Thoughts on sega master system?

[Anonymous No.8272008]

What are some must play games?

[Anonymous No.8272015]

>>8272008
>the sonic games
>Phantasy Star
>Golden Axe Hero
>Zillion 1 and 2
>Shinobi
>Wonder Boy in Monster Land
>Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap
>The Ninja
>Black Belt
>Alex Kidd in Miracle World
>Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
>Rastan
>Psycho Fox
>Master of Darkness
>Mickey Mouse in: Land of Illusion
>Kenseiden
>Golvellius: Valley of Doom

[Anonymous No.8272069]

mario

[Anonymous No.8272325]

Good licensed platformers developed by Sega:
>Asterix
>Asterix and the Secret Mission
>Castle of Illusion
>The Lucky Dime Carper
>Land of Illusion
>Deep Duck Trouble

[Anonymous No.8272342]

>>8272008
I really liked Alien 3 on it. Nicest flamethrower and banging intro tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPSEvU9OoUs

[Anonymous No.8272378]

>>8272069
Got buttfucked

[Anonymous No.8272451]

>>8272325
Secret Mission is pretty shitty, but the first Asterix is amazing and probably the best exclusive release for the system. The only arguable downside is that it was made by a japanese team with probably almost no familiarity with the series beyond a basic brief, and the result borders on surreal wackiness in the later levels

[Anonymous No.8272463]

>on Youtube comment section
>man Great Baseball blew NES Baseball out of the water
A game that used a 128k ROM was better than a game that used a 16k ROM? You don't say.

[Anonymous No.8272469]

>>8272451
But then again if it was made in Europe it would be a typical Amiga-style Eurojank platformer and be complete trash to play.

[Anonymous No.8272475]

>>8272463
the original Mark III Great Baseball was a launch title from 85 and used only a 32k ROM. they considered it too crude for North American release so we got a different and completely remade game with a larger ROM.

[Anonymous No.8272492]

>>8272469
Not gonna argue that, but the sequel was also japanese-developed and it's definitely weaker than the somewhat solid Nintendo Asterix games

[Anonymous No.8272512]

A lot of Master System games were developed in Europe since that was its biggest market and they were the usual Zniggy shit you would expect.

[Anonymous No.8272525]

>>8272512
Embarrassing. How did they cope with such a subhuman dosage of quality releases from Glorious Nihon?

[Anonymous No.8272782]

>>8272008
Phantasy Star, best 8-bit jarpig
Dragon's Trap, best 8-bit Willyvania
Alex the Kid in Shinobi World, best 8-bit scotformer
Power Strike 2, best 8-bit shmup
Battle Outrun, best 8-bit driving game

[Anonymous No.8272785]

Running battle and bank panic are my favorites
lots of great games in europe way better than the nes

[Anonymous No.8272801]

>>8272782
>scotformer
What?

[Anonymous No.8272843]

>>8272008
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/304161167611
This cart plays SMS games on Genesis.

[Anonymous No.8272851]

>>8272843
One of the best things I ever bought was a knock off mega everdrive from ebay a few years ago.
It will play sms and 32x games, but I had some trouble with select euro games like dizzy on sms

[Anonymous No.8272989]

>>8272451
>The only arguable downside is that it was made by a japanese team with probably almost no familiarity with the series beyond a basic brief, and the result borders on surreal wackiness in the later levels
Is that truly a downside?

[Anonymous No.8273041]

>>8272782
Based and willyvania pilled

[Anonymous No.8273076]

>>8272451
i used to play the hell out of this as a kid, great game

[Anonymous No.8273094]

>>8272451
I wouldn't call it shitty, not good as the first one, sure, but still has its charm

[Anonymous No.8273102]

>>8272989
That's why it's arguable. The game is great even if you're not aware of the source material, but if you ARE you might find it a missed opportunity.

[Anonymous No.8273264]

>>8272015
That's a really good list, tons of great games on there. Good work anon!

[Anonymous No.8274124]

>>8272851
Wish I bought a 32x before the price hit the fucking sky.

[greedy No.8274243]

Wonder boy 3 dragons trap is the best classic metroidvania . Essential

[Anonymous No.8274312]

>>8273264
No worries man

[Anonymous No.8274318]

I’M THE MIRACLE BALL
AAAAARRGHHH

[Anonymous No.8274980]

>>8272008
Phantasy Star. That's it.

[Anonymous No.8274989]

>>8274980
jrpg trannys have shit taste as usual

[Anonymous No.8275123]

>>8274989
And yet, it's still the only good sms game

[Anonymous No.8275173]

>>8275123
If you're a weeb faggot then yes

[Anonymous No.8275676]

>The most informative post in this thread was deleted
The utter state of this board.

[Anonymous No.8275694]

>>8275676
This is /vr/, a board about 25 year old games on average; "information" has a very limited value here. You should generally hope for worthwhile discussion instead, but sadly these threads rarely amount to little else than simple lists padded with bait and shitposting.

[Anonymous No.8275705]

Is it true Americans never really picked up this console when it was new? It was huge in Europe I remember.

[Anonymous No.8275718]

>>8275173
Not an argument

[Anonymous No.8275721]

>>8275705
I had never even heard of it until emulation became a thing and I've been playing home consoles since the Atari 2600 era. It really just wasn't a thing here, we went straight from the 2600 to the NES, then from there you either got a Genesis or a Super Nintendo and the era of console wars began.

[Anonymous No.8275756]

>>8275705
To be fair the library was pretty shocking in the 80's when it mattered. A lot of the best games were being released in the middle of 4th-gen

[Anonymous No.8275764]

>>8272008
Emulate sega arcade games and maybe play game gear. Master System is horrible.

[Anonymous No.8275771]

>>8275705
Nintendo absolutely ruled the roost, there was no way in hell it was going to compete because of how aggressive and popular Nintendo were. Sega only got a foot in the door with the Mega Drive and even then it took a year or two for them to really get the ball rolling. Home computers were much more popular in Europe and Sega introduced the master system at an affordable price and with a good library whereas Nintendo didn’t really focus on Europe as much

[Anonymous No.8275773]

>>8275756
Nah, there's a sweet spot around 1990-1991. Further into 4th gen they started missing the point and releasing more and more simple downgrades of 16-bit games instead of original games or reimaginings tailor-made to the system's strengths and weaknesses.

[Anonymous No.8275792]

who the fuck came up with the packaging design?
It looks like packaging for stationary.

[Anonymous No.8275804]

>>8275792
I think I remember reading somewhere that they were given that look to make them stick out and to make customers know they were all for the same system instead of the hodgepodge of designs for the NES at times but I’ll be damned if i knew

[Anonymous No.8276075]

>>8275773
You do realise 4th-gen started in 1987? And honestly the best games were released around 1993

[Anonymous No.8276078]

>>8275676
Didn't you get the memo?
Retro games are off topic now.

[Anonymous No.8276731]

>>8275705
I had both SMS and NES. A friend of mine also had both. Everyone else I knew had just an NES. Which made sense, as the NES library was far superior.

[Anonymous No.8276736]

>>8275705
it went over like a leaded balloon in NTSC territories. couldn't scale Mount Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.8276892]

SMS Ninja Gaiden is my favorite game in the entire franchise.

[Anonymous No.8276937]

>>8276731
>NES library was far superior.
Pure rubbish

[Anonymous No.8278248]

Not really master system specifically but if you want to play Game Gear games on your Master System there's some nice conversions on this website, some are a little fucky but still functional

https://www.smspower.org/Hacks/GameGearToMasterSystem

[Anonymous No.8278421]

>>8272008
i prefer the mark iii
better aesthetic (sans fm synth)
plays sg-1000 & sg-2000 titles
+sega my card games

legitimately surprised people aren't enamored

[Anonymous No.8278432]

>>8274318
GOD I fucking hear it

[Anonymous No.8278445]

>>8276937
Please tell me how 114 Master System games are somehow superior to the 716 NES games.

[Anonymous No.8278469]

>>8278445
>The "more to love" mindset
Portly american detected

[Anonymous No.8278537]

>>8278248
this is absolutely cool as hell
im adding all of it to my flashcart asap

[Anonymous No.8278547]

>>8278248
This is basically what TekToy did in Brazil, I guess? I've played the Legend of Illusion MS port and it's pretty glitchy when it comes to screen-relative logic

[Anonymous No.8278637]

>>8278445
>716 games
701 shovel ware titles and 15 actually worth playing

[Anonymous No.8278669]

>>8272008

[Anonymous No.8278916]

>>8278445
>Please tell me how 114 Master System games are somehow superior to the 716 NES games.

Actually no. The Master System has 314 games and the NES/Famicom has 1380.

[Anonymous No.8278918]

>>8278669
"cartridge" is a little bit of a misnomer since this is one of those 32k card games

[Anonymous No.8278931]

>>8278918
And that's the cartridge release anon.

[Anonymous No.8278958]

>>8272015
Shinobi should be played in it's arcade form as that is the superior version. Actually a pretty good intro to 1cc

[Anonymous No.8279006]

>>8278958
Ok, but we're discussing good releases for the system, not the best versions to play each particular game (which would trim out a good chunk of any /vr/ system's library).

Speaking of, the Ghouls n Ghosts "port" (developed by early Arc Systems Works) is an interesting version of the game despite the massive technical downgrade.

[Anonymous No.8279562]

Sega completely fucked up the initial Euro release, in addition to their design mistakes.

Had they not gone full retard, they might've been even more successful, enough so that they would've come close to Nintendo's numbers for the NES.

[Anonymous No.8279573]

>>8278918
>>8278931
The cards were a cost saving measure for small 32k games that didn't need a mapper. Since Sega had a lot less market share than Nintendo cost saving was a higher priority; Master System carts often had the standard Sega mapper integrated into the ROM chip as another way of reducing costs.

[Anonymous No.8279653]

>>8272008
*sega system

[Anonymous No.8279695]

psychic world

[Anonymous No.8279727]

The biggest mistake Sega made with the thing was not including hardware sprite flipping.

[Anonymous No.8279735]

>>8275705
for some reason my dad bought one when i was a kid but otherwise i probably would have had no idea it existed

[Anonymous No.8279876]

>>8278547
Oh yea absolutely, from the top of my head their Sonic Blast and Mean Bean Machine ports were basically identical to these fanmade ports