Sega Master System A-Z (Part 2) Mike Matei Live

Playing through all the Sega Master System Games from A-Z. This is Part 2.
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[@matthewmerican]

The Power Strike games are great shooters. They are actually Aleste 1 & 2 in Japan. They were renamed for US and Europe. The follow up games in the series are M.U.S.H.A., Space Megaforce, and Robo Aleste, which all share the same gameplay.

[@mikematei]

I have streamed Musha, Space MegaForce. And Ive played Robo Aleste on Sega Cd. I believe this was my first time playing Power Strike.

[@dtester]

@@mikematei you might want to push the both buttons when playing power strike so you can shoot your secondary weapon as well as your primary. Each number is a change of secondary weapon. 8 is a pretty powerful one for example.

[@ZefTillDeath8878]

Love the A-Z streams. Seeing so many games I never would have otherwise.

[@StusGameReviews]

Zillion is one of the best games on the Master System. You needed to play it for a couple more minutes to see what it is actually like.

[@MADFLIXandGames]

Zillion is one of my favorite games it truly was ahead of it's time I just did full game play of it back in february of this year so many memories.

[@anthonyspecf]

It's amazing how well Road Rash translated to the Master System. It is really a darn good version of the Genesis title. The way they pulled off those rolling hills with an 8 bit system was impressive.

[@HighTreshold]

Master System II was my first console and I remember being so blown away by Road Rash.

[@cbarger2327]

A Genesis controller works fine on most SMS games. To make it work on all of your games, do the following mod: open the controller, then clip the gray wire that goes to the buttons. Now it will work with all of your SMS games (but not all of your Genesis games).

[@JEFFALITY]

TecToy did what they could to port Genesis games to Sega Mastersystem. The MS and Genesis were extremely popular and continued to be produced today in Brazil as its the cheapest alternative to the horrific import tax of out of country developed systems and games. This is also why Brazil is a Mecca for Piracy and Bootlegs. Hell even Need For Speed got ported to the Genesis at one point there.

[@wallet_]

zillion deserves so much credit. it was metal gear before the NES version was released. stealth and action and boss fights and the music was great for its time.

[@markganus1085]

it was a cool anime. the graphics and animation were great, it had a feel for its time and still looked futuristic

[@priestfan81]

It is a great game. I played it at the time and didn't even know what metroid was. Played it again a few years ago and was blown away at how great it is.

[@blahuhm6782]

People from Brazil actually have different cones in their eyes making such color palettes like the one in MK3 look very pleasing.

[@dan_evilrobot]

I love watching your Live Streams Mike and everytime I missed your streams I can re-watch these on KZbin.

[@samuelschumpert4046]

The Master System is my fav 8bit console. I play to this day!!!

[@wopachop4582]

Psyco fox is great, you swap between the 4 characters by pressing pause, they all have different abilities, and if you punch the first egg, you find a bird you can throw at enemies and he will return to you

[@rickywellington153]

My favourite game growing up, never owned it but hired it from the local video shop whenever I could which wasn't often because they only had one copy, played it again recently for the first time in about 30 years and fell in love once again

[@edgexl8327]

The Master System was insanely popular in Brazil. While we were getting hyped for PS2 they were still selling Master System. TecToy was the distributor down there and they made a bunch of games like Mortal Kombat for the system.

[@svovy5358]

Hong Kong never stopped selling NES, they even started making their own unlicensed repro systems.

[@dtester]

1:02:50 You're right! Kid Cool, Decap Attack, and Psycho Fox are games of the same family developed by the same team. Psycho Fox is well regarded, but it has a learning curve that some people hate.

[@TheOldPianoRoll]

I've heard you complain before that the SMS doesn't have a start button but the title screen says to press start. Not sure if you have an SMS controller, or if maybe they were slightly different in the US, but the SMS control pad has 2 buttons, one of which is marked "1 Start"

[@ZarlorMercenary]

Did you know the Master System was released in Japan as the Master System after the MKIII but with the add-on FM sound module add on built in (upgraded music in games).

[@ZarlorMercenary]

@@pferreira1983 interesting. The only reason I say 'Master System' is the old Japanese TV commercials you can watch on KZbin, which specifically say Master System for ¥16,800. Did the name change again in Japan?

[@pedrogmb]

Zillion deserves more atention

[@OsricRexor]

Never knew how good the Master System actually was before these videos

[@ChrisJames-gv9wy]

I had one. Never knew it had a lot of these games. Compared mor favorably to NES than I thought

[@UltimateGamerCC]

yeah, i grew up with the console and i can say that i had barely scratched the surface before emulation became an option.

[@therealdeadpen]

the last official game released Mickey's Ultimate Challenge (1998)

[@UltimateGamerCC]

actually that's incorrect, in Brazil TEC TOY, the company that produced the SMS for Brazil in the 2000s actually made a game in 2003 called 20em-1, it was Action 52 but somehow worse. lol

[@CaptainMauser]

Psycho fox is one of the best 8-bit games ...period!

[@thekenner]

Mike's Rocky impression has me cackling.

[@DrScruffee]

With the 3d games, if you press the pause button it usually brings you to a menu screen to disable the 3d effect

[@user-bu5cm1ix7c]

Phantasy Star is one of the best JRPG games ever.

[@evilash570]

Quartet is actually really great 2 player action! Epic soundtrack throughout!

[@BloodlessWolf]

Mike, the 1 button is the start button. It says so right on the controller.

[@DonkeyPuncher1976]

Teddy Boy is a great game along with Zillion

[@DonkeyPuncher1976]

@@mamefan It is a great game. I still have a map my sister and I made of the levels from the 80s

[@kilo-watt]

The Ninja was one of my favorite games as a kid. Got the Master System for Christmas of 1987.

[@uriituw]

Populous is an awesome game. It needs to be played by two reasonably intelligent people-preferably on two connected Amigas.

[@tr9165]

Love the streams Mike 🙂 Keep going bud

[@efaustus9]

The hardware in the game gear is almost chip for chip that of the master system. There is even an official sega adapter to play master system games on a game gear, I had one back in the early 90s. Many of the later master system games, like mortal kombat, are ports of game gear games and by port I mean putting the rom in a master system cart.

[@kekeke8988]

And the game gear has a start button. That's why so many of these games said "push start". They were originally game gear games that maybe got a release on master system in brazil.

[@dtester]

@@kekeke8988 Actually (at least in the US) SMS games have "push start" since the beginning. If you look at an original SMS control pad button 1 is also labeled "start"

[@abram03]

Mike, I have discovered that your retro game streams are the best thing to watch during exercise. Thanks for keeping me in condition!

[@larrymasif5851]

I do like how Sega Master System games color graphics were more nicely polished than compared to the Nintendo Entertainment System games.

[@SteveBrandon]

The original arcade version of The Ninja/Sega Ninja was called Ninja Princess and you played Princess Kurumi who was royalty but also a ninja. I don't know how well it played but having a girl as the main character in a game wasn't that common in 1985. Obviously, there had already been Ms. Pac-Man but Ms. Pac-Man wasn't a human ninja warrior, she's just a circle with a triangle mouth and lipstick.

[@bobinestoroski8880]

Ur live streams are very entertaining to watch bringing so much nostalgia

[@dallyguin8642]

Mike bringing back the classics one game at a time. Keep up the good work man

[@oldmandandan]

someone already let Mike know that Predator 2 was for PAL/Europe and that's why the screen was messing up, right?

[@liv4motox]

Love these A-Z reviews. Good work Mike.

[@evilash570]

Zillion is actually really great when you get into it, and was a really early sms release.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

one of my original 15 games and i beat it with a lot of trial and error.

[@mikematei]

i'll have to give it another shot sometime

[@qwaH]

the Game Gear was basically a portable Master System so naturally it looks like that version, just with more screen space to play with. Didnt bother with the blood code then I see, always used to play it with the blood & fatalities on back in the day on my Master System & loved it. MK3 was by Tectoy who have kept the Master System & Megadrive alive, think they are still going strong with them to this day

[@meatballmeatwad5730]

There were a few games not on there like battlemaniacs, captain silver, chuck rock 1, cloud master , micro machines, and many Japanese games like rygar and Brazilian games too.

[@StusGameReviews]

I remember going to an arcade in 1992-3 that had something like 30 SF2 cabs of various types, and say 10 Mortal Kombat cabs...and they were always all busy.

[@ShanetheFreestyler]

Scrolling through the comments, I'm surprised I've only seen one person mention that the glitches you're seeing in some games is because they were meant for PAL region. In fact, pretty much all Master System releases after Sonic the Hedgehog didn't see a North American release, since the console flopped here, but was a big it in the UK and Brazil. Considering that, it seems odd to me why those ROMs were listed as (UE) for US and Europe instead of just (E) for Europe. It it was released after 1991, I'm pretty sure we never got it. Anyway, for those "glitchy" games, you'll need a PAL Master System to play them without glitches.

[@markganus1085]

hey mike please make a video of you playing phantasy star. i don't mean a rushed play through, but to leisurely coast through the game, appreciating its details and taking the time to do it with no urgency whatsoever follow my suggestion thanks

[@NathanIsLame]

[@deathofkings5633]

You can jump off and onto the stairs in master of darkness

[@emelielager5453]

You could never play this many games in such a short time with today's games! 😅😣

[@wickheadthered]

Maybe indie games

[@Dagoth_Ur_1]

With The Ninja, only use the shoot forward button and always approach enemies from in front (never let them get behind and try shooting then at angles) also both buttons at the same time make you go invisible! It's a good game but tough, and you must find all secret scrolls to compete it, which you want a guide for. You can use a mega drive controller, I don't have an official one but it's really nice and is 6 button, I'll have to see what brand it was (it's from back in the day)

[@deathofkings5633]

“This is another golf game I assume. Ok maybe this is the best golf game ever made “ Haha I thought it might go that way

[@ezequielgomez7083]

Outrun was one of my favorite driving game on arcade I love that Outrun marquee

[@jaychristie4105]

The SMS controller has a start button, it's button 1 which has "start" labelled above it.

[@uriituw]

It’s not Miss Pac-Man, it’s Ms. Pac-Man!

[@Kaos1989]

Best part is at 2:10:18

[@ChrisJames-gv9wy]

Renegade is from Technos, the company behind Double Dragon, River City Ransom, and Super Dodge Ball. Genesis Shadow Dancer was to arcade/SMS SD as NES Ninja Gaiden to arcade NG: different but superior. But damn I didn't know SMS had all these games. Rental places and stores near me didn't carry a third of this shit. I would have been less disappointed with the console if I had access to some of these.

[@johnnygrenda8365]

Mike, would you ever do a stream on Robocop versus The Terminator on the genesis. I know you've done it on the SNES before but the Genesis one is the definitive version in many ways

[@joakimkarlsson9942]

Iam a sega lover fan boy but just compare the graphics with nes. The master system is miles ahead. And i love enough of games to the machine to say it is a better console but.....thats me. And i am sry for all who havent tryed out all the good games.

[@dauntae24]

Man, Brazil really stuck it out with the SMS for a long time. Weren’t they still selling it into the 2000s?

[@gert-frobe425]

Snes next?

[@MRSTU1210]

The Master System Was So Underrated

[@briank1977]

The majority of SMS games with work fine with a Genesis controller. A few do not however and you will get the upside down D pad issue. Same deal if you play Master System games on a Genesis. You need the Master System controller for some but for most the Genesis pad is OK.

[@hungrygoriya]

I skipped right ahead to see how you liked Psychic World, and I was glad to see you enjoyed it mostly. It's one of my favourites on the system.

[@ZarlorMercenary]

I know you are paying US set of games but are you tempted to play officially released Sega/Tectoy games from Brazil. Street Fighter 2, Earthworm Jim and Dynamite Heady? Those ones are pretty good

[@meatballmeatwad5730]

I can tell he's a bit biased to Nintendo because he grew up with it since he grew up in North America. If only he put a bit more effort and REALLY looked deeper in the master system library, he would like the console a bit more.

[@clarenceoveur9497]

Street Fighter 2 was surprisingly good. You couldn't do that on the NES.

[@ouzer]

Gabe Newell talks about installing computers to people’s brains in the future, but Mike Matei is well ahead of the curve in suggesting tethering computers onto people’s balls.

[@alexjohnston8889]

You really need to put the blood code in to play mortal kombat on ms

[@warlockholmes652]

Wait, Mortal Kombat was on master system? The fuck? Never knew.... Learned something new today. Thanks for the knowledge Mike.

[@CaptainNoFace]

hell yeah time to completely ruin my body clock by watching this till 3 am

[@dougo670]

It was great watching these SMS streams since it was the console I grew up with. Seemed like a ton of games than I remembered being released, so it made me bust out wikipedia and see the US only had about 120 games released for it. The EU had over a 150 more released on its own. I think most of these were Genesis or Game Gear games ported given the release dates after 1990, like Mortal Kombat, Streets of Rage and the Sonic games. Only Sonic 1 ported in US to the SMS. I think I saw someone else note a lot of games were ported for Brazil SMS only by that TecToy company. The more you know... Thanks again for the trip down memory lane!

[@svovy5358]

Wow, the SMS having more than 50 colors really makes the games look alot better than NES

[@dtester]

Most Genesis controllers should work with most SMS games. I think there are a few rare SMS games require an original SMS controler. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some Genesis controllers models that aren't quite compatible.

[@ryanthanasse2069]

Mortal Kombat 3 was actually a port of the game boy version that they used + colour.

[@CyberKaz3]

Sorry for of asking that off topic question about the nerd room, I had just watched the jon tron movie room tour before watching the stream lol but thank you for answering :)

[@danchristian7282]

I’m so high cracking up at 2:15:20 😆

[@ronnietravis741]

Thank you for these streams mike. They always show me games that I never knew about and want to play

[@repussified]

It's really weird how some reviewers praise Psycho Fox and others trash Kid Kool, but no one ever reviews both games.

[@ulysses3148]

Please play more 'psychic word' she gains many powers/abilities you can use and is an awesome little game. You press down and shoot or jump to select your ability. I want to go back to it myself to complete, great game.

[@bcyrx]

"it almost looks like game gear"... Are you serious mike? They are basically the same system.

[@mikematei]

Which is why my comment would be accurate

[@edgexl8327]

More or less the same but the Game Gear actually had a better color palette

[@evilash570]

Too bad you didn’t have the fm sound enabled, there’s alot of games with it

[@UltimateGamerCC]

i know that a lot of people love the FM sound, but for me it really takes me out of my enjoyment, as i never had the SMS with the FM built in, so i'm used to the default sound.

[@ZarlorMercenary]

Any megadrive pad should work with the Master System. There might be only one or two games that have issues. I know Wonder Boy in Monster Land is one of them, but can't remember exactly the issue? I think you could not pause to access the inventory screen?

[@terry-]

03:40:00 The lighgun game you want is Terminator arcade, it has the machine gun.

[@mummymon]

in The Ninja you can press 1+2 to vanish in Psychic World you can press 1+down (keep 1) and use super powers (healing it's first you get)

[@danielblake1537]

Hey Mike, around 2:29:32 when you're talking about good Sonic games to play and you mentioned you like Sonic Spinball (Pinball) there's a Sonic game I have on my little knock off Sega Genesis Mini by "At-Games"......I'm not sure if you've ever played it, but "Sonic 3D Blast" for the Sega Genesis is a fun game i.m.o. it's a pretty simple concept so you're Sonic and you walk around these different worlds and you basically just avoid being hit by things and there's enemies you have to bounce on their head and then collect these little different colored birdies that then follow around you in orbit and after going around and collecting like 5 or 6 of these birdies you go to this giant golden ring and jump onto it and it collects the birds and then you can either move onto more of that same stage but different area or you go and progress to the next new level....and Sonic still has his fast spin move and you see Tails and Knuckles in the game I never heard of it until a few years back when I got this mini Genesis and tried that game out it's actually pretty fun and simple but it gets harder and there's a good amount of levels I've never beaten it yet, but you should really play that game one day on twitch live!! (And then upload it to KZbin...because I don't have Twitch lol)

[@100Bucks]

I didn't think anybody would still be on master system when mortal Kombat 3 came out. I forgot all about master system. I was on snes at that time. When I did play a master system that's when nes first came out.

[@ashleyp3662]

Mike is a Gangsta

[@fluttershystayshigh4202]

2:36:48 Just noticed on the Master System version of Sonic 1 they didn't even program a hitbox for the spikes, Sonic literally just goes through them and apparently i'm the only one who noticed this as even Mike didn't acknowledge it when it happened and he was the one playing, really strange tbh. I knew the Master System version was bad but that's just lazy programming.

[@dampdoily]

Psychic World looks like a decent megaman knockoff - to use the special abilities, hold D-pad Down and press Button 2.

[@daniell1509]

Both times you tried The Last Ninja on NES you seemed intrigued by it. I’d like to see you learn how to play it and to try to beat it on stream. Also, some of the music in it is really good.

[@theunholinesswithin70]

That would probably be why Sly wouldn't even know that game exists, it was really entitled "Secret Commando".

[@jaychristie4105]

Running Battle is actually great, if you play it properly.

[@andyb.53]

Hey Mike. You mentioned "modern light gun games" on the stream. The Wii has quite a lot of shooters of that kind that can be played with the wiimote put in the gun thingy. I know this because I browsed through the whole Wii library two times a while ago. Kept stumbling on this type of games when checking out what I thought were FPS. Most of them are rail shooters, although I couldn't give you any specific titles.

[@jettagt8v80]

Zillion was my shit i loved that game

[@DiscernedEyes]

2:10:20 Mike's face lol

[@maxketchumz3838]

paper boy music way better than the nes one!! comon mike

[@dennisveneman9469]

Still want a master system mini😍

[@pyrobison2002]

I love Mike, and I love these streams.

[@dtester]

Zillion is a great game. give it a chance

[@blahuhm6782]

I was really impressed with Ultima 4. Took a few hours to get into but if you like Zelda and Fire Emblem the gameplay and puzzle elements remind me of those in some ways. Very unique rpg treatment though, more like old school adventures actually

[@davidegalliussi1979]

Very nice 8 bit consolle 20:30:00

[@MichaelKing-vm5wv]

Grew up with the Master System over here in England. It's always difficult to hear the games you loved as a kid being dismissed. Rose tinted spectacles and all that though haha

[@Bren71319]

Psycho Fox was a great game. Spent many an hour with that one...

[@xtremeog8421]

I was the guy on the arcade playing winner stays on rule on killer instinct. Plus I always had the rizla everyone kept asking me for as a kid.

[@wvecst]

Mkiii on master system really sums up latin american quality pew pew