It’s just a shame the game isn’t that good to start with. The original Mega Drive pack in title (well done Sega for changing it to Sonic) it’s a reasonable effort at an arcade port. Now, to a 10 year old, this makes perfect sense… but in the cold daylight of 2015, and after subsequent ownership of a Mega Drive and many machines inbetween, do I still think that those Master System games can cut it with their Mega Drive counterpart?…. After fending off the NES owners, I used to argue with my Mega Drive owning friends and come up with reason upon reason why the Master System could still compete. I think on most occasions I managed to convince myself that the Master System version was just as good, if not better than the Mega Drive variant. For every new game which arrived, I held out absolute hope that there would be a Master System version… and when there was, boy did I compare it to the 16 bit version. I used to flick through Mean Machines Sega with pure excitement whenever they had a Master System feature as opposed to that blasted Mega Drive. But being the owner of the 8 bit underdog, I massively rooted for that system. I loved that little system, but at the same time the Mega Drive was out, and it was getting all the attention. And yes, before you say it, Yes, Mega Drive games will undoubtedly be better on the whole, but let me give you some back story.įor Christmas 1991 I received a Sega Master System (look, I even recorded it in a school project). This video is about the games… the game play, the similarities and the programming skill. So no, this isn’t about the hardware per say. Incidentally the Mega Drive 2 also looks like a toy, but that’s irrelevant. If you were to compare looks, then the Master System One looks like a boxy rectangle, the Master System 2 looks like a toy, and the Mega Drive just looks like a pure unleashed BEAST, especially when paired with the Mega CD One… it’s the pinnacle of console design… god, just look at that beauty. But still, clearly the Mega Drive trumps the Master System in technical stakes. Ok, so Blast Processing was a made up marketing phrase used in North America to keep punters away from Nintendo’s SNES. If you were to compare then, the Master System has ġ6KB of Video RAM displaying 256×192 resolution with up to 32 colours from a palette of 64Ħ4KB of Video RAM displaying 320×224 resolution with up to 64 colours from a palette of 512 This is a strange pairing isn’t it? I mean if I’m gonna pick the Mega Drive, I should pit it against the SNES, or the NES against the Master System.
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