Master System - Deep Duck Trouble Starring Donald Duck

One of the last games I got for my MS was this great platform Donald Duck game.

You, as usual, had to save your Uncle Scrooge who turned into a balloon, and to do so you had to travel around an island, collecting some elements at the end of each zone and then when you brought them together a new area in the island became available (it was a castle in the middle of it but heyyyyyy, shushhhhhhhhh, don't spoil!)

You had different areas that promoted different mechanics. So you could go and have to escape a volcano while running away from huge rocks, or have to swim your way through corals and really mean fishes, or you could get really cold feet while kicking ice blocks to kill your enemies...it was quite fun!

And the thing is that you could start and proceed to any zone you wanted with no any given order. You just had to finish them all and gather the prizes.

Maybe for other people this was an easy game, but since you could not save your progress, everytime I played it I had to start over again, and even playing it a lot, I've always found it difficult. So the few times I got to the castle I just played the beginning of that stage and never finished it or the game. Usually my 'videogames time' had ended by that time...Had to turn it off and play something else.

Sooooo, right now this is one of the games I'm most eager to play again, now that I've setted my MS up again and see if I can finally manage to finish the game!

Because this was and still is one of the best platform games I've played.

Master System - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

This was, I think, one of the last games I got for my MS. It was a Christmas or birthday present.

Always loved Indy. So it was normal, in an era when we didn't get much merchandising of the films we liked (at least around here...), getting a videogame of it was the best thing!

The game was short. It was kinda hard at first, because you had to get the jump right or the whip distance on spot or you would end up with a jelly Indy on the floor, but you'd get the mechanics fast enough to end it in no big time.

At least that's what I thought at the time. Right now I cannot play as good as I used to, so nowadays the game seems quite difficult.

The game follows the main scenes in the film (was expecting to fly an air plane but no lucky...) but the end is so much easier than what it should be accordingly to the film.

I also had the point-n-click adventure by Lucasfilms to PC and that is more related and true to the film than this version. But hey! It was a good platform-action game!

First level you had to jump and climb some ropes and kill those cowboys.

Last level you had to jump a bit more and be careful of the saws and falling floor.

And then you'll get your holy grail.

Master System II

Lets start a new revival, retro, old-school thing in this blog.

Our life was full of consoles and games. My second console, the first I've bought by myself (after gathering all the coins I could find!) was my Master System II.

I bought it when it was almost the end of it. But since I could not afford to buy a Mega Drive and even less its games, I settled for the SEGA 8-bit.

I bought that compact pack that brought 4 games: Sonic The Hedgehog built in the console and also the Master Games 1 with Super Monaco GP, Columns and World Soccer.

I've used to wait for my weekends to play as much as I could. Even more because you got to be really good passing some of the levels because there was no saving point...Those were the days...

I got more games besides these 4, which I'll post next. And if games were not enough I also got some extra control pads because there is nothing better than play against friends and spend the next week at school talking about it.

It was almost about Mega Drive around here, but there was some Master System stuff too. Including this remote control that needed 4 AAA batteriesto work a couple of hours, and had a lot of buttons but only the A/B and D-Pad worked. This was the Mega Drive control. Don't know why they sold it for MS but ok...

The other control is the stick, which came as a pack with a game. It took me sometime to get used to it, because the normal control has de D-Pad on the left and action buttons on the right, and here is the opposite. But after a couple of hours I'd prefer playing with this one. It was like playing in Arcades.


I still have my MS and controls and all the games. And it still works. Even if the original control pad is behaving a bit funny in some games, but working perfectly fine in others.



Will be posting about games next.