As Sega tries to revive its classic franchises, a reader imagines a world where the Dreamcast was not a flop and the Mega Drive beat the SNES.

With Xbox going multiformat and PlayStation also beginning to dabble, it really does seem like the era of console wars is coming to an end. There are lots of sensible reasons to think this is a bad thing, including the lack of competition to drive innovation, and the decline of format exclusives – which are also used to push the consoles and the artform beyond the normal limits.

People celebrating the death of exclusives will live to regret it, I feel, when Xbox and PlayStation no longer have any reason to push the envelope, to show off, and we end up with less interesting games as a result.

But the real reason I would not like to see them end is

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