@@Larry I thought your forte was stealing content off Wikipedia pages and stretch a couple of “facts” to >10-minute-long videos. Maybe it’s because of that that your view count has plummeted and you’re forced to comment on others’ successful videos in an attempt to stay relevant? Here’s a suggestion for you: make better videos and stop being toxic for no reason to people you’ve never met.
Ahh, Ghost House on the card. The first game I ever booted up on the MS. It was a choice between Wonder Boy In Monster Land or this. I think I saved the best for last although Ghost House was addictive. The jump from the Amstrad CPC 464 to this console, for me, blew my mind.
I believe ghost house was also the first of only a couple games I had ever played on the master system as a kid when it was in the stores. I had an NES and most of my friends did too. I only got a master system a few years ago and boy did I miss out in a great system. It just wasn’t very popular in the states. Too bad though.
@Yeah Right That's correct Toys R Us and Kaybee Toy and Hobby had the best selection of Sega Master System games; bought my copy of Phantasy Star from Kaybee for 70 bucks. I do remember Kmart having a limited selection of the more well circulated Master System games also but I didn't shop there very often.
Still have my childhood Sega Master System. Got it for Christmas 1986. Still works perfectly fine. And I have about 30 games, still in those cool white checkered boxes.
@@maxxdahl6062 it was for backwards compatibility with the SG-1000 in Japan, The SMS is literally a souped up SG-1000, and a lot of SG-1000 software came on those cards, so I understand their reasoning in Japan, but cards just didn't make sense outside of Japan.
@@homiedclown They must have put a jet engine in that thing, then. I've seen what the SG-1000 was capable of on Jeremy Parish's Works channel, and let me tell you, it ain't much.
Always wanted a Master System when I had a Commodore 64, but the price of games was massive between the two. Something like £10 for C64 games compared to something like £30 for MS games. But when I first saw the Japanese Mega Drive in 1988 or 1989 in a local game store, it was something like a 2 year wait until it was released in the UK. I'd probably say the best add-on SEGA released was the Master System converter for the Mega Drive. The rise and fall of SEGA still kills me to this day.
My first console was a master system along with 14 games, two of them in card format: Ghost House and My Hero. My uncle brought it from USA - I'm from mexico -. And The game Hang On was already installed into the console. Great times.
8:25 Hang-On was also released in the USA, as a combo cartridge with Safari Hunt. I believe my copy came bundled with my Sega Master System Power Base + Light Phaser system bundle. F-16 is also just an SG-1000 rom stuck on an SMS PCB. Much in the way that Sega put the SMS version of Phantasy Star in a Genesis cart.
The one thing I love most about this channel is the honesty, if a game is wank, youre not afraid to tell us its a load of wank. A lot of channels make out every game is amazing. Keep it up!
as a child, i never seen the cards in real life, but saw them in mags and for me, those were like next level stuff, simply because nes carts were so big, later on in life i found out the nes carts are all a lie and inside there is nothing much and the famicom carts were the real deal....but man, those cars were like year 2000 tech in my eyes and to think today the switch cards are so small.....
Sega Lord X is constantly putting out TOP CLASS content ALL the time! I was a Sega kid. Mega Drive as Christmas 91 present. The 32x, Saturn, DC of course... Hell I even have two sets of Sonic tats... Every month it was Mean Machines Sega and then Sega Saturn Magazine. My aunt took me to London for my 12th birthday and went to Sega World there which was awesome.... I am so thankful for emulation to allow me to relive and enjoy games of my childhood. Unfortunately I lost everything in a fire...besides 60 mega drive games it included things like Nights and the analog controller, Burning Rangers, Last Bronx, Panzer Dragoon 1,Zwei and Saga(and disc one given away free with magazine, same as Christmas Nights) Virtual On, Shining The Holy Ark... Maybe one day Saturn emulation will work as good as Psx. The Mastersystem wasn't my thing but a friend had it and I have those white and blue grid pattern boxes burned into my brain, as well as the built in Alex Kidd game with it... I've enjoyed many hours with the system though and a few of the Sonic titles and first party stuff is tops. Speaking of first party... Phantasy Star 2,3 and ESPECIALLY 4 are INCREDIBLE games. I love this channel so much. 👌 👍 ✌️ From 🇮🇪
@@Greg_Games and many greetings to you too my Brazilian friend. There is a big Brazilian community in 🇮🇪 especially Dublin. We have a few Brazilian stores, there's always Brazilian nights on in a club (amazing that unique, totally lit Brazilian beat!) I dated a Brazilian girl, Paula for a while. I got to love caipirinhas, moqueca and guarana soda. Besides Tokyo, Brazil is the only place I really really have to go to one day! Wonderful people, so very friendly, decent and nice. And of course Brazilian women are unbelievably beautiful! 😂 AFAIK TecToy kept the MegaDrive going for years and years yeah? Because the tax is crazy on consoles TecToy made the consoles and games etc in Brazil so people could afford them and not have to save up so much for a game! I got a Brazilian football jersey back in early 98, unfortunately France stole the World Cup from a clearly superior Brazil squad. France got lucky. Besides the best player ever Pelè(George Best is no 2!) there is players like Ronaldo, Kaka, Neymar, Ronaldhino all pure magic 👌 Ps my name is Greg too!
Man, hearing such a treasure trove of a collection all burned up hurts, but it's at least cool that you have emulation to compensate and a healthy attitude about it. :)
@@goranisacson2502 wow thank you so much for that lovely reply. I really appreciate it. It wasn't just game, it was hundreds of vinyl (back when vinyl wasn't cool and was so cheap), a genuine Marlene Dietrich autograph, hundreds of books including some very old ones. I had a xioy of Alice Through The Looking Glass from 1899, photos,... Everything. Bacn then the Saturn was doing bad and they had games so cheap. One time I got Fighting Vipers for 15 irish pounds (before euro) and the analogue controller and Nights (I already had a copy!) for 25 pounds. The light gun and House of the Dead was 30 pounds... Sega Saturn Magazine gave away Christmas Nights and disc 1 of Panzer Dragoon Saga! I was devastated when I lost everything but my cats were safe and nobody was hurt. I have a hard drive with thousands of songs on it, hundreds of movies and TV shows. I have a small collection of Blu Ray and vinyl and I've a kindle and tablet with hundreds of books on it..... I want to put together a really good emulation machine so I can hopefully even play Dream Cast or Naomi games and have enough power to play CPS3 board games like Street Fighter 3.. I'd love to get my Saturn collection going again but the prices are unbelievably high and just not worth it! Again, thank you for that reply mate 👍 ☺ 🇮🇪 🍻 👍
Thank you for your channel! It's helping me, and I'm sure many other folks going through some rough times these days. It's so nice to kick back and enjoy some good times we all share!
That was the pack-in for the Sega Master System premium model that came with the light gun. I had it too, but after playing Astro Warrior I kind of preferred that to Safari Hunt; would have been cool to have all three on the pack-in cart while the non light-gun console could have still had just the Hang-On/Astro Warrior cart.
Respect for sticking with some of these and finding the fun in them. Some retro games take a bit of work which modern gamers are not willing to give their time for.
My son and I did a side by side comparison of the NES and SMS on Everdrives and a couple CRT's the other day and he was amazed when I told him that the SMS didn't do nearly was well as the NES did in the U.S. The SMS really did have much better looking games.
5:24 Ghost House was release in Brazil under the name ¨Chapolim x Drácula: Um Duelo Assustador¨, by Tectoy under Sega license, they replaced the main character sprite with the Chapulin Colarado (red grasshopper) a mexican comedy TV show character very popular in brazil.
I remember to be about 6-7 years old when me and my dad went to the electric store and there was the master system with tons of games: cartridge and cards. I was hooked to Sega at that very moment. It was 1987 or 1988. I always wanted to have these card games but never had a chance to get them.
I just recently picked up Ghost House and I'm impressed by it's quality on such a small memory these cards had. I try to collect in local stores supporting small businesses for this hobby. And It's not that often you see Sega cards come up for sale and I enjoyed my purchase very much. Sega definitely deserves credit for Ghost House.
Ahhh those were the days. I remember going to Kohl's in the early 80s and checking out the Master System when it was still for sale. TransBot was one of the signature titles for me. There was another fighting one (not a card) that I also thought wasn't too bad; seemed like a cross between Kung Fu and Karate Champ.
Mkaes me wanna emulate my childhood (i played wonderboy 3 with my dad never forgot coming home from school to him showing me how to beat the last boss) RIP Dad miss you!
Christmas of 88 ishh I was trying to cop a NES, but was sold out. Then the guy at Jamaica avenue put me on to SEGA master system. I didn’t know what it was but when i powered that thing on, I knew them this was better than NES in all aspects. Since then, I always held a special place for SMS, games like shinobi and space harrier with built in hang on was so cool to play. I was hooked with SEGA. R-type blew everyone away when I showed friends. Of course SEGA had tons of games that blew us away but I never abandoned SEGA. Been true hardcore fan and thanks to your channel I’ve learned a lot more. Thank you.
I've known about the Master System's Sega Card range since I saw a brief mention of it in a magazine in the late 90s! I agree, it's always interesting finding out about stuff like this! A few things I'd like to add: - Pit Pot was released on cartridge in Europe alongside Astro Warrior - Hang On was also released on cartridge in the States alongside Safari Hunt - Ghost House was reskinned for Brazil as a Red Grasshopper game, The Red Grasshopper being a Mexican TV show that's also popular in Brazil - NEC's HuCards are an evolution of the BeeCards Hudson made for the MSX
Mel, my man, your searing honesty on titles you don’t enjoy is the perfect foil for your expansive open mind on other titles. You are as likely to appreciate a game by finding its strengths as well as panning it for its flaws. And your dismissals of certain titles is always a breath of fresh air and makes me chuckle. Especially when you apologize for hitting the limit of time you can spend capturing a title, ha! Great work outta you, as usual!
I had a PC-Engine and a NES. I had friends with the 2600, Vetrex and a Master System. Those were some great sleepovers. In HS I finally met a rich kid with a Neo Geo. 😲
Yeah I had a load of cart games as a kid, didn't take long to find them for a pound or two in the second hand shops so they were well within pocket money range
Brazil is, by far, the country where the Master System was most popular at. Being built under a direct license from Sega by the manufacturer Tec Toys, the Master System is continued to be sold in Brazil to this very day. And it was by far the most popular game console in that country during the 80s and 90s, almost nobody used an NES in Brazil back then, every kid was playing Master System.
F-16 Fighting Falcon was a rather unique title in the SMS library. You had to use the player 1 and player 2 controllers simultaneously to actually play the game, as 2 buttons just wasn't enough for a flight simulator style game. It was also one of 2 titles completely incompatible with the Sega Genesis Power Base Converter. It used an SG-1000 graphics mode that the Master System Video Display Processor was capable of, but the Genesis was not. If you tried playing the game through the Power Base Converter, all you could get was the title screen, and it wouldn't display anything beyond that. If I remember correctly, the other incompatible title was Alien 3, and that game wouldn't even boot on the PBC.
F-16 Fighting Falcon was actually up to the standard of flight sim games on the 8 bit home computers of the day, I recall playing similarly styled games on my Atari 65xe back then.
@@lazarushernandez5827 I actually enjoyed F-16 Fighting Falcon, I didn’t have anything other than a Commodore VIC-20 for a computer, so F-16 was unlike anything I had ever played before. I sold my SMS to get a power base converter, and I was really bummed when I found out I couldn’t play F-16 on it.
@@homiedclown Hell genesis is how I play SMS anymore. I was comparing prices at the time. $100 for a real SMS vs. a 3rd party/unofficial SMS converter for $20. I went with the $20 one. lol. Works really well though, never had a problem with it.
As you can see, the Master System definitely had some advantages over the NES. One of them was better graphics, a better light gun controller and those 3D glasses, I think.
The Famicom had active shutter style 3D glasses released for it, but they never came to the NES in North America. Games like Rad Racer were compatible with them in Japan. You can see the vestiges of this in the US release of Rad Racer, where the active shutter 3D was changed to a Red/Blue Anaglyph 3D style.
@@maxxdahl6062 Yes. The light gun games are much better. Nothing on the NES comes close to the tension and gameplay of something like Rescue Mission, the best 8-bit light gun game ever made.
Yup. The cards didn't last very long in the systems life so there was no real point for it. My 3rd party master system converter for genesis doesn't have a card slot either.
@@SomeOrangeCat Don't regret the converter at all. Was deciding on a real master system vs. a converter, seen the real SMS costed 100 bucks, and the converter I wanted was $20 bucks fully assembled, or 15 DIY. Went with the $20 option. lol. Works well though, played every cart I've thrown at it so far.
I love your videos brother. Also, being a huge Sega Fan, bigger just Master System fan and massive fan of the my cards I especially enjoyed this one. I have a suggestion from myself and a few friends that also watch. I’m not even sure if it’s possible but a list of all the games you do in the description or a pdf download would be the shit as I almost always go hit ebay for these after watching. Either way, keep it up.
Thanks for the Master System content SLX. I really love this console. It still amazes me how good some SMS games created by SEGA look. And SEGA never released an SMS collection, not even Phantasy Star on all platforms. I get the limited appeal but come on...
I bought one of each of those cards that were on eBay years back that were either damaged or faded out and not sure if they were working and basically made them into a necklace kind of thing to where when I go like to gaming convention or anything. I think one of them still actually does play but I not sure on the other ones
Attach the game that works to one of those casino card spring-loaded security tethers, so at a convention you can stretch it out from the other cards to plug it into any SMS console at the convention and play it on the spot!
Awesome video. I never saw these cards as a kid. But I remember watching Hang On at a local games rental store. It just looked so amazing! Good memories.
I loved Spy v Spy. I would ignore the quest for intel, head straight to the exit and booby trap every entrance. Once the other spy entered and got nailed by the booby traps, I would scoop up the intel they dropped and finish the level thinking I was such a clever clogs =) Ghost House was amazing fun but like a lot of MS games that were based on arcade games that themselves were designed to squeeze coins out of children, at later levels the computer simply starts cheating or sending more enemies than the player can deal with =\
As a kid, the card slot on my power base converter always made me wonder. I never even saw a Master System in my youth, and this was one of the things that gave the system a sense of awe and mystery about it. As an adult, I wanted to go back and have a few card games just to finally see them in action. I settled on Transbot and Ghost House as the most likely to be fun, and I think I chose pretty well.
I had Transbot and Spy vs Spy cards. Great games, great system. Master system is so underated, and I'm glad I had one instead of nes like everyone else
Many thanks for making such video! I knew back in time about this card slot but I never actually stopped to look for such titles. I never seen it before with my own eyes. Your video was great to revive me the curiosity of searching for its usage.
I was given a Game Gear multi-card as a kid and the games were exactly all of these! Probably because of the smaller rom sizes. This is so nostalgic. They were the only games I had for years and I played them to death.
When I 1st got a Mighty Master System back in 1988 it came with hang on in card format in the box. The only built-in game was the snail maze. And it was a relation of mine who found out about the snail game as I'd never switched on the machine without a card or cartridge inserted.
Love the master system! Ghost house is one of my favorite games ever ! It’s always gets a bad rep it seems , glad to hear it get some love ❤️ great video
The Atari 2600 and the Sega Master System II were basically my first consoles. So many memories... I think I had a few of these cards laying around, but couldn't figure out how to play them. I don't know where they are now. 😭 Funny enough, I had the F-16 Fighting Falcon game. Typical, I got dumped all the crap. 😂 Shout-out to TransBot, though; used to play that in cartridge form until the game literally glitched out and imploded.
I had thought it was weird they didn't use the Card format for Game Gear, since that was basically a handheld Master System. If they could have just upgraded the capacity similar to what NEC did they could have re-marketed the existing Cards to work on both GG and MS and release GG games marketed to work with GG, MS, and the Base Converter. That would have been really cool, but Sega being Sega did all sorts of crazy stuff and that's probably why we love them so much.
As a kid in Australia I had the combo cart of Astro Warrior and Pit Pot. I loved both games, I never was able to finish Pit Pot. I also had Teddy Boy which I loved, I didn't know that they had a Mega Drive version
At that time, to me, games on cards seemed so high tech. I thought it was so cool. I seem to recall Ghost House being my first card game. I did play that one a lot. I played a lot of Super Tennis back in the day and got pretty good at it. I got really into it at one point, probably in the spring or summer of 1989 and beat it. I remember there was an ending screen. I remember it being tough to control, so I get why people wouldn't like it, but it just clicked with me back then. Spy vs. Spy was fun and interesting. It wasn't always clear how things worked, but I would sometimes play it two player by myself and just experiment with the traps and all that.
I never owned any Master System cards back in the day, but a kid I was friends with back then lent me their Transbot card. It seemed like such a futuristic bit of technology back then and I was super glad to actually get to finally use the card reader on my SMS for the first time. I had the version that Hang-On built in and I absolutely loved that port of it. I was always a bit surprised that World GP was a cartridge game rather than a card, given its similarity.
Spy vs. Spy - I liked this (I played it on the C64), as well as its sequels, but I usually didn't have anyone to play against and the computer wasn't much on strategy. It usually just quickly searched all the rooms, and if it encountered you, it would always fight you. Transbot - That walking mech at 14:34 looks like a squared-off version of a Zentraedi Battle Pod.
I had a master system as a kid we would play spy vs spy for hours on end that was the only card game we had. I have a master system in the original box & some games. great video the master system doesn't get much love
Cheap and cheerful, as it should be. You've got great budget titles there. I paid my Master System 450F (45GBP / 70EUR). 80F for Enduro Racer. For a 10 year-old in 1990, that was quite a lot.
FWIW I really enjoyed F16 Fighter (as it was called for the UK cartridge release) back in the day. Maybe because it was one of the first 'complicated' games my child brain mastered. I can't think of another console game that straight-up *requires* 2 joypads to play either. I think it might have repurposed the reset button as an additional control too.
The Atari 2600, 5200 and 7800, the Colecovision, the Intellivision and the NES all cartridges of various sizes, all of them were larger and in some cases bulkier than the Master Systems media.
I loved the fact that the SEGA MyCard (as it was called in Japan) could store up to 256K memory. I never knew Hang-On was released on card. When I originally got the SEGA Master System for my 9th birthday back in Summer of 1988, It was released on the Combo Cartridge that came with the console. F-16 Fighting Falcon was roughly an MSX port that could demonstrate the Master System in SG-1000 graphics mode, since the MSX, SG-1000 and ColecoVision shared the same hardware architecture.
Ha! I remember playing Bank Panic in the arcades. I liked it a lot. F-16 Fighting Falcon reminds me of Top Gun on PC and other computer systems of the mid 80s. I liked it a lot, but that was Top Gun, not this F-16. Good video. It's funny how relaxing all the sound effects and music are from these games, even the more rough ones.
It would have been interesting to have been there in Japan Q4 1985 when these hit, and were the most graphically advanced games on the market (unless one had imported an Amiga I guess). Yeah, that was also the exact quarter the buzzsaw known as Super Mario Bros. hit, but outside that the Famicom's library at the time was still in its infancy - no Mega Man, Metroid, Zelda, Punch Out, Dragon Quest or Contra yet...heck, no Capcom, Konami, Enix or Square yet. This stuff actually looks well ahead of most of the competition.
My Hero is one of my SMS favourites. Fantastic little game when you get used to it. Used to be able to clear it 4 or 5 times on 1 game. Great soccer card is far from one of the cheaper European cards to get - it’s probably the rarest and hardest to come by. Think I paid about £60 for a lose card a few years back!
I had the Master System before the NES. I only begged my parents for a NES because hardly any Americans had a Master System. In school my friends would talk games and trade them. I knew one other kid with a Master System and his strict religious mom would only allow him to play "G rated" games. So he couldn't play games with weapons. Loved the video.
I don't recall seeing many card-based Master System games released here in Australia. As a kid I had the cartridge versions of both Bank Panic and Spy vs Spy. Both could be quite brutal at times but I played the hell out of them all the same.
I had a 7800 and NES as a kid so I never kept up with the Master System back then. But looking back today if I could have one Master System game that never came out but was announced, it would be Woody Pop with the paddle controller.
I had every sega.... yet never had any card games. On my MS i had hang on and safari hunt built in. What got me to wish for master system on my birthday was my mate won one in a competition. His one was weird He had global defence on cartridge and hang on on card.... The interesting part was his joypads Apart from the wire comin out the side instead of the top; but on the Dpad was a screw in hole that attached to have a joy stick screwed onto it.
I was kinda spoiled with games in a way when I was a kid, I had the Sega CD before I ever got a master system I actually traded an extra genesis I had to a kid at school for his master system 2 and it came with rampage and Rambo,which are both great along with the game built-in,I could never find anymore games for years,I was impressed with the master system
Great video! But it seems like you missed some of the released Sega Card games. Below are an example of some missed games: - Doki Doki Penguin Land - Gulkave - Hang On II - H.E.R.O. (different than "My Hero") - Ninja Princess - Star Force
Oh my days i was thinking of this the other day, we owned one game on a card on my parents mastwr system as a kid, i couldn't barely remember it i was so young
These were cute but it should have been left out of the US release. The cost didn't make sense. One of the things that killed the Sega Master system in the early days was it was $50 more than a Nintendo
I don't know, I recall the Master System had 2 packages; a basic one with just the console and controllers and a pack in game, and one that had the console, controllers, a light gun and games. It was priced competitively with the NES at the time. It was more the bland box art design, most NES carts had cool artwork on the box, a colorful logo for the name and in the case of first party titles, graphics of the game. Master System boxes were all white with a black grid pattern and a simple image over that, and the game title was in a standardized font, they got a little better over time. It was like giving a kid a choice between a comic book or a regular book, the kid is going to gravitate to the colorful presentation.
My first experience with these was at my cousins house. They had an early Genesis with Altered Beast. They also had the Power Base Converter with several Master System carts and cards. I remember Ghost House being one of them and maybe Penguin Land?
This video solved the mystery $.99 SMS garage sale buy, we couldn't figure out why the heck Hang On appeared to be built in. Now we know it IS built in as a model feature.
I never had a Master System but I had a pirated cartridge for the Mega Drive that had like 15 MM games in it, including many you listed here. Ghost House, Machine Gun Joe and Hang On where my personal favourites.
Fun Fact: According to Sega lore, Igul, the main character in Pit-Pot is actually Alex Kidd's brother!
Fun fact: you have the most annoying voice in the world 🌎
Hahhaa...nobody cares..
@@johnnycigar2061 Facts that no one cares about is pretty much my forte.
But.... Hello you!
@@Larry I thought your forte was stealing content off Wikipedia pages and stretch a couple of “facts” to >10-minute-long videos. Maybe it’s because of that that your view count has plummeted and you’re forced to comment on others’ successful videos in an attempt to stay relevant?
Here’s a suggestion for you: make better videos and stop being toxic for no reason to people you’ve never met.
Ahh, Ghost House on the card. The first game I ever booted up on the MS. It was a choice between Wonder Boy In Monster Land or this. I think I saved the best for last although Ghost House was addictive. The jump from the Amstrad CPC 464 to this console, for me, blew my mind.
I believe ghost house was also the first of only a couple games I had ever played on the master system as a kid when it was in the stores. I had an NES and most of my friends did too. I only got a master system a few years ago and boy did I miss out in a great system. It just wasn’t very popular in the states. Too bad though.
... played SO much Ghost House on my cousin's Master System, growing up. He later had the Genesis with Power Base converter 👍. RIP Matt.
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@@TexasHollowEarthdid you play Ghost House 3, 5, 7, 9 times a day, week, month?
@Yeah Right That's correct Toys R Us and Kaybee Toy and Hobby had the best selection of Sega Master System games; bought my copy of Phantasy Star from Kaybee for 70 bucks. I do remember Kmart having a limited selection of the more well circulated Master System games also but I didn't shop there very often.
Still have my childhood Sega Master System.
Got it for Christmas 1986.
Still works perfectly fine.
And I have about 30 games, still in those cool white checkered boxes.
The tg16 and sms cards always fascinated me growing up. I thought they were so futuristic
Though pretty limited with storage on SMS. Pretty much why they got phased out pretty quickly.
@@maxxdahl6062 it was for backwards compatibility with the SG-1000 in Japan, The SMS is literally a souped up SG-1000, and a lot of SG-1000 software came on those cards, so I understand their reasoning in Japan, but cards just didn't make sense outside of Japan.
@@homiedclown Oddly enough, the game gear still kept all of those display modes, meaning, in theory GG should still also be able to play SG-1000
@@homiedclown They must have put a jet engine in that thing, then. I've seen what the SG-1000 was capable of on Jeremy Parish's Works channel, and let me tell you, it ain't much.
@@jessragan6714 To be fair, it was released around the time of the colecovision, etc. Wasn't going to ever be able to do much.
Always wanted a Master System when I had a Commodore 64, but the price of games was massive between the two. Something like £10 for C64 games compared to something like £30 for MS games. But when I first saw the Japanese Mega Drive in 1988 or 1989 in a local game store, it was something like a 2 year wait until it was released in the UK. I'd probably say the best add-on SEGA released was the Master System converter for the Mega Drive. The rise and fall of SEGA still kills me to this day.
My first console was a master system along with 14 games, two of them in card format: Ghost House and My Hero. My uncle brought it from USA - I'm from mexico -. And The game Hang On was already installed into the console. Great times.
8:25 Hang-On was also released in the USA, as a combo cartridge with Safari Hunt. I believe my copy came bundled with my Sega Master System Power Base + Light Phaser system bundle. F-16 is also just an SG-1000 rom stuck on an SMS PCB. Much in the way that Sega put the SMS version of Phantasy Star in a Genesis cart.
The one thing I love most about this channel is the honesty, if a game is wank, youre not afraid to tell us its a load of wank. A lot of channels make out every game is amazing. Keep it up!
Which you usually don't see from people who love a brand as much. Pat the NES Punk is pretty honest too
as a child, i never seen the cards in real life, but saw them in mags and for me, those were like next level stuff, simply because nes carts were so big, later on in life i found out the nes carts are all a lie and inside there is nothing much and the famicom carts were the real deal....but man, those cars were like year 2000 tech in my eyes and to think today the switch cards are so small.....
There was a Hang On/Safari Hunt combo also. Pretty sure my SMS here in the US came with it packed in with the light gun version.
Sega Lord X is constantly putting out TOP CLASS content ALL the time!
I was a Sega kid. Mega Drive as Christmas 91 present. The 32x, Saturn, DC of course... Hell I even have two sets of Sonic tats...
Every month it was Mean Machines Sega and then Sega Saturn Magazine. My aunt took me to London for my 12th birthday and went to Sega World there which was awesome....
I am so thankful for emulation to allow me to relive and enjoy games of my childhood. Unfortunately I lost everything in a fire...besides 60 mega drive games it included things like Nights and the analog controller, Burning Rangers, Last Bronx, Panzer Dragoon 1,Zwei and Saga(and disc one given away free with magazine, same as Christmas Nights) Virtual On, Shining The Holy Ark...
Maybe one day Saturn emulation will work as good as Psx.
The Mastersystem wasn't my thing but a friend had it and I have those white and blue grid pattern boxes burned into my brain, as well as the built in Alex Kidd game with it...
I've enjoyed many hours with the system though and a few of the Sonic titles and first party stuff is tops.
Speaking of first party... Phantasy Star 2,3 and ESPECIALLY 4 are INCREDIBLE games.
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@@Greg_Games and many greetings to you too my Brazilian friend. There is a big Brazilian community in 🇮🇪 especially Dublin. We have a few Brazilian stores, there's always Brazilian nights on in a club (amazing that unique, totally lit Brazilian beat!) I dated a Brazilian girl, Paula for a while. I got to love caipirinhas, moqueca and guarana soda.
Besides Tokyo, Brazil is the only place I really really have to go to one day!
Wonderful people, so very friendly, decent and nice. And of course Brazilian women are unbelievably beautiful! 😂
AFAIK TecToy kept the MegaDrive going for years and years yeah? Because the tax is crazy on consoles TecToy made the consoles and games etc in Brazil so people could afford them and not have to save up so much for a game!
I got a Brazilian football jersey back in early 98, unfortunately France stole the World Cup from a clearly superior Brazil squad. France got lucky.
Besides the best player ever Pelè(George Best is no 2!) there is players like Ronaldo, Kaka, Neymar, Ronaldhino all pure magic 👌
Ps my name is Greg too!
Man, hearing such a treasure trove of a collection all burned up hurts, but it's at least cool that you have emulation to compensate and a healthy attitude about it. :)
@@goranisacson2502 wow thank you so much for that lovely reply. I really appreciate it. It wasn't just game, it was hundreds of vinyl (back when vinyl wasn't cool and was so cheap), a genuine Marlene Dietrich autograph, hundreds of books including some very old ones. I had a xioy of Alice Through The Looking Glass from 1899, photos,... Everything.
Bacn then the Saturn was doing bad and they had games so cheap. One time I got Fighting Vipers for 15 irish pounds (before euro) and the analogue controller and Nights (I already had a copy!) for 25 pounds. The light gun and House of the Dead was 30 pounds... Sega Saturn Magazine gave away Christmas Nights and disc 1 of Panzer Dragoon Saga!
I was devastated when I lost everything but my cats were safe and nobody was hurt. I have a hard drive with thousands of songs on it, hundreds of movies and TV shows. I have a small collection of Blu Ray and vinyl and I've a kindle and tablet with hundreds of books on it.....
I want to put together a really good emulation machine so I can hopefully even play Dream Cast or Naomi games and have enough power to play CPS3 board games like Street Fighter 3..
I'd love to get my Saturn collection going again but the prices are unbelievably high and just not worth it!
Again, thank you for that reply mate 👍 ☺ 🇮🇪 🍻 👍
Got my Master System at launch. I was the SEGA kid
Had Ghost House, My Hero, Tennis, and Transbot on card. Loved all of em.
I remember when we had a Master System back in the day. That card slot was a total mystery to me.
Thank you for your channel! It's helping me, and I'm sure many other folks going through some rough times these days. It's so nice to kick back and enjoy some good times we all share!
You are very welcome. Thanks for watching.
I actually had a combo cartridge of Hang-on and Safari Hunt. Loved both games!
That was the pack-in for the Sega Master System premium model that came with the light gun. I had it too, but after playing Astro Warrior I kind of preferred that to Safari Hunt; would have been cool to have all three on the pack-in cart while the non light-gun console could have still had just the Hang-On/Astro Warrior cart.
I had the same cart, Hang On/Safari Hunt
Me too. Safari Hunt was awesome, wish there were more games that used the Phaser.
Respect for sticking with some of these and finding the fun in them. Some retro games take a bit of work which modern gamers are not willing to give their time for.
I played some when they were first released, so they still had some nostalgic value. That always helps.
My son and I did a side by side comparison of the NES and SMS on Everdrives and a couple CRT's the other day and he was amazed when I told him that the SMS didn't do nearly was well as the NES did in the U.S. The SMS really did have much better looking games.
5:24 Ghost House was release in Brazil under the name ¨Chapolim x Drácula: Um Duelo Assustador¨, by Tectoy under Sega license, they replaced the main character sprite with the Chapulin Colarado (red grasshopper) a mexican comedy TV show character very popular in brazil.
I remember to be about 6-7 years old when me and my dad went to the electric store and there was the master system with tons of games: cartridge and cards. I was hooked to Sega at that very moment. It was 1987 or 1988. I always wanted to have these card games but never had a chance to get them.
Also, Pit Pot's protagonist is Alex Kidd's brother, Igul. Making it the prequel of the Alex Kidd series.
I just recently picked up Ghost House and I'm impressed by it's quality on such a small memory these cards had. I try to collect in local stores supporting small businesses for this hobby. And It's not that often you see Sega cards come up for sale and I enjoyed my purchase very much. Sega definitely deserves credit for Ghost House.
I loooove the Master System..I want to marry it...Love is love
Where Sega dropped the ball with the Cards, I believe Turbografx 16 succeeded. Damn, I miss that system.
Ahhh those were the days. I remember going to Kohl's in the early 80s and checking out the Master System when it was still for sale. TransBot was one of the signature titles for me. There was another fighting one (not a card) that I also thought wasn't too bad; seemed like a cross between Kung Fu and Karate Champ.
Mkaes me wanna emulate my childhood (i played wonderboy 3 with my dad never forgot coming home from school to him showing me how to beat the last boss) RIP Dad miss you!
Christmas of 88 ishh I was trying to cop a NES, but was sold out. Then the guy at Jamaica avenue put me on to SEGA master system. I didn’t know what it was but when i powered that thing on, I knew them this was better than NES in all aspects. Since then, I always held a special place for SMS, games like shinobi and space harrier with built in hang on was so cool to play. I was hooked with SEGA. R-type blew everyone away when I showed friends. Of course SEGA had tons of games that blew us away but I never abandoned SEGA. Been true hardcore fan and thanks to your channel I’ve learned a lot more. Thank you.
I've known about the Master System's Sega Card range since I saw a brief mention of it in a magazine in the late 90s! I agree, it's always interesting finding out about stuff like this!
A few things I'd like to add:
- Pit Pot was released on cartridge in Europe alongside Astro Warrior
- Hang On was also released on cartridge in the States alongside Safari Hunt
- Ghost House was reskinned for Brazil as a Red Grasshopper game, The Red Grasshopper being a Mexican TV show that's also popular in Brazil
- NEC's HuCards are an evolution of the BeeCards Hudson made for the MSX
Mel, my man, your searing honesty on titles you don’t enjoy is the perfect foil for your expansive open mind on other titles. You are as likely to appreciate a game by finding its strengths as well as panning it for its flaws. And your dismissals of certain titles is always a breath of fresh air and makes me chuckle. Especially when you apologize for hitting the limit of time you can spend capturing a title, ha! Great work outta you, as usual!
Cool! I might have to add some of these to my hacked SNES Classic!
When a company releases a game called Dragon Wang, you know they're not screwing around!
I had a PC-Engine and a NES. I had friends with the 2600, Vetrex and a Master System. Those were some great sleepovers.
In HS I finally met a rich kid with a Neo Geo. 😲
Yeah I had a load of cart games as a kid, didn't take long to find them for a pound or two in the second hand shops so they were well within pocket money range
Brazil is, by far, the country where the Master System was most popular at. Being built under a direct license from Sega by the manufacturer Tec Toys, the Master System is continued to be sold in Brazil to this very day. And it was by far the most popular game console in that country during the 80s and 90s, almost nobody used an NES in Brazil back then, every kid was playing Master System.
I had the NES as a kid and didn't even know anybody with an SMS. Master System games are so colorful!
I played a ton of Transbot at my neighbors house as a kid. Thanks for another great video SLX!
Your videos have helped me so much in just finding hidden gems and completing full sets of games from company's. Thank you so much.
F-16 Fighting Falcon was a rather unique title in the SMS library. You had to use the player 1 and player 2 controllers simultaneously to actually play the game, as 2 buttons just wasn't enough for a flight simulator style game. It was also one of 2 titles completely incompatible with the Sega Genesis Power Base Converter. It used an SG-1000 graphics mode that the Master System Video Display Processor was capable of, but the Genesis was not. If you tried playing the game through the Power Base Converter, all you could get was the title screen, and it wouldn't display anything beyond that. If I remember correctly, the other incompatible title was Alien 3, and that game wouldn't even boot on the PBC.
F-16 Fighting Falcon was actually up to the standard of flight sim games on the 8 bit home computers of the day, I recall playing similarly styled games on my Atari 65xe back then.
@@lazarushernandez5827 I actually enjoyed F-16 Fighting Falcon, I didn’t have anything other than a Commodore VIC-20 for a computer, so F-16 was unlike anything I had ever played before. I sold my SMS to get a power base converter, and I was really bummed when I found out I couldn’t play F-16 on it.
@@homiedclown Yeah for some reason the VDP of the genesis had the base master system display modes but not the ones meant for the SG-1000.
@@homiedclown Hell genesis is how I play SMS anymore. I was comparing prices at the time. $100 for a real SMS vs. a 3rd party/unofficial SMS converter for $20. I went with the $20 one. lol. Works really well though, never had a problem with it.
As you can see, the Master System definitely had some advantages over the NES. One of them was better graphics, a better light gun controller and those 3D glasses, I think.
The Famicom had active shutter style 3D glasses released for it, but they never came to the NES in North America. Games like Rad Racer were compatible with them in Japan. You can see the vestiges of this in the US release of Rad Racer, where the active shutter 3D was changed to a Red/Blue Anaglyph 3D style.
Better light gun games too.
@@maxxdahl6062 Yes. The light gun games are much better. Nothing on the NES comes close to the tension and gameplay of something like Rescue Mission, the best 8-bit light gun game ever made.
As I recall, the Master System 2 decided to forgo the card reader slot, which also meant peripherals like the 3-D glasses wouldn't work either.
Yup. The cards didn't last very long in the systems life so there was no real point for it. My 3rd party master system converter for genesis doesn't have a card slot either.
@@maxxdahl6062 And because these games do exist in rom-dump form, an Everdrive will do to trick if one insists on playing them on real hardware.
@@SomeOrangeCat Don't regret the converter at all. Was deciding on a real master system vs. a converter, seen the real SMS costed 100 bucks, and the converter I wanted was $20 bucks fully assembled, or 15 DIY. Went with the $20 option. lol. Works well though, played every cart I've thrown at it so far.
I love your videos brother. Also, being a huge Sega Fan, bigger just Master System fan and massive fan of the my cards I especially enjoyed this one. I have a suggestion from myself and a few friends that also watch. I’m not even sure if it’s possible but a list of all the games you do in the description or a pdf download would be the shit as I almost always go hit ebay for these after watching. Either way, keep it up.
Thanks for the Master System content SLX. I really love this console. It still amazes me how good some SMS games created by SEGA look. And SEGA never released an SMS collection, not even Phantasy Star on all platforms. I get the limited appeal but come on...
They put some games onto the PS3/360's Genesis Collection as unlockables but have ignored them since and an SMS collection would be _amazing._
I love how blunt you can be when the game calls for it.
“This, is Super Tennis. I hate Super Tennis.” Right there with you brother.
Uhg. Sega really was having a laugh with that one.
This is the console my mom played!
Your mom sounds awesome! ^_^
I bought one of each of those cards that were on eBay years back that were either damaged or faded out and not sure if they were working and basically made them into a necklace kind of thing to where when I go like to gaming convention or anything.
I think one of them still actually does play but I not sure on the other ones
Attach the game that works to one of those casino card spring-loaded security tethers, so at a convention you can stretch it out from the other cards to plug it into any SMS console at the convention and play it on the spot!
Awesome video. I never saw these cards as a kid. But I remember watching Hang On at a local games rental store. It just looked so amazing! Good memories.
Such a great video. Sega master system was the future an still enjoy playing with the cards. Have a blessed weekend
I loved Spy v Spy. I would ignore the quest for intel, head straight to the exit and booby trap every entrance. Once the other spy entered and got nailed by the booby traps, I would scoop up the intel they dropped and finish the level thinking I was such a clever clogs =)
Ghost House was amazing fun but like a lot of MS games that were based on arcade games that themselves were designed to squeeze coins out of children, at later levels the computer simply starts cheating or sending more enemies than the player can deal with =\
As a kid, the card slot on my power base converter always made me wonder. I never even saw a Master System in my youth, and this was one of the things that gave the system a sense of awe and mystery about it. As an adult, I wanted to go back and have a few card games just to finally see them in action. I settled on Transbot and Ghost House as the most likely to be fun, and I think I chose pretty well.
I remember the secret snail game on the master system with the card slot
I had Transbot and Spy vs Spy cards. Great games, great system. Master system is so underated, and I'm glad I had one instead of nes like everyone else
Many thanks for making such video! I knew back in time about this card slot but I never actually stopped to look for such titles. I never seen it before with my own eyes. Your video was great to revive me the curiosity of searching for its usage.
It amazes me what passed for vgm in the 80s, and even into the 90s.
I was given a Game Gear multi-card as a kid and the games were exactly all of these! Probably because of the smaller rom sizes. This is so nostalgic. They were the only games I had for years and I played them to death.
Ghost house, Hang-on and Spy vs. Spy ! Brings back memories and lots of fun
I always loved those cards, the MS1 had a cartridge and a card slot, which makes it more like modern systems
When I 1st got a Mighty Master System back in 1988 it came with hang on in card format in the box.
The only built-in game was the snail maze.
And it was a relation of mine who found out about the snail game as I'd never switched on the machine without a card or cartridge inserted.
Love the master system! Ghost house is one of my favorite games ever ! It’s always gets a bad rep it seems , glad to hear it get some love ❤️ great video
Omg the the sound effects and music of transbot brings me back i played it all the time when i was really young! Wow
This classic gaming video is earning almost 38,700 worldwide views!!!!!!!!
The Atari 2600 and the Sega Master System II were basically my first consoles. So many memories... I think I had a few of these cards laying around, but couldn't figure out how to play them. I don't know where they are now. 😭 Funny enough, I had the F-16 Fighting Falcon game. Typical, I got dumped all the crap. 😂
Shout-out to TransBot, though; used to play that in cartridge form until the game literally glitched out and imploded.
I had thought it was weird they didn't use the Card format for Game Gear, since that was basically a handheld Master System. If they could have just upgraded the capacity similar to what NEC did they could have re-marketed the existing Cards to work on both GG and MS and release GG games marketed to work with GG, MS, and the Base Converter. That would have been really cool, but Sega being Sega did all sorts of crazy stuff and that's probably why we love them so much.
8:19 Hang On was built into my cousins' Canadian model Master System, possibly the first video game I ever played 🤩
As a kid in Australia I had the combo cart of Astro Warrior and Pit Pot. I loved both games, I never was able to finish Pit Pot. I also had Teddy Boy which I loved, I didn't know that they had a Mega Drive version
At that time, to me, games on cards seemed so high tech. I thought it was so cool. I seem to recall Ghost House being my first card game. I did play that one a lot. I played a lot of Super Tennis back in the day and got pretty good at it. I got really into it at one point, probably in the spring or summer of 1989 and beat it. I remember there was an ending screen. I remember it being tough to control, so I get why people wouldn't like it, but it just clicked with me back then. Spy vs. Spy was fun and interesting. It wasn't always clear how things worked, but I would sometimes play it two player by myself and just experiment with the traps and all that.
I never owned any Master System cards back in the day, but a kid I was friends with back then lent me their Transbot card. It seemed like such a futuristic bit of technology back then and I was super glad to actually get to finally use the card reader on my SMS for the first time. I had the version that Hang-On built in and I absolutely loved that port of it. I was always a bit surprised that World GP was a cartridge game rather than a card, given its similarity.
Spy vs. Spy - I liked this (I played it on the C64), as well as its sequels, but I usually didn't have anyone to play against and the computer wasn't much on strategy. It usually just quickly searched all the rooms, and if it encountered you, it would always fight you.
Transbot - That walking mech at 14:34 looks like a squared-off version of a Zentraedi Battle Pod.
I had a master system as a kid we would play spy vs spy for hours on end that was the only card game we had. I have a master system in the original box & some games. great video the master system doesn't get much love
Teddy Boy was great value
Also, I never understood why the Hang On guy was naked
Teddy boy was the best, bonus stage you can get cool shoes and a pack of smokes, what other game can say that
Metal Gear Solid maybe? Confirmed, Teddy Boy > Solid Snake.
Cheap and cheerful,
as it should be.
You've got great budget titles there.
I paid my Master System 450F (45GBP / 70EUR). 80F for Enduro Racer. For a 10 year-old in 1990, that was quite a lot.
FWIW I really enjoyed F16 Fighter (as it was called for the UK cartridge release) back in the day. Maybe because it was one of the first 'complicated' games my child brain mastered. I can't think of another console game that straight-up *requires* 2 joypads to play either. I think it might have repurposed the reset button as an additional control too.
Check out Star Raiders, Atari 2600 VCS (originally Atari home computers). Came with its own separate 12-key touchpad!
The Atari 2600, 5200 and 7800, the Colecovision, the Intellivision and the NES all cartridges of various sizes, all of them were larger and in some cases bulkier than the Master Systems media.
2600 carts weren't too far off from SMS carts in size really.
I had a Model 1 but never owned one of these Cards but i got Bank Panic, Ghost House and Transbot on Cartridge. Ah, the old times.
Just now getting into the SMS and always good to see games I've never even heard of
I loved the fact that the SEGA MyCard (as it was called in Japan) could store up to 256K memory. I never knew Hang-On was released on card. When I originally got the SEGA Master System for my 9th birthday back in Summer of 1988, It was released on the Combo Cartridge that came with the console. F-16 Fighting Falcon was roughly an MSX port that could demonstrate the Master System in SG-1000 graphics mode, since the MSX, SG-1000 and ColecoVision shared the same hardware architecture.
17:26 the excitement on their faces tells us we need to know! 😆
Hang On was stunning on Master System
A rock solid port and the best running "sprite scaler" on the system.
This Video is giving me that Sega Master System My Card Collecting feeling:-))
PS: Back in the day I only had the Hang-On Sega Card...
Ha! I remember playing Bank Panic in the arcades. I liked it a lot.
F-16 Fighting Falcon reminds me of Top Gun on PC and other computer systems of the mid 80s. I liked it a lot, but that was Top Gun, not this F-16.
Good video.
It's funny how relaxing all the sound effects and music are from these games, even the more rough ones.
It would have been interesting to have been there in Japan Q4 1985 when these hit, and were the most graphically advanced games on the market (unless one had imported an Amiga I guess). Yeah, that was also the exact quarter the buzzsaw known as Super Mario Bros. hit, but outside that the Famicom's library at the time was still in its infancy - no Mega Man, Metroid, Zelda, Punch Out, Dragon Quest or Contra yet...heck, no Capcom, Konami, Enix or Square yet. This stuff actually looks well ahead of most of the competition.
My Hero is one of my SMS favourites. Fantastic little game when you get used to it. Used to be able to clear it 4 or 5 times on 1 game.
Great soccer card is far from one of the cheaper European cards to get - it’s probably the rarest and hardest to come by. Think I paid about £60 for a lose card a few years back!
I had the Master System before the NES. I only begged my parents for a NES because hardly any Americans had a Master System.
In school my friends would talk games and trade them. I knew one other kid with a Master System and his strict religious mom would only allow him to play "G rated" games. So he couldn't play games with weapons.
Loved the video.
"i found it far from terrible."
of course, it's Great! :D
I don't recall seeing many card-based Master System games released here in Australia. As a kid I had the cartridge versions of both Bank Panic and Spy vs Spy. Both could be quite brutal at times but I played the hell out of them all the same.
hang on looks better than i would think. These games have charm. Very relaxing .
I had a 7800 and NES as a kid so I never kept up with the Master System back then. But looking back today if I could have one Master System game that never came out but was announced, it would be Woody Pop with the paddle controller.
I had every sega.... yet never had any card games. On my MS i had hang on and safari hunt built in.
What got me to wish for master system on my birthday was my mate won one in a competition.
His one was weird
He had global defence on cartridge and hang on on card....
The interesting part was his joypads
Apart from the wire comin out the side instead of the top; but on the Dpad was a screw in hole that attached to have a joy stick screwed onto it.
I was kinda spoiled with games in a way when I was a kid, I had the Sega CD before I ever got a master system I actually traded an extra genesis I had to a kid at school for his master system 2 and it came with rampage and Rambo,which are both great along with the game built-in,I could never find anymore games for years,I was impressed with the master system
That kid probably still brags about trading a master system for a genesis once.
Great video! But it seems like you missed some of the released Sega Card games. Below are an example of some missed games:
- Doki Doki Penguin Land
- Gulkave
- Hang On II
- H.E.R.O. (different than "My Hero")
- Ninja Princess
- Star Force
Oh my days i was thinking of this the other day, we owned one game on a card on my parents mastwr system as a kid, i couldn't barely remember it i was so young
These were cute but it should have been left out of the US release. The cost didn't make sense. One of the things that killed the Sega Master system in the early days was it was $50 more than a Nintendo
I don't know, I recall the Master System had 2 packages; a basic one with just the console and controllers and a pack in game, and one that had the console, controllers, a light gun and games. It was priced competitively with the NES at the time.
It was more the bland box art design, most NES carts had cool artwork on the box, a colorful logo for the name and in the case of first party titles, graphics of the game. Master System boxes were all white with a black grid pattern and a simple image over that, and the game title was in a standardized font, they got a little better over time.
It was like giving a kid a choice between a comic book or a regular book, the kid is going to gravitate to the colorful presentation.
@@lazarushernandez5827 This, the pricing was about the same from what I remember.
My first experience with these was at my cousins house. They had an early Genesis with Altered Beast. They also had the Power Base Converter with several Master System carts and cards. I remember Ghost House being one of them and maybe Penguin Land?
I played the hell out of My Hero and TransBot. Ultimately the card slot was reserved for the 3D glasses and Space Harrier 3D.
This video solved the mystery $.99 SMS garage sale buy, we couldn't figure out why the heck Hang On appeared to be built in. Now we know it IS built in as a model feature.
I pretty much watched every SLX videos.
Time for me to come clean.
My DOB is June 12 1978.
I never had a Master System but I had a pirated cartridge for the Mega Drive that had like 15 MM games in it, including many you listed here. Ghost House, Machine Gun Joe and Hang On where my personal favourites.
14:32 That's a Scout Walker (AT-ST) from Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
First thing I got to say nice choice of the super hang on music I dig it
Man you post great content. Had this system and games when I was 8 years old! Love the SMS content keep it coming!
Glad you enjoy it! Thank you.