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> The Master System was kind of a bust in North America so I don't carry very much nostalgia for it. Not sure if that's true in most places, but at least in Br
by brabel 3y ago
> The Master System was kind of a bust in North America so I don't carry very much nostalgia for it.
Not sure if that's true in most places, but at least in Brazil, the Master System was incredibly popular... I don't live there anymore, but around just 10 years ago I remember seeing it still for sale (though IIRC they used a different name then - but it was clearly the same) as a low cost game console (average people just can't afford a PlayStation). I had a Master System in the late 1980's and then a Mega Drive, and really loved them both... the Mega Drive was definitely a huge upgrade from the Master System (I was upgrading to Master System from Atari, which was a similarly big upgrade).
I never upgraded again, to the Saturn, just because I stopped gaming almost completely for a while (I started playing in a rock band, it was the 1990's, all the cool kids were doing it)... and I got a PC (also Windows 3.1, classic Pentium 100MHz!) and started doing my gaming on it.
- wk_end 3y agoYeah, the Master System was huge in Brazil. Sega was willing to license the design out to Tec Toy to manufacture locally, which got them around the massive import tariffs that made other systems unaffordable. It was also very popular in Europe (and Australia?) - not sure if there's any real reason for that, but the consequence of it - this [0] absolutely incredible rap by two British teenagers - makes me very glad it was. In North America and Japan, though, Nintendo absolutely commanded the market. Basically no one had a Master System. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks0_3Xlr5y0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks0_3Xlr5y0
- mattl 3y agoNintendo was pretty bad about marketing the NES in the UK at least. Sega did a much better job so more people had a Master System. I assume this is true for the rest of the region too.