Post your fav MASTER SYSTEM games here. No Game Gear crap. Discussion of GG and Genesis limited only to the MASTER SYSTEM games you can play on them; Power Base Converter was my jam as a kid.
Tomorrow's the 40th anniversary of the console BTW.
>>12112573bumping geniune thread and also happy 40th birthday mark III/sms
blessed thread
for me, it's golden axe warrior
>>12113083I've always wanted to try this one, does it have lots of currency grinding? I don't mind just wanted to know
>>12112573That Japanese box is so nice. Why did the Master System or Genesis never catch on in Japan?
>>12113238Nintendo and NEC had the market on lock.SEGA already had distribution channels in Australia and NZ, and Nintendo ignored Europe so it became SEGA territory. There was even a limited release of the MASTER SYSTEM in the USSR as per SMS Power.I don't know what was up with Brasil, I thought they were just getting everything pirated there anyway.
>>12113234It's not any worse than Zelda in that regard. You'll probably be able to finish it in around 4 hours for your first playthrough.
>>12113245Sega partnered with Brazilian distributor Tec Toy to put out their hardware around 1986 or 1987. Tec Toy to this day still produces official Master System and Mega Drive hardware for the Brazilian market. It's all officially licensed by Sega.
>>12112573WB2 was fire too but the difficulty and design was quite arcade. the mickey mouse games were soul as well
>>12113246That sounds about right, thanks anon.
>>12113391Those boxes sucked because of the art. Nintendo had Zelda 1 and 2 with their gold cartridges and peakk window gold boxes and Mike Tyson on the cover (of Punch Out)
>>12113650Yeah nah
I really like just how specifically 80s the whole thing is. The gridline boxes. The basic Times New Roman style font. The polygonal angles of the console. The boxes and lines labeling on the front below the cartridge slot. All of it just could only exist in that one time.
>>12113672and the "I can only draw crude graphic novels" art
kino theard
>>12113675Hey, still an upgrade from the "word processor clip art" it started with!
The actual answer:>Around 1985 saw the return of Sega firm in the form of Sega of America, and a successful holiday season for Nintendo and its newly launched Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) prompted the company to think about the US home video game console market, deciding in March 1986 to bring the already-selling Sega Mark III into the country[5]. Feeling the name would fail to attract customers, the console was completely redesigned, becoming the new "Sega Video Game System" (or Sega System for short). >The Sega Video Game System was announced for a September 1986 release, although didn't arrive on most store shelves until October. Initially two bundles of the console were sold - the cheaper "Sega Base System" (containing just a Power Base (the console unit) and a control pad) for around $139, and the "Sega Master System" (which also included a second control pad and a Light Phaser) for $149[6]. The latter bundle eventually proved to be more popular, and as future bundles began offering more for less, the "Sega Master System" became synonymous with all home Sega future products, replacing the term "Sega Video Game System" entirely. https://segaretro.org/History_of_the_Sega_Master_System#DevelopmentYes, the launch model base combo still said "MASTER SYSTEM" on it. No, it doesn't make sense. Yes, our resident unfunny attention whore extensively photoshops manuals and packaging to fit his narrative.
>>12113740That doesn't even touch on the fact that internally the name is ALSO the Sega Master System. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4gFMQx1U-YThe whole "Sega Video System" thing really feels like a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing, especially with every console saying Sega Master System on it regardless of what bundle you bought. But Tonka was full of retarded ideas in the 80s so what's one more.
I was really surprised when I heard it was barely a thing in the USI'm European, when I was young I remember many speaking very fondly about it
Happy 40th!
>>12114101It was very poorly marketed in the US, leading Sega to sell the distribution rights to Tonka to see if they could market it as a toy, similarly to the NES.Tonka ended up phoning-it-in and refused to sell successful Japanese games, leading Sega to buy back the distribution rights.They then released the Master System II model, but it still sold poorly compared to the Genesis and Game Gear. It was all too little too late, I suppose.The US didn't even get the later Master System games that Euros got. Only Game Gear ports of those games.
>>12115357what does the "RAPID" button do?
>>12115363makes you instantly cum
>>12115363It’s a turbo switch.
>>12113083aka the sprite from Dragon Warrior plays Zelda
>>12115467So it makes the game run slower?
>>12115363Activates autofire function, IIRC.
>>12115363It dougs
>>12114326>was very poorly marketed in the USIt was probably barely marketed at all.
we bumpin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_JnRh2HvyAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHgSbv4_Lgo
Dipshit Sega System spammer is here again.It is the MASTER SYSTEM, or possibly the Mark III. Nobody ever called it SEGA SYSTEM except for Tonka fucking up.
Space Harrier was a boon for learning enemy positioning.
>>12116390This is the Master System thread, let's keep it about the Master System. Favorite game?
>>12116393As a child I had After Burner, Alex Kidd, that built in snail game, Sonic 1, a few others. I loved playing After Burner the best. The rock paper scissors in AK can suck my balls. I still don't know how to win at it.
>>12116410I always did a fake out. paper... sike rock!
>>12116410After Burner is a beast of a game. The arcade ports were the best way to learn the gameplay and the skills you'd get playing it would transfer to the arcade version excellently.
>>12115363fortune
>>12114294>lower left cornerwait, the mark iii was wireless?isn't that illegal? transmitting tv signals without a permit, i mean.
>>12116768The FCC doesn't have jurisdiction in Japan.
>>12116393Choplifter
>>12114101americans have a very hard time accepting how popular the master system was in europe for some reasons. they think its lack of popularity in the US automatically translated everywhere else.
>>12116451The SMS port of After Burner is not arcade perfect. Space Harrier was pretty decent.
>>12116768No, it works like a microtransmitter. HORI made a Famicom RF switch with the same capability; I have one.Not like it fucking matters now with the (((digital transition)))Anyway>>12117447There was like 1 or 2 kids at my school with an MS (3rd grade, 1993). Seemed like a rare breed here in the USA
>>12117447for what I see as an outsider, in the US if you don't follow the masses, you get ridiculed. so, they all buy the same stuff and the ones that don't, stay silent.where I live, it was cool being friends with kids with the other systems, as you could enjoy them too. nobody ridiculed anyone for that kind of thing.
>>12117471Notice I didn't say Perfectly. Ya took what ya had.
>>12116410>I still don't know how to win at it.It's not random, so you can just memorize the hands
>>12118554lol
>>12113254That's amazing
>>12116410>I still don't know how to win at it.I beat the game for the first time in literally 3 decades about a month ago.
