Master system thread

[Anonymous No.6215281]

Since this is the only sega system i dobt own yet i want to check it out

What are some good hidden gems on this thing

[Anonymous No.6215297]

>>6215281
R-Type and Ghost Hunter are some great hidden gems. The game I enjoy most on the Sega Master System is Rambo.

[Anonymous No.6215305]

>>6215281
did someone say...hidden gems?

[Anonymous No.6215306]

>>6215281
Ninja Gaiden

[Anonymous No.6215417]

>>6215281
do you own a SG-1000 but not a Master System?

[Anonymous No.6215487]

>>6215305
There's this game called Alex the Kid...

[Anonymous No.6215505]

>>6215281
nice photoshop idiot
you will never, i repeat, NEVER make your schizo "master system" meme catch on

[Anonymous No.6215509]

>>6215281
Driving:
Battle OutRun

Shmup:
Power Strike II

Zelda-like:
Golden Axe Warrior

Fighting:
Masters of Combat

JRPG:
Phantasy Star

Platforming:
Alex Kidd in Miracle World
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic 2
Psycho Fox
Wonderboy 3: Dragon's Trap
Jungle Fighter Danan
Lord of the Sword
Kenseiden
Spellcaster
Zillion
Zillion II
Psychic World
Master of Darkness
Ninja Gaiden
Aladdin
Castle of Illusion
Land of Illusion
Lucky Dime Caper
Deep Duck Trouble
Asterix
Asterix's Secret Mission
Taz-Mania
Jurassic Park
Batman Returns

[Anonymous No.6215595]

>>6215417
No i dont, i shouldve said all sega consoles released in europe and america

[Anonymous No.6215625]

>>6215281
The Master System sucked. The best game for it is the built-in snail maze game. Everything else was better on the NES, PC Engine, and the subsequent 16-bit consoles.

[Anonymous No.6215631]

>>6215505
you are the delusional one sega system anon

[Anonymous No.6215635]

>>6215505

[Anonymous No.6215643]

>>6215505
you are the one meme-ing falsehoods

[Anonymous No.6215646]

>>6215505
you can’t escape reality forever anon

[Anonymous No.6215660]

Ahhh. my first console. Here are some of my games.

Batman Returns, was solid, really good.
Bubble Bobble, the best home console version period.
The Ninja, classic gameplay
Asterix 1, amazing feelings

[Anonymous No.6215667]

>>6215281
Cancer: The Post

[Anonymous No.6215762]

Astro Warrior was fun

[Anonymous No.6215865]

Black Belt is really fun. It takes a while to get the distancing down for the one-on-one boss fights, but it's a solid game once you've got the hang of it. The original Japanese version was a Hokuto no Ken game, and if you're familiar with the series you can see it in Black Belt, even with the reskinning.

Enduro Racer is fun with the added depth of improving your bike between races.

Miracle Warriors is a reasonably fleshed-out RPG that isn't Phantasy Star.

Zillion has some cool action and light puzzle elements.

Ghostbusters is pretty deep for a SMS game and far better than many Ghostbusters console releases of the era.

[Anonymous No.6215903]

>>6215595
SC-3000 (SG-1000 with keyboard) was released in Europe

[Anonymous No.6216138]

>>6215625
Mostly agree, but Castle of Illusion is a different game than the Genesis version and is at least just as good. Not that either version is amazing, but they're worth playing if you already own the consoles.
And the best SMS game's Dragon's Trap (which is better on PCE)

[Anonymous No.6216625]

>>6215305

So are we still pretending to be entertained by this meme?

[Anonymous No.6216636]

>>6216138
Castle of Ilusion on Genesis was an excellent game. It's not amazing by today's standards because it seems platform games have fallen out of favor. Also, it seems that Castle of Illusion was targeted to a younger audience. But the graphics, musics, animation, and playability of the game was top notch. Quackshot was also another great Disney property on the Genesis that was more challenging than Castle of Illusion.

[Anonymous No.6216665]

>>6215281
>the only sega system i dobt own yet
you don't own the one before it either

[Anonymous No.6216668]

>>6215305
Looks better this way actually.

[Anonymous No.6216687]

There is only one true hidden gem on the Master System: Snail Maze.

As member of the master taste I often enjoy an orange Fanta with my aryan wife watching our 3 kids play Sega games while our maid Tamicka makes dinner.

[Anonymous No.6216697]

So I just recently picked one up and the plastic on the front is almost completely off. Is there a way I can glue that shit back on or should I just rip the whole thing off?

[Anonymous No.6216705]

>>6216636
>It's not amazing by today's standards because it seems platform games have fallen out of favor.
What do you mean? I meant that it's not amazing compared to the best of the genre, and the best of the genre is mostly 8 and 16-bit. It's definitely a good game, but it's no Mario, Gimmick, Batman, Castlevania, or Ninja Gaiden

[Anonymous No.6216817]

>>6216705
It's a great game and the rest you mentioned are shit.

[Anonymous No.6216826]

The SMS is kinda like 3rd gen N64, most powerful console hardware at the time and some fun platformers but very little else leading to an undiverse and unsatisfying library, also like the N64 has a terrible fucking controller.

[Anonymous No.6216837]

>>6216826
There are similarities, but unlike the N64 the SMS doesn't have even a small library of classics that are at the top of their respective genres today. N64, PS1, and Saturn each has a library that was competitive that gen, while the SMS is completely trounced by the NES. Maybe it had potential some as hardware, but if potential is never realized then what does it matter

[Anonymous No.6216843]

>>6216826
Another parallel the N64 and SMS have in common is they both have shit sound capability/quality.

[Anonymous No.6216850]

>>6216837
>the SMS doesn't have even a small library of classics that are at the top of their respective genres today.
Subjective. I'd rather play the SMS' platformers over the N64's collectathon snoozefests.

>while the SMS is completely trounced by the NES.
Again, subjective. You just come off as a Nintendo shill. What SMS games have you even beaten, btw?

[Anonymous No.6216859]

>>6216138
>(which is better on PCE)

enjoy not having sexy fm synth music, necbeard

[Anonymous No.6216870]

>>6216850
>I'd rather play the SMS' platformers over the N64's collectathon snoozefests.
So was I, but I wasn't talking about N64's collectathon snoozefests. I was talking about games like F-Zero X, Wave Race, Mario, Ocarina, Majora, 1080, Mischief Makers, Tennis, Golf, the Goemon games, Bangai-O. SMS has nothing essential
>>6216850
>Again, subjective. You just come off as a Nintendo shill. What SMS games have you even beaten, btw?
I love the MD, Saturn, and like the Dreamcast. I love the PS1 too. I've finished Dragon's Trap (on the PCE because it's a much better version), Castle of Illusion, and Sonic 1, but I've played a lot of SMS games. It's just that none of the other ones were good enough to want to play all the way through. The Master System has a mostly hideous palette that hurts the look of a lot its games, a less-than-stellar soundchip, and not many games that play well enough or are interesting enough to make up for it. Not good

[Anonymous No.6217028]

>>6216705
During the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, there were a ton of platform games. The fact is that Castle of Illusion was one of the better ones. I haven't played all of the platform games you've mentioned but at two of them, the various Mario games and Castlevania, are games I've played and they are heads and shoulders above all the others. Castle of Illusion cannot compare to those games.

After you clarified that your use of "amazing" means comparable to (using the same generation 16-bit version) Super Mario World and Super Castlevania IV, I fully agree with you. In another thread, I had written that Nintendo has created very deep games and that was what allowed them to compete, using relatively wimpy hardware, against deep pocketed Microsoft and Sony.

[Anonymous No.6217030]

>>6216850
>What SMS games have you even beaten, btw?
Not the guy you're replying to but I've completed none. It's not that I didn't play any of them. It's just that I found them so bad that I couldn't bear playing them. They just weren't fun. Note that I played the SMS and NES when they were released in the 1980s.

The SMS was generally known to have sucked. EGM (yeah, yeah, they're shit), when they did an early write-up of the not-yet-released Genesis, made a comment like, "It remains to be seen if the Genesis can leave the SMS behind and have games that are actually fun."

[Anonymous No.6217374]

>>6216837
The SMS trounced the NES in Europe and South America, if I recall. I think if the SMS had more skilled developers and better sound hardware it would have stood more of a chance. However, the real reason the NES killed it in NA was because of locking down third party developers so they couldn't work on competitor's consoles.

[Anonymous No.6217386]

>>6217374
I meant in game quality, not sales

[Anonymous No.6217397]

>>6217386
It definitely had a much longer run and way more third party developers to allow that to happen. I can't disagree with you though. I love the SMS, but there's only a handful of excellent titles. I do like some of the SMS offerings better than similar NES titles, though.

Golden Axe Warrior > Zelda
Phantasy Star > Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest
OutRun > Rad Racer
Enduro Racer > Excite Bike
Miracle Warriors > Ultima
SMS Double Dragon > NES Double Dragon (supports two players, better graphics, awesome FM soundtrack)
Rambo > Ikari Warriors

Some great, high-quality platformers and action too. Alex Kidd in Miracle Word and also Shinobi World, the SMS port of Shinobi, and Black Belt come to mind. It's by means rivaling NES overall, but it's definitely worth playing even today. 3-D glasses actually work quite well for a fun gimmick.

[Anonymous No.6218823]

>>6217374
In europe it honestly depends on the country

Im dutch and way more people i know that played games back then said they had an NES and dont even know what a SMS is
Meanwhile in west germany the sega master system was pretty popular

A local retro store even told me like 90% of his sms stock came from germans selling it to his store

[Anonymous No.6218825]

>>6215305
I hate this faggot so much, but I think most of my hatred stems from the fact that he has an entire house floor dedicated to his gaming collection and he has a wife

[Anonymous No.6218830]

>>6217030
>a shitty magazine with shitty opinions validates my shitty opinions that means I'm right
No, preemptively acknowledging they're shit doesn't make you right either.
>>6218823
From what I heard, places like Netherlands, France, and Scandinavia were Nintendo territory while the UK, Spain, Portugal, and Brazil were Sega turf. Can't recall what Italy's 8 bit system of choice was. Of course Soviets had to make due with dendy's if they were lucky.

[Anonymous No.6218907]

>>6218830
>No, preemptively acknowledging they're shit doesn't make you right either.
By itself, no. However, it is corroborated with the abysmal sales of the Master System. The SMS really only sold well in poor countries. If the games really were all that fun, Sega wouldn't have been gotten so utterly destroyed by Nintendo during the 8-bit era.

[Anonymous No.6219967]

>>6216859
>enjoy not having sexy fm synth music, necbeard

barely anyone on /vr/ plays pce, it's mostly just faggots who boot up Rondo

enjoy your 20 fps and lack of battery saves though

[Anonymous No.6220819]

>>6215281

[Anonymous No.6220853]

>>6216817
More like Castle of Delusion right?

[Anonymous No.6220871]

>>6215281
All of the blaster games for it. If you find a good deal on the shutter glasses, get those too and dont play the games too long and you wont get a headache

[Anonymous No.6222882]

Is Aztec Adventure worth playing?

[Anonymous No.6223501]

>>6215281
Ultima IV, Ys, choplifter, lord of the sword, rastan and the sonic games are some of my favorite games on the system

[Anonymous No.6223516]

Lucky Dime Caper
Master of Darkness

[Anonymous No.6223882]

What a fuckin' sexy console. Better than nes by miles.