I wanted Rad Racer Two but never got it. I don't think they could find it was very rare game to find.

The achievements hare are amazing

You did not mention that Asteroids on the 2600 lack the UFOs that attack you?

Why the master system screen is bigger?, it has less resolution.

Great video. I disagreed on a few but it’s fun to debate and analyze. Hope to see this series continue!

I believe Pauline from Donkey Kong returned in bonus screen of Nintendo Pinball NES.

I’m really enjoying these arcade to home comparison videos!

Genesis brought the Arcade Experience HOME! So many Great ports.

Great video!!! Maby next time you make another video with the 2600 Ports: Dig Dug, Ms. Pac Man, Jungle Hunt, Crystal Castles, Centipede, Pooyan, Millipede, Gorf, Moon Patrol, Pitfall 2, Stargate, Carnival and Phoenix.

Props for the Starpath Frogger. Omega Race? Maybe next time.

Yes I had one of these too. I was addicted to Tetris. Awesome.

Damn I owned one of those. My fav games were Skiing, Horseracing, Space Battle, Truckin and Carnival.

Thanks for the great Video. I was wondering. How did you get the car graphic to show on your mame arcade emulation of Night Driver? Another creator mentioned that you had to download the art pack but I couldn't find it and wasnt sure how to make it work. If you can point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. BTW - I agree with most of your comparisons :)

I bought one early, I sold my master system, and all my games (which I regret greatly in hindsight) - and bought one the day it came out in my city. It totally blew me away and I was fixated on FMV games. I was only 13 and didn't appreciate some of the RPG's and some of the better games. I ended up selling it to get a 3DO eventually... Lol, I'm a glutton for punishment

I do love me some Super Dodge Ball. If you like it you'll like World Cup Soccer where you kick the ball that destroys the opposing players just the same.

"You got Astrids?" "Nah, my dad does though. He can barely sit on the toilet some days."

How about Atari 2600 vs. Magnavox Odyssey 2?

I believe the Space Invaders hack is only graphical and sound difference, but it still plays the same

I remember playing Gun Fight in the arcade and it was only 2-player

We need to see Mario Bros, Rampage