Ok, Malitor has now officially lost his marbles.
Anyway, the Genesis was nowhere near as good a system as the SNES. It was, however, by far the best console Sega ever produced. I am not the sort of person that buys every system out there. After my SNES and Genesis, I didn't even buy another system until my PS2. And yet, I had bought the Genesis when I already had a SNES. That just says right there how great a system it was. I didn't buy nearly as many games for it as for the SNES, but that's largely because all the games I played that were available for both were better on SNES. Nonetheless, there were plenty of Genesis-exclusive games that were worth buying a Genesis for, such as the Sonic series, Toejam & Earl, and the only 16-bit port of "Pirates!" (as if any of you care about that one). Anyway, long live the Sega Genesis.
Oh, and for all of you whose systems aren't working... mine has been sitting and collecting dust for many long periods of time when I don't bother playing it, and it still works fine when I get the itch... so more than likely you did something to damage it. Learn to take care of your systems. Oh, and if I ever tell you to put food items into your system in order to unlock a character or something (like I frequently did on the old TRMK)... don't listen to me. I'm making it up. I was under the impression that everyone would figure that out. But apparently, you have to disclaim everything these days....