The Sega Master System Discussion Thread

[TrekMD]

Were all the Competition Pro controllers the same?  Looks like they only changed colors and plug.  The one for the SMS looks like the one for the 5200 just in different colors.

[DreamcastRIP]

Were all the Competition Pro controllers the same?  Looks like they only changed colors and plug.  The one for the SMS looks like the one for the 5200 just in different colors.

Look at the differences between the pictures posted of the CP Amiga CD32 pad and the CP SMS pad and you'll note the differences run to far more than a change of colour scheme and connector plug.

[TrekMD]

Were all the Competition Pro controllers the same?  Looks like they only changed colors and plug.  The one for the SMS looks like the one for the 5200 just in different colors.

Look at the differences between the pictures posted of the CP Amiga CD32 pad and the CP SMS pad and you'll note the differences run to far more than a change of colour scheme and connector plug.

Sorry, I should have been more specific.  I was referring to the joysticks, not the pads.

[DreamcastRIP]

[TrekMD]

 

[TL]

Just found this . . . . . .

SEGA Master System commercial compilation HD

[TrekMD]

Gotta love those old commercials!

[TL]

With all the talk of the NES and Master System on here recently I thought I would bump this with a review of the Master System from well known American You Tube channel Game Sack:

Game Sack - The Sega Master System

And when looking for a UK based review of the SMS I found this video, which a perfect example of the bullshit revisionist history we face every day now. This guy clearly hasn't got a clue about the real story behind this machine and talks about how it wasn't as successful over here as the NES 

Sega Master System Review

[DreamcastRIP]

And when looking for a UK based review of the SMS I found this video, which a perfect example of the bullshit revisionist history we face every day now. This guy clearly hasn't got a clue about the real story behind this machine and talks about how it wasn't as successful over here as the NES 

Sega Master System Review

Words almost fail me. Listening to the way that self-confessed Nintendard referred to the console by constantly comparing it to the NES was like a video-based equivalent of reading such articles in Retro Gamer magazine where self-confessed Nintendo fanboys have done the same thing.

What is it about Nintendo fanboys that stops them from being able to review non-Nintendo products on their own merits? The ignorant bloke in that Youtube video and the likes of the Adam Buchanan penned articles in Retro Gamer magazine both constantly compare the product in question to their beloved Nintendo's products. Pitiful and more than a little embarrassing.

This person described Safari Hunt on the SMS as being "an inferior version of the NES Duck Hunt". He's evidently not aware that Duck Hunt on the NES was a rip-off of an arcade coin-op by Atari named Qwak! that was released way back in 1974 a full decade prior to Famicom's Duck Hunt. Ignorance is bliss...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwak!

[Gorf]

Er....um.... actually.... it is similar but not exact. It also uses a second processor. Also, you
can not use NES carts in a PC10 machine, even with a card to cart adapter...the games are
slightly different in some ways. I'm sure Nintendo planned it that way to insure arcade houses
did not simply try to save money by popping in NES carts instead of buying the cards from
Nintendo.

I have a Playchoice 10 machine I restored in my garage. For it's time, it really was a lame
attempt by Nintendo....not unlike most attempts by Nintendo, in my opinion. Technically
by this time, it was seriously out classed by leaps.

[Gorf]

What is it about Nintendo fanboys that stops them from being able to review non-Nintendo products on their own merits?

Nintendo fanboys pretty much answers that question.

Ignorance is bliss...

Could have easily been wrote as 'Nintendo fanboyism is  bliss...'

[TrekMD]

Well, I enjoyed watching the first review.  It was well done and it really covered the SMS well along with a good set of its games.  The second review was painful to watch.  The constant comparison to the NES was not necessary and did not really contribute anything constructive to the review.  I actually learned something about the SMS from the first video. 

[Gorf]

Ninty fanboyism is certainly beyond the level of reason. I remember looking at the Dreamcast in a store
one day next to a PS2, saying how I thought it was superior in everyway and of course two little Nintendards
that looked pretty much like this.... ...were trying to convince me that the GameCube was superior. I
found it very hard to restrain laughter while explaining to them the facts of life concerning the inferiority
of their precious Lame Cube's shortcomings. I was expecting them to start crying at any moment. Of course
some muscle head was there trying to convince me with his eyebrow muscles on how that the DC was inferior to
the PS2 because of the controllers. More laughter was greatly suppressed as I told him that such a feature is a
matter of opinion and did not negate the fact that graphically the DC was easily the better of the two...for which
he huffed out of the store angrily....thankfully as he was quite large and extremely opinionated.

[TL]

There is now a Master System review guide on RVG 

28 games have already been added with more to come this week!

[TrekMD]

Sega also released a Master System II, a more compact console that was more economical.  Unfortunately, it was not compatible with card games.  Here's a review of that specific console...

[align=center:2aj6azr9]Sega Master System II Review[/align:2aj6azr9]