You have to see this “feature” on the Sega Master System!

[@andronikoszinakus6644]

Master System users were fitter happier people as they got off the couch a little more frequently.

[@mnretrogamer]

Haha! That’s a great insight!

[@METRODOMEVISTA87]

Drrrr

[@RickyFrench72]

lol that was a great response!! True

[@HollowRick]

How to tell me you're american without telling me you're american:

[@DMurcielago]

Slightly less goofy accent ✅

[@yuripetrovic7606]

All you have to do is say, "Sega...?", and wait for them to say, "...Genesis?"

[@geopioneergsxr5357]

What does that even mean? I had NES, Master System, and Turbo Grafx as a kid as soon as they were released.

[@yuripetrovic7606]

​@@geopioneergsxr5357 And I bet you were literally the only other kid in your entire school (that you knew) who did.

[@geopioneergsxr5357]

@@yuripetrovic7606 🤦‍♂️🤣 About half the friends I had did, including my next door neighbor. What you're trying to say, makes no sense whatsoever.

[@Primeghost_2]

it's not weird its just a different system by a different company. I grew up with a Sega Master System as a kid and loved it, I'm happy that my parents got one for me as a kid✌

[@METRODOMEVISTA87]

Sjjskss

[@johnw21]

I remember suffering with this in when I was six, cause sometimes you were playing a very hard part and it made difficult to have to wait and get a good moment to rush from the chair , leave the controller, and run to the pause button.

[@METRODOMEVISTA87]

Iwwww

[@therollingcreeper1]

And hope you pressed it down and actually paused it.

[@HEXSNAKE.]

But did the NES have a hidden built in snail maze game?

[@mnretrogamer]

TRUTH

[@adriennebetts6589]

Or Alex the Kidd or Sonic on the Master System 2

[@paranoidgenius9164]

.......along with 3 built in ROM games?!

[@METRODOMEVISTA87]

Iwkww

[@asafoetidajones8181]

My main SMS deck has missile defense 3d as the onboard game. Which might be cool if my 3d glasses peripheral worked, which it does not.

[@TANKTREAD]

It's just the way it was built. On that note, Black Belt was awesome. I enjoyed it more than Kung-Fu.

[@kennymc1625]

I have to disagree there mate, Kung Fu kid for me was so additive as a kid. Loved both of them tho very close for me, to each there own!

[@yurpcrusher123]

Black belt was so good

[@X2011racer]

​@@kennymc1625 He meant Kung-Fu Master, or Spartan X, on the NES.

[@JustinKatz]

You can use controller 2 in a one player game to pause.

[@asafoetidajones8181]

Say more

[@dtester]

true but only for games that had that feature.

[@Gentle_Spirit777]

Nostalgia ... Here comes the water-works 😞😟😢😭

[@fervidGOOBY]

Use that pause button judiciously and gently. Should have been called the “freeze and crash” button rather than pause. I loved the master system, but if you were into an important run, that pause button wasn’t an option!

[@mnretrogamer]

That’s a very good point!

[@oliverpony]

As a lazy person I would most likely use my foot 🦶🏻

[@dtester]

In the old days you were meant to play with the console close to you (like on the coffee table). It allowed for pause, reset, and cart changing. Even the original Famicom had very short controller wires for this reason.

[@thetruth1862]

Black Belt was my jam i loved it.

[@mnretrogamer]

It’s a fun game!

[@Jay_90.]

I never had the Sega master system as a kid, I had the second 16-bit console. Learned something new today though. 👍🏻

[@mnretrogamer]

Happy to educate!

[@davidsimon1324]

I got the Sega master system in 1988 for my birthday. I do remember the pause button. It was not a problem for me at all. The Sega master system also had cards and cartridges for those of you who don't know about it which you could play games on both. There is also a mase game built into the system. Turn it on without a game cartridge or a card and you will be able to play the game.

[@thomasb.900]

Did you know that your master system still has the protective film on the red plastic piece

[@music-jj2pl]

i remember the x men game where you had to reset the computer. it took me ages to figure out we had to hit the reset button.

[@skycloud4802]

The controller cables were so short back then and TV screens were also so small. For these reasons kids used to play games kneeled down next to the consoles anyway. Coach gaming is actually relatively newish term. That having said, it's still a weird thing to not include a pause button even back then. It's a shame too, as the Master System had a genuinely good controller otherwise.

[@mnretrogamer]

I love the master system myself!

[@skycloud4802]

@@mnretrogamer master system is one of my favourite systems, even more than the mega drive/genesis. That makes me an outlier.

[@mnretrogamer]

@@skycloud4802 I can see that. I love the horrible box art. I kinda wanna make a video on that alone

[@dtester]

Yup, you were MEANT to play next to your console back then. Even the NES. This gave you access to the power button, reset, game swamping, and (of course) pausing. Couch gaming was a thing back then! The TV and power cables were very long for a reason. You could place the console on your coffee table and game on the couch! ^_^

[@mnretrogamer]

@@dtester yeah absolutely. Growing up I always played on the floor

[@paranoidgenius9164]

The on console pause button can also be used for the inventory system in Alex Kidd in Miracle World for example.

[@Frontman936]

What about the pause menu in miracle world. Great way to select items.

[@lamontcrockett8675]

Black belt

[@Mr.Henchman21]

Black belt was such a great game

[@souldom99]

No Biggie really, especially when you were sitting right next to the thing.

[@johannesnoordermeer]

Loved Blackbelt

[@mnretrogamer]

Yeah it’s pretty fun!

[@paperchaser-lv9sz]

Me too Lol

[@Nbrother1607]

The Master System can't flip sprites but it can flip background tiles? Clearly the engineers didn't have side-scrollers or top-down RPGs in mind

[@wingedhussar5528]

Yeah every late 70s/80s kid knew this. The Nintendo controller was also way better constructed. The D pad on my original SMS controllers wore out after about 3 years

[@mnretrogamer]

I still love the nes d pad

[@mets23q]

Not a big deal, i actually preferred the master system controller

[@syokusanagi]

Same here. The D pad was better.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

I liked the look of it better than the nes controller

[@Lightblue2222]

The Atari 7800 sold more units in the States than SMS and also had its pause button on the system. Oddly the 5200 before it had pause on the controller.

[@lukejaconetti]

The 7800 did not sell more units than the SMS in the US. Nor in any other market.

[@Lightblue2222]

@@lukejaconetti sms sold between 1.5 and 2 million. 7800 sold over 3 million. I just googled them.

[@Lightblue2222]

Idk why my comment disappeared.. I googled each of their U.S. sales total. Sms is between 1.5 and 2 million. 7800 is over 3 million "3.77 million" No one knew what Sega was at this time. Atari was the familiar machine, and 7800 was discounted compared to 5200. So it makes sense.

[@lukejaconetti]

@@Lightblue2222 I did the same. Found sources indicating that the "3.7 million" number from Atari includes both hardware and games. Whereas the number of systems sold was more in line with around 1.1 million. Regardless, the relative sales one way or another had nothing to do with this design of the Pause button. By 1989 the Genesis/Mega Drive would have a Start button which functioned as the Pause button. Amusingly, the Power Base Converter which allowed SMS games to be played through the Genesis/MD had to include a Pause button!

[@josephfrye7342]

Actually it has a pause button on the master system unit but not the controller kinda interesting position.

[@erockbrox8484]

If you use a SEGA Genesis and the power base converter then can you use the pause on the controller????

[@mnretrogamer]

Not sure actually!

[@shenglongisback4688]

Sega had this backwards compatible thing so it didnt put the pause on the controller lol cos the last system didnt

[@mnretrogamer]

Yeah the power converter?!?

[@shenglongisback4688]

@@mnretrogamer no no I meant Sega just didn't change the controllers,cos the Mark 2 controllers didn't have pause,yes you use the power convertor too play cartridges but it also played card on the original master system(Mark 3)

[@eyedrops1617]

If ur pausing means u have to get up, as ur at it, reach for the console to pause it lol

[@RUTGERMORTENSEN]

Not weird, in japan they sit next to the console, hence the tiny cable on the controller.

[@jackfry]

Yeah you just use your foot

[@animeOfDarkness405]

Sega master was my first console then i have sega mega drive then i started to move playstation

[@mnretrogamer]

Right on! It’s a fun system for sure. The cover art on sms games a hilarious also!

[@Michael59197]

Broom stick.

[@therollingcreeper1]

They made it unnecessarily annoying

[@uhhh_adam]

No wonder it failed

[@fuzzluvver69]

Tell me you're American without telling me you're American.

[@JamieJoseph88]

​@@fuzzluvver69you hardly ever see any of them in Australia either, I've only ever come across the Mk i model once, even the NES top loader is more common

[@pclord20xx]

So we just gonna post old common knowledge stuff like it’s late breaking news? What’s next, finding out you can’t instantly rewind a song on 8-track?!?

[@mnretrogamer]

WAIT YOU CAN INSTANTLY REWIND A SONG ON A 8-TRACK?!?!

[@Flo_Resolution]

I thought this was well known already ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Hwi1son]

What built in games does your sms have? Either Maze or Hang on & Safari hunt

[@nedson6503]

Sonic the hedgehog or Alex kid.

[@tanjobi0202]

I think the reason is because had to play near the console

[@TRAMGFB]

It is weird but kinda ridiculous, every game console controller has a pause button

[@madmax2069]

Not every game console controller had a pause button.

[@basicallysnake]

(Cough) the Atari joysticks

[@DMurcielago]

Every GOOD console controller*

[@GustoTheGamer]

It’s like a ATARI 2600

[@andreinoooo]

In the SMS 1 pause and reset buttons are so similar and so close 😅

[@bishyeahbish3758]

Why is it "pretty weird"? That's just how it was at that time .... 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@mnretrogamer]

Weird because the NES didn’t have that

[@GorGob]

Awesome console! Just playing Rastan!

[@mnretrogamer]

Still need Rastan myself!

[@GorGob]

@@mnretrogamer It's a solid platformer plays great!

[@KrunchyTheClown78]

Same as the Atari 7800

[@leafsauce8470]

hello! i have been looking to get a sega master system but im not sure what tv to hook it up to. what tv do you have your master system connected to?

[@mnretrogamer]

Currently it’s hooked up to a magnavox old CRT tv. But you just need something with a rca input!

[@leafsauce8470]

@@mnretrogamer ok cool I’ll get to looking, thanks so much!

[@Kaii935]

So weird yet so cool!

[@mnretrogamer]

Yeah it’s pretty wild!

[@StreetSweep]

Sega always lacked on buttons on their controllers. I feel like every Sega system didn't have enough buttons as they should for the games that were out on them.

[@will-br]

Beautiful be

[@yuripetrovic7606]

While true, for 99% of the library you can just use a Genesis controller. Nintendo copyrighted aspects of the controller like the D-Pad which forced Sega to produce an inferior design out of necessity.

[@kennymc1625]

Wow I actually didn't know that was why. I just thought they were stupid lol

[@yuripetrovic7606]

@@kennymc1625 It's crazy to think that when we were kids, controllers were so new that companies copyrighted the function of their D-Pad because of how revolutionary it was. Imagine Sony trying to say no other game company is allowed to have 360 analogue joysticks 😂

[@kennymc1625]

@@yuripetrovic7606 🤣🤣 I would've lost it lol. Agree completely my friend I'll always cherrish those memories, best era of games in my heart. Always. Have a good one mate 🙏

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

@@yuripetrovic7606actually 360 analogue joysticks …well I know for sure they existed and were used on some consoles and computers in the 70s, but it’s possible they existed even earlier.

[@yuripetrovic7606]

@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated True and the same was true for D-pads as well. Prior to NES, stand alone consoles and handhelds had no universal design and they had their own control schemes including joysticks, track pads, built in guns and d-pads. With the most well known examples of D-Pad use before NES being some of the Game n Watch games. But the patent holders didnt care about that lol

[@ferreirafrancisca5089]

🤯

[@wingedhussar5528]

Yeah that's pretty blatantly obvious. The NES controller was superior in every way. Both of my SMS controllers ended with a broken D-pad because the rubber piece inside it would tear from use. Luckily I already had a Genesis at that point and the Genesis controller works on the SMS.

[@mnretrogamer]

Oh yeah nes is WAY better of a controller

[@llDavidGatoll]

Not really the nes control was pretty g.a.y. with its 4 direction cross. The Sega control had full 8 directional access. You could even attach a joystick to it’s center so f.u.c.k off both of you.

[@DeskoDev]

​​@@llDavidGatoll You can't attach a joystick to most later models of the pad, including the one in the video - they got rid of the hole for it. And frankly imo, the dpad on those models just doesn't feel that great from my experience. It feels very mushy, and hitting the directional inputs by accident is all too common. At least it doesn't feel as stiff as the NES dpads I've tried, though. I've heard the earlier models do feel better, but they're hard to come by where I live (US) and fetch a pretty penny. Not worth it when I can just hook up a Mega Drive pad instead.

[@loveandrockets4life]

how is it weird?

[@ajdpadbury]

It that the same for master system 2?

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

Yes it is! 🙂 It's an elaborate circular button off to the side of the cartridge slot [cover].

[@alelauguz]

WHAT? 😥​@@letsdiscussitoversometea8479

[@aodhablackheart]

If you say so.

[@VinnieBarbarin0]

What year were you born? 2002?

[@mnretrogamer]

Is this suppose to be a dis?

[@LucianoAlves279]

Jogos ótimos

[@LanceHayabusa]

good lord these types of videos are such a stretch. anyone who cares will realize this when they goto use their master system.

[@mnretrogamer]

@@LanceHayabusa the reality is a lot of people don’t even know about the master system.

[@jordantheproducer9284]

So what

[@leschroniquesdelhorreur229]

Tu nous prends pour des débiles ?

[@Gadoworld]

Terrible for shmup games

[@paperchaser-lv9sz]

Black belt