Unlike many more fortunate gamers in the mid to late 90’s, I did not own a Super Nintendo console in my younger days. But I did have its main competition, the Sega Genesis. Too bad I didn’t play it very much – but I had good reason.
Our poor little Genesis was a hand-me-down, previously owned by my half-brother. He’s about 10 years older than me, so by the time I got it the console was pretty worn out – it sometimes had trouble loading games, and its only working controller sometimes wouldn’t register my button presses. My half-brother had also sold all the good Genesis games we had, so I was left with a handful of mediocre games:
Our poor little Genesis was a hand-me-down, previously owned by my half-brother. He’s about 10 years older than me, so by the time I got it the console was pretty worn out – it sometimes had trouble loading games, and its only working controller sometimes wouldn’t register my button presses. My half-brother had also sold all the good Genesis games we had, so I was left with a handful of mediocre games:
