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A most impressive Sega Master System Collection
A ton of games, every imaginable hardware version, a variety of rarities, some pretty wierd accessories and -frankly- the most impressive Master System collection I've ever seen. See the rest of it...
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The Growing Junkyard
Yes, the Sega Master System Junkyard hasn't been the liveliest of places lately. I know, Father Krishna knows, you know, we all know. Hopefully though, that will soon change, no less because Anthony,...
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SMS Golden Axe - A defence
I am writing this in response to the mini-review of this game on the Hardcore Gaming 101 site, which is less than complimentary …“The Sega Master System version is more or less a tragedy. You can only...
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Review: Strider
I wrote before about being impressed with the quality of SMS arcade conversions when I first discovered the system, having been accustomed to some truly lousy arcade conversions on the C64. I should,...
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Batman Returns
I recently picked up two new games for my Master System – MERCS and Batman Returns – and have decided to get the bad news out of the way first …The Master System has many excellent platform games: a...
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MERCS
MERCS is a Commando-style “run and gun” shoot-em-up from 1990, released in the arcades on Capcom’s CPS-1 hardware: the hardware behind some slightly better-known arcade hits such as Strider and Ghouls...
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The Master System Online Emulator
There are apparently quite a few people that shockingly do not have access to a Master System console and, that's the worse bit, there are even more misguided souls that simply haven't downloaded the...
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Master of Darkness
Still reeling from the horror of SMS Batman Returns, I now turn my attention eagerly to a platformer that shows the Master System could indeed pull off an atmospheric gothic adventure with a dramatic...
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A bit of PD Master System Picross
It's an unfortunate and sad truth, but a truth nonetheless: the SMS homebrew community is far from vibrant. Or blooming. Or -of course- booming. And that's what makes the version of Picross pictured...
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Review: Ghouls 'n Ghosts
The second, and possibly the best-known title in a serious of infamously difficult platform shoot-em-up games by Capcom, with a comically medieval aesthetic. Considering that the NES received a...
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Review: Chuck Rock II – Son of Chuck
This is my first new purchase for my faithful old SMS for a long time. Given that the last new game I played was the execrable “Batman Returns” (as reviewed and slated earlier on these pages), my...
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Review - F1 (by Domark)
I said in my last review that games from 1993 - one of the last years of the SMS - tended to show great development in design and programming from the basic games of earlier years. This is the major...
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Golden Axe Warrior: A video review
I must admit I haven't really played Golden Axe Warrior, Sega's 8-bit action-RPG, that much, but from what I've seen it's a nice little Zelda-esque game set in the Golden Axe universe. Happily, the...
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E-SWAT: City Under Seige
This is one of those games, like Golden Axe, that for some reason never received a really faithful home conversion, so praise be for MAME. Having thus finally played the arcade and the (much-reviled)...
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Golvellius for iPhone
Golvellius - The Valley of Doom has always been a firm favourite among our wise circle of Master System RPG gamers. It is after all a beautiful 8-bit action-RPG that I actually prefer over the original...
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Sonic the Hedgehog - Review and Retrospective
Sonic the Hedgehog A game so massively overshadowed by its 16-bit counterpart that it receives very little recognition on its own merits. I actually prefer it considerably to the better known Megadrive...
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