RELATED: Best Sega Game Gear Games, Ranked While seemingly overlooked by history, the Master System is home to a number of excellent titles that make the system well worth remembering and enjoying.

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Tec Toys' Master System conversion was confined on release to the SMS-obsessed gamers of Brazil, though international players got a look at Headdy's 8-bit escapades via the Game Gear version.

The Master System was originally launched in 1985, but didn't arrive in Brazil until 1989. It has remained in continuous production under TecToy for 36 years—longer than anywhere else in the world.

The Master System isn't home to as many iconic franchises as thebest NES games, or even thebest Sega Genesis games, but it does have some stone-cold bangers and forgotten gems of its own.

With only 114 U.S. game releases and fairly reasonable aftermarket prices, the Sega Master System is an increasingly popular target for collectors who want to try amassing a single console’s ...

The Sega Master System is under-appreciated for two reasons: the Genesis and the NES. It never really rose to a place of true competition for the NES, despite having many incredible games on offer.

To complicate things, by 1995, Sega was supporting eight incompatible gaming platforms: Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, 32X CD, Game Gear, Pico, Saturn, and in some markets, Master System.

The Sega Genesis. By far your best bet for emulating any pre-Saturn Sega console is Kega Fusion, so-named because it contains a Master System, Genesis, Sega CD, and 32X emulator all in one.

I want to see the Master System get the same respect. The Master System is Sega’s Genesis precursor. It’s an 8-bit machine, but it was a bit more powerful than the NES.