Popular in the UK and Brazil, I never knew anyone who had one here in Greece. What are some of your favorite games and memories from it? It could be any iteration of the console.
My friend’s dad worked at a local electronics store, so he was the only person I knew that had the “weird” consoles - Sega Master System and TurboGrafx-16. Alex Kidd and Wonder Boy were the favorites, of course… I liked how you got to buy your choice of weapons in Fantasy Zone.
Years later, I found my own SMS at Goodwill! I need to get a multicart because I only have Fantasy Zone, Ghostbusters, and R-Type.
My friend nextdoor had a Master System. I remember playing a lot of California Games, especially surfing and footbag.
When i finished S.C.I.
It’s a fairly difficult game, but one of my favorites as a child, i spend days trying to pass the last stage who have only half of the time.
I still remember the adrenaline burst i get when i was almost doing but it was on the last five seconds.
The final scene with the dectetives posing and calling themselves a heroes and the little girl reunited with her father before the final screen it’s still in my memories
My favorite Master System memory is playing Double Dragon with my dad.
I’m still making them for the first time! i never had master system but i got a nice retro game collection going for twitch streaming and included the master system library, so I’ve finally been able to check it out
I notice the product says master system II. Is that backwards compatible with I? Was II a big jump in tech like from PSX to PS2? Also, is Mark III the third iteration of the master system?
I’ve only touched Sega after the Genesis/Megadrive so their history is kind of a mystery to me.
They got rid of the card slot, the device was smaller, and it had an inbuilt game (Alex the Kidd in Miracle World in my case, although it seems some had Sonic instead)
There even was am even smaller version called the Master System III which I think only was released in Brazil.
The original Mark III was what would be the Master System in the west. The Mark 1 in this case was the Sega SG-1000 which had a very limited release outside of Japan (and came out the same day as the Famicom, so always had an uphill battle). The mark 2 was an iteration om that. As was the Mark 3 and the later Mega Drive actually.
When you say Mark III was the Master System in the West, do you mean the Japanese Master System (which is the Mark III with its peripherals built-in)? Or was the OG Mark III called Master System in the West? This is all so confusing, haha. But I’m looking at the Japanese SEGA website and it’s starting to make a lot more sense. Super interesting stuff.
yes, the whole Master System name was because it was supposed to be the “Master” System, and you could add peripherals to it. The Japanese Mark III was the Master System
Nah. It was more like a psx and psone kinda thing. In some parts it was a downgrade (they removed the card slot from the MS2, so you couldn’t play those “card format games” anymore) Otherwise it was smaller than the first gen.
In 2007, I got my first Master System, the Coleco Handheld Electronic Games. I liked it a lot! It was a solid little bar of soap handheld with a tiny screen that made Fantasy Zone look great. I liked playing Aztec Adventure and throwing money at my problems. I eventually got a normal Master System and banged my head on Wonder Boy in Monster Land for a while.
I had an OG one in US. I never met anyone else that did except my uncle. My first game was Fantasy Zone. Remember finding it very stressful . Played a lot of Psycho Fox, Space Harrier, built-in Hang-On and shooting gallery, Outrun, Rampage. Lots of weird games too. The Space Harrier and Outrun soundtracks were bangers.
Stealing graph paper from my dad’s desk so I could manually map the dungeons in Phantasy Star.
I’m not Brazilian or French, so my main memory is walking past the boxes on the store’s video games aisle. The graph paper pattern on the labels was cool.
playing fantasy zone when i went over my step sisters house :)
Step sister fantasies are quite common according to some documentaries I’ve seen online.
My first system was a ColecoVision, but Master System is really the first system I have vivid memories of from childhood. I think the Master System overall was my favorite part of being 4-6 years old - playing Shooting Gallery, Fantasy Zone, Ys, Missile Defense 3D (I think that was the name), etc., It also felt mysterious (?) to me because a.) I was the only kid I knew with one and b.) things like the hidden game (I forget the game exactly) that would come on if turned on the system with no cartridge inside.
Alex Kidd in Miracle World was the built in game.
Interesting, maybe it varies by model? Mine was some worm maze thing
Sonic 1 or 2 were fantastic and completely different from their Mega Drive/Genesis counterparts
I still go back to California Games every once in a while.
I loved Asterix, but I dont think I could stand going through that nowadays.
Golden Axe was cut down compared to the MD or the Arcade version, but still impressive for the MSII I had.
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Playing Sonic 1, Super Monaco GP and Alexx Kidd In Miracle World at my friend’s hours after school. Probably my introduction to computer games in general.
Then getting my own Mk II for Christmas, probably 1991. The best Christmas ever!
And getting addicted to Road Rash. I bought that game having never played it and hoping it would be good, as things often were back then. Turned out to be a truly superb conversion, probably prefer it to the mega drive version.
