"Sonic" was the first holy-shit game for me. (I'm 38.) It blew away any console game I had seen to date. It was truly amazing: the speed, the irreverence, the c

"Sonic" was the first holy-shit game for me. (I'm 38.) It blew away any console game I had seen to date. It was truly amazing: the speed, the irreverence, the colors, the music. Genesis spoke to me as a gamer in a way that NES and eventually SNES couldn't: I didn't care about strategy games or long adventures, so Genesis' hardware decisions were right up my alley. I liked NBA Jam, not Zelda. Another really amazing piece of tech that I think goes underdiscussed is Sega Channel, which was both awesome and way ahead of it's time.