Mastering the Unknown – Getting to know the Sega Master System (Part 1)
If you've read my blog before then you'll know that I'm the proud owner of a Sega Genesis, and that I was outright floored the first time I ever played Sonic the Hedgehog and saw just what the Genesis and its 16-bit graphics could do. Outside of the Genesis though, Sega and its systems have always been somewhat alien to me. I had heard of the Saturn and knew it was a Sega product, and I had heard of the Dreamcast and knew very little about it let alone it was a Sega product. Then there where the terms Master System, and Megadrive that always threw me for a loop since both names conjured up images of PC-console hybrids like that of the early Famicom with is disk drive. As time has passed though I quickly learned that the Megadrive was what the rest of the world outside of North America called the Genesis, the Master System on the other hand would elude me for a little longer though. Then one day I decided to research the unit and an image of it, and ...