A Game of Regions - The Sega Master System

[@rockmanhunter]

Ah, the Master System... My favorite 8-Bit machine of all time. It's still a very popular and cult machine here where I live (Brazil).

[@Sirmon815]

Same thing for me (France)

[@CanaldoZenny]

Eu não chamaria o SMS de "cult". O SMS foi muito popular no Brasil. Mesmo após a chegada do Mega Drive, da entrada do SNES pela Gradiente, e até meados dos anos 2000, era super fácil achar modelos do Master System Collection em lojas de departamentos.

[@SegaLordX]

It's amazing that it still has retail availability in some places.

[@Walterjunior79]

Um dos motivos tbm de o master ter feito mto sucesso no Brasil alem da propaganda da Tectoy, foi o fato de ser encontrado para venda em todo o tipo de varejo e as locadoras de filmes da época que começaram a alugar cartuchos de master e nes, tinha até na padaria kkkkk . Fora o avanço tecnológico em relação ao Atari que agora estava começando os jogos com histórias, finais, rpgs, etc.

[@absoluteclownworld]

My least favorite :( imo the nes destroys it.. just the first party Nintendo games alone beats it to me, then add all the others.. no competition. If the pc engine counts as 8bit ( 8bit X2 ) I think that's better as well. The main thing I dislike the master system for is that terrible controller :/

[@villagemonksgamingmemories9736]

I love the Master System, it was my first console. Growing up in the UK, the games were a good ten pounds cheaper than the NES cartridges (which makes a huge difference when you're a kid); it's part of the reason why we were still getting games released until 1995.

[@Halbared]

Yeah, as a nes owner that was irksome! The master was also kept on as a budget system till 1995

[@Sut1978]

Great to see Americans open their eyes and see how gaming differed around the world and open themselves up to new gaming experiences. Great video as always 👍

[@MaxAbramson3]

The mainstream media in this countrybdoesnt tell us what's actually going on in the world. I didn't see what was going on until I started to travel and work overseas.

[@michellesakura1]

Master System, the birth of so much we know now 😍

[@SegaLordX]

A great machine for sure.

[@PainterVierax]

not the birth at all considering that a lot of MS games were arcade, DOS or Genesis ports, but it was a good entry level for a lot of people.

[@zacharygirgenti3790]

It's hard to believe the graphics that the Master System was capable of. Daffy Duck is gorgeous and looks better then a lot of 16 bit games.

[@malik87breaker]

Zachary Girgenti than* :)

[@GirthUnitz]

Yeah, in the right hands, it can produce superb looking and even decently sounding (considering the limitations of the Z80 chip) games. My favorite 8-bit console by far and still love it to bits :)

[@pferreira1983]

The MD version is still slightly superior in graphics.

[@psychopoison]

Im Brazillian and Master System was king here since the early 80´s,, Tec Toy (Sega´s Partner here) invested heavily in Adverts on T.V and Magazines, I went towards Sega solely because it was "The console from the Arcade Company" and as a Arcade rat kid, it was a natural choice.

[@SegaLordX]

Tec Toy did a bang up job getting Sega's products so entrenched there. Win win for everybody.

[@HollowRick]

Same here in the UK :)

[@amerigocosta7452]

Here in Italy the SMS was quite popular in the early 90's because it targeted low budget families that couldn't afford 16-bit gaming. A lot of people throughout those recession times. For some odd reason during the same time period the NES remained a bit of a premium system. The SMS wasn't exactly a cultural phenomenon comparable to what the NES was in the US, anyways. The vast majority of gamers would just play pirated games on computers.

[@estebancruz6194]

3:54 Walter Zenga played SMS ⚽️👍

[@RGF]

I can tell you...in Portugal SMS only saw the model 2 release...and it sold well, because Sega was the gaming preferred gaming brand, and didn't had the money for 16 bit....SMS was the way to Go!!!! Thx for the awesome content!!!

[@aarongreenfield9038]

Damn I don't usually watch long KZbin videos because they usually lose my interest after about 5 minutes, But this was so engrossing I watched the whole thing and didn't even realize 25 minutes had went by, thanks my Lord!

[@SegaLordX]

High praise. Thanks Aaron.

Hey, a brazilian fan here. Master System was THE gaming console to be posessed here in Brazil in the mid 80's. So I did not rest until I convinced my parents to give me one. haha! I had it from 1986 to 1989, when I was handed a Sega Genesis (a.k.a. Mega Drive here in Brazil). Its limited sound palette is one of the fondest memories I have.

[@MuJoNeSs]

Tmj brother. Aconteceu exatamente assim cmg tbm. Master System era o rei dos consoles no Brasil anos 80.

[@DaveMcGarry]

The Mastersystem was huge in the UK... Around 1989 I had a job interview for a company that distributed carts around the country. Unfortunately I didn't get the job, it was my first interview and I was green! I had to walk past walls of games before the interview which I think made me distracted! I didn't know anyone who owned a NES and I remember the first time I saw one I hated the flickering sprites.. Sega forever! ♥

[@philwalkercounselling]

Same for me mate. I knew one person with a nes but several with master system.

[@andrewmaasch1724]

You mentioned the Master System's popularity in New Zealand so you get a thumbs up from me 😁 Also thanks for mentioning Asterix and the Secret Mission, it's my favourite sms game! My dad got my brother and I reading Asterix comics at a young age so it was easy to convince him to buy it for us when we finally got a Master System of our own 😁. Still play through it once a year - I live it!

[@DAVI3610]

speaking of master system, you speak with brazilian people.

[@acgon]

Pode crer

[@RetroGamesBoy78]

It saddens me that Nintendo bullied and Monopolized the gaming industry during the 8 bit era i North America, if the SMS vs Nes war had have been a fair 1 in the states i could imagine it selling just as well as the Nes, and with it being more powerful than the Nes, maybe beating it. P.S. no Streets of Rage 2?

[@SegaLordX]

I had played the Streets of Rage games on the GG at their release, so I was aware of them.

[@pferreira1983]

Streets of Rage 2 was a big disappointment over the first SMS one.

[@zazaaji9833]

Very nice by the sound of the description. I was a Nintendo girl and only had a Megadrive/Genesis for Toejam and Earl really, never did much with SEGA systems. It's nice to see what they were like back in the day. ^^ As always, thumbed it up and looking forward to the next SEGA history lesson :p

[@SegaLordX]

Really happy to see you enjoy the vids even coming from a Nintendo background.

[@zazaaji9833]

Nintendo background heavily yes, but I'm 31 now and was never even one of those "SEGA SUCKS" types back then. The technology always amused me with what they could do with it. Only reason I was a Nintendo girl is because my parents bought me a SNES when I was ~4, and of course I only wanted "more mario" games back then.

[@DreamcastQ]

I wish I had known more about the Master System, it disappeared pretty quickly but it was superior to the NES in some ways. Growing up in Maryland, one of my friends had one, but he didn't have many games for it, and he also had a NES at the same time and then he soon got a TG16 and then a Genesis, so we didn't end up playing too much SMS... I am glad to have been able to play one at a young age, many games still hold up great today and it was a really neat system in that exciting late 80s era! Love the channel brother keep it up

[@SegaLordX]

Yeah, where I was the SMS was slaughtered. I'd say its retail presence was insignificant as early as 88. It was amazing how few stores carried it.

[@DreamcastQ]

@@SegaLordX I only knew my one friend (who got every system) who had a SMS... I had no idea it was so big in markets like Brazil until recently! Very cool games that not enough people got the chance to play

[@davidgill7412]

As another person who lived in Maryland in the 80's, I only knew one friend who had Master System games (he had the Master System adapter for the Genesis). The game he had was Ax-Battler a Golden Axe spinoff. The Kiddie City, Toy town, and Toys'r'us stores just didn't carry them, even though they were advertised on TV.

[@matcam89]

The SMS is pretty impressive graphically esp compared to the NES

[@pferreira1983]

It's a more powerful console that's why.

[@steve36207]

My favourite console. So happy I'm from the UK and had the library of games we did

[@mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029]

I worked I a computer shop throughout the 80s/early 90s in the UK. The 8bit Nes just wasn't a thing.

[@Halbared]

matt smedley it was a thing where I lived in the north west

[@daveruda]

Castle of Illusion for the SMS is one of my favourites for the system. I could play that anytime and still enjoy it. I find it more appealing than the 16bit version. Same with Alex Kidd.

[@mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029]

Thank you for a great video. The master system is one of my favourite consoles. Always feels like effort was put into a master system game when mega drive games were just being pumped out. Just a brilliant 8bit system.

[@officerzed1344]

Thank you for the memories. I grew up in Europe, therefore SMS (model 2) was a big part of my childhood. Sega had a strong presence in France at the time and it was my first game system.

[@BcHmF]

SMS was a power house, if only I would have known about it, I might switched my NES for it :D

[@JohnsNightmares]

I was looking for something to watch just now and u uploaded! I love you!

[@SegaLordX]

Glad you approve! :)

[@MisterSouji]

WHOO! Someone mentioned Master of Darkness! The game goes for a heafty price now, but theres a decent game gear port as well, and that's even on 3ds virtual console.

[@RetroTuna]

The master system was king here in the uk the nes was just something you played in shops, cyber shinobi is not a good game its properly one of the worst sequels every made but it does have a nice box.

[@Halbared]

It was 50/50

[@pferreira1983]

Yeah Cyber Shinobi is quite embarrassing.

[@RetroTuna]

@@pferreira1983 it’s really bad but it has a nice box lol

[@pferreira1983]

@@RetroTuna It's alright. Don't remember it being the most interesting box.

[@RetroTuna]

@@pferreira1983 it’s a ninja with a sword surrounded by flames it pretty good but has no resemblance to the game the ninja is not even a cyborg on the cover lol

[@CanaldoZenny]

Brazil and Europe are the only countries that care about the SMS. In Brazil it was even crazier ('im from Brazil btw). While Nintendo didn't officially sold the NES here, there were hundreds of Famiclones flooding the market. Some very popular famiclones like the Dynavision even had TV ads here. Yet, TecToy did an amazing job with Sega hardware. The SMS was so popular, it was sold and got newer redesigns and models here through the 2000's up until early 2010's. I still have my Master System Handy working. The SMS was a great entry-level console for parents that couldn't aford newer consoles like the Mega Drive and PS2. Many TecToy models had a bunch of build-in games, so parents didn't needed to buy or rent any cartridge. I'm part of a brazilian Master System Facebook group, and its one of the best gaming groups i interacted with. During my childhood i liked playing SMS games like Hang On, Black Belt and Secret Commando.

[@SegaLordX]

Yeah, Tec Toy knew how to keep that market coming back for more. It was pretty amazing.

[@patbrown911]

I never owned a Master System, just a Famiclone called Hi-Top Game before I bought my Mega Drive III. The best thing about those Brazilian Famiclones was the fact that they were actually made in Manaus, Brazil, and were quality products, not that chinese crap we see nowadays.

[@philwalkercounselling]

I love the master system. The first console I fell in love with before getting a megadrive. It's interesting as growing up in UK I only had one friend with a NES but numerous with a master system. Was much more familiar to me. I'd like to explore more.

[@greensun1334]

Alien 3 - the best looking SMS-game. Great colors, parallax-scrolling, all the weapons etc. A really good and hard game!

[@shinkazama3959]

Wish I could like this video more than once, informative and enjoyable which is rare for a games related KZbin video these days :)

[@seriousstuff8887]

Alex kid in miracle world will always have a special place in my heart

[@adamphillip5305]

30 years later I still have the tune stuck in my head, to me that music is better and more memorable than Super Mario Bros.

[@SharifSourour]

A criminally underrated classic!

[@GarfaGarfGarf]

I was a staunch Nintendo kid back in the day, my first (and only) Sega console was the Dreamcast. I'm currently binge watching all your content. It's fascinating to see what I missed out on, although my ears have never appreciated the early Sega console sounds.

[@gtrzdaddy]

Appreciate your awesome videos so much Sega Lord X!

[@SegaLordX]

Thanks Grant. :)

[@larryregal1172]

Great video! I'd like to see you do a part 2 & cover more master system games that never saw the light of day in the U.S....

[@DarthJF]

Always love some Master System content. I've recently become interested in the system after getting PowerBase Mini FM to allow me play SMS games on my Mega Drive. For once, I'm happy to be European gamer as Master System games are relatively cheap and available here, so getting together a respectable collection of SMS games shouldn't be too difficult or expensive. So far I have Shinobi, R-Type and The Ninja to start with, and plan to pick up several more.

[@ScottOmatic]

My childhood with the Sega Master System in America mirrored much of your experience. Little did I know for so many years how successful Sega's 8-bit system was in other markets. It's great seeing all these titles that didn't show up on US soil. Shows what the Master System could have been in North America with better marketing. Thanks.

[@johneygd]

It’s friday the start of the weekend,and I wish everybody whose gonna play sega master system with a friend this weekend ,a lucky weekend, Yeah those day’s in 1993.

[@mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029]

I still have them days.

[@Gladson]

It's always nice when people from the USA discover how popular this system was in some countries. It's hard to describe how big it was here in Brazil, the NES was practically non existent here. Heck, it's 2019 and it's still sold in retail stores, I'm not kidding. It's fun when you go to a store and see PS4 Pro, Xbox One X and Master System sharing shelves. Tec Toy did an amazing job, most notably is the brazilian version of Phantasy Star, the first RPG ever translated to portuguese. We even had exclusive hardware versions and accessories like the 6 button controller that's pretty much a Genesis controller but uses its six buttons for 1, 2, 1+2 instead of A, B and C and rapid fire variations mapped on X, Y and Z. It's a very nostalgic system for me, I'd say that it was the system that made me like video games. Even today I turn it on from time to time, not a week ago I finished some games like Shinobi and Strider. It's always a good feeling when I turn it on and hear that chip tunes that were part of my childhood.

[@zanychelly]

Mate , here in Brazil Nintendo only took Sega/TecToy pace when they got a similar arrangement with a JV that had a participation of Sony with the locals ( Playtronic ). And still Sega dominated the market in 16bit era, mostly due to the selection of games

[@blahblah8405]

R-type was the best looking nd playing game imo

[@sergeleon1163]

Love my Sega master system and here in Europe it was also a big deal, although most of the neighbor kids and my friends had a Nintendo we enjoyed playing the consoles from both companies. Indeed some titles offer 16bit like graphics with good gameplay and that did surprise them as well with what this little Sega could pull of.

[@kitsunemetal]

I remember playing the SMS back in the day and it came with hang-on preloaded in the system which was unheard of back than so you got more for the value and i didn't really mind the controller and the games were a lot of fun.

[@SegaLordX]

There were a few versions of it that had 2 games preinstalled.

[@Halbared]

Yeah, NIntendo didn't really concentrate on Europe and expected the local retailers to be competent. So it was a real gamut, from the situation in Sweden, where Nintendo was dominant, to the UK where Mattel couldn't find their arses with both hands and a compass. So eventually Nintendo had to step in as Nintendo of Europe.

[@RolandoMarreroPR]

The Master System was my first game console in PR. Fun times! I had 18 games and was really surprised by how big the SMS was in the rest of the world! I got an NES eventually, more as complement than replacement.

[@dava00007]

I had a friend who had an SMs back in the days, games like Power Strike and Phantasy Star can't be compared to other 8-Bit games, when going through the whole library a little while ago (using emulation) I realized that many SMS games were closer to early 16-bit efforts than NES games! I'd say that its main "weakness" compared to the NES is the missing of start and select buttons on the controller (you know to call up a menu in an action game, change weapon, etc.) it would have enabled more control options... Beyond this, Nintendo's third party and distribution channel control policies did a number on Sega's 8-Bit machine in the US back in the days, one could only wonder what proper Mega Man, Castlevania, or Dragon Quest games would have been like on this machine!

[@roberto1519]

Yeah, Robocop Vs. Terminator and Road Rash alone crushes basically any NES game graphically, but it should be that way, SMS is much newer, thus powerful than NES. I love Dynamite Dux! One thing they never learned how to do it right, though, I'm talking about Tectoy and some other companies, is how to craft a fighter for an 8 bit console, Masters of Combat is so superior to any other 1 to 1 fighting attempt that it almost looks like a generation ahead, if they developed games like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter series from the ground up with the SMS hardware in mind, they would play amazingly well, some examples exist even for the Game Boy, there's even decent Samurai Shodown and King of Fighters for that really weak handheld that plays a lot better than MK or SF on SMS, a shame, really.

[@PSYK0MANT1S]

Wow dude! This is a deep dive into the SMS. Great video as always. I was an owner of stacks of Master System games, and you showed me things I never saw.

[@mickael486]

When everyone was getting an NES when I was a kid I got the Sega Master System because I knew it was capable of better graphics and at the time the arcades were filled where's the best arcade games belonging to Sega. I cannot get over how many great titles I missed out on living in the United States.

[@pferreira1983]

I know. All the best stuff came from 1990 onwards.

[@DerivitivFilms]

16:45 Louise C.K. Simulator

[@BigioBio]

Than you for this awesome video. Growing up in Italy, I was so surprise to find out the Master System (and SEGA in general) was so neglected in the US. Thank you for educating us! Awesome times

[@MarquisDeSang]

Sega Master was better than Nintendont : better arcade ports and 3D games.

[@christophersavart5589]

Mastersystem was a beast compared to the NES in terms of speed, colors and sound. If Nintendo did not used some dirty business practices in NA(downright monopolistic at times) the master system would have had a better chance imo. The proof is how well it did in countries where fair-play business practice was enforced.

[@oscarzxn4067]

@@christophersavart5589 The sound is definitely not better then the NES, the PSG audio the console had is way more basic than the sound chip of the NES.

[@Artzei]

Personally i prefer the Game Gear version of Batman Returns over the SMS one because of one thing: A Health Bar!

[@thaismagalhaes5928]

Brazilian here! As you already know, the SMS was the king here whereas the real NES was nowhere to be seen (I was only able to see one when I was already an adult). We had the NES clones though, but the Master System easily outsold them.

[@mysega]

My first experience with the Master System was a friend of me, who called me over to his house. In his room stood this masterpiece. We played Alex Kidd in Miracle World all the day. I wasn't very good at it, because it was my first time playing a videogame. Two months later I bought my very own Master System - and still playing the best games this day😀

[@RetroRecollections]

This console has a special place in my heart as it was my childhood console. Picked one up again recently and re-discovering how great it was.

[@vladimirdolapchev2226]

First console I ever played! Loved it so much that I went to nearby country to buy it, but since they didn't had it, I ended with NES :)

[@TheSocialGamer]

Better late than never, I always knew that the SMS was a very powerful and more capable console than the NES, if we were only allowed to get ports to the SMS. On the few titles that did arrive on both systems the SMS versions always looked played and sounded better as well as many games were co-op while the NES versions were only single player.

[@SegaLordX]

I actually have a funny story about ports on the NES and SMS. So impressed was I with Rampage on the SMS, I recommended it to my best friend. He used his birthday funds for it, but having only an NES, got that version. He still hasn't forgiving me.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

The Master System was so uncommon in the part of the US where I love, that I didn't even see one in the wild, well until the 16-bit consoles had come along. The only knowledge I even had of the Master System was from a Sears wish book, where Sega was advertising it as a cheaper alternative to the Genesis. As I recall, Altered Beast was still the Pack in title for the Genesis.

[@Bukabuuq]

Lord X wouldn't be so awesome if Sega brought out a Master System Mini with all the games built in along with two controllers, the light gun and the 3Dglasses... dude that would be freaking awesome

[@SegaLordX]

Day 1 purchase for sure.

[@blessuu]

I feel like I'm always binge watching Sega lord! Which it's a great thing

[@thomashampel761]

It was my first console and I will always hold is especially dear. I love the specific MS sound and I have fond memories of many games. It was astonishing when I started my childhood copy of Transbot after more than 25 years and I still knew the game melody by heart. The system gives me something nothing else can.

[@darthv72]

Whoa... some pretty impressive MS versions shown. Especially those capcom arcade ports.

[@Clay3613]

Hope you didn't pay full-price for a Sega Saturn. If so, oof.

[@MartellThaCool]

I never own a Sega Master System. I did grow up on Sega Genesis

[@ravagingwolverine]

I was a Master System kid in a Nintendo world. I got the Master System as a gift in 1987 and always preferred Sega after that. I was lucky as the Master System actually had a reasonable retail presence in my area. There were games at a lot of stores, and even flea markets(a great way to get Phantasy Star when it was $70 new in stores). I played a lot of Double Dragon, Shinobi, and Rastan. Eventually, game releases dried up and I got a NES before going 16 bit. I liked the NES a lot too and had gotten to play plenty of it before I got one. But I came to realize that the Master System was the right system for me at that time from about 1987-1990. Most of my favorite NES games are from about 1989 and later. And I may not have found them at the time anyway. I also had a Game Gear(and an adapter to play Master System games), so I kept the Master System in my life. That port of MK3 looks pretty bad. MK2 wasn't so bad, and the first one was pretty good. Anyway, nice video.

[@SegaLordX]

I actually played many SMS games via a Game Gear myself. It's how I kept up as well as I did. MK3 plays pretty terrible. It's probably the worst game in the video.

[@dirtface5923]

the sprites in street fighter 2 actually look really good.

[@brunocorreia19821]

My first console that I own (and I still have), I'm from Portugal, the SEGA presence here was strong on that time, great video about Master System, I love it.

[@IMDLEGEND]

Some impressive SMS games there. Who knew that the Master System could do the line scroll function and parallax scrolling? Power Strike II looked highly impressive and must have pushed the SMS to the limit. Is the SMS region locked?

[@trip2themoon]

No, but beware if buying Japanese games because the cartridges are a different shape.

[@Fellipe2k5]

Brazil here! I love Master System ! Castle of Ilusion is a excelent game.

[@spiderjerusalem100]

I loved this, please make more videos in this style.

[@mistamontiel00]

Mickey Mouse ILLUSIONS!!!!! DEEP DUCK TROUBLE!!!!!!!!! I miss my Game Gear dearly n all my badass gear but I WANNA BE A MASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ll1844]

🔥🔥🔥🔥Doing crazy work with the Sega content🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@SegaLordX]

Appreciate the message. :)

[@OldAussieAds]

I’m Australian and grew up in the 80s and 90s. Both Nintendo and Sega were popular until Sega released the Master System II for $99. That Christmas I’m not kidding when I say every second kid got one. Maybe more. The school yard became a Master System game swap meet, where we’d buy, sell, swap and barter. Having an NES in this era wasn’t strange, but it was definitely niche. Australia at this time had a Sega Club and when you joined, you got a monthly magazine with news, games reviews, competitions. And there was an art column where readers sent in their own drawings - usually of Sonic beating up Mario, that kind of thing. You could also order merchandise like Sega caps and T-shirts. We also had the free (at first anyway) Sega Hotline where you could speak to an operator and gets hints, tips and cheats. Video shops (what Americans called Blockbuster) has Master System games you could hire, and generally had a good selection. I don’t remember there ever being NES games. Sega was so big here that Sydney had a Sega themed theme park called Sega World. Then the 16 bit era changed things up and the SNES certainly was huge here, along with the Mega Drive (Genesis).

[@MarkyV83]

Love watching this from a retrospective point of view. I miss these times.

[@silentfanatic]

Thanks for this video, man! The SMS is one of the systems I have the least amount of experience with, so this helps a lot.

[@silentfanatic]

Wait, is that Colonel Sanders in Dynamite Dux?

[@thepumpkingking8339]

Z80 Gaming Rule's...

[@edmondshields1616]

Your passion and knowledge is something I throughly appreciate and enjoy. Thanks again for sharing.

[@SegaLordX]

Glad you enjoyed it. :)

[@97channel]

The 8-bit console era didn't catch on so well, here in the UK. But once the 16-bit era kicked in, we caught up bigtime. The NES, which never saw anywhere near the same level of interest as in the US, started to fade and die out as the 90's arrived. But the Master System saw its heyday. The interest in the new 16-bit consoles saw Sega market the new redesigned Master System 2 as a budget option. And price was a very key factor to us Brits. Whilst most kids probably wanted the Mega Drive, the Master System was a generally happy compromise between their desire and their parents' willingness to spend. You could still pick up a new Master System 2 right up until the very end of the 90's, maybe even slightly into the new millennium, as retailers seemed to still be receiving stock well after production ceased. It's something of a cult classic, but I think you'll find slightly more love for the Master System than for the NES, over here.

[@felixvillegas8969]

master system as powerful at that time. didnt own one. but had a friend that had it.

[@HybridAngelZero]

The Master System only started to show up on my radar recently, and it truly has a fascinating history. I'll definitely have to add Daffy Duck in Hollywood to my list of games to check out, and that version of Street Fighter II might just be worth it for the Master System remix of Guile's theme xD

[@SegaLordX]

I just recently played James Bond 007 The Duel on it too. Not bad at all.

[@HybridAngelZero]

@@SegaLordX Hmm, I'll definitely have to look into that one too

[@pferreira1983]

@@SegaLordX It does a little more with the console than the MD version does.

[@dangwoot]

Damn my dude, another fantastic video! You make excellent content! Keep up the hard work it'll pay off!

[@SegaLordX]

Already has with this great community of subscribers.

[@Geobardi]

Here, in my country, most of us grew up with the Master System. Luckily for us we didn't have to suffer the nazi policies of Nintendo, and it was mostly know for the Game Boy. It only started to became popular after the release of the Snes. Allow me to recommend a couple of games that are not in this video. You talked about Asterix and the great rescue, but you should really try the first Asterix (the game that is only named Asterix), Alex Kidd in Shinobi World and Land of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse. Those games are truly master pieces. The Donald Duck games aren't bad either.

[@SegaLordX]

Yeah, I played most of those on the SMS and Game Gear here in the states. I'll look into Asterix.

[@pferreira1983]

Asterix is a classic.

[@cyberfennek]

Phantasy star the worlds best rpg series started on Sega master system.

[@malik87breaker]

cyberfennek i agree on a degree. They wanted the dungeuns 3d. But were forced to cancel due to not have learned the new 16 console. It was planed to be released on 8 bit.

[@Sinn0100]

Dude, Road Rash on the Master System is...I simply cannot describe it. I like you never truly paid attention to the outside markets other than Japan. I like you am a Sega fan for life and owned a Master System along with the Nes. I grew up in a big city and we had many places to go for Master System games (not as many as Nintendo) but Toys R US was the goto place for me as was Kaybee and Lionell Play World for Master System games. At any rate, I played Road Rash for tge Master System long after I had a Genesis and I simply could not believe it could run it that well...what a machine it was! I have long since hated Nintendo for the myriad of things they did during the 8-bit, and 16-bit eras. I still too this day hold a grudge for their sickening attempt to step all over our First Amendment rights (Senate hearings with Liberman).

[@Sinn0100]

@Andrew Mitchell Yeah...great reply it adds so much to the conversation. I'm sorry I wasted the time it took to open KZbin to read this comment.

[@Sinn0100]

Thank you for the utterly useless reply! Saying someone has added "nothing to the conversation" without adding anything yourself shows how truly incompetent your thought process must have been at that point in time. Perhaps you have grown during these past four years but I highly doubt it.

[@diegocrusius]

good reminder how awesome the sms is

[@indierockguitar6875]

Please do a retro on the sg-1000. Being such a major Segaholic, I bought a collectors edition along with the first games by Yu Suzuki, Yuji Naka, Reiko Kodama who were major players in Sega's boom.

[@AmigaCammy]

Here in Australia, everyone's little brother had a Master System. They were more common than the NES here, and of course we got nearly every game released so I guess we got to appreciate it more than unfortunate North Americans. I thought it was odd but cool that it was the system the characters played in Regular Show.

[@dinosaucers6704]

Grew up in Australia in the mid 80s and 90s as a Sega kid. Great times

[@MousePotato]

The Sega Master System was popular here in the UK. I got mine in 1988 and built up a collection of 33 games that I eventually sold to get the Commodore Amiga. Since then I've got them back from retro stores and online. It's a shame USA didn't get to experience it the way the rest of the world did.

[@BladeBlur]

3:50 where did you find the Israeli Master System advert? I lived there during that time so I am so curious to find out!

[@SegaLordX]

RetroSega I believe.

[@Halbared]

From that era I was a 64 owner and then a nes. Yes Nintendo really screwed up at the start. It was 1989/1990 when they finally took over directly and sales make them number 1. I saw the master games in Mean Machines but I never knew anyone who had one. I got the Megadrive when it came out (my favourite sega hardware) and intended to buy the converter for the older games but I never did. Wonder 3 being one I really fancied. But really, by that time my nes collection was winding down and the cash was to be used for Megadrive purchases and then the SNES, there was never any time to go back and look at some of the master titles I thought looked worth it

[@retrosoul8770]

I'll never understand why so many 16-bit games were downscaled and ported to the Master system while the Genesis was already kicking ass, it makes alot more sense to me to invest those resources (time, money, manpower etc) into new games altogether, if anyone has any feedback on this I'd appreciate it.

[@lazarushernandez5827]

It was likely the user base was (still) there to warrant an 8-bit version. As this video demonstrates the SMS was more popular in other markets than the U.S. and Japan; in many of those markets it was the leading console; you don't just abandon those users when your new system arrives, even as the newer system gains popularity, the older system is still relevant as they get price discounts, handed down to younger siblings/cousins etc, or sold/traded in for the newer one. These companies made a lot of decisions back then that might not make sense today, for example: - Sega releasing expensive add-ons to the Genesis not realizing it would split the userbase. At the time they were reacting to competitor's actions, PC-Engine CD Rom attachment, and the Atari Jaguar (really!). -Sega releasing two 32bit platforms which were not compatible with each other despite having similar cpus/components -Sega (again) supporting 7(!) different software platforms in the mid 90s: SMS, GG, GEN, S-CD, 32X, 32X-CD, and SAT, along with the hardware... -Nintendo sticking with cartridge media for their N64, which cost them some 3rd party developers (the other major platforms by that time had moved to CD which was more cost effective and quicker to mass produce). -Nintendo and Sega's various potential partnerships with Sony; ---Nintendo backed out because the deal wasn't in their favor (their IP was on the line), ---while Sega alternately, didn't like the American branch going behind Sega of Japan's back (SoA apparently met with Sony execs to propose a joint console) or felt there wasn't anything to gain from a partnership (Sega was the veteran in the video game space not Sony), ---Sega also passed on the silicon graphics hardware that became the N64. Would these companies (and others) have made the same decisions knowing what we know today? Sorry for the long post.

[@pferreira1983]

Cheaper to port to SMS.

[@AdversaryOne]

Still one of the coolest looking consoles ever created. The colors, the shape and that schematic on the front looks really bad ass. It had the better looking gun as well. I played on actual hardware twice in my life. Alf the first time and Altered Beast the second time, years later after I got a Genesis. As you can probably guess, I was not impressed either time. But I appreciate it now.

[@SegaLordX]

Haha. Not the 2 best experiences.

[@pferreira1983]

The box art got better from 1990 onwards as well.

[@moefromdaareashow1123]

i remember in the 90s here in Sydney Australia when the Sega Master System was on special for like $99 everyone was buying them .. on your sega master system games list number 144 My Hero was one of my favourite games loved hat game an all the sonic games

[@PicksterTG]

The Master System ended up doing pretty well in the UK. The prices were way more acceptable than that of the NES... and price was a big issue. As you probably know. Much of the 80s (gaming wise) was dominated, over here, by the 8bit micro computers. Most of that market was games sold on tapes. That meant there was was a wide selection of games avaliable for around £1 to £2. And while those were budget games, older games got budget rereleases. New 'high tier' games could sell from anywhere from £5 to around £15 if my memory is corret. This kinda left a gap in the door for something like the Master System. While a cart could not be sold for as cheaply as £5 (beyond something like a fire sale) £20 was more doable and £30 would normally get you a top tier Master System game. All that said. There was that group of people that had no further games beyond the built in game. Not counting the 'Snail Maze Game' Alex Kid was the built in game for a while, that made way for Sonic in the later days. And the really lucky ones along with built in Sonic also had a copy of Master Games (1) bundled in with the system too. It was a cracking budget system that continued to be sold along side the Mega Drive that found its own nitch. Which totally outclassed the 8bit micros and way more affordable than something like that Atari ST and Amiga 500. It really did pave the way for the Mega Drive and also gave kids that didn't have much money to throw around a chance to game too. P.S. Happy Console Gamer might have an apposing view to yours with reguard to Dynamite Dux :p

[@SegaLordX]

I actually trying to bring the resources together to make some videos about the home computers of the 80's. I may need to resort to emulation to do them.

[@PicksterTG]

@@SegaLordX Emulation would make things 1000% easier for sure. Something like the C64 had good market penetration in the US. But systems like Sinclair Spectrum (Timex Spectrum) and the Amiga 500 had a much larger market share in Europe. Because of little differences many Pal games simply won't work on US systems and because the market over here was much larger, many of the games you would want to try/play only came out over here. Rare replay has a handful of Spectrum games in its compilation for anyone wanting to get a sample of what a budget 8 bit micro was capable of.

[@Halbared]

Yrah the price of nes carts was appalling. I was lucky that I built up a big collection but really, I do t know what Nintendo were thinking back in 1990

[@swerutufon]

Great video, but I beg to differ regarding Wonderboy in Monsterworld. Several parts of the the game have been chopped out (but I don't blame the game entirely for it, since it is an 8-bit version), the hit detection is terrible, and the password system is about the worst Ive seen in any game ever.

[@akalyx]

great vid -- really getting better at editing!

[@schooltrashers]

I own a Sega Master System, along with 12 games and multiple accessories for it. My favorite SMS game is Rambo.

[@schooltrashers]

@Marcus Mysteriously I played Rambo for the first time in 1992 when I was 10 years old. It was my neighbors game though, so I wouldn't own it until two years ago when I bought my SMS, along with accessories and games for $60.

[@bit-ishbulldog2089]

My first game console I ever owned, got it 1986-ish.. I would of been 9 years old when I received it one day after School (was not Birthday or any other reason, was just random) .. I got the SEGA Master System Plus box set, Extra controller, Light Phaser, Hang on, Safari Hunt and Snail Maze games built in to the system.. Still own that exact console today :) I'm from the UK where SEGA gets much love. Great early memories "That is why I kept it"

[@horokeusensei]

As a brazilian, my experience was the complete opposite of yours. We didn't have any nintendo presence in the country (at least not officially) until 1993/1994, but Sega (with TecToy) was HUGE with its Master System and Mega Drive afterwards. It's so weird to see how people from overseas have so found memories of the NES while we mainly played alex kidd and other sega 1st party titles.