Aladdin was best on Sega Genesis...nuff said

Decades later, we can all objectively agree the Genesis version was indeed better.

* Cartridges were more fun to own and collect.

They felt i guess more " special" in a way...I like that Nintendo still uses them for 3DS/DS.

* Memory cards...there was never enough space...and the knock off ones would erase data.

* I remember EVERYONE being excited about almost all games though. Not a ton of fighting and arguing and if there was it lasted for like minutes and then we started up a game.

* I was lucky enough to have friends who weren't shat talkers so we would game together a lot and try to be games together, and not really against each other.

People in the 90's were more open, honest, and got along a bit better......or maybe that was because I was younger.

I agree, real friends, can at the very least, agree to disagree. Though memory cards and batteries had their issues, I never really had the other issue as all my friends and I were multi-console, we brought any system that we thought we would have fun with. None of us thought then or now that we should miss out on great games for something as silly as being loyal to business. I miss how in the 90s there was always something new coming out and the console market wasn't flooded with boring FPS. Some of the best RPGs ever came out during this decade.

arguments have been going a lot longer than those old cartridge systems, when I was at high school we used to argue about which pc was better out of the spectrum the c64 and the amstrad. The games on cassette tape and floppies were the days.

Yeah we never turned them upside down in NZ but had it on a 45 degree angle. It wasn't for cutting down load times but to ensure it started the game.

The early PS1's had overheating issues so you had to provide space for the heat to escape. You also couldn't just have it on the carpet either.

It was actually caused because Sony tuned the lasers a bit too low to increase their yield. If those lasers were faulty-ish, then that tuning could cause the laser to not focus properly.

When you turned the system upside down, the slight pull of gravity on the disc would cause the focal length of the laser to increase, and then it could focus properly on the tracks.

Turning the ps1 was a quick fix to solve the optical lens problem with early ps1 model. similar to towel trick for 360 with the RROD.

actually the trick was to put it sideways and ironicaly it's the inspiration for the standing ps2 position.