👾 What's So Interesting About the Sega Master System?
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- It was created to beat the popular NES. But it never really caught on in the west. Here are some crazy things you may not know about the classic system.
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My wife is Brazilian, and the SMS was a HUGE deal, all of the kids had them, and she says that she never heard of the NES until she moved to the USA.
Yeah nobody had NES in portugal either. We all had the master system
I think they manufactured the system or games way past the US discontinued date for Brazil
Interesting to see this mentioned. I'm Brazilian but I lived abroad until I was 13 so I had a NES. I was really surprised when I came to Brazil to that people had the master system.
There was a console called "phantom system" that was manufactured in Brazil that ran nes games. To this day I don't know if they had a license for that. The weirdest thing is that it's controller was shaped like an upside down Genesis controller with two buttons. Totally unergonomic! 😂
I remember the day I chose a SMS over a NES in Macy's on the 3rd floor in 1986. Still play and love it to this very day! Just played Gangster Town with my son for his first time.
Joe from Game Sack would be so proud!!!
Gangster town was pretty awesome especially with Players!
The SMS looks so much better than the NES. It's probably my favorite looking system of all time. The audio chip was pretty bad, but nowadays we can enable the FM sound unit that a lot of games supported, especially Phantasy Star.
The Master System obliterated the NES in Europe, even outselling the NES by 4 to 1 in the UK.
I really don't agree that the games weren't as good for SEGA's box of tricks, games such as Prince of Persia which looked, played and was animated so much better than just about anything on the NES.
The MS had plenty of great games, especially in Europe which saw well over 300 games released compared to the USA barely seeing 100 games released.
Europe was dominated by SEGA during the 8-Bit and 16-Bit generations, mainly due to SEGA releasing games catered to a European audience, and Nintendo treating Europe like a wicked stepmother, it's no surprise SEGA punished Nintendo over here.
Somewhere in the region of half of all SEGA Consoles and games sold was in Europe during that era.
Nintendo just couldn't compete with SEGA's fantastic marketing and quality games like Streets of Rage, Wonderboy III, Castle of Illusion, R-Type, Sonic, and Outrun.
You just couldn't play these titles on the NES.
I prefered the Master System to be honest, the NES had some excellent games for sure, but most were catered to a Japanese or North American audience rather than what Europeans liked to play.
It's nice to see the Master System get some love as it really is an awesome console with a great library of games.
Cheers.
I used to use Master System and Genesis controllers on my Amiga and Amstrad too.
Also, for the tiny thumb stick, I bought a SMS controller at a flea market once, and the owner had screwed a full sized screw into it, then wrapped it in electrical tape to make a proper joystick. The bottom was also covered in glue, so they must have had it like an actual arcade machine at one point too.
You found my new channel! lol That's awesome.
Can you give Ed a shout out? More people are finding him, but hoping more will :) (I loved how versatile the genesis controllers were)
@@r3games1985 Yeah, one of your friends I also sub to mentioned the difficulty you had on your old channel, so I subbed a few weeks ago! :)
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Master System and Mega Drive controllers also worked with C64 and Atari ST.
Golvellius was another great title on the SMS.
Master system was a imense success in Brasil. As consoles came late here, it was common see atari 2600, master system and mega drive side by side on stores. We didn't know a thing about generations, our console depends how much money our parents were willing to pay, and most didn't see any diference between the games kkkk
The card slot was made for two reasons, the card games, which were cheaper to produce than cartridges because they were smaller and held less data, and the 3D glasses, which were input into that slot. The Master System can also be upgraded with an FM sound unit which is nice.
Sega cards slot existed to guarantee backward compatibility with Sega SG-3000 games.
@@andreinoooo SG-1000 games. There isn't an SG-3000.
@@loveandrockets4life probably meant the Sega computer SC-3000 (1983) that required a Card Catcher for the Sega My Card to work.
The master system was my first ever console, and I hold it dear in my heart (hence the channel)
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Had the C64 and then master system.
Paperboy on Master System is much better than on NES
Solomons key , bubble bobble , Alien3 , Rampage , Space harrier , Shinobi , all better on master system. . Ghouls and ghosts also better on master system than ghosts and goblins on nes .
Don't forget the Shmups also. Sagaia, Power Strike II, and R-Type reamed the NES shmup library.
Almost every game that came out on both systems is better on the Master System. Looks better, plays better. Not surprising really as the Master System is more powerful than the NES, superior in almost every way.
The only exception I can think of is Strider. Strider on the Master System is shockingly poor, a real disappointment.
Shinobi, Rambo, Rampage, Mickey Mouse were some of the games I’ve enjoyed.❤❤❤
Yep . Rambo on my Sega Master System was better than my friend's Rambo on NES. Altered Beast.
I remember being amazed at how Double Dragon played on the SMS compared to the NES. I think you could keep the weapons for longer. And having two players on SMS for DD was nice, though I never played it with a friend.
True but the overall gameplay was terrible.
In the UK the master system was more popular than the nes.
Back in the day Nintendo didn't didn't recognise the independent retailers (computer game shops) where as saga did with points of sale like posters and display cabinets.
Nintendo games were released much later here than in the us & were subject to import taxation.
Sega during the 8bit years was more popular.
Yeah I worked in an independent retailers in the late 80s early 90s.
I had Shinobi, Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Double Dragon, Rescue Mission, Astro Warrior, After Burner, Rampage, Teddy Boy and had Hang-On and Safari Hunt built in
I was a Nintendo kid, but my Aunt & Uncle had a SEGA Master System. (I of course own a master system now) I remember going to their house and playing games that you couldn't get on Nintendo like Choplifter, Hang On & Safari Hunt and Aztec Adventure.
Light gun is based off the design of the gun in Zillion, i believe. Phantasy Star was incredible. And I am in a minority, but "Quartet" was my fave game, despite all it's flaws. Also the WonderBoy series was great (esp Monsterland). Choplifter was a beaut. I'll take an SMS over an NES anyday
I had a Sega Master System in the 80's. I lived outside the USA, at the time. The built-in game was my absolute favourite.
In Brasil, they still make games for the Sega Master system.
Even in 2023 or 1993?
@@CatzzMoney Yep. Check out the homebrews they make for it.
@@CatzzMoney I believe he means today! SMS has the record for longest live hardware because of Brazil.
No, I've got to tell you: the mini thumbstick (screw-in thumb joystick) worked just fine. A lot of old school systems around the time of the SG-1000 had that kind of controller setup, and people transitioning from the Atari era found the flat d-pad disorienting and strange.
The cards initially came about for backwards compatibility with the SG-1000 which switched from carts(cassette in Japan) to cards because someone at sega thought the carts looked like tombstones. It was kept in the rest of the master system releases because Sega was going to offer my cards as a cheap budget game option.
There was no cross platform back in those days due to the Nintendo monopoly on developers. Essentially Nintendo forced developers to sign a exclusivity agreement with them. Eventually that got squashed and this when you saw companies that once only made titles for Nintendto all of a sudden making games for the Genesis and TurboGrafx-16.
I’m probably late on this, but I think the card port was for games that ran on the system’s predecessors, which weren’t released outside Japan, so it was backward compatible.
The card slot on the Master System was for small MS games (Teddy Boy, etc.). The idea was that cards were cheaper to produce than cartridges, so small games were produced on cards, larger games on the more expensive cartridges. In the end, the cards were discontinued and most of the card games were reissued as budget cartridges.
The SG-1000 did have card games but to my knowledge they're not compatible with the MS card slot. The Mark III in Japan could take SG-1000 cartridges, and SG-1000 card games could be played via a card catcher cartridge. The Western Master System doesn't have the physical means to play SG-1000 games as it uses different sized cartridges.
When the Master System 2 came out the card slot was ommitted to cut costs. The cards had been long since discontinued and the 3D technology hadn't been a commercial success, so it was considered superfluous.
I got my SMS back in 88 for Christmas and I couldn't wait to play Phantasy Star!
Can't really agree with the idea that Phantasy Star is thr only game on the Master System that beats the NES. It's a laughable statement.
And the light phaser is a vastly superior light gun to the zapper. It feels awesome, looks very cool and it's way more accurate with great games like Wanted and Gangster Town.
And then you have all the games never released in the USA. This really isn't a very good review.
I had one when I was younger, did not have many titles, and had a mega drive the year after, with a plug in so I could still play my sega master system games on it
I want a Master System nowadays so gosh darn bad and if I can help it I would love to get one in the box with the zapper
Christmas 88 was awesome, we got the SMS with the little controller nubs ( I tried them a few times but they weren't great) and light gun, Hang on and Safari hunt were pack ins. Soon after we picked up Gangster Town, Astro Warrior, and Rastan, and After Burner, with our Christmas money! We never felt like we were missing out on the NES ( even though in hindsight it was the better system). Other faves were R-type, Wonder Boy 3 Dragon's Trap , Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Double Dragon, Vigilante, and Shinobi.
In New Zealand the SMS or more accurately the SMS 2 was just as popular as the NES, in fact I probably knew more kids who had one over an NES, the model 2 had Alex the Kid in Miracle World built in which was a very cool game. I was an NES kid but I remember the beginning of the console wars starting here. I was suprised it wasn't big in America.
Honestly I didn't know a whole lot about the SMS because it's one system I never got around to playing. Really interesting though, I didn't think it was on par with the NES but as far as the system itself goes, it seems pretty decent.
The Sega Master System wasn't my first game console, but it was the console that made me a gamer.
As for the card games, I definitely had one (F-16 Fighting Falcon), and I'm pretty sure the version of Ghost House I had was also a card.
For the games that were available on both SMS and NES, I can't speak for all of them, but I definitely think SMS players got the far superior versions of Rampage, Ghostbusters, and Double Dragon.
I never had the NES gun, so I can't make a comparison. All I can say is that the SMS gun suited me just fine. I only had a couple of compatible games (Missile Defense 3D and Gangster Town), but they were fun.
Cool video though, man. Cheers. 👍
I found out this my self you leave your master system off and by holding down 1-2 buttons while turning it on you will get mini game
I owned a few card games back in 88 when I was 13. Super tennis, ghost house, spy vs spy, etc.
The Sega cards was an affordable game series out in the early life of the master system to get people enticed in to buying the master system.
That built-in snake game was awesome!!!!
Feel like he missed out on what the master system was. Makes it sound like he's a Nintendo fan boy.
I had an SMS as a kid and absolutely loved it. There was a lot to like, but it just was never going to become hugely popular in the US. One thing that helped me was that there was a store just outside Detroit that rented Master System games. So I could at least try a ton of different stuff. Years later I was stunned to find out how many amazing games were released in other markets that I had NO clue about as a kid.
the sports games were super fun on Sega
SMS had a few outstanding games for its generation, and a few of the greatest games of all time: WB3 the Dragon's Trap being an example thays still playable today. The 8 bit Famicom library is enormous: it has more great games AND more terrible ones. In 2023, it's not an either/or proposition: most people will get familiar with both. If you had been a kid at the time you had to decide: with inflation, games cost 100 dollars each!
I owned Teddy Boy which was the thin card. Got it from my older cousin, not sure where he got it. The only game I actually still have. My whole system and about 15 games just vanished about ten years ago. Original owner right from the store
The joystick broke off where it screws in eventually but some high scores were added before it did!
Awesome video Ed.
Thanks!
Almost to the 2 minute mark and I had to stop it for a quick second to acknowledge my Master system having a built in game. But mine actually had 2 and neither was a snail-based game. The 1st choice was Sega's classic Hang On and the 2nd was a shooter (a la duck hunt) called Safari Hunt. Just had to put that out there.
Different Master Systems had different games. My Master System 2 had Alex Kidd in Miracle World, later ones had Sonic.
Mine has Hang-On and Safari Hunt built in, but if you pressed Up + Button 1 + 2 at startup, you will get Snail Maze. It’s mentioned in the manual if you still have it.
When I was a kid my friend had every game ( seemed like it anyways ) including the card games. It was the first time I used stereoscopic glasses and a light gun as well. Good times.
I used the screw in thumbstick. It made Space Harrier easier for me.
Me and my brother turned in our Nintendo Nes for a Sega master system at a Toy's R Us. We got 100 games installed on it. Its really a great gaming system. Spy vs spy was in it and that game was a lot of fun.
"If you pressed the pause button a little too much, the game would glitch..." THAT WAS TEACHING KIDS AN IMPORTANT LESSON! ;-)
In real life, there is no pause button.
1:26(ish) pretty sure the cards were a hangover from the SG-1000, the Master System being the SG-3000 of course, so that explains them & why they were more basic. A big advantake over the NES was the built in games as well, the early ones only had Snail Maze but that earworm lives in my brain to this day & shows no sign of ever leaving, not a complex game but rather enjoyable if you like the ocasonal maze, of course later ones had Alex Kid or Sonic & the like
You should check out the Retro Comparison video where they compare each version of a game that released on both the NES and the Master System. Pretty much literally every single Master System version was superior to the NES - aside from a few that actually was better on the NES. The sound on the NES games was better due to superior sound chip and the games tend to run smoother, but not all. The NES benefitted later in it's life with the MMC chip upgrades that allowed it to do fancier graphics like the Master System, which never had any chip upgrades. I would also note that the Master System did have plenty of exclusive games that were amazing aside from just Phantasy Star (Spellcaster, Golvellius, Golden Axe Warrior, Zillion, Wonder Boy in Monsterland 3....just to name a few). I never actually had the pause button issue that locked the system, and no controller issues either. The same controllers i got back then still works fine now. But i do agree that it is inferior to the NES controller for missing the Start/Select button. Didn't have much experience on any lightgun games on the Master System so can't really speak on that.
Most games actually were better on the SMS, not just phantasy star. Especially when tengen started releasing Sega games on nes like space harrier and after burner, the SMS versions blew the nes away. As well as most of the games that were on both systems like R type
I swear I was the only one in my small little Connecticut town in the early 90s who grew up with an SMS, and presently today, the only one in my immediate social circle who even knows what an SMS is!
I went to elementary school with a guy named Jason he had a younger sister named Jennifer and he had one of these that I got to play with him. It's the only time I played it and knew no one else who had one.
for me, the master system was an anomaly back then. im in the usa and it wasnt a hit here, the NES was. but! i did manage to get a powerbase converter for my genesis and play many master system games. while i didnt like the sound chip in the master system the games were more colorful and more detailed than many NES games often. but the master system just didnt have the library i wanted. it had some gems, though, much like the tg16 did. i also loved the plastic hardshell game cases. as far as i know the master system "card" games were sega's way of releasing games cheaper for budget minded gamers. i guess less plastic in the boxes (they were thinner than master system cart boxes) and less plastic in the lil thin card is what allowed sega to save costs and sell card games cheaper. matter of fact, i just bought a card game for my master system and thats kinda why im at ur video today lol.
The SMS was my first system at age 7.i had ghost house on the card.also,1 year after I got it,I received the larger joystick controller.that was all I ever used.my system came with hang on/Safari hunt.
That mini joystick was the greatest thing ever, and you used it similarly to the joysticks on modern controllers as a directional control with your thumb.
The thing that sucked was that they'd eventually break, but until then it was so much easier to use with the joystick!
I loved how the dpad was 8 directions.
This sounds like a video made by a man who has never played Wonder Boy 3: the Dragon's Trap. That is quite a startling comparison to any of the Metroidvanias on the NES, inclduing Takahashi Meijin 4, that was programmed several years later.
I loved the light gun games shooting gallery, gangster town, rescue mission, even safari hunt. The one bad thing about the gun was the trigger would wear out my finger especially when having a lot of enemies on screen. To try and finish the lvl I would have to switch fingers to keep shooting because of the pain
there were a couple of the thin card games I rented. The screw on thumbstick was great! Made it way more responsive with just your thumb on top of it.
I have a different opinion the Master system gun seems more advanced and accurate than the NES gun.👍
The joystick was for California Games so you don’t burn your fingers going left and right or up and down so fast on the d-pad. I nearly lost a nail trying to be the fastest d-pad scratcher lol
I'll take an SMS over an NES anyday
Sega master system also had 3D headset. There was a few games that where 3D
I still have my original! Love that system!
-The cards were essentially budget games because they were cheaper to produce. Some were pretty good but almost all were very basic. Their origin story is interesting but I won't go into that ^_^
- The stick attachment was a bit of a gimmick and it hurt to use it for long periods! It would have been better if it was a mushroom shape.
- There was more than just Phantasy Star that blew away the NES, but I get that it's subjective.
- Worth nothing that the light phaser was much more accurate than the Zapper. It also had a decent library of games considering.
Cool. I meant the overall construction of the Sega zapper was pretty crap. The games might be better though.
@@r3games1985 In the video it sounds like you didn't like the ergonomics and trigger. If so I can totally get that. However quality wise it was quite solid although it is true that it was simpler than the NES design. The NES Zapper had an additional trigger assembly mechanism just to make the trigger feel more realistic before it clicked the switch. The Sega had the trigger directly actuating the switch which is why it has a short simple pull and a weaker click. This design did have some benefits though. It was much easier to click the trigger fast for rapid shots. Also, this allowed for holding the fire button down means rapid fire via software or hardware was possible. The Zapper's mechanism made this impossible.
I also thought the space gun look was kind of cool, but maybe that's just me 😆
Alexx kid was my jam
Worth noting that the card based games date back to the SG-1000, Sega's first games console. But the SG-1000's designer, Hideki Sato, didn't like the way the blocky, black SG-1000 games cartridges looked, and they wanted a way to make cheaper games to sell on the market. So Sega designed the "Card Catcher," a little white cartridge into which these Sega Cards (or "Sega My Card" in Japan) were inserted. The Master System was designed to be backwards compatible with SG-1000 games, in both cartridge and card format (and even later continuing on with there being a card slot in the Power Base Converter, you could keep playing those games even on the Genesis). There were about 37 or so cards made for the SG-1000 and about 15 for the Master System. Interestingly, Sega continued making new SG-1000 My Card games all the way through 1987, making them alongside Master System card games during the same period, until ultimately they stopped making them altogether in 1987.
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Had a SMS as a kid. Yes, some of us bought the games on cards. I had to have gotten it at the same place as they sold normal games, as I was a kid, so..heh.. And yes some of us had the little joystick as well. Probably for the same reason as having a card game. I had F-16 Fighting Falcon as a card. It also came with that little joystick!
I have a Master System and F-16 Fighting Falcon on the card.
My friends Grandson said when I showed him my Master System. " That the controller had x2 too many button's on it " Well he was only 10. 🙂
Why people always forget south america and Brazil when talking about the sms?
You would be making a far different video if you grew up in the uk where the Master System was massive and a far bigger games release
to good thing was the 3d glasses which really made things pop out in 3d which was the main good thing about it. As for the games... lol very few were good like Black Belt, Golden Axe Warrior, shinobi? The gun games were the main attraction and the 3d and o well.
You could play the original Sonic with an Atari controller.
The Master System was actually the Mark III in japan and card games were games of the SG-1000 (mark 1 and 2) so that's why they looked a bit primitive compared to cart based games !
hmmm... never had the issue with the pause button...
The Sega Gun Game, Jungle Hunt, was twice as good as Duck Hunt because the animals came out randomly.
Three words. Golden Axe Warrior
Yes!
Loved Golden Axe Warrior !
Master system was awesome i remember I owed one and chose over NES.
Yes, I used one of those earlier controllers. The mini stick in the middle was FUCKING AMAZING! You just placed your thumb on it like you would the pad, and so you had WAY MORE responsive and easy control as opposed to having to slide your thumb around on the larger pad. I remember how sad and pissed I was when I got later controllers and they had removed that feature.
Love this system. I don’t remember if I sold it to Funcoland or Shitcoland.
I sold mine to a place called MasterPlayer lol. God I still remember that place.
Liked the video but i disagree with a few things.
1. The sega light phaser was way better than the zapper. The micro switch trigger was way better than the cap gun style zapper.
2. The master system dpad was softer and 8 directions. I do agree a pause on the controller would have been nice. I never in the decades ive played the system had it freeze when i hit the pause.
3. The games on the sms looked better than anything on the nes 90% of the time if not more. The color pallette was greater and the detail was way better. Compare the same game side by side. Sms wins easy. I wish this many years later that the difference was noticed in the 80s but nintendo had the upper hand with the license monopoly and such. It made it difficult for sega. They were left to program most of their own software.
1) I also preferred the the sega light phaser over the zapper, it felt more responsive and accurate in aiming.
2) I din't like both the sms and nes controller (due to the non rounded corners)
fun fact about the sms Dpad, it was round since Nintendo held a patent on it's cross style dpad, since the watch & game series.
even Sony used (and kept) it's 4 separate button style of dpad for this reason. The Nintendo dpad patent expired in 2005.
3) Yep, beter: vpu(with more colors and abilities), cpu, ram and vram. Z80 compared to mos 6502 based cpu, 8K+16K compared to 2K+2K of ram for the Nintendo.
Only the sound was better on the nes (except for Japan where the sms had an extra FM sound chip, not available in other regions)
Original SMS games certainly looked very nice, Sega also had a good licencing deal with Disney BTW.
Later Nintendo compensated on the hardware by adding memory mapper chips: allowing for larger carts, enhancing the vpu, and allowing to add more ram and vram.
But i'm still amazed that games like Mario bros and pocket mages where possible with no enhancement chips in the cart (only using 48KB of rom)
@ChristopheVerdonck nice. Good observations! I also liked sega's jewel cases (for lack of a better term) over cardboard game boxes. Liked the soft 8 direction joy pad, and I thought the unit itself was so much sturdier and better looking. You couldn't do Fantasy Zone 2, Golvellius, Phantasy Star and 80 other games on the NES.
Do you think that Sega will release a Master System mini like the Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 mini?
@4:00 Genesis , MS controller works/Fits in amiga port also
"It never really caught on in the West." In basically every western territory other than North America, the Master System was more succesful than the NES. Most European countries (particularly the UK), Australia, New Zealand, Brazil...the NES finished 2nd to the SMS.
i still have my original SMS and the controllers are still good....
Ah, yes, the "Pause button" was even problem with Sega Master System II - you pressed too soft or too hard and it could freeze the system.
Awesome review!
I was stunned to find out the Atari 7800 outsold the Master System in the US. It was a decent system just not as good as the NES.
I had the controllers that had the little knob you could screw into the center. It ended up really hurting the thumb.
Great video!
I need to get one of those controllers for my Amiga 2000. 🤔
Sega forever
Did you compare Altered Beast on both systems? Dude, there were so many games on the SMS that were better than the NES, not just one! But the NES just had way better games overall because of the broad audience Nintendo was able to get early on with their marketing and their Nintendo Seal of Quality to keep the bar raised on what was allowed on the system. Publishers were willing to dump more money into the games made for the NES. SMS had way better hardware but very low budgets per title, so Phantasy Star was probably the only one that made the most use of it, from a technical perspective. The SMS couldn't compete with Nintendo itself. Even as as kid, although I could tell the colours were better on my SMS, I still felt jealous of kids that owned a NES, it just had so much prestige.
Plus the Master System had two add on built-in games it was hangon and Safari hunt
I heard the light gun didn't work. Duck Hunt domination
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4:19 the control stick actually worked quite well and we used them on our controllers. I still have my original controllers...with the stick and they work quite well. I have never heard of anyone having issues with them breaking any quicker than any other controller of the same age. The only controllers I ever had issues with breaking were the 2600 and 5200 controllers. Also, what is your source for your statement that the SMS games that were the same as the NES games were not as good? The general consensus is that they look and play better. Furthermore, your assessment of the light phaser is completely off. The Zapper has better ergonomics? You obviously haven't tried playing a game from start to finish with that hunk of garbage. The tension on the trigger wears your finger out. It's awful. The quality of the library of SMS light gun titles blows that of the NES out of the water.
Disappointing video. Factually, it needs some work. The NES bias is way too strong.
and it had a secret space shootem up game built in
Phantasy Star 1 was the best game on the SMS.
My grandparents bought me Phantasy Star instead of what I wanted - Fantasy Zone. They paid almost $90 for it. Eventually, I picked up the game and now remember it as my favorite RPG. It was so far ahead of it's time.
Examples. The SMS had a more accurate to the arcade version allowing you to play 2 characters at the same time instead of player 1 then player 2 after 1 dies then back to player 1 after 2 dies like the NES. The backgrounds were also more arcade accurate on the SMS which has a larger color palette to work with in it's graphics. The SMS wasn't about the same as the NES it was better except for sound, at least in the US. Non US nations had a superior FM sound chip that was better than NES but the SMS in the US came with one that was pretty much the same as the NES.
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You could do this all day with the same titles between the 2 and SMS looks better in pretty much all of them. SMS had a pseudo 16 bit processor (2 8 bit in it's 1 cpu while NES had 1 8 bit in it's 1 cpu). 16 bit's in that it could handle 2 8 bit processes at 1 time while the NES could only handle 1. The SMS had a larger color palette to work with as well with more fore and back ground colors available to tap in to. You saying they looked pretty much the same is either you not having cross platform games to compare or laziness in research before making the video. What the NES had was a MUCH larger library and a larger customer base having come to America a year after the NES. At least here. I know the SMS was more popular in other countries than it was here but it's not because it was a same same comparison. The SMS was better graphics and game play wise. It was just late to the market and didn't get as many games.
I was so sure what game you where going to mention, and then you didnt say Wonder boy 3, the dragons trap.:)
The pause freeze thing sucked but even worse was you would just hit reset.