Objectively we can analyse the both consoles and it is clear that the Super Nintendo wins all day long. There are two ways to approach this and I’m eager to see your views in the comments: Objectively and Subjectively. This is a pathetic argument to support the Snes but back then it was valid. I used to say things like “I like the coloured Snes buttons (red, yellow, blue and green in PAL and JP regions) over the predominantly black Mega Drive controller. Usually, we’d choose the console we owned and paid no regard to the technical spec. Perhaps you were too young? Perhaps you weren’t even born? In the early to mid-nineties a household either had a Super Nintendo console or a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and it was often a hot debate in school as to “which one is the best”. You can download suitable SNES emulators easily off the web, and I can e-mail you the ROM for it if you want.Who here doesn’t remember this debate? Raise your hand, there’s no shame. Perhaps the best way to decide is to try the game out on emulator. The way the levels themselves play in particular is mostly (if not completely) identical I think. (Intro animation refers to the stuff before the main menu screen.)Ĥ) the SNES version has a sound/music test screen (though the MD might have it too, I never really played it)ĥ) The ending credits stuff is different.

SNES does have generally more versatile sound and music capabilities than MDĢ) the SNES version has interesting transition screens featuring cover-art-style lemmings doing various semi-funny stuff, when you finish the last level of a rating and before it brings you to the first level of the next ratingģ) the SNES version has a different intro animation. The only differences I can think of, off top of my head:ġ) different versions of the music. Actually, the SNES version does have 5 extra levels but they were selected from MD's Sunsoft-rated levels. It's definitely the case that the SNES version is 'essentially the same sans the extra MD levels'. I think the MD and SNES versions were done in parallel.

Well, it's more correct to say both are ports of the original Amiga version.

Mega drive games and snes versions