Master System at 40: the truth about Sega’s most underrated console

[Spanky]

Forty years ago, the Nintendo Entertainment System dominated the markets in Japan and the US. But in Europe, a technologically superior rival was making it look like an ancient relic.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/nov/18/sega-master-system-nintendo-entertainment-system

 

[Kewydee]

I saw that article.
Picture editor needs a kick in his millennial bollocks.
Why use a mark 2 picture when celebrating the release of the original Master System?
40 years...
Long time.

 

[Bods]

Remember when mate bought one, he said it's awesome.. OutRun is just like the arcade machine

 

[big10p]

Remember when mate bought one, he said it's awesome.. OutRun is just like the arcade machine

A mate bought OutRun and Wonder Boy by mail order. OR was ok-ish, but Wonder Boy was awesome.

 

[Body pop]

Remember when mate bought one, he said it's awesome.. OutRun is just like the arcade machine

I sort of tried to convince myself of that too .i bought it the day it came out .hang on and the built in maze game .great times

 

[Body pop]

A mate bought OutRun and Wonder Boy by mail order. OR was ok-ish, but Wonder Boy was awesome.

Wonderboy was out of this world at the time .choplifter was equally as good .The games were a fortune and you had play them to death .i loved my hero .15 quid card ,great fun ,it felt like a bargain

 

[big10p]

Wonderboy was out of this world at the time .choplifter was equally as good .The games were a fortune and you had play them to death .i loved my hero .15 quid card ,great fun ,it felt like a bargain

Ah, yeah. Forgot Choplifter. Was really good.

 

[Retroman839]

I remeber around launch of console
We played
Hang on
Rambo + light gun + rapid refire unit 👍

Time soldiers

 

[kingtreelo]

fella over the road had one with the Rocky game, probably the first ever time i'd seen a console in someones home

 

[Fantazia2]

I had one back in the day and remember one year for Christmas I was getting sonic, my mum let me open it early on Christmas eve so I stayed up all night to play it and completed it, but without all the gems. Great times.

 

[Retroman839]

Last game I played was my power strike 2

I love my MS
That really was my very own console ..
I had it in my bunk bed ..
Tv & Ms Sockets on wall inside the lower section of bunk bed Só I could play at night as much as I wanted ..
With head phones ..

Action fighter
Shinobi
Golden axe
Alex kid
Rtype

Pretty much made me happy
1cc the golden axe Anytime.
Never used magic till death adder

 

[Fantazia2]

Good article but it could have gone more into the consoles continued history in Brazil as due to some crazy import laws it was pretty much the only console available I believe which led to its lifetime being extended way longer than anyway else in the world.

 

[Retroman839]

Tech toy street fighter 🤣

 

[Fantazia2]

Tech Toy were still releasing new games for the Master System all the way up to 1998.