While the war was divided along the Genesis / Mega Drive and the Super Nintendo fronts, the battles were between games. Mortal Kombat was a bloody battle, but in the end, Sega won that one.

SNES did sell better when it debuted, though, so Sega unleashed their next salvo, the Sega CD. Coming out in Japan in the winter of ’91 and autumn ’92 in the U.S., the Sega CD was meant to be ...