The NES/Master System talk didn't really make it out of my neighborhood for me personally. Everyone had a Nintendo and a couple of kids had a Master System. It was considered neat but inferior, not much else. No war. I remember a person or 2 talking about how much better their Genesis was but that was a short lived Genesis vs. NES thing. When the SNES came out they shut up and when the same games were ported to both systems they really shut up.