shouryuuken

shouryuuken

It's a master system tune remixed with the NES chip and other stuff. Not entirely sure.. ask the composer.

However the SMS chip sounded great in the right hands. I recommend listening to Golvellius, Power Strike 2, Wonder Boy 3 and The Flash to hear what Could be done with the chip.

alianger

Quartet is a fun little game but a bit disappointing compared to the 4-player arcade original.

alianger

I used two remixes of Master System tracks (Zillion and Ecco).

alianger

You mean like the 3 level version of Ninja Gaiden? Or maybe the scaled down Sonics with lots of slowdown? To mention a few.

alianger

Let's hope this site bothers to check their sources in the future.

/Alianger

alianger

MedelliaObscured

It was mostly the influential part of the comment that made me speak up, anyway.

Chintz

has anyone ever noticed that every time you advance a level on the old sonics you say 'shit i hate this level', get to the end and discover you hate the whole game, but still maintain that it's awesome...?

cheeseboybeans

Geckosan

floppylobster

thelken

floppylobster

floppylobster

floppylobster

I played it ways back, and again when it was released for the GBA. It was impressive when I was younger but it does not stand the test of time, which to me is a major requisite of it something being one of the greatest of anything, especially a genre that gets better with each passing year.

And I don't really see how it was one of the most influential RPGs. I remember already being familiar with the dungeon style from playing first-person dungeon crawlers on various computers, and the overworld stuff isn't too different from Dragon Warrior. Aside from mixing the two kinds of RPGs and putting some sci-fi in, I don't really see anything new it brought to the table.

Chintz

The only game I ever beat for the system, I can't remember the name of, maybe someone could help me out. You were a red duck who ran around punching things with a huge white fist, which you could power up for a bigger hit. There were also guns laying about that you could pick up for a short time.

I will always know Alex Kidd as "Alex the Kid" as my cousin and I called it. Very frustrating game. We'd blow through every level until the castle where we'd die and have to start the game over. I will always remember the trick where you run away from the first ghost with a spoon on his nose so that when you break the final block it's a free man instead of another ghost.

Space Harrier was fun, but never held my attention long.

Shinobi was my favourite, but I don't know I ever passed the boss in the video. The one with all the guys in chairs pushing you into an electric wall.

Another game, which I believe is called Spy Hunter (located at around 3:57 in the video) I played for years, literally YEARS before I realized you needed a second controller plugged in to access the menu/inventory.

I also had Double Dragon (never passed the level where the wall pushes you into the water) a golf game and After Burner.

Bluecell

Personally, I loved this video. Then again, I'm a sucker for the old school. (I should play Phantasy Star...Alex Kidd was freaking awesome though.)

Long live the old school! All hail the Master System!

Wizard

burningranger01

TheIrishNinja

Did anyone else get Super Mario RPG vibes when mickey was standing on a rock looking at that castle? I swear I've seen other games use the same point of view kind of thing. Hehe.

MetaKz

thaKingRocka

I'm all for the Saturn, but it had nothing on the PS1 graphically. It was great for 2d games. When you compare multi plat 3d titles between the two systems, PS1 destroys it hands down. Tomb Raider comes to mind. Or "Gex" or that "Croc" game. Shenmue was on the Dreamcast too...not the Saturn. I didn't mention the Xbox because I think the Dreamcast was pretty much a done deal by the time the Xbox came out. Obviously Xbox had the graphical chops to easily outclass anything else on the market at that time.

Polluted

Um, no and no.

And you must really hate the genre if you put the original PS at the top of it.

Chintz

TheIrishNinja

Balance_In_Life

muteaid

Soriya

rennyf77

rennyf77

AkiBakiSan

TheIrishNinja

Kulor

O well. These systems will stay in my heart forever ^_^

SK

ghibli303

@Polluted: actually, there are still plenty of games on the cast that i think looked better than ps2 games. i never cared for ps2s graphics, i always liked cube and xbox better.. and the fact that ps1 and 2 did better than all the competition proves that graphics doesnt mean anything. in fact the saturn was more powerful than the playstation, just a beast to program for. dont believe me? go check out video of saturn shenmue. sega just screwed up by releasing stuff before the last consoles life was up, and not supporting the previous console any longer, plus... 32x and sega cd, nuff said.

shouryuuken

@deafblindmute: @cheeseboybeans: Golden Axe Warrior, and yes, it was a huge, huge rip that was a lot less fun.

@Nutype: true! man i felt like a champ when i found that snail game by accident.

TheIrishNinja

Zio

Alex Kidd, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Wonderboy 3, Mickey Mouse: Land of Illusion, Asterix, Sonic 1.. (but no Sonic 2? >:(

It's odd how it worked out, because the Master System did very well in PAL territories. I for one had several friends with Master Systems and Mega Drives and never even met a person with a NES or SNES.

It never struck me at the time, but I guess for Amercians, it'd be like some kind of weird alternate reality. :P

V1L3

firesign

cheeseboybeans

I recently bought an old SMS off Ebay but am still hunting for a working copy of Zillion. Emulation just isn't the same.

Lars

ViRtUaThEoRy

Sunjammer

It definitely was a more powerful system than the NES (as I had that too) but I guess because of marketing etc. It never took off as it should have.

Mine had the maze game built-in.

Watching that video made me miss the great games...Alex Kidd, Zillion, Rambo, Phantasy Star....ARGH! I remember it took forever for my friends and I to reach the top of the temple to give Mayu his damn nuts!

keiichimorisato

WaterMedia

klashawnd

I played that when I was a kid, before I got my megadrive on my neighbours master system. I'd love to have a go at it again on an emu.

Indietendo64

黒天使

I played Phantasy Star 1 on my GBA later and it was still awesome. I wish SEGA would finally start localizing those neet remakes.

Gremory

And Ghostbusters was missing, wtf? (Then again it wasn't just on the SMS, hence the omission.)

DarkTetsuya

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deafblindmute

Only "bad" thing about the system was that I was the only kid around who had one. All the other kids had the Nes.

Cactuar

I remember my father taking me to sears to buy a video game system. I had seen commercials for the 2600 and nintendo. but when we got there the salesman showed us what they just got in stock.... the Master System. I had never heard of it before. it was great!!!

NuType

I had that control stick too, but it wasn't good for anything other than Hang-On and maybe Choplifter.
I always thought the light phazer for the SMS was cooler than the NES gun. It was all black and cool looking. I remember playing some sort of Duck Hunt clone all the time. Never had the 3d shades.

Polluted

That was an awesome trip down memory lane! idve added Penuin Land, Gangster Town, the other Alex Kidd games, mebbe Aztec Adventure and a couple others, but they really covered most of the highlights, those were like the bargain bin titles i got when Lionel Playworld when down.
still, much love to the maker of that video.

TheIrishNinja

My time on the SMS was spent with amazing games like Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Phantasy Star, Golvellius, Double Dragon, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Hang On, Outrun, After Burner, Alien Syndrome, and R-Type. I had the Sega control stick and even had the 3D glasses and loved them for Space Harrier and Zaxxon.

The SMS wasn't my first system-- I had been gaming on computers for years before I ever picked up a control pad, but I think those were the best gaming years of my life. To date no console or computer has given me that kind of pure joy, although the Genesis and the Amiga came close...

Jonathan in Kichijoji

I always thought the Saturn was better hardware than the original PS, but much more difficult to program for with its two CPU's. Sorta mirrors this gen of consoles, with a hard to program for, underachieving system out there.

Satyagraha

The_Saint

The_Saint

KEELr

True. I was thinking more about the Saturn and Dreamcast. The Genesis/SNES wars were different than modern console wars because most titles that came out on both systems were completely different for each one. The Genesis was underpowered, but we still had the better versions of lots of games. Jurrassic Park and Aladdin come to mind.
I loved Sega, but every time they announced that they were going to be releasing a new system early to get a leg up on the competition I cringed. They always just ended up with the least powerful system on the market. It was kind of fun being the only Sega fanboy on the block for all those years, but there was no denying that my friends' PS1's, N64's and eventually PS2's looked better than my Saturn or my Dreamcast. It should be the gameplay that counts, but if graphics didn't matter we'd still have Sega hardware. Ahh well...maybe someday.

Polluted

I also grew up with a mac so i was neck deep in video game underdogs. I remember with the mac that the only game i could buy was pathways into darkness.

riverside4455

formagezero

But you can't compare the Genesis to the SNES. The Genesis came out more than two years before the NES (if memory serves) and was designed more to compete with the NES in a way that the SMS couldn't.

LedRush

Barbara

Oh and Digimish, you were right, the Master System was more powerful than the NES, but that was the last time Sega had the more powerful console.

Polluted

And now that I'm older, I realize that ugly chicks need lovin' too.

Barob

It was more powerful than the system Nintendo had on the market... but then again Sega always went the more powerful route.

DigiMish

Garo

Vidunder

Harteex

Scazza

kickass solo

DBVII

LedRush

Big_Jock