Sega Master System games coming to Virtual Console

by Justin McElroy on Jan 25th 2008 9:20AM

The Sega Master System never really got the appreciation it deserved here in the U.S. In fact, research shows that only .8 kids in America owned one, and who ever wanted to hang out with eight-tenths of a kid? Gross, we had reps to protect. Now though, it seems the system will finally get the respect it deserves with releases from the system headed to the Wii's Virtual Console.

The beauty part is that, since it used the same hardware as the Master System, Game Gear games will also have a shot at VC fame. The first entries will be Fist of the North Star for 600 points and Fantasy Zone for 500 points. They'll only be rolling out to Japan at first in February, but look for other territories to follow close behind.

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Tags: sega, vc, virtual-console, Wii

Reader Comments (45)

F Yeah Bitches

I hope Rambo and Ghostbusters both come out on VC now.

To be honest, I'm surprised there was no talk of a RAMBO game for the seventh gen consoles, since the movie was released today here in the USA.

Paper covers rock, bitch.

And scissors cuts paper!

We have a conundrum.

Bring me a rock.

I'm sure my mom has some rocks in her pocket, assuming she hasn't smoked them all. That's right, I said MY mom.

Fist of the North Star and a cup of cocoa is all you need in life.

Cool! But seriously "WII NEED MOAR STORAGE"!
I am down to 100 blocks now. :(

So go buy yourself more storage! You can grab a 2GB SD Card to save your games on for less than $10 on NewEgg. You've only got 512MB of "blocks" built-in. Sega Master System games probably won't take up few blocks if that.

Sega Master System was awesome!

I'll take 1 of Penguin Land please.

YES TO FANTASY ZONE!!!

Also needs some Alex Kidd. I wish light gun games worked, because GangsterTown is a game everyone should play. I have it sitting in my SMS right now.

man i love the sega master system. it's no NES for sure, but still. some great games for that thing.

Yes I love the Fantasy Zone series. Opa-Opa lives! Hopefully Sega will release Super Fantasy Zone (MegaDrive) onto the VC as well...

I had a master system! Still do in fact. That system was underrated. Hang-on/Safari Hunt combo cartridge FTW!

Wait... I had one two..... I believe if the statistics in this article are correct that makes each of us .4 of a kid. I'm less than half of a person.... I'm going to go cry in the corner now.

I had one as well. In fact, I started hanging out with one of my best friends in grade school because we found out we both had Master Systems, lol!!! He was the only other person I've known to this day that dad one. Had the Game Gear too, boy I was a real SEGA fanboy back in the day, lol!

Fantasy Zone! Awesome.

Bring out Zillion, Phantasy Star, and Govellius please!

I'm waiting for sega cd and saturn games on the vc

Well, it's a Sega system.

...but yet, it is not the Saturn.

Crap.

Aren't the Saturn games too big for a 512MB HDD?

With modern compression, only multi-disc games like Zwei would be too big. Something like NiGHTS, Virtua Fighter 2, or Bug! could be compressed down to N64 size easily

The only problem is a Saturn emulator. Emulating that multi-core clusterfuck could prove problematic even for the 360 or PS3, i doubt Wii is up to that unless Sega knows a few emulation secrets

I still have my Game Gear with about 15 or so games floating around. Would it be worth anything on ebay these days, or has it not quite hit collector status yet?

8 tenths of a kid? Clearly you mean 4 fifths of a kid! ;)

Clearly you guys are bloggers and not super math savy! Jus' playin', it had to be said right?

I beat Wonder Boy in Monsterland III on my SMS, something none of the kids on my block managed to do. So IN YOUR FACE, bitches!

(Hey, sorry, I remember the game being pretty hard. Was it easy? Am I proud of a pathetic accomplishment? Could be.)

The Alex Kidd games were a lot of fun too (but the rock-paper shit was kinda cheap.)

Rock-paper-shit... huh. What beats shit?

Nothing beat shit, dude. The guy would just fling it at you.

Hence the "cheapness."

Oh man does this mean I will finally get to play ALF again?

Zillion II Zillion II!

This is great news, but all my friends can't seem to understand why, because they never owned one. I think I was the only kid in my REGION that had one, I swear.

Anyone remember the hidden built in maze game on the SMS? I'd like to give that a go too...

That maze was good times. I had Zillion 2 as well. I thought that was one of the hardest games back in the day. Something about driving the bike, shooting air and ground enemies and jumping the pits all at the same time was just too hard when I was less than 10 years old.

LOL. I remember having the USA Sega Genesis version of FotNS, renamed "Last Battle". Sega censored it so much. Instead of heads exploding when I punched the bad guys in the face (ala the anime), they just flew comically off the screen. What a horrible game.

Sweet. I just bought my SMS two years ago, and I've quite enjoyed it. The control pads were unresponsive mush with no tactile "snap" like the NES pads of the day, but it has some impressive graphics. The SMS Afterburner, Double Dragon, Action Fighter... all are pretty darn fun. And nothing quite as post-modern as playing Rambo III for the SMS and helping the good-guy Taliban fight the Russians.

Phantasy Star 1 is the most important SMS game to me bar none.

Oh hells yeah.

The original Phantasy Star is still my favorite game of time, and one of the games I am proudest of beating (keep in mind that I beat it when I was only 8 years old and had bought the game for the outrageous price of $70). I really, really enjoyed that game back in the day.

Lutz? No no no. His name is NOAH bitches. And Noah, Alis, Myau, and Odin (who was really a big pussy despite being a big muscle man decked out w/ a big ass Laconian Axe and some bad ass Laconian Armor) wooped Dark Falz ass

Fantasy Zone? How 'bout Phantasy Star? Yes, please.

Amen to the Phantasy Star.

While we're at it... how about the LCD-shutter based 3D glasses? There's no more entertaining way to get a headache. Not a legal way, anyway.

Is there a fix to the VC over component issue yet? I've stopped downloading VC games because I can't play them on my TV.

That's odd. The only ones i have a problem with are Neo Geo games, and then all i have to do is go to the Instruction Manual page on the home menu and press 2 + A + Z

Don't try to run 'em over Component, in 480p mode, but in 4:3 mode, though, that always blacks my screen out

That's odd. I have component cables for my system and VC games work fine. What happens on yours?

I'm not sure if I'm happy about SMS coming to Virtual Console or not...

Certainly, this could slow down the rate of Genesis games coming to VC...And why not give us some Sega CD games, with compressed audio a la TurboCD games?

Not that it should matter, who's Wii can hold any more games with its scant onboard flash storage?

On the other hand, I'd love to play through Zillion, Phantasy Star, Thunderforce, and Galaxy Force again.

That built in maze Was great!

Fist of the North Star definitely won't hit the American VC since it's based on an anime. So what are the chances of the Master System showing up on our virtual console with only one game?

man i loved my neighbors sms. there was one game in particular that i thought was oh so awesome, it was some kind of ninja game sorta kinda similar to legend of kage but 100 times better, anyone know the title?

Phantasy Star, Shinobi, Alex Kidd in Miracle World

hellz yeah?

hellz yeah.

VC. Hellz Yeah.

DID SOMEBODY SAY MIRACLE BALL? CUZ I THOUGHT I HEARD SOMEBODY SAY MIRACLE BALL.

http://miracleball.ytmnd.com/

How about Alex Kidd in Shinobi World?

Myself, I'm looking forward to not only Fantasy Star, but The Ninja and Pro Wrestling as well. God I miss my SMS.

How about The Ninja and Kasieden (sp?). We had a sms too, and like the comment above we were huge fanboys, alot of our friends had the sms too. Although we were outnumbered as most of our buddies had the nintendo. By the way to the person above I think your the only person I know that did finish wonderboy III the dragons curse, what an great game.

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