![]() ![]() Later on in the machine’s life the Master System became a big hit in Brazil where 8-bit conversions of games continued into the mid to late 90’s. In all there are over 330 games available for the system and a large proportion of these are coin-op conversions from Sega, Capcom and Taito, to franchise games like Alex Kidd, Wonderboy and Phantasy Star which first appeared on the platform. I haven’t mentioned Sonic which of course appeared first on the Sega Megadrive, however I think it is fair to say Sonic can be considered a Master System Icon too as the Sonic games which were released for the Master System platform were really distinctive to the Mega Drive version and were adapted to the less powerful hardware of the Master System to great effect. Sadly for game players in the United States, the first version of Sonic the Hedgehog was also the last official release for the Master System. So for US-based games players, playing on the Sega Master System, albeit under emulation is a good opportunity to check out many of the later PAL only releases which graced both Europe and Brazil. Setting up OSMoSE is quite easy once we have downloaded the program from OS4 Depot and saved this to a partition of our choosing.
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