Did anyone here own a Sega Master System II?

[rirv]

I've just spent the past hour watching speed runs and clips of Master System games on youtube. I feel like I'm in 1992/1993 again. I can't believe the guy on youtube completes Alex the Kid in Miracle World in 16 minutes when it took my entire childhood just to get to the final screen only to fail to hit the right combination on the stones. :(

Totally underrated system. My brother got it for his birthday in 1992 when I was six and three-quarters, just before the Megadrive came out (my school was all about the Sega, though a few people had Nintendos).

Anyway, massive nostalgia alert.(!)

[ScarySquirrel]

My buddy had the original Master System, but we never really played it.

I don't know, I think a majority of the US was all about Nintendo back in the day until the Sega Genesis came out. Even then though, I was one of the few kids who had a Genesis instead of the SNES.

Genesis was better though, man, 'cause you could get the blood code on Mortal Kombat. I still remember how to access the entire cheat menu... Down, Up, Left, Left, A, Right, Down during the main screen. Whoa...

[b i o n i c]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQz4zYwbfUU, hells yes

[funk63]

Segay

[faz]

I did indeed. My family was always a sega family, never a nintendo one.

I've got a cd full of roms for both the master system and the mega drive for playing on my ps2 (which is no longer plugged in).

I'm looking forward to this (http://www.sega.co.uk/games/?g=577) though. Bunch of mega drive/genesis games for the 360/ps3

[roosta]

I've just spent the past hour watching speed runs and clips of Master System games on youtube. I feel like I'm in 1992/1993 again. I can't believe the guy on youtube completes Alex the Kid in Miracle World in 16 minutes when it took my entire childhood just to get to the final screen only to fail to hit the right combination on the stones. :(

Totally underrated system. My brother got it for his birthday in 1992 when I was six and three-quarters, just before the Megadrive came out (my school was all about the Sega, though a few people had Nintendos).

Anyway, massive nostalgia alert.(!)

ha, i bought Alex Kidd in Miracle World for the Wii the other week. The nostalgia trip lasted about 5 minutes when I realised how maddeningly difficult it is.

The craziest think about that game is that the end of level bosses are fucking games of scissor/papers/stones. How lazy is that? First of all, they can last for fucking ages, secondly, you could technically lose the game due to pure randomness.

Last night I bought Streets of Rage 2 on the Megadrive. Must play it soon.

[Drederick Tatum]

regarding any Genesis/MegaDrive - SNES argument.....Super Mario Kart.

[rirv]

ha, i bought Alex Kidd in Miracle World for the Wii the other week. The nostalgia trip lasted about 5 minutes when I realised how maddeningly difficult it is.

The craziest think about that game is that the end of level bosses are fucking games of scissor/papers/stones. How lazy is that? First of all, they can last for fucking ages, secondly, you could technically lose the game due to pure randomness.

Last night I bought Streets of Rage 2 on the Megadrive. Must play it soon.

The paper-scissors-rock games always follow a set format, at least the first three times, so just learn the moves and you'll whip 'em. I think it may well be the hardest platform game ever, but I certainly got more play out of it than my other SMS games.

[mikizee]

I lent my Master System to a friend years ago, now I can't remember who!!!

Yeah I spent many many months trying to finish Alex Kidd.

Fuckin cunt of a game. It still makes me angry. I want to play it again.

[TurdBerglar]

regarding any Genesis/MegaDrive - SNES argument.....Super Mario Kart.


yes!


we use to have battle tournaments for hours!

[ET]

Hmm, isn't that the console that has a game built into it? As if when you'd flip it on without a cartridge inside it, there'd be a game you could play?

[roosta]

Hmm, isn't that the console that has a game built into it? As if when you'd flip it on without a cartridge inside it, there'd be a game you could play?

yup, ours had the aforementioned Alex Kidd in Miracle World built in.

[faz]

Hmm, isn't that the console that has a game built into it? As if when you'd flip it on without a cartridge inside it, there'd be a game you could play?

Yep, although the later systems had sonic built in. My console broke (the one with alex the kidd) and when I got a new one it now had sonic built in it, a game I already owned. So I was now stuck with 2 copies of sonic, and 0 copies of alex the kidd (n)

[Adam]

I had them all.

I was lucky, I was a middle chid of a 4 siblings who all love computer games born from '78 to '84 - we had all the consoles :-) and still do!

[Pres Zount]

My next door neigbour had a Master System II, and by neigbour I mean the closest person to live to us, which was still about ten kilometers away. Still, my sister and I would walk the distance just to play Sonic and YES Alex Kidd.

Later on we got a Mega Drive, and Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle got a thorough playing every weekend. I never finished it, but my sister swears she did. The paper/scissors/rock thing was pretty hard, you had to use a special necklace item to read their minds to have any chance. Hahaha.

The last boss had six arms and would shoot his fists at you whilst playing paper/scissors/rock. That's pretty screwed up.

[russhie]

I had a Master System. I won it in a Mother's Day competition (something she'll really love!). It had a game called Hang On that played when you turned it on without a cartridge, and also a secret snail-maze game if you hit the right combo of buttons.

My neighbour had a Master System II and I used to go round there and watch him play that Alex Kidd game.

[Echewta]

My nickname in college was "Master System II"

[Fern]

I was/am one of those NES niggas. My buddy just bought an original NES and every game. Probably like 400 worth of shit. There is only one game when you're me: Mike Tyson's Punchout

[Gareth]

i still remember the music to alex kidd

[rirv]

I've downloaded an emulator and have been playing Alex the Kidd for a few days now. Awesome.