It's Critter Time!

The Sega Master System was released in 1985 in Japan as the Mark III and later came to the US in 1986 and Europe in 1987. Its contemporary was the Nintendo Entertainment System (or NES as you may know it). It's also ridiculously popular in Brazil.

Anyway, here are some bangers you should definitely play.

• Land of Illusion
• Asterix (the first one)
• Aladdin
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Ninja Gaiden
• Kenseiden
• Wonder Boy III: the Dragon's Trap
• Masters of Combat
• Power Strike II
• Golvellius: Valley of Doom

Enbyeon wrote: Tue Jul 08, 2025 5:19 pm

• Wonder Boy III: the Dragon's Trap

yes extremely do play wonder boy ||| the dragon's trap!

also try out "Psycho Fox", it has a cute fox! :3 thats pretty much all of the ones i know of LOL

master system is a little bit of a blind spot to me funnily enough. love the mega drive but we didnt have a master system. i should try some more master system games

Gabu wrote: Fri Jul 11, 2025 1:21 pm

Enbyeon wrote: Tue Jul 08, 2025 5:19 pm

• Wonder Boy III: the Dragon's Trap

yes extremely do play wonder boy ||| the dragon's trap!

also try out "Psycho Fox", it has a cute fox! :3 thats pretty much all of the ones i know of LOL

master system is a little bit of a blind spot to me funnily enough. love the mega drive but we didnt have a master system. i should try some more master system games

I'm not a fan of Psycho Fox, but the games I recommended are all very good and if you ever wanted to get into the Master System, you should totally try them.

Having access to a Power Base Converter growing up let me get access to a pretty good set of games growing up including Dragon's Trap.

Weirdly the one I have the most fondness for growing up was OG Wonder Boy. Always liked that port in particular. Something about the way it feels just sits well with me.

Would like to shout out the Master System's port of Lemmings for no other reason than they went absolutely nuts on the music, it's one of the best OSTs on the system and probably the best sounding Lemmings port:

Ivy-IV wrote: Fri Jul 11, 2025 10:46 pm Would like to shout out the Master System's port of Lemmings for no other reason than they went absolutely nuts on the music, it's one of the best OSTs on the system and probably the best sounding Lemmings port:

Considering how often games botch the OST on the Master System, this is really impressive.

Denan the Jungle Fighter is also a great pick.

I recently played the SMS Jurassic Park and I was surprised that it's a completely unique game in the franchise. Well it's the same as the Game Gear, but that's how SMS goes.

Oddly the only difference between SMS and GG is SMS uses an Alan Grant sprite and GG uses.... I dunno who that is supposed to be.

It's kind of a one-sitting game but it's neat.

Paying my respects to the absolutely ridiculous Ghouls n Ghosts port for Master System. You have to grind and balance upgrade drops in it.

We had a SMS growning up with a few games, including the ones that used the 3D shutter glasses! Trouble is, I don't have any depth perception so I didn't understand what was supposed to be special about them.