konaboy1978
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Post by konaboy1978 on Feb 4, 2011 14:11:38 GMT
R-type, i'd just upgraded from a zx spectrum 48k+ and i just could not believe my eyes when i saw the graphics!!! ;D
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Post by JB Rifta on Feb 6, 2011 3:52:28 GMT
Alex Kidd in miracle world as it was built in. After that it would have been Double Dragon.
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Post by slainte on Jun 23, 2011 9:49:57 GMT
My first cartdidge Game was Transbot.
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Post by briced on Dec 15, 2011 21:03:46 GMT
My 2 fist MS were Hang (card) on et Spy Vs Spy (card)
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Post by DU0 on Jan 12, 2012 12:53:37 GMT
My first game was Sonic the Hedgehog, which came with the Master System III my parents gave me when I turned 4, but we would usually rent a few games at a nearby video store. Those were Tom & Jerry, Spiderman vs. The Kingpin, Gangster Town and Out Run. Somehow I also got a Game Gear that same year, which came with Psychic World. Best anniversary ever, perhaps
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Post by Batman666 on Jan 15, 2012 0:24:56 GMT
Was the Master System 3 that old? Or do you perhaps mean the second one as your profile says you were born in 1989, so this would be in 1993. Cool story anyhow, can't go wrong with both the SMS & Game Gear, lucky boy
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Post by DU0 on Jan 15, 2012 1:34:57 GMT
Ah, I mean the Master System III, which was a grey re-design of the american Master System II. I guess the SMSIII was never released outside Brazil, though I'm not entirely sure. The Game Gear was epic. I remember taking it with me to a long travel once. My parents stopped at a gas station to eat and I ran back to the car, plugged the GG into the lighter and played for some good two hours. When my father came back and tried to start the car, the battery failed and we had to push the car. Too bad the Game Gear suddenly died around '98 I still have the Master System III, along with that first model that comes with the snail game. Those little dudes look like they'll last forever.
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Post by sidney on Jan 21, 2012 14:26:24 GMT
Hang On (card) and then Outrun.
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Post by venommacbeth on Jan 21, 2012 20:15:05 GMT
I got my Master System for Christmas this year, along with R-Type, Bomber Raid, Hang-On/Astro Warrior, and Out Run.
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Post by virtualscot on Jan 21, 2012 21:09:51 GMT
My first game was Sonic the Hedgehog, which came with the Master System III my parents gave me when I turned 4, but we would usually rent a few games at a nearby video store. Those were Tom & Jerry, Spiderman vs. The Kingpin, Gangster Town and Out Run. Somehow I also got a Game Gear that same year, which came with Psychic World. Best anniversary ever, perhaps I love to hear from a Brazilian as to why the SMS was so popular in Brazil. I was pretty standard 90's SMS II owner, getting Alex Kidd in MW built in. And Sonic 1 on cart. Still remember that Christmas, and the Christmas to when i got given the Lion King for my SMS ;D
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Post by DU0 on Jan 22, 2012 4:21:57 GMT
;D
there were too many barriers back then. While the rest of the world was enjoying their Super Nintendos and PlayStations, we were all about that Street Fighter II' port for the SMS. It wasn't really like this on the big cities, like São Paulo and Rio, but pretty much everywhere else those consoles were just too costly.
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Post by playgeneration on Jan 22, 2012 9:41:25 GMT
;D there were too many barriers back then. While the rest of the world was enjoying their Super Nintendos and PlayStations, we were all about that Street Fighter II' port for the SMS. It wasn't really like this on the big cities, like São Paulo and Rio, but pretty much everywhere else those consoles were just too costly. It wasn't so different in Europe either. There are many misconceptions about gaming history, like the most popular console was the only one people really owned and enjoyed (the nes for example), or that as soon as a new console appears the previous ones become totally irrelevant. The Master System directly competed with the Mega Drive and Snes in Europe, and lasted almost as long as them. I was still playing my Master System when the Playstation and Saturn came out too, I was even buying new games in shops for it. The early 90's were a tough time for a console to survive in. The SMS was up against supposedly vastly superior machines like MD, Snes, Jaguar, CDi, 3D0 etc. and while cost was an issue, the significant difference in power didn't put people off still buying SMS games either.
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Post by virtualscot on Jan 22, 2012 11:39:56 GMT
;D there were too many barriers back then. While the rest of the world was enjoying their Super Nintendos and PlayStations, we were all about that Street Fighter II' port for the SMS. It wasn't really like this on the big cities, like São Paulo and Rio, but pretty much everywhere else those consoles were just too costly. It wasn't so different in Europe either. There are many misconceptions about gaming history, like the most popular console was the only one people really owned and enjoyed (the nes for example), or that as soon as a new console appears the previous ones become totally irrelevant. The Master System directly competed with the Mega Drive and Snes in Europe, and lasted almost as long as them. I was still playing my Master System when the Playstation and Saturn came out too, I was even buying new games in shops for it. The early 90's were a tough time for a console to survive in. The SMS was up against supposedly vastly superior machines like MD, Snes, Jaguar, CDi, 3D0 etc. and while cost was an issue, the significant difference in power didn't put people off still buying SMS games either. I thought the reason why the SMS was so popular in Europe, was because it was dirt cheap. If your parents could not afford the mega drive, they just bought an SMS II.
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Post by playgeneration on Jan 22, 2012 11:55:08 GMT
I thought the reason why the SMS was so popular in Europe, was because it was dirt cheap. If your parents could not afford the mega drive, they just bought an SMS II. Its a combination of price and quality. Sure the Master System was the cheaper option, but it still had to be really good for people to buy it. Take Sonic for example, Sega didn't just make a crappy but cheaper version of the MD game, they made a great SMS game in its own right. There was plenty of competition at the time, not just more expensive consoles, but ones in a similar price range, and lots of home computers too. Even in the 90's the likes of the Atari 2600 and C64 were still going and were even more lower budget. There was so much choice back then, that price alone didn't guarantee success. Oh and you've got to love how they use the controller in that video ;D
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Post by DU0 on Jan 22, 2012 14:06:22 GMT
I herd there were also countries in Europe in which all you had was the SMS [maybe a few computers too]. Here in Brazil we only had the Master System. A few years later some companies brought pirate NES' under different names, like Dynavision and Phantom System, but there was no advertising nor anything; those were just cheaper than the SMS. Since brazilian people tend to be miserable [because WHY THE CRAP you'll spend R$200 on a good console when you can spend $50 less on a suspicious one?], those shifty systems used to sell well enough, but the Master System stood it's ground until the end of it's "classic era", and Tec Toy keeps pushing it to this day.
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