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I think most gamers came out of Gen 4 under the impression that Nintendo took away a clean win. Personally I am an RPG gamer so I have an inclination towards the SNES but growing up learning to appreciate action games I think the Genesis had the edge in this regard.

It is not commonly known but the Genesis did have a stronger CPU and when you had a dev that knew how to utilize it, you got games that legitimately looked and played like a true arcade game.

While the SNES definitely had some banger action games like Yoshi's Island, Genesis had some truly crisp masterpieces like Rocket Knight Adventures, Gunstar Heroes, Strider, Streets of Rage 2, Castlevania Bloodlines and of course Sonic.

Even though I think SNES had stronger RPGs over all with Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI and Trials of Mana, Genesis still had some banger RPGs including Phantasy Star IV which is among the greatest RPGs of all time.