Sega Master System Promo

[BizzMarki]

I'd love to try out the 3d lol... Sega Master System was very underatted IMO... it was way better than the original Nintendo. But Super Nintendo was lightyears better than Sega Genesis.

[DietSoap3]

LMAO@ the grown ass man at the end.

[Uridien]

Whoa, SCROLLING backgrounds AND 64 colors? It truly is the master system.

[TheUnbiasedGamer]

Lol! Scrolling backgrounds!!

[orbitoverthesun]

i wished i bought this :( i was only allowed one system but a least i have a genesis now :)

[SonicSurferBob]

This bought back memories.I had a master system and I liked it a lot.Thanks for the memories.

[SonicSurferBob]

I had a master system and I really enjoyed it.thanks for the memories.

[Theriot6592]

Wow, that kid seems pretty proud of himself for winning at the light gun game.

Even tho he's pointing the gun right up against the fucking screen

[jameswasil]

They really should have had their own version of the Power Glove like the NES did. They could have made games for that a lot easier than the 3D glasses, and possibly had as good or better response time as the lightgun did.

[MicroChirp]

"SEGA. It will always be there." Until it brakes.

[jameswasil]

@MicroChirp viva la Sega Master System Emulator (check out KEGA and Romnation if yours ever breaks; you'll find what you need there to keep it going indefinitely)

[MicroChirp]

@jameswasil I know it, I was just joking at that comment. I wasn't talking about the emulators, I talked about the real hardware.

[PaulHark9]

wow ps3 your not the first people to make 3D games

[vaultboy123]

Did that kid just say "Fresh"?

[jameswasil]

@vaultboy123 He did! hahaha! They wanted us to know that their Sega Master System was a non-GMO made console, and was available fresh daily from your Gold Circle, Kmart, Toys R Us, KB Toystore, Children's Palace, Twin Value, or other major US retail store. LoL Now stay tuned for the next episode of Growing Pains, Moonlighting (w/ Bruce Willis and Cybil Sheppherd), MacGyver w/ Richard Dean Anderson, or Max Headroom. ;-) (and maybe some Knight Rider in between)

[rojman123]

3D!! I had those glasses. They used LCD shutters. There wasn't that many games for it though.

[TheSNESreviewer]

3d???????

[phantazmo]

"Twice as much memory as any other video GAEM!!!!"

it's a video game system voice over guy.

[videonut33]

@phantazmo that's Ernie Anderson, the announcer from the ABC promos in the '70s, through the '90s

[jameswasil]

@phantazmo They ate those words when the Neo Geo was released. ;-) aka 330 Mega

[aubba]

sega is the one

[BenJabituya]

Space Harrier recently came out on the Wii Virtual Console.

[rkoguy]

the challenge will NEVER be there! jk XD

[cLaRkDamn]

yesh with that awful joy... it is reversed omg

[miiwii93]

NOSALGIA ALERT!!!

[ArcadeGames]

Space Harrier was the bomb!

[hankseptember]

i beat the arcade version on one credit at Hershey Park in Pennsylvania ^^

[mubd1234]

"GRAPHICS IN 64 COLORS!"

LOL

[akumacornflakes]

The sad thing is that when the Genesis came out, it too could only show 64 colours at a time. Just goes to show that Sega doesn't didn't learn much about hardware until the Dreamcast came around.

[GraffitiOverlord]

What about the Saturn?

[Tornado1994]

@akumacornflakes No. They did know about hardware. They came out with the term "blast processing" to mock SNES's slow 16-bit CPU and mocked PSone's 1 processor boasting about Saturn's 2 32 bit processors.

[whattheheck1000]

@akumacornflakes Sega always had first rate hardware.

Master System was more powerful than NES, and had superior games like Alex Kidd and Phantasy Star.

Genesis was just as good as the SNES until Donkey Kong Country came out, and had an equally impressive game library.

Saturn was more powerful than PS1.

Dreamcast trumped PS2.

[jameswasil]

@akumacornflakes I remember reading an article years ago about the reason they limited it. Something to do with a conflict of marketing, and using parts they had already back-ordered for unsold sega units that weren't sold in the US like they had in Europe and Brazil. They were supposed to update the graphics chipset to support either 16,384 or 65,536 colors but the board ruled against it (until later), so they continued development with 64 colors and a slower core than what some wanted there.

[nooblet911]

that was a lot back then.

[jameswasil]

@mubd1234 You have to remember that at that time, most of your mainstream computer market (IBM) systems were only able to display up to 16 colors at once if a person had an EGA monitor. CGA, more common was 4 colors. VGA cards weren't even commercially available until the end of 1987. You could get 64 colors (possibly more) from amiga and some tandy systems, but I'm pretty sure you had to pull it off with artifacting. So for it's time, SEGA having games in 64 colors was pretty awesome! :-)

[jameswasil]

@mubd1234 and as far as the NES goes, it could only display 16 colors at a time...so the SEGA hardware was able to display 4x as many colors (and with larger sprite blocks) than the NES hardware could.

[johannbock]

@jameswasil The overall palette difference isn't that drastic. Master System has a *total* palette of 64, but onscreen, it has 16 background colors and 15 sprite colors. The NES palette is 56, with 13 for backgrounds and 12 for sprites.

What's important is that the Master System can put many, *many* more colors together into small 8x8 blocks.

[suprimo222]

@mubd1234 more fun than other games whit 14.041234123412390 colors

[NegaSonic14]

This was my first game system. If only I still had it, though.

[vox2007]

I still have a working Sega Master System. and a working Commodore64 aswell :) Now you can emulate ole consoles and ole computers on your PC :)

[921144666]

reminds me of my dad when he played hang on!

[NotAnotherClinton]

What is the name of that game with all the flying heads?????

[BenJabituya]

That game is Space Harrier. I own that one!

[NotAnotherClinton]

Cool, thnx!

[sneskegagama]

The Nes had arcade sticks,light gun,and rad racer was in 3-d but olny if u press select master system sucked the olny good sega systems are genesis and dreamcast i just wish i bought a dreamcast and my genesis didn't break.

[MattelAquarius]

Rad Racer used the cheesy red/blue cardboard glasses. The Sega Master System used special electronic glasses which plugged into the console. The glasses contained lcd "shutters" for each eye. I.e. the game program could control which eyed was blocked, and which eye was not. So the game would display the view for the right eye on the screen in 1/30th of a second, while blocking the user's left eye in the glasses.

[MattelAquarius]

Then it would switch, showing the view for the left eye on the screen, while blocking the right eye in the glasses. The user's brain combined the images together in a stereo 3D picture. This process continued on perfectly synchronized for an excellent 3D effect. Red/blue cardboard just does not compare. The Sega 3D games were in full color. Cool stuff. Don't get me wrong, I loved Rad Racer, and 3D World Runner on the NES, but the 3D effect was just a gimmick. On the Sega, it was very cool.

[sneskegagama]

Still The Nes Is Way Better The Olny Good Sega Consols Are The Dreamcast And The Genesis. My Dad Thought My Genesis Was Broke So He Sold It And I Wish I Bought A Dreamcast.

[rcgamer]

I remember these commercials like it was just yesterday. I loved my Master System.

[aussiebear22]

I didn't get the gun or the trackball, but I did get the control stick! :)

[Darrylb500]

Did that trackball actually come out?

[figment1988]

it did come out. but it was hard to find.

[whattheheck1000]

heh try going to lechmere lol