Old Sega Genesis Ads Remind Us of the First Real Console War [Retromodo]

Clearly, Sega was trying to be a more edgy alternative to Nintendo's family-fun image. It's not a crazy idea, and you can see shades of it in Sony's sort-of-edgy, sort-of-artsy ads for the PlayStation 3. But in the end, no amount of in-your-face MTV-style ads could save Sega from itself, as i...