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.