Sega Master System

[NeonGenesis]

The snail maze game was actually hard coded into the Sega Master system itself.

[Lupin[lvl]]

hold down both buttons and left on the pad/stick (always wondered why they made a left handed joy stick) on boot up done it if i remember right

hangon and safari hunt were built in too, though i think i played the maze game more then either of them. penguin land was great puzzler too, i remember when i played Alex kidd in Hightech world i couldnt finish it, for years i couldnt get the passport to leave the city, it is pretty insane what you're expected to do to get it, short game but crazy hard

[Grooverider]

And does anyone remember those credit card sized games that you slotted in the front? I think they dropped them when the second revision of the SMS came out.
I don't think I would have ever become such a big Sega fan if it wasn't for the SMS...

[SpiderW]

I have never really played NES (even though I have one ), but Master System has some phat games. Paperboy, thats one of the best games ever, I play that on the school computers, and teachers go berko at you, haha, the SMS owns, but I don't think I would like it as the only thing I played.

[reaper2k2]

I have a huge sms collection i even have the 3d glasses and all versions of the machine the little cards were just games and the slot of the 3d glasses this machine was better in every way then the nes


best 8 bit of all time no that goes to the C64 over 20 millon sold 16.ooo games and apps better games then both nes and sms

better sound sms is a distant 2 to the c64 really some of you really missed out wonderboy was on the c64 all version castlevania was on the c64 to most games were and had better versions its sad to know poor kids had to use NES,s and SMS at the time when the c64 had much better sound cheaper games and you could program games your self

tapes,carts,disks printer colour at that and so many games and programs it would take you a life time to go throu it the best demo scene in the world ..........from people like fairlight triad GP i almost dies when i read in this thread SMS is the best 8bit of all time fuckmedead

the c64 owns all those systems in sales and being loved the most lemon64 has more then 1 million people a year through just to talk about the good ol c64 nothing can beat the c64s sales record even today it leads the guiness book record for most sales EVER.!

so it beat alll of those systems it lasted from 1983 till 1990's i bought my last one new in 1992

[SpiderW]

Haha, I never owned a SMS but I got a Smeg emulator and its got like every SMS and GG game on it, one thing that gets me though is that the bubble bobble on it don't work

[Hawq]

I have a huge sms collection i even have the 3d glasses and all versions of the machine the little cards were just games and the slot of the 3d glasses this machine was better in every way then the nes


best 8 bit of all time no that goes to the C64 over 20 millon sold 16.ooo games and apps better games then both nes and sms

better sound sms is a distant 2 to the c64 really some of you really missed out wonderboy was on the c64 all version castlevania was on the c64 to most games were and had better versions its sad to know poor kids had to use NES,s and SMS at the time when the c64 had much better sound cheaper games and you could program games your self

tapes,carts,disks printer colour at that and so many games and programs it would take you a life time to go throu it the best demo scene in the world ..........from people like fairlight triad GP i almost dies when i read in this thread SMS is the best 8bit of all time fudge

the c64 owns all those systems in sales and being loved the most lemon64 has more then 1 million people a year through just to talk about the good ol c64 nothing can beat the c64s sales record even today it leads the guiness book record for most sales EVER.!

so it beat alll of those systems it lasted from 1983 till 1990's i bought my last one new in 1992

While the C64 was great the fact is that the Speccy beat it in many areas (although the SID chip did rule everything else), the C64 was technically superior to the Speccy had the bedroom coder support. Note thats not re-starting an old war (old farts like me will know about that one) just stating the facts & if anyone accuses me of a fanboy attitude know that I had a speccy, C64, NES & SMS and liked them all.

[Hawq]

While the C64 was great the fact is that the Speccy beat it in many areas (although the SID chip did rule everything else), the C64 was technically superior to the Speccy had the bedroom coder support. Note thats not re-starting an old war (old farts like me will know about that one) just stating the facts & if anyone accuses me of a fanboy attitude know that I had a speccy, C64, NES & SMS and liked them all.

Well the C64 had the bedroom coder support too, by the bucket load... the C64 BASIC was more advanced too (If hard to remember all the data accsesses )

True but most things turned up on the Speccy due to ease of coding, plus the Speccy was a bit cheaper (which helped)

[Prophet][]

I remember bugging my parents to get me an SMS, and boy did it pay off

[area]

Wow... SMS... That brings back memories. My first console Alex Kidd in Miracle World was sooo much fun (but also took me YEARS to complete - I could get to the end of the game after a 'mere' 3 - 4 years (bearing in mind I got it when I was 4 or 5), but never rescued his brother to get the letter to take to the castle, so didn't know the order to run over the blocks at the end of the game. I still play the game from time to time; Rock Paper Scissors boss fights were (and are) great fun

*Wanders off to find his SMS, which should still be in original polystyrene packaging *

[Hawq]

While the C64 was great the fact is that the Speccy beat it in many areas (although the SID chip did rule everything else), the C64 was technically superior to the Speccy had the bedroom coder support. Note thats not re-starting an old war (old farts like me will know about that one) just stating the facts & if anyone accuses me of a fanboy attitude know that I had a speccy, C64, NES & SMS and liked them all.

Well the C64 had the bedroom coder support too, by the bucket load... the C64 BASIC was more advanced too (If hard to remember all the data accsesses )

True but most things turned up on the Speccy due to ease of coding, plus the Speccy was a bit cheaper (which helped)

Yeah... only reason I got given a C64 was because my parents were Vic-20 fanboys Plus my auntie had a speccy, so there was no need to play another one! But when stuff was ported to the C64, it did look better The BMX games a perfect examples of that

But Carmageddon did make it's way onto the Spectrum

Ah, I have fond memories of the Vic20 it was my first computer with it's mighty (at the time) 3k of ram. The C64 did indeed look and sound better but it was more advanced than the Speccy, 64k to the Speccys 48k. Still both good machines though.