16 Bit

Two Consoles came into the gaming industry called the Sega Megadrive and the SNES these consoles were both 16 bit consoles, 16 bit is like small and can only handle up to 64K of ram, these consoles were great graphics for there time though and they had brilliant main characters and main games that attract people for instance the sega megadrives main game and characters was sonic and the SNES's was mario these where what made the consoles that much better along with other very good games for the consoles. they changed gaming with the better graphics for the time and the controls for sega megadrive had 3 button controllers but the SNES has 6 button controller which gives you more gameplay function, easier gameplay and ,more options of moves like fighting games you can kick and punch and do combos which makes it much better also the graphics were arcade standard which was a big selling point. the sega megadrive had no saves and the SNES had saves so the SNES was a step upward from the sega megadrive in a few ways but they all had there unique ways that made them so good. there are 914 games released on the sega megadrive the main ones that made it sell was sonic, streets of rage,altered beast,golden axe to name a few then for the SNES there is mario/mario kart, donkey kong,kirby,zelda,paperboy,street fighter 2 and mortal kombat also to name a few but these are the main games for each console which everyone loved and made it a good selling point for each consoles.