If you grew up in the United States during the 1980s, you might remember the Master System as Sega's failed early attempt to challenge Nintendo's dominance in home gaming. More likely, you encountered ...

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Sega launched the Master System in the mid-’80s to give Nintendo’s NES some competition. While it came out with newer and better hardware than Nintendo’s box, it failed to match it in sales, partially ...

Today's younger generations associate Nintendo mostly with portable gaming, but for much of the 1980s and early 1990s, Nintendo was almost synonymous with the home console. Without the Nintendo ...

The Sega Master System emerged in 1985 as an important competitor to the Nintendo Entertainment System. Sega wasn’t quite ready to compete with Nintendo on the global stage, but the Master System did ...

The Sega Master System had a strong impact on European and South American markets, even though it was overshadowed in the west by the Nintendo Entertainment System. The Master System has a lineup of ...