anyone here a sega master fanatic?
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I have one, better machine than NES but like the NES the joypads are awful. Also graphically it is better than C64 of course but sonically it is quite inferior in my opinion (as is every other 8bit machine's sound capabilities IMO)

Otherwise a shame it didn't get the 3rd party support NES did. R-Type and Shadow of the Beast are quite impressive on the machine.

I have an arcade joystick for my SMS, only way to fly really


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I have a passing interest in the Master System, but I've always favoured the Game Gear. There's no region encoding and all the games run in 60 Hz. It also has a bigger colour palette than the Mega Drive.
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i have over a hundred games, i have some real rare ones like street fighter 2.

i recently bought the japanese master, its way better than the ones we had here in australia and europe! the sound is better, rapid fire is built in, 3d glasses cart is built in as well!

i really need buggy run and masters of combat!!!
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I've got several SMS2 consoles and about 15 games. A good little machine for its day and sold very well in Australia. Graphically pretty but has that annoying flicker when a lot happens on screen. Sound doesn't rate anywhere near as high as the c64.

I used to own a Sega Master System many years ago. I definitely rate it higher than the NES although it didn't have SMB. It had Sonic though. Best 8-bit console at the time, imo.

The C64 is still miles better though
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I think Mickey Mouse was good on SMS too.

My count says I have 83 games excluding built-ins but including double-ups? I haven't bought one in years...longish post coming up! (For comparison, I think I have 200+ Megadrive games, and close to 200 NES games. Over 500 C64 games though!)

SMS:

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Aladdin  Alex Kidd in Shinobi World  Alien Storm  American Baseball  American Pro Football  Andre Agassi Tennis  Astro Warrior/Pit Pot  Aztec Challenge  Back to the Future 3  Bank Panic  Battle Outrun  Bubble Bobble  Casino Games Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse Chase H.Q. Columns  Cool Spot  Cyber Shinobi  Danan: The Jungle Fighter  Double Dragon Double Dragon Dragon Crystal  Dynamite Duke  Dynamite Dux  F-16 Fighter  Fantasy Zone  Fantasy Zone  Fantasy Zone: The Maze Forgotten Worlds  Gain Ground Gain Ground  Ghost House  Ghost Hunter Ghouls 'n' Ghosts  Global Defence / GDI  Golden Axe Warrior Golfamania  Golvellius James Bond 007: The Duel Kenseiden Kenseiden Krusty's Fun House Kung Fu Kid  Land of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse Lemmings Master of Darkness  My Hero  Olympic Gold  Out Run  Outrun Europa  Paperboy  Populous Populous Psychic World  Putt and Putter Putt and Putter Quartet  Rastan  Rocky  R-Type  Sagaia  S.C.I. (Special Criminal Investigation)  Scramble Spirits  Sega Chess  Shinobi  Shinobi Sonic The Hedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Space Gun  Speedball  Spellcaster  Spiderman  Spy vs. Spy  Submarine Attack Submarine Attack Teddy Boy Teddy Boy The Lucky Dime Caper starring Donald Duck  Thunderblade  Time Soldiers  Time Soldiers  Ultima IV  Vigilante  Wonderboy Wonderboy Wonderboy Wonderboy in Monster Land Wonderboy in Monster Land  Wonderboy in Monster Land Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap World Class Leaderboard  World Cup USA '94  World Games  Xenon 2: Megablast

Game Gear:

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Columns  G-LOC: Loss Of Consciousness by G-Force J-League Pro Striker '94  Joe Montana Football  Lemmings  Sonic The Hedgehog  Sonic The Hedgehog: Triple Trouble Street Fighter II The Addams Family  The Lucky Dime Caper starring Donald Duck

...I must admit, looking at these lists makes me want to play stuff. A few hidden gems there. Dragon Crystal is a nice Roguetype. Master of Darkness is a Castlevania-type game set in Victorian London, I believe. Psychic World/Psycho World is quite a fun game. Ultima IV on SMS is probably the best version. And Street Fighter II is hilarious on Game Gear!

I love my SMS. I am using the game pad on my C64. I would disagree with C64Knight on the NES controller being bad though. I think the NES controller is just right. Maybe because I have so many hours using one.

The SMS was underrated. I would have loved to see it have some exclusive characters to compete with Metroid, Zelda and Mario.

There are some great games though. We used to play hooky from school and play Double Dragon on it all day.

@gurt you are missing the tec toy releases, and japanese releases.

i have just bought rygar and solomons key for my japanese sms, and im waiting mortal kombat 3.
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the mastersystem always looked good to me but playing it often felt like the games were not really polished and gameplay was laggy

i loved playing rambo on my nes i just loved knifing snakes for hours
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i always found most nes games were a bit more playable, but not always
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Much like c64, there are quite a few good titles released in europe, but not in the US.
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rgd, I'm missing Japanese mk3 (not Mortal Kombat 3, Sega Mark III!) stuff in general. It's waaay down on my to-collect list, but it's on there. Anything that uses the FM music would be there, anything with different gameplay or even graphics (Kenseiden for example), would be there. But when it comes down to it, EU is the best region for the console by far. Japan has a few odd things and Brazil has a few really good Tec Toy things (SF2, Sonic Chaos, etc, etc) but ultimately it is the rest of the world who missed out for once, not us. Yay!

There's some interesting pre-Mark III stuff though, which is compatible with the Mark III itself - Monaco GP, Chack'n Pop and Bomb Jack immediately come to mind. Also, earlier conversions of Wonder Boy and Penguin Land. All quite playable, although they look like a MSX/Colecovision game!

Have to agree with the pro-NES controller posters, I never liked the Sega pads, the d-pads were too loose and I never felt in complete control. I'm not saying the Nintendo ones were stiff, they just felt more solid and perfectly balanced, worked a treat. And I've played many games across formats and the NES games were always more enjoyable for me. I'm not saying the Sega ones were bad, I loved a lot of them, but the NES ones were just.... better. Solstice being a particular favourite I could spend hours and hours on. Just my two cents

@gurt, i have a few of the japanese titles, solomons key and rygar. these guys were only released in japan, which was a shame back in the day but i got them!!! my japanese sms is the one with the fm module built in for better sound, 3d card built in as well!
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Yeah, if I went over to Japan I think I'd come back with one of those.