Damn those games look hard....how did we ever play them?

I know I already posted but why not use a Master System or Genesis controller for both machines? That way you can really concentrate on performance rather than horridly outdated control schemes. Addendum- You need to play the Master System port of Choplifter!

Damnit, Sega! You had one opportunity to win this match up with a clean sweep, but you failed me again. The SG1000 games should be running in 4KUHD w/ray tracing enabled on the Master System. I'm pretty sure its 16KB of video RAM should be more than enough. ;) Addendum- In all seriousness, while they both may have the same hardware...the Colecovision looks so much cooler (case). The SG1000 looks very cheap in comparison to the Colecovision, Sega Mark 2, Sega Mark 3, and Master System. Have you ever seen a Mark 3 with the Master System's color scheme? Incredible. I wish Sega would have done that.

I love Zaxxon on the SG-1000!

It's not even close. The ColecoVision library is significantly larger with many Nintendo titles. Additionally, it offers more peripherals, including the roller controller, steering wheel, Super Action Controller, Adam computer, and an expansion module to play Atari 2600 games. Almost every SG-1000 game has been ported to the ColecoVision. Moreover, there's now a device called the Chameleon that allows SG-1000 games to be played directly on the ColecoVision, much like the Atari expansion module.

I loved the ColecoVision, my first system. And the cartridges start right up! (not like the original Nintendo where you have to insert and remove it a dozen times - even after cleaning.)

Crazy how 2 systems with almost identical hardware can be so dramatically different with common game ports. Never owned either of these. Colecovision always fascinated me. I had 1 friend that had it, and I remember being blown away by Smurfs. Mind you, I grew up with Intellivision and Odyssey 2, so my standards were lower at the time.

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I checked the manual for SG-1000 H.E.R.O., and there's no explanation of what the acronym is supposed to stand for there. I wouldn't be surprised if Sega didn't actually realize it WAS an acronym. The thing you're using to fly is referred to as a "rocket pack" though.

Intelivision

Retro throwback . I had played all these games on a C64 back in the day. The Sg-1000 version of Congo Bongo is wild LOL. Was Jungle Hunt ever released on these systems?

Golgo 13, Star Jacker, and Hustle Chumy are real standout games on the SG-1000. And I agree, there was no reason they couldn't have made Congo Bongo an isometric game like on the ColecoVision.

Interesting, besides my nostalgic bias, there was just something about some of the titles Colecovision got back in the day that will always sway me.

SG-1000 was doomed because it launched the exact same day as the Famicom. It did ok enough to warrant a follow-up, but launching the same day as a more powerful system that ended up practically defining the decade is the worst possible luck lol

I was able to play cosmic avenger using an Atari 7800 controller. I just started the game as two player, plugged the Atari controller in port number two. And did it that way

Playing on a real sg1000 compared to master system the color's are a lot different

13:54 In that situation and a couple others where there's no room to move out of the way, you need to push up a moment before hitting the button to set the dynamite down. That way you'll be flying upwards by the time it goes off.

Both had a small number of great games: Spy Hunter is the only ten out of ten on the Colecovision, honestly. The SG-1000 had a few.

Great idea for a video! Several of these games I didn’t even know were MADE for the SG-1000, so I had a great time watching this, thank you!

Should've used a Dina 2-in-1, it plays cartridges from both system (nowadays very rare and expensive though)

I can hear the controller when you playing Hero it sounds bad. 😂 Hero on the Atari 800 had simpler art and I feel looks better as I agree it is too busy.

You do realize that Sega has always been an East meets West company. American money using Japanese labor to make games for American soldiers stationed in Japanese basis. Corporately they were American until around 1983 when Paramount Pictures sold them to Japanese investors. That's why Sega always seems to fail in Japan because they're always viewed as the outsider during the SG-1000 Master System, and Genesis eras. It took Sega of Japan messing around with Sega of America during the later end of the Genesis era and the Saturn era for them to gain their Japanese street cred. That's the reason why he was never released America because Sega assumed the Colecovision would be their main system for Sega releases in America.

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I wonder how your impressions would change if you had a real SG-1000 to play on? Considering a lot of the Coleco comments are about the controls, you have to remember the SG-1000 controller looks a lot more like a Coleco stick than a Genesis pad. I’ve never used one myself, but I imagine playing on a Master System is a very different experience than when the SG-1000 was new.

Regarding the hardware similarities: I recall reading that the ColecoVision was constructed using off-the-shelf components, meaning none of its parts were proprietary or subject to copyright restrictions. I wish the ColecoVision had enjoyed a longer lifespan-it was an impressive system for its time.

Great video mate

Colecovision sound chip is also in the Sega Master system

For the power connector, you can just put in a punch in it (from behind) and give it a whack and it'll tighten those rivets.

Excellent video !!! Great channel !!! You are amazing !!

Some schematics for anyone that might need them: drive.google.com/open?id=1lVH7_HhNAEBQ5yUY1j8FsJktdYjzmgUc There was another set online, but that old CV Zone link seems to be defunct.

Plus the NES was an awful design at least the model 1 version. The Master System was bulky too and had more of an Atari design but the cartridges loaded better and always worked unlike that stupid front loading cartridge load feature of the NES that flashed and got screwed up always.

Sega Master System is much much better than the NES. NES is 2 yrs older than the Master System came out in 1983, the Master System was 1985. So the technology was newer and better than the NES.

When I was a kid, an elementary school classmate & a friend of mine got his 65XE (in summer of 1986) with a bunch of games, some on cartridges (I remember Star Raiders and E.T. Phone Home), but most of them on floppy disks (he got the matching XF551 as well). We had a lot of fun playing them and we copied some titles for each other, which was quite the standard practice at the time. Then, some two years later he 1:1 exchanged his 65XE for "bare" XEGS with lots of cartridges, as he somehow didn't think of all the games, that required keyboard - which of course caught up with him shortly afterwards. He said to me he was not happy, as he could not play Star Raiders and Druid, two of his most favourite games (and mine too). Unfortunately, the keyboard could not be purchased separately (at least here). But even worse, within a period of a single year, it had to go thrice into a repair shop to get fixed. Once it was the faulty power brick, which fried the CPU and RAM chips, but the other two times it was the faulty soldering. Yeah, it could be felt the XEGS was made as cheap as possible. Even in retrospect, I would always rather go for a fully fledged Atari 8-bit home computer - the price difference was not that big, but the reliability of earlier computers (400/800 and the XL line) as well as the convenience of having a smaller "box" sit on a desk would be the deciding factors. To say so, XEGS was not bad per se - it just came way too late (truly, like an afterthought), utilized mostly a library of 7+ year old games (on a HW from late 70's) and as such, brought nothing really new to the table. Had it been released in let's say 1982 (as +/- all the HW was right there since 1979), it may have been a success, in great part thanks to big, already existing and yet still growing library of games for Atari home computers. And had they implemented e.g. dual POKEY chips for stereo sound with separate stereo audio output and ideally, two more extra ports for analogue joysticks (and made these good & durable) - and most importantly, started re-releasing both existing and new GOOD games supporting & utilizing these new features.. I think the history of atari would have been different.

My first game console. Remember we had Zaxon, Defender, Smurfs, and some game where you explored a pyramid.

I don't understand Leland's point at all. I also don't agree with trying to say it's marketed towards Gen Z. I'm a millennial and my friends are millennials and Gen X and we're the ones buying the Analogue consoles to play these systems on HD TV's. Some of us buy the systems without having any games/controllers as a way to try to experience them in a more modern way. Everdrives and Summer Carts are pretty cheap. Google is filled with lists of best N64 games and hidden gems. His point seems so off base, I question if he is a retro gamer.

All of Analogue's consoles work with flash carts. I wish you guys did your homework before talking about it.

I purchased one in 2025! here in the UK off Ebay in fantastic condition. I also purchased a PiTrex cart which will play all the vectrex official games but also homebred and even MAME ROMS of Star Wars, Tempest, Battlezone etc. Also purchased a UV panel and UV game overlays - playing Vectrex games with ultraviolet overlays is just fantastic!

The SMS port of Choplifter is the best even better than the arcade version!

It would have been nice to see a Frogger face off between the two. They are both awesome but control differently.

Nice video on 2 of my favorite systems! Dark Chambers is actually just a later version of Dandy, which is the game that inspired Gauntlet

Yes I do enjoy these vs videos! Keep them up!

these are 3rd gen

The C128 was NOT "fully compatible to the C64".

Maybe next time compare the 7800 to the sg-1000?

Master system wins, didn’t even have to watch it to figure that one out lol they’re not even comparable, Sega is on another level.

as a kid in the 80's i never knew that the Atari even made the 7800. i knew of the nes & the Sega master system. i did end up getting the master system for Christmas one year.

Master System was one of the most underrated systems ever released in the US. If it had the NES library, it wouldn’t have been close.

I had both. I'd pick Sega but i loved those Atari controllers. They were a big upgrade from the 2600. I miss both systems

the 7800 was shit from day one. especially it's crappy 2600 sound.