RE: Lesser Known 4th Generation Video Game Consoles - Trivia Tuesday #16

16-bit era-- that's what we called the 4th Generation of gaming consoles back then. Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis were the market leaders back then. Mario Brothers was already a household name, and Sonic the Hedgehog premiered with the Sega Genesis. At the time I thought the Sonic mascot was a joke, but he's lasted to this day.

In the early 1990s I worked in retail and sold these consoles along with computer software and systems. Besides SNES and Genesis (not to mention Nintendo Game Boy and Sega Game Gear handheld units), we also sold NEC Turbo Grafx consoles (along with the CD-ROM perepheral).

These were more expensive in comparison, but people bought them occasionally. At one point, we even sold NeoGeo consoles and games; these were very expensive, and the cartridges were about the size of a baby's head; they were huge! If we sold 1 a year that was a lot.

Despite selling Commodore Amiga 500 computers, we did not sell Commodore CDTV or CD-i. At the time I wasn't aware of them, and the Commodore C64 section of software was dwindling by the day. 3DO consoles were unknown to be in those days.

I remember hearing about Atari Lynx, but I hadn't seen any. When I was working in retail, the Game Boy still had monochromatic LCD screens while the Game Gear was living color.

I may know about the 8-bit systems, but not as much as I know about the 16-bit systems.