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Three decades after it ended, people still pick a side in the sixteen-bit console war, usually having only played one of the machines. Settle it properly: draw from here, draw from the Nintendo list, and play the pair back to back in one sitting. Thirty games from a library that stopped growing long ago, spanning the platformers, the sports titles that defined the era, and the shooters this hardware handled better than its rival. The arcade ports hold up least well; the original titles hold up best.
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