Sega Master System vs Nintendo NES! *32* Games Compared!
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- The clash of the century! (Well, the last century.) Which game console had the better games? The Sega Master System or the Nintendo Entertainment System? I take a look at just 32 games and determine which one I'd rather play!
Games Featured: Adventure Island, After Burner, Alien 3, Alien Syndrome, Altered Beast, Ariel the Little Mermaid, Batman Returns, Choplifter, Dick Tracy, Double Dragon, The Flintstones, Gauntlet, Ghostbusters, Ghosts 'n' Goblins, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, The Jungle Book, Klax, Marble Madness, Micro Machines, Ms. Pac-Man, Ninja Gaiden, Out Run, Pac-Mania, Paperboy, Rad Racer, Rampage, RoboCop Versus The Terminator, Shinobi, Star Wars, Smash TV, Super Off Road, Super Smash TV, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants, The Terminator, Wonder Boy
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I remember playing Walter Payton's football on the Master System and being blown away by the ref actually saying the penalties LOL.
Ninety percent of the time, the Master System blew away the NES. It had a superior graphics engine and on screen color palette. Unfortunately Sega just didn't spend the advertising resources that Nintendo did and sales for the weaker system soared. Plus Nintendo scored so much third party support. I only knew of one friend who owned a SMS back in the day.
It had a lot of good games, but I think of it as a system with choppy scrolling.
Looking back the NES was overrated
You have to remember that Nintendo had forced exclusivity contracts during the NES' life time; only the big guys could get away with ports to other systems. Third party developers had to agree to two years exclusive to the NES to publish those games; leaving the Master System bereft of third party games that weren't a couple years old. It wasn't until SEGA offered more favorable terms did Nintendo change (and that was because EA threatened to sell their own carts and break SEGAs own lock out systems).
@@drg5352 This stems from the early 80's when Sega treated other software houses poorly (also accusations of Yakuza nonsense), so the other publishers didn't want anything to do with Sega; combined with the poor performance of the SG-1000 the other houses were happy to sign exclusivity deals with the yugely popular Famicom.
@@GregsGameRoom Quite, that's what seemed to let a good chunk of Master games down back in the day, look lovely, but play like poop. Not all of course, Master had many great games, but looking at the games overall, it's a stereotype that fits.
Graphics on the Master System are better on every game pretty much.
European here, several of my friends had the Master System and yeah it was a great concol. I had a NES as that was all my parents were prepared to buy me, they never even asked what I wanted. I would most likely asked for a Master System instead as it had Sonic and I was a huge fan.
Regarding Alien 3, sorry to hear the movie did not click with you. I was not a fan when I first saw it, it was a massive let down after the first 2 movies and killing off Newt and Hicks between movies felt like such a slap in the face after we had grown attached to them. That said, many years later I went back to the movie and tried to appreciate it on it's own terms and watch the Directors Cut that added a lot more to flesh out the characters and I tried to focus a lot more on some of the excellent cinematography. I'm not saying I 'like' the film now or anything but I think if you go back at some point and try watching the Directors Cut you might find stuff to appreciate about it.
You preferred NES Double Dragon?! I think if you had a friend to enjoy it with you would see the co-op mode makes this game, it's so hallow and empty without it. So I can't blame you for picking what is perhaps the better single player experience.
I actually have a published letter in Starlog magazine about how I hated Alien 3.
@@GregsGameRoom Ouch! But...have you seen the Directors Cut? Paul McGann is one of my favourite actors with his memorising scene presence. In Alien 3 he played the character Golic who had almost all his scenes cut from the Theatrical Version of the film so he's nothing but a background extra.
@@dominicsmith5588 problem is in Alien 3 ALL actors look (and sound) the same. Absolutely horrible casting.
nice comperation, i really enjoyed it, i hope we will get more of this in future with different systems.
That’s the plan!
I was with you until you got to double dragon lol good video man
LoL, I knew that choice would ruffle some feathers.
There is no doubt that the SMS is superior to the NES in several graphical aspects. In the sound section, the chiptune of the NES is more versatile. There is also no doubt that Sega put a lot of love into porting their classics. But in the end a console is better or worse because of its games and that's where Nintendo destroyed Sega by getting the support of the developers.
I would agree. The entire point of playing "Double" Dragon is to play with a friend. The NES should of just called it Dragon fighter or something. Its not Double Dragon. Even the Atari 2600 included 2 player co-opt play.
@@GregsGameRoomI'm nostalgic for the NES game too myself but not having played the Sega version having two player on an arcade game like DOUBLE dragon automatically disqualifies the NES. You have to review these games from that perspective. That's what they were made for. 😊
Yup, same here. I ignored his Altered Beast pick as just preference but the Double Dragon one was where he lost me.
As a UK kid in the 80s I never had a Master System (I bought one 2nd hand years later for £2 just to play the built in game). I was into C64 at the time so would often be in the game stores and all I really remember about the Master System games was how boring the designs on their cases was. That same white with black grid and basic image on the front for all of them- they just never got me interested.
I don't remember anything of the NES though- the first time I saw one it belonged to an American kid who's dad was working at a nearby US Airbase. It wasn't until the SNES arrived here that Nintendo seemed a big deal (although I do remember TV adverts for Super Mario 3)
When both systems first came out in the USA the Sega Master System was much more appealing. The arcade ports were amazing. It looked the a better experience for those of us who were arcade goers. The graphics definitely looked better.
Unfortunately the lack of 3rd party support and the Nintendo monopoly badly hurt the system. What could have been if Konami was making titles and if they had more hit games.
Fortunately the Sega Genesis was a powerhouse and excelled where the Master System failed. The Msster System was more popular in Europe and Brazil. Those places had better titles. Still no match for the premier titles of the NES. But better arcade ports overall undeniably.
I was fortunate to have both systems!! loved sega more especially outrun!!!! 👌👌
Batman returns on NES is just Bayou Billy with a Batman skin over it
I like both consoles but Wonder Boy in Monsterland (Wonder Boy 2) on the SMS is my favorite 8-bit video game. I always thought Sega should of used Wonde Boy over Alex Kidd as mascot (before Sonic and after Opa-Opa) Good video👍
Does Sega own Wonderboy? Maybe Hudson does?
@@GregsGameRoom wonderboy is a Sega arcade game. Hudson only came into the picture when it was ported to the NES and Sega made them change the character and title to adventure island
@@GregsGameRoom it seems that Westone developed it, and then sold the Wonderboy property to sega, and Hudson owns the adventure island property, but licensed the game design from westone. Or something. It’s a little unclear
One of mine too. Fond memories.
Monsterland, is that where you transform into different animals? Mouse and whatnot. Loved that one! Alex Kidd in Shinobi World hit me very hard as a kid. Brilliant game, albeit pretty easy.
edit: ok, Monster Land is the more basic platform adventure game. It's awesome.
It seems clear from your comparison that the Master System had more capable hardware, but the programmers sometimes weren't given enough time or budget to make the game as fun as the NES version. Sometimes hard to justify the resources when your market share is low.
I've been waiting to see a video comparing these 2 consoles side by side for awhile and as far as I know you beat Sega Lord X to this one?
I've always been more of a NES fan but you can't deny the fantastic colour palette of the Master System.
Thanks for the episode 👍
He will probably be more in-depth than me. I just like to get a feel of the game.
And Sir you are speaking facts.
I always found that games that came out on both consoles looked better and played better on Sega. I feel it holds the same for Genesis and snes .
As a kid in the 80s, I did not even know Sega consoles existed until the sega genesis.
I knew about the SMS, but was all about Atari then.
I had a friend who had the Master System before the Genesis came out. I loved the Wonder Boy games. They were ahead of their time for sure.
We had the sms in canada at the same time! They were neck and neck. 77 kid here, I wanted the sms specifically because of Afterburner!
Did you guys get the Master System 2 over there?
It came preloaded with Alex the Kid, was a lot smaller and had a flip top lid like the NES.
Also our NES had an orange Zapper here in the UK.
@@joshoshea3194 no MS 2 here in the states. I had the "deluxe" set NES that came with R.O.B. the robot and a grey light gun with duck hunt and gyromite on different cartriges. This is before SMB was a pack in game and only black bix games were on the shelf. Early 86.
Master System was my first console, and imo it beats the nes by a mile.
Alien Syndrome - The NES version is actually a fairly faithful port of the arcade game. The graphics take a hit of course, and it doesn't have the digitized speech, but the levels pretty much match the arcade originals.
The NES version is also a 2 players game.
Why rescue people captured by the Aliens?
Because that was exactly what Ripley did at the end of Aliens :)
The awesome music in Out Run puts you to sleep? You must be some kind of narcoleptic 😉
Kind of impressive that the NES version of Smash TV can handle so many onscreen sprites wthout any flicker! Cool video!
Most of nintendo ports are made by tengen, a pirate games company so of course their games looks shitty ... But when games are made by legit companies, nes version are always better (sunsoft version of afterburner is much better than tengen).
Nes games are also more faster with frenzy gameplay than sms games, more colors but too clean and boring
I'm stoked I found your channel I'm loving these comparison vids!
SEGA was always superior to most unless it was Nintendos Mario world. SEGA had more bass in it's music and sound effects, NES sound like a lot of hiss. SMS Library is also very extensive and not just sports games. What some Game Over Video Game gal told me a while back.
Alien Syndrome should have had a mega drive version or even the megs CD version could be close to the arcade version. Sega missed a trick not releasing all those great arcade to the CD or the 32X
Great video! Bart Vs The Space Mutants was always a favourite on the NES growing up
The gameplay just gets boring fast for sega games. The nes is much more fun to play and it has more depth to the games
Yea, you lost some credibility after selecting the NES version of Double Dragon. I tried to ignore your choice of the NES version of Altered Beasts, but the Double Dragon selection was just too much. I was an NES owner, but my close friend had a Master System and Double Dragon on the Master System was better than the NES version. The Star Wars comp where the SMS version looks quite a bit better than the NES version.
My brother and I had both consoles back in the 80s. They both gathered dust as we played games on our C64 and Apple //e.
Stellar vid. Would be awesome if you did a comparison of flagship NES vs Master Sys games that are similar, e.g., Zelda vs GA Warrior, Mario vs Alex Kid, Ninja Gaiden vs Shinobi, etc..
I might do that. Although, I'm not really an RPG fan.
It's funny how different regions favoured heavily on 1 console. Growing up in the UK the Mastersysem was king. From memory I think it was mainly a price point. I think the console and games were a landslide cheaper than the NES.
I'd see magazines back in the day and scoff at the inferior graphics on the NES and figure we were in pole position. Boy was I wrong.
Yeah the Sega had some gems. But we can't deny who won the 8 bit battle.
New to your channel, nice work and keep it up!
I'm in the UK too, I had a Nes (then a Megadrive). Nes and Master were pretty even in sales, but the Megadrive dominated the 16-bit war. I used to buy Mean Machines just to see all the different games on the different systems.
@@HalbaredOK my reply keeps getting deleted, i think its because of the URL i'm referencing.....
The MS outsold the NES almost 2 to 1. I wanted to include the source - but its not having it.
To be honest though i was predicting it would of outsold it 3 or 4 times though! Guess i was wrong on that part.
@@BadDudesVsFletch I've just tried to reply to you, and I went back to edit to add the data, but my reply wasn't there, and I never even added an url.
The Master and the Nes sold the same, you can check wiki (sourced) and the website, neogaf. According to the independent mag, Edge, in their October 1993 issue, the Nes has sold 1,150,000 as of 1/1/93. The Master had sold 1,100,00 as of 1/1/93. The Nes sold another 275k units in 1993 and the Master sold another 148k units. According to EA both ended up roughly at 1.5 million apiece at the end of their run.
@Halbared it looks like our sources have conflicting info then. Google 'nes sales uk'. First hit goes to mechafatnick. This article basically supports my first comment. It has sega power may 91 backing up the stat's.
Either way. I'm less concerned about being "right". My original comment my memory is my personal recollection in my region/school/friends etc. Whether it's factually correct or not I guess is another topic. Rather than continue to debate sales figures from consoles from 30 years ago, I'll wish you all the best. Cheers:)
Well I am fan of neither of the systems, I grew up with a zx spectrum and then jumped ship to an Amiga, but the sms version of Gauntlet is the clear winner, especially if we take into account the reasons you give for the NES win. The NES has equally (if not more) choppy sprites based on the video footage and actually runs slower (both scrolling and when character moves without scrolling the screen), plus shooting is so slow...
This guy really needs his eye checked. Saying that NES has better graphics on games like Double Dragon etc... its insane.
Double Dragon was better on SMS.
It doesn't need to be this or that, both had very good games. Personally I have been replaying a ton of 8 bit lately and the Master System holds up far better than the NES in many ways. I wish I had played more of it as a kid.
I am a big fan of the SMS, and I think in many cases it has the better graphics, but I prefer the sound and music in the NES most of the time.
Also, in the NES, I think the developers realized the limitations of the hardware more and made characters smaller and changed graphical features to improve the smoothness and fluidity of the game while Sega tried too hard to be arcade accurate in the graphics department. This sometimes created a choppy game and made it worse.
Graphics are the only thing you can show in a printed ad. No sound or animation!
I would agree. The original SMS library is fantastic with Zillion, Shinobi, the Wonderboy series, Phantasy Star, ect. But it just couldn't handle most Genesis titles being its an 8-bit console. I strongly recommend the SMS to any retro collector I would tell them stick with the old school library and avoid Genesis titles.
Literraly an extra sound channel is all the NES had over the SMS, likely why the music was better.
to be fair, i think joe only praises Genesis port of ghouls and ghosts. Mainly because it was developed by sega lol.
He loves all versions surely. ;-)
...that Little Mermaid comparison isn't fair, because they're clearly not remotely the same game.
It's perfectly fair. If I walked into a store and saw The Little Mermaid for both systems clearly the NES game is better. It's the same thing for The Terminator, Batman Returns, Dick Tracy, The Flintstones, etc.
The Little Mermaid was only released in Brazil and their exclusives mostly had issues.
Ugh! God those sound effects on the SMS version of Afterburner are beyond awful.
LOL
i loved them both segas hardware felt more advanced but nes had the games
There are a couple of few more games to make comparison if you can include them. For terminator 2 ,the NES have an extra level of isometric motor bike chasing.
Bram Stoker Dracula
Bubble Bobble
Bart Simpson vs the World
Krusty Fun House
Fantasy Zone
Rampart
Rainbow island
Robocop 3
Other international release
New zealand story
Captain Silver
Cloud master
I'd give NES the win on the Double Dragon game too. It's not even close to being arcade accurate at all, but it still felt a bit more solid overall.
Nes version of Flintstones looks like it was a regular platformer with the Flintstones graphics slapped onto it.
I really enjoyed seeing the difference in graphics on these machines. For the most part I always assumed that the Nintendo's were better. I owned a Master System as a kid and it was not a good experience for me. People can say it was good and blah blah, but I was the only one who had one. I was poor and not many game options. My friends were trading Nintendo games and playing Metroid, Zelda while I was playing the two built in games and that was it. Wasted a summers pay on it because the NES was sold out and the sales person at Toys-R-Us talked me into a Sega.
Same exact situation with the TG16 which a friend of mine bought. Everyone had an NES and at least ten games. Everyone was trading. They only ever got 5 games for their TG16 then SNES came out and they couldn't even give that system away.
I think Famicom Altered Beast is decent. It's has unique content and plays well. I'm not sure why I only see hate for it excluding this video.
Sad about Ninja Gaiden not being the arcade game, finally somebody with some good taste! EDIT: I'm now stabbing a voodoo doll of you after you said the NES version of Shinobi is decent.
LOL... Have you tried the graphic hack? I did a video about it somewhere...
Dick Tracy for the NES is one of the worst games I've played as a kid.
It's confusing, especially for someone like me who prefers arcade-style games.
Never had a master system, but had the NES. Love these videos because it shows me the other side of gaming that I missed!
Regarding Super Off Road; the NES version was also called Super Off Road; 'Super' is visible on the red bar above the picture of the truck, and in the title splash in the "O' in Off Road. As for what you couldn't put your finger on regarding the differences between the two, I can help: The NES stages are missing water pits. The Master System had them, as did the SNES version. I liked the NES's presentation better though, it felt more like the arcade game and supported four players where the SMS never got a control port duplicator.
Excellent! Some of these comparisons were rather close, and only a few minor differences between the two. I was thinking for a minute, where is Montezuma's Revenge, and then I remembered the NES version is a homebrew. Another great video my friend. 👍
Thanks man!
Not bad although I disagree with a few of your choices. For example the SMS version of Star Wars is superior to the NES one because in the latter you take fall damage. That doesn't take into account that the SMS has better sound and graphics. Honestly the SMS was just a better console.
I have always said that gamesack Joe is the worst Joe of all Joe's. Subbed!! XD
LOL
Master system has my favorite 8 bit games, but NES soundchip is amazing.
Sega had a strong appearance among Hispanics. So culturally we got access to a lot of cool ass games people can't imagine. Sega just had it's own vibe. It was more connected to anime in the 80s and wasn't afraid of giving the original experience while Nintendo was constantly trying to escape its arcade roots. Sega was more confident about its identity. But many people had both, since they weren't very expensive.
I always felt Sega leaned too hard into arcade ports that didn't translate well. Nintendo came up with a bunch of new IP which they still utilize today.
@@GregsGameRoom Sega had a lot of new IPs as well
This depends of the country. In Argentina and some parts of South America SEGA was massive. However, in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean countries, Nintendo was stronger.
It's a myth that every Hispanic country was dominated by SEGA. Not true.
@@lmk10000 Early on the Master System was very dominant in Latin America but it is true that after the Genesis things got murky for them with the release of the SNES.
@@Vespyr_ in my country in South America I can't name anyone who had a SMS. Unlike the NES which was relatively popular, much more so than the Atari 2600.
Even SEGA Genesis was more popular than SMS.
It wasn't until the release of the PSX that Nintendo had an incredible decrease in my country.
SMS obviously had more colours, but It is very noticeable to see how much more detail the SMS generally has in its characters. NES looked like a blend of one colour Atari like graphics on its characters but with some extra details here and their especially in backgrounds.
If you didn't pick Ninja Gaiden (pronounced as Ninja Guyden) for NES I would've quit the video. There's no contest between the SMS and NES version. Not just just graphically, but the game was the first to have a cinematic wide screen display in the story telling. NG for NES is regarded as a classic in just about every sense. The SMS version is more or less like, cool an alternate version.
Outrun on SMS had FM Sound support and sounds much better even though it was a European release.
I agree with you except in Ninja Gaiden (only the NG 3 is better in the NES in my opinion), and Double Dragon with I believe the SMS is much better, for having 2 players, arcade style and better graphics
Yesssss! 👀
Great video. Still in process. Personally I always really enjoyed Ghostbusters for SMS but yes v bad music.
And i like the NES controller more . The one we had in EU
25:22 is that the music from Moon Patrol??
Im from Europe, and I hardly ever saw a master system. I knew what it was, but I dont think I ever saw one. Not even in stores. We had the GameGear though
As someone born in Canada and growing up with an NES, I never realized that the original Sega Master System was technically superior in terms of graphics and performance potential.
Which I should have realized as in Brazil a company made a very impressive port of Street fighter 2.
Tectoy from Brasil! Published Street fighter 2 on Master System!
Yeah, the Master was created 2½ later; tech moved at a rapid pace back then, 16-bit computers had already come out by 1986.
By the time Nintendo launched the NES here in the UK it looked very unimpressive with its drab looking expensive games and that odd robot thing. Sega had colourful current arcade conversions that everyone wanted to play at home whereas Nintendo had years old games that no one really cared for. Segas partnership with Mastertronic also put Sega games in corner shops and filling stations as well as the big chain stores so they had a huge retail presence which Nintendo just couldn't compete with.
We also never had a video game crash and home computers, piracy and cheap games were the norm with consoles usually being secondary machines, unlike America where Nintendo basically had the entire market for themselves.
I think the only mistake Sega made was removing the FM synthesis chip from the European model and never offering it as an add on as the sound was definitely its weakness.
The Brazilian Tectoy machines are really cool, you can get one with the entire library built in that connects to the tv via a little tv transmitter in the console.
@@meetoo594 I never saw any Master system games in the flesh until a Toys'R'Us opened near me. I did see Nes games though in the places I went; Boots, makro etc.
In the playground there was a buzz about Super Mario 2 and RC Pro-am, kids thought they were great. I can remember Commodore/Nintendo/Atari discussions ("ours is better" sort of thing).
@@Halbared I never actually played any NES games until the internet and emulation were a thing. I didnt know anyone with one and dont recall any shops having them after the initial launch in 1987 until the turtles pack in 1990 was released, by which time it was prehistoric technology.
We had c64s,spectrums,amstrad cpcs, st and Amigas mainly. Master system, megadrive and SNES were successful but most people had computers due to that sweet sweet piracy scene.
Apart from the ST Atari didnt really appear on the radar after the 2600, their 8 bit home computers were rare as hens teeth, the 5200 was never released here and although the 7800 was, no one bought it.
To me alien syndrome sms is favorite of all. Nes arcade. Id still take sms port thats the case of i did grewup and only knew that one version. Same thing i prefer contra on nes even over the arcade the jumping in the arcade seems bizarre and throws me off.
The great great war, way way before Ponys and Xbots starts war with each other.
You're obviously playing SMS on an emulator because they usually turn on FM audio by default. For the true North American SMS audio experience this should be turned off to hear the PSG chip tunes. IMO, FM audio will always sound wrong because it's not what I grew up with.
Why would you want the "true North American experience"? 😂 The Master System was discontinued in the USA in 1991 before about 60% of the games on the console, including many of the greatest games on the system, were released.
The North American experience of the Master System was vastly inferior to the rest of the world's.
Have to agree with YesterdaysMoose. I wanna hear the authentic Master System experience the way I remembered it from that era. Here in PAL regions we never got the FM module and games like Alien Syndrome, Shinobi, Afterburner and all the early titles with bad artwork on the covers always had PSG-SN76489 audio.
Listen to this turkey. "Obviously because usually"???
"In my opinion it's wrong because it's not what I grew up with"?
It's amazing how bratty kids never grow up and just become bratty adults.
17:38 i think some of your picks are incorrect from what you've mentioned?
Sega Master System was junk compared to the NES.
Nintendo had all the best games. Tons of third party support but it was the Nintendo first party titles that really set it apart.
I remember I had an NES and my neighbor had the Master System… needless to say, we where always at my house playing NES, while his Sega was an overpriced paper weight.
This reviewer is a bias child. Didn’t even give the flint stones a normal review . I owned sega as a child and wished it was a Nintendo , but anyway some sega games are better.
The double dragon game on Nintendo is actually a better game, it’s it’s own thing. I like that you have to have skill to play. The sega game gives you free continues until level 4. Too easy.
Has anyone pointed out yet that the Famicom Star Wars game is different than the NES Star Wars game? It's weird and not faithful at all to the movie but it is different than the NES game.
One of those crazy Japanese game differences. :D The Real Ghostbusters II game in PAL was also different to the US one, it is great!
How on earth can you call Micro Machines a draw? Just look at the screens dude, even sprite flicker in the NES version where SMS has way more detailed backgrounds and sprites... how... really?
Double Dragon on the Sega will always went out just because it actually has two player, whereas the NES in 1-player only. When the game has double in the title, you kind of expect to be able to play co-op.
Master System fell too frame janky. Nes may have had less graphics but far smoother tbh.
I have to laugh at some of the nes versions of games. Clearly devs didnt go as far as they could to make a comparable experience. Altered Beast looks terrible. But you look at a game like Astanax and you see that a better version could have been made.
I've seen it said that the SMS version of Ghostbusters is the definitive GB 8bit game.
But i think the C64 original is much better. SMS has more features, but they make the experience worse. And the C64 sounds excellent.
On the Ghostbusters games did you get as far as climbing the stairs to goza, as the SMS version is impossible to get up the stairs without cheats compare to the NES version. You need unlimited ghost bait.
The master system had the power, but it didn’t have the games the NES wins this one.
OutRun has some of my all-time favourite videogame music although, admittedly, it's the music from the arcade version and the rearrangements in the sequel not so much the Sega Master System version and I'm in Canada so I obviously didn't get to experience the FM chip-enhanced version of the tunes in the SMS port. The PSG version of the music doesn't sound as smooth but, on the other hand, the FM version sounds rather like elevator music while the PSG music sounds more authentically "8-bit".
When it comes to the first two Terminator movies, I preferred the sequel as a teenager but, now that I'm well into middle age, I find that the original movie works on more levels, both as a sci-fi horror movie and as a sci-fi film noir, while the sequel is more of a straight blockbuster sci-fi action thriller (which is fine, there will always be room on my Blu-Ray shelf for both of them and twice over since I never got rid of my DVDs of them).
Alien 3 had good music on both systems.
I bought both Master System and NES just for one game: Bubble Bobble. It is superior on Sega's console, but both the systems are sprite glitching/flickering shits, so I stick with C64, sorry.
64 is a better gameplay experience?
I think in many of the games you tried to have the consoles on a tie and that’s why in many games I didn’t understood your choices.
I think more has to do with the team behind the game, their experience with the hardware, and the timeframe they were given to work within...
Little Mermaid for Nes is a pretty solid game, played it a ton when i was a kid. Still replay it once in a blue moon to hit that nostagia bug.
I actually love the sms alien syndrome. Mainly because it was my first console and that game we had. Back then no idea it was arcade game or that it was even on NES. I feel the same way about NES contra even though shitter graphics I have nostalgia for the sms game so I hate the look and feel of other ports. I hate the way the characters jump in the arcade versions of contra. The new version you jump 50 feet in the air and the contra arcade ports jump like 2 feet with shit in your pants I hate it and can't get used to it.
Thanks as always, marvellous.
Without showing the full sound capabilities of fm sound for the master system this comparison is kinda lackluster. Get yourself a power base mini fm and play the games again on a sega genesis with a pc speaker set up using the aux port on a model 1 genesis. The sound on double dragon and alien syndrome is just like a sega 16 arcade.
I know some games for the Master System used a special FM music chip to enhance the music. Sounds like Rampage was one of those games? I could be wrong, I don't have a reference in front of me. The FM chip really improves the sound of games like Ultima IV and Ys.
Pretty sure I was not hearing the FM sounds.
@@GregsGameRoom I thought the snare drum sounded a bit more hi-def, but then again, I'm also barely functioning on four hours of sleep.
@@GregsGameRoom your Shinobi had the FM sound, at least in this video.
I like a lot the video but there is something which can not be real. In the case of double dragon in 8bits... Never never a two players game with three enemies in screen with similar graphics can be worse than the same game but only one player and two enemies in screen. No way.... maybe in this case the nes graphics are better. I remember the 8 bits times and normally two player games were always better. That is not subjective.
Even though I have Wonder Boy 2 as my profile pic here, I have to say Nes is a way better system with a lot more games that are better.
Why the master system screen is bigger?, it has less resolution.
Awesome clash between these two console titans!
I am a hard core sega fan but i didnt own any of this sytems.
If i remember right on the sms , it had something unclear on the screen . I cant see that on this videos , maybe becaus3 of th3 new digital tv or emulator?
You can't judge these unless it's on a CRT TV
I did not know many of these games existed and i really know many .
I was a big sms fan growing up. The two games that always come to mind for being better than the NES versions are Double Dragon and Rampage.
Yep
DD didn’t impress me as much as I thought it would.
@@GregsGameRoom The SMS DD release got me excited back then but yeah, it did not age well. I think it was mainly having a game that played closer to the arcade and option of playing co-op which was kind of a big deal back then.
@@GregsGameRoom I remember it being a big deal that you could play 2 players on SMS and not NES
At least the collision detection works like it's supposed to in the NES version.
Sega fans will just have to console themselves with "Double Dragon at home." AKA Streets of Rage...the best arcade style brawler series ever made.
you missed some important titles in your comparison e.g. Bram Stoker's Dracula (very similar on both systems), a great arcade title like Fantasy Zone (which surely sms wins), sega and nintendo early sports games (which are different but quite similar in concept...), you missed also kick off....and Rainbow Islands??!! (nes has two completely different versions one of them identical to sms one).
I missed a lot. You might even say I missed them intentionally so I could do another video down the road…
@@GregsGameRoom another two very important titles, bubble bobble (sms here surely has no competitors better also than some 16 bit versions) and lemmings, again an easy winner for sms but interesting title.
Prince of Persia would be another one. And for the “very similar” games there’s more too, like Rambo vs. Ikari Warriors, or the Pro Wrestling games.
Wtf, that dude's just break-dancing on the sidewalk, lmfbo! Gotta love paperboy..
Alien 3 and Ghostbusters are amazing games on MAster System
Funny thing is, both movies had Sigourney Weaver in them.
Great comparison! I disagreed on a couple, but overall, I think you nailed it!
@GregsGameRoom it really takes you back in time when you hear the music.
I know right?
Both systems do not have a two button controller. The NES was a 4 button controller with many games using the select button for actual gameplay functions. NES games also had the amazing ability to pause the action with the start button. Sega's controllers were always lacking in functionality compared to the competition on every single one of their consoles.
The d-pad on the SMS was so bad that games would change their controls to accommodate it. For example, the SMS port of Vigilante has you press both buttons to jump, unlike the arcade and Turbografx game where you just push up. It’s too easy to accidentally hit up when trying to go left or right on the awful SMS controller.
I never felt we needed all those buttons on the SNES pad to play 16bit games.
@@pferreira1983 Wow! TROLLBOTS are getting dumber. We're not even talking about the SNES. Even if we were though, your take is still bad as their are countless games that use every single button on the controller.
@@davidaitken8503 What troll bots? I'm telling you that Nintendo made a pad for a console that doesn't need so many buttons. Go back and re-read what you posted, I'm answering what you posted, dear oh dear. 🤦♂
@@pferreira1983 Super Metroid, Metal Warriors, Street Fighter 2, Bio Metal, R-Type 3, Zelda: A Link to the Past, Doom, Star Fox, Contra 3, Pocky & Rocky, Cybernator, Total Carnage, Super Smash T.V., and literally hundreds more SNES games use most or all of those buttons in some very meaningful ways.
Plenty of NES games were using all four of its' buttons.
Your point is just plain ignorant.
I loved Ghostbusters