The Genesis definitely DID bring the arcade experience home. There is zero
denying that.
Altered Beast & Ghouls and Ghosts were amazing ports when the system
launched. You definitely couldn't find that quality within any other
console
of the time in the U.S.
Forgotten Worlds came around shortly after that. Then later, people
forget
how much Golden Axe was state of the art and the Genesis brought it right
home. It was truly amazing!
Revenge of Shinobi (although not an arcade game) did bring home the vibe.
But the crowning grace for me was Strider. Yeah at that point arcade games
had advanced, so you could tell it was a port moreso than not, but still,
Strider was an amazing arcade game, and the fact that the Genesis played a
very decent port of it was amazing.
I think the Genesis definitely lived up to that hype in it's inital stages
in bringing home the arcade scene of it's launch era.
