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If you turned the system on without a game in and you held up, 1 and 2 all simultaneously, there was a secret game built in to the system. When my friend got h
by snarfy 6y ago
If you turned the system on without a game in and you held up, 1 and 2 all simultaneously, there was a secret game built in to the system. When my friend got his SMS he did that on accident the first time he turned it on, leading to much confusion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail_Maze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail_Maze
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- JNRowe 6y agoWelp, there goes an hour in the rabbit hole¹. ¹ https://www.smspower.org/Development/BIOSes https://www.smspower.org/Development/BIOSes
- kawsper 6y agoMy SEGA (sold in the EU) shipped with Sonic installed, it booted Sonic if no cartridge were detected, interesting that it started as a hidden game.
- grecy 6y agoThe Master System II sold in Australia had Alex The Kidd as a built in game...
- phjesusthatguy3 6y agoParent and grandparent and GGP are all correct. The snail game is built into all(?) of the system revisions and accessed as such, later systems had other "pack-in" games burnt into ROM. I bought my SMS 22 years ago, so I'm not 100% sure but I think mine came with a cartridge of Hang-On/Safari Hunt, rather than being built into the machine.
- falsaberN1 6y agoCan confirm. Here in EU I have seen both the Alex Kidd model and the Sonic 1 model (the later succeeded the former as Sonic became way more popular than Alex Kidd ever was. Makes sense to me). I have never seen one packed with Hang-On myself, but I recall seeing it was a thing in a magazine (although, over time, this magazine turned to be pretty unreliable, but I'm pretty sure a Master System bundle with a Sega arcade port and a gun game were a thing in this region)