Best 8bit Console - Sega Master System 

I was still using the Amiga when my sister got a Master System for Christmas one year. It had Alex Kid in Miracle World onboard and it loaded if there was no cart or card inserted. NGL, I played the hell out of that game.

I remember some of these old Sega games such as Alex the Kid. Out Run. Gauntlet. Pac-Man and Asterix etc.

This console is still sold to this day Its holds the record for the longest selling/supported console ever.

Good stuff. It sucks that companies sometimes gave priority to NES and didn't polish SMS ports as much. Sort of like with PSX and SS in later years.

Black Belt was my favourite Master System game.

If SEGA had a killer legal team and would have included both the square wave and FM chip from day one... Nintendo wouldn't have stood a chance!

Was a great console , dynamite dux was my first game ,still play it on the emulator 🕹

Great vid! So many quality ports, was the MS architecture perhaps easier to work with than some of the competition? I discovered Fantasy Zone for the first time via the MS version, emulated. What a great game! The music!!! Best music in a game ever. Strange finding: it's in a different key to the arcade version.

Nes was great.. Pc Engine was also outstanding..

2:20 The SMS also paired the 8-bit Z80 with a powerful 16-bit GPU running at 11MHz, truly hardware out of the arcades. Indeed, it packed another 16KB of VRAM, enough for unique tiles to be drawn over the entire screen if tile flipping were used. All those extra chips needed for the Nintendo cartridges were completely unnecessary in Segaland.

Sure I loved NES, but I would never consider myself a Fanboy (indeed after the Snes I pretty much lost interest in Nintendo) but like many I had little choice back in those days and if I wanted to have more games to choose from I had to have what all my friends and family had so NES it was. Being in Canada I believe the market was much like the US where the NES was dominant and unchallenged for the most part, no regrets but I was always intrigued by the MASTER SYSTEM, going to department stores seeing it on display I did think the graphics had an edge. It would only be many years later as an adult and retro collector that I would come to experience what I missed out on and so I have a very nice original Master System and even the 3D Goggles, a few of the top carts etc. I will say I am HORRIBLE at Psycho Fox though 😆

Their only mistake was not puting the FM sound chip in the North-American version. That is why they lost the war.

Alex Kidd in Miracle World was a bit crap. Alex Kidd in Shinobi World was great. Both still do not even slightly compare to Super Mario Bros 1, 2, 3. I love the Master System, some of the games on it were better than on the NES but it's library pailed in comparison to what the NES had. I do feel that anyone who says otherwise does not know either systems catalogue. I'd love to say that the Master System had a better library but it really did not.