10 Best Next-Gen Reveals In Gaming History

Now you're playing with power, super power.

Odds are, nobody knows what the hell modes 1 through 6 even do, but mode 7, that was the mode that moved gaming forward a whole generation.

Simply having crisper detail and better music than the Sega Genesis could ever produce wouldn't be good enough for the Super Nintendo. It wasn't about doing what Sega was doing but doing it better; it was about doing something the Genesis could never accomplish.

F-Zero and Pilotwings were the first games to use this new technology. F-Zero, a high octane racing game displayed a level of smoothness, speed and intensity that the Sega's Out Run, with its paralax scrolling, could only dream about. Meanwhile, Pilotwings inched gamers closer to the playing in three dimensions, with planes that could flyin all throughout the screen, and deeper into the map.

Nintendo's advanced use of tech on the SNES was enough to send Sega into a craze trying to beat them. They lowered the price of the Genesis and started selling games at a cheaper price. Even with that strategy netting them the leading market share, they still were scared enough of the SNES' power that they dropped add-on's to their console, ruining the Genesis' momentum, in a vain attempt to keep up with Nintendo.