+Consoletronix Thanks dude, appreciated!

+johneygd It's crazy impressive! I love it. Sounds pretty darn good for a 1bit sample

bananov Thanks :D

The master system was based on the mark III. You can tell because the MS had better graphics than the NES and this just doesn't.

+Odd pod Thanks dude! It's a cool little machine.

+Retro Cynical A-thanking you :D

+Robert Kilbourne Makes sense.

Yes it was a heater

As somebody else in the comment section pointed out later, it's probably due to how the oil from the heater could ruin the electronics.

+ShapeyFiend Agreed XD

ShapeyFiend yes, the aesthetics are great. Or should it be A E S T H E T I C S?

I'm relieved that someone saw this video before me and rectified this.

It seems it was a larger part of their console market there - mind you, that was a smaller percentage overall than it was here in North America due to their preference for microcomputers, but still... As far as here in Canada, we tended to follow our US brethren south of the border in terms of opting for game consoles; in my case I had the NES and SNES, but never the Genesis or any other Sega product prior to the Dreamcast, and like you I still have my Dreamcast (in storage), and it still works fine :)

Yes Sega Master System and Mega Drive dominated the markets in Europe, South America and Oceania. Nintendo in these regions was a minority. I grew up Oceania (new Zealand) and to go to the video store for example for game rentals, there'd be about 30 Nintendo games and 150+ Sega games on the shelves. Shops were the same. Yet just like everywhere else in the world, Sega making huge mistakes in the mid 90's and the rise of PlayStation killed off Sega in our regions, and the N64 ended up in 2nd place ahead of the Saturn in the end

Does that mean much for the capabilities? I mean, you might expect that'd lead to perhaps a 64x difference in address range, or maybe 16x addressing difference and the presence/absence of an auxiliary audio line for any additional soundchip that might be in the cartridge, something like that. But either way that's a pretty extreme expansion of cartridge capacity (which presumably the mk3 would get around using bankswitching), particularly when you consider that in all cases the Sega Cards were considered a more limited medium because they only held 32kb... So that would mean a minimum of 64kb for any of the cartridges, and that then expands to 1mbyte or even 4mbyte with the MS, which is just silly. So were they just additional ground lines for nothing more than regional lockout, maybe?

Video game industries were scummy even back then.

A very very smart move from sega,nintendo should,ve done the same thing by also releasing the famicom keyboard and famicom basic to those country’s including china,but sadly they never did.

dreamkatcha XD... whatever works (or not)

I'm pretty sure it was supposed to look cool on the display consoles at the store.

@dreamkatcha This is a design for Japan. To them, it had "cool" English stuff written on it.

5:50 It says "pu-ri-n-ta" (Yes it's a printer port.)

+SavageArms357 It seemed pretty sucky to me. Maybe I should have given it longer.

+Sheriff Blatz I gotta agree. H.E.R.O isn't going to be anyone's game of the generation, but it's a fun way to pass a few minutes. I've certainly played worse.

Same could be said from Flicky. I'm more familiar with the MD version, which was just a graphics upgrade I think. A simple fun arcade game. Not really my favorite but definetely wouldn't say it sucks.

Horzuhammer Just about. As far as early arcade-style games go, H.E.R.O and Flicky are fun enough. No one's going to accuse them of being Robotron 2084, but it's definitely a fun enough way to piss away a moment or two. Honestly, I'm surprised we don't see Atari collections on the vita and 3DS. I think those games would work DAMN well on handheld.

HERO is a great game.

"engurishu", I think :D

that's also my commentary. Humpf.

Yes, but there's also a guitar called Yamaha SG 1000.

soulagent79 but it's named after the Gibson

Rohan Padiyar I'd buy that for a pound.

I've played the arcade and Mega Drive versions of Flicky and they were awsome

They took a different tact with the Dreamcast. Rather than new moulds, several colour variations and limited edition consoles were released. But I think due to the less than expected sales, the Dreamcast's life, like the Saturn was somewhat cut short.

+Nostalgia Nerd Part of me was hoping there was a revision I missed and part of me want because I'd want to buy it and it would be expensive.

+Nostalgia Nerd the shenmue production expenses didn't help

I'm pretty sure they're almost completely authentic to the Namco original...

Woah!!!!

Kee Lo Aye. It came from a UK seller too!

Even better :-)

+Endrikh Darkvine CXVI Classics

+Nostalgia Nerd I think Congo Bongo on the Coleco Vision looked better!

+Casper Egas Nope, it just plugged straight in

+Nostalgia Nerd Nice to hear. In the US, we'd probably be stuck tuning to channel 95 or whatever on ours running it through RF.

It probably depends on how flexible your TV is. Luckily it seems to turn out that most PAL region TVs are actually NTSC ones that have a little bit of additional hardware bodged on to accept the 50hz / 625 line signal and the higher frequency / phase alternating colour encoding _on top of_ the 60hz/525 line and basic colour signal they were originally designed for, so have little trouble dealing with foreign inputs. Though there are a few where the conversion was somewhat more total, like a CRT set we had which was perfectly fine with 60hz signals but it had to be _PAL_ 60 (as thankfully produced by our modded PSX, but _not_ from either US VHS tapes nor my ancient breeze-block DVD player when set to NTSC mode) unless you were happy watching a black and white image with lots of sharp pinstriping artefacts continually scrolling across... NTSC sets more often seem to be built simply to receive 60hz and basic colour, so you're much less likely to be able to get a PAL system working with them. In this case, if NN's machine has a TMS9928 in it, rather than the more usual TMS9918, it's a proper rarity - a Sega Mk1 that was either factory-built for sale in PAL/SECAM regions, or has been modified after the fact by an importer. The two chips are pretty much code and pin compatible, you can just unsolder one and put the other in its place and the computer/console will carry on as if nothing has changed... just now it'll be making 50hz/625 line output instead of 60hz/525 line (totally transparent to the rest of the system, as the TMS chips were essentially graphics co-processors that received commands from the CPU then built the image on-screen all by themselves), and you'll have to perform a minimal bit of leg snipping/jumper wiring to the replacement modulator as the 9918 emitted ready-made composite video on a single pin, but the 9928 produces ... eh, something else. The document I saw about it wasn't entirely clear if it was full composite (IE three pins - luma, red/green chroma and yellow-blue chroma) or something analogous to S-video (two pins - luma and perpendicular-phase combined chroma), but in any case there's at least one extra signal coming out intended for the modulator. Possibly if Sega were smart they'd have included (a) trace(s) for the additional signal(s) on the PCB but only soldered them to those legs (if they were even present on the 9918 / the composite-input NTSC modulator) in the PAL/SECAM models, which would make both the factory work and any aftermarket conversion much easier.

An oil burning one in this case, I have one that looks like that. Very common during the 70's and early 80's.

I don't get it.

I'm not sure you can do that. I think the MS had backward compatibility, but the Megadrive missed out

+Nostalgia Nerd i have Power Base Convertor for Mega Drive to play Master System games, in japan it was called Mega Adaptor, so maybe it is possible. could be really funny experience.

You can't. While the Genesis/MD has backwards compatibility with the Master System, the SG-1000 stuff ran at a lower video mode than what the Genesis/MD did and thus could not be played.

+The Pumpking King It's currently in my eBay shop if you want it ;)

Always that same never have the Dosh. When one comes up..

I can relate. If I had the dosh, I'd keep it myself!

I shall not break the 10th commandment and covet my neighbours Console......

It's a British thing. But Americans mispronounce the name 'Lars' as 'Larz', so it's a matter of the pot calling the kettel black.

Schwarzorn uuuummmm.....the pot and the kettle and Lars and Larz have absolutly nothing to do with it me son.

@TerryBollea1 I apologize. I was unaware that you were a cranky old fart. I mean, you MUST be pretty old to call someone who's almost 30 'son', but I suppose your ignorance and close-mindedness should have been enough to make your elderly status apparent to me. And clearly trying to tell an old man "S being pronounced as a Z is the same as S being pronounced as a Z" is about as futile as trying to tell an old man that Mexicans speak Spanish, not "Mexican".

Schwarzorn But Mexicans DO speak Mexican m9! Just like Americans speak American! oh and if ya really are me son me son, well.....sorry.....Im too old and crotchety to take care of ya now me son.....sorry boyo.

Eh, I was quite old before I realised it was short for "mike", as in microphone. If you read it phonetically without any comprehension of what the abbreviation expands into, it's easily done.

What he's alluding to is that, at least in English, the name of the device has a long "i" sound. As in Mike, rather than Mick, if you follow me. So although the abbreviated "MIC" seems like it should be said with the short vowel, it's actually meant to have a long one. Of course, if you're young and don't actually know what it's an abbreviation for, it's just ... "Mick". And in other countries, like your own I would suppose, it's said with a short vowel even in the full word, so the difference just doesn't exist and the question is lost on you ;)