huckleberrypie Wrote:Yeah, I noticed that Golden Axe looks decent for an 8-bit game. Kinda' bites that the Sega Master System didn't make it big in North America as Nintendo practically buried them off the charts. The Genesis did make up for it, but their business model of expansion peripherals, coupled with rehashes of existing games and FMV titles that offered little interaction backfired them.
I'm in a Golden Axe phase, so to speak, thanks to my purchase of that portable SMS emulator system. I'm doing my best to master it, but once I get bored with it, I move on to Astro Warrior or Gain Ground.
Around my area, it's likely that many people never even heard of the SMS since I live in a small town and the only department store likely carried the most popular system, the NES. The SMS probably did appear in those mail-order catalogs from Sears or JCPenney that used to go around, but because they didn't have Mario, they probably passed the SMS over and just got their kids the NES.
The SMS really had a lot of potential, and if Nintendo wasn't so draconian with their third-party licensing back then, the SMS could have been a popular competitor to the NES. The graphics could be a lot more colorful than an NES, and even though the SMS had somewhat inferior sound capability, it can put out excellent chiptunes and sound effects like in Gain Ground and Golden Axe.
If I ever plan on getting a real SMS, I will get a Sega Genesis and one of those Power Base Converters and make a two-in-one.
I love foxes, especially the one in my avatar.