The extebded life on the market is also what made the Master System peculiar. The SMS in mark2 form was still sold in Europe many years after the Megadrive was

The extebded life on the market is also what made the Master System peculiar. The SMS in mark2 form was still sold in Europe many years after the Megadrive was released and the Famicom/NES had disappeared completely although there were some chinese NES clones I believe available in a more underground market and I believe the SMS market life in Brazil was even longer. My opinion is more nuanced now and I understand their were some outstanding titles but I remember not understanding at the time as a 8 year old kids how people could buy the NES/Famicom and tolerate its sprites flickering. I was still also playing some older DOS games in monochrome or CGA 4colors alongside the SMD yet they looked better to my eyes than those issues on the NES.