No matter who tries to tell you it was the fan favorite of it's
day (and doesn't know what they are talking about) Sega was the beloved underdog of the
home video game console world of the early 90's, the company that stood up to Nintendo and for a few years, did well enough that it was either Sega or Nintendo for a lot of
kids of the 90's. Sega wasn't known for games quite as cartoonish or child oriented as Nintendo, Sega had blood, guts, gore, and realism in it's games (which
people didn't see much before the early 90's in video games) which was appreciated by the
people or kids that didn't want every one of their games Disneyfied or G-rated, even if it wasn't as profitable or
popular with the masses to sterilize the games. It's a shame Sega didn't figure out a way to remain in the video game console market into the 2000's and beyond.
Nintendo seems kind of like anything
Disney, cartoonish and fantasy up
front, cuthhroat with a hidden
dagger behind the scenes. At least with Sega many of the more vicious things about their business took place in the games themselves.