http://wii.ign.com/articles/847/847651p1.html?RSSwhen2008-01-25_001700&RSSid=847651


Although really this is VERY late in the game, I guess Sega finally realized how much people buy on the VC, and now they're going to be releasing Master System games, which will also include the Mark III system(which I've never touched at all), and Game Gear games(Game Gear more or less runs on the same code/hardware as Master System...it pretty much IS a portable Master System with some tweaks).

My only disappointments are that...for one thing, the BEST game on Sega Master System was Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap, and that's already available on the Virtual Console as 'Dragon's Curse' for the TG-16.  Although personally I like the SMS version better, I dunno that I want to spend 5 to 6 bucks on getting that one too.

Secondly, my SECOND FAVORITE game on the SMS was a lightgun game: Rescue Mission, and since there haven't been any solutions to allow lightgun games on the Wii(oddly enough), there's no way they'll release it unless they do allow them in the near future.  Plus it was an obscure game and they might just pass it up anyway.

And yet another game, 'Vigilante', is already available on VC for TG-16(although I guess the game wasn't all that great for TG16 either).


At least ONE game that I know of, actually played, and LIKED wasn't on TG-16, but I'm not sure that it's worth it: Black Belt.  Very good side-scrolling fighting game, but pretty repetitive, difficult, and maybe not up everyone's alley.



As a gaming system, Master System was actually better than NES, save for the lack of a controller-based Select/Pause button(although select wasn't exactly necessary, having to get up to press 'pause' on the system itself was annoying).  It had better colors, bigger sprites, and a square 8-directional pad, and the system also came with its own version of the NES Zapper(games for it included Rescue Mission like I mentioned, but also "Wanted" and "Rambo III"(which looked AWESOME for its time)).  Of course, they didn't really have as many must-have hits for it, and like I mentioned, a lot of their games apparently also got ported over to TG-16, so there may be several cases where we'd either not get them for SMS, or maybe would rather have the TG-16 version.

Either way, I'm still at least partially excited since SMS was one of those things that my cousin had, and like I mentioned to Terrisus, you kind of get attached to those games that you could only play at someone else's house, especially when they were hundreds of miles away and you'd only rarely come to see them.  So while I know nothing of how Fist of the North Star plays(I do at least know ABOUT the game and anime), and Fantasy Zone isn't the greatest game(but it's still pretty good really), I'm still glad it's coming at the very least.

That's awesome.

I never played the Sega Master System. I remember hearing about it when I was little, but I couldn't own one and none of my friends did either. (One of my best friends did get a Genesis eventually, which is where I got most of the Sega experience from.) So, the SMS will have quite a few games that I've never played before, which is cool. That means there might be games I'd be willing to download, since I prefer to download games I don't own / haven't played a lot before. I love Road Rash, which is a bike racing game that appears on a lot of Sega systems, so if that ever becomes available for download, I'll definitely have to get it.