Love the use of Vampire: Master of Darkness music in this video. That game was Sega's answer to Konami's Castlevania games, since Konami never developed for the Master System and Game Gear (and they totally should have. While Master of Darkness tried to fill the Castlevania void, the Master System and Game Gear could have also used games from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tiny Toon Adventures, and Rocket Knight Adventures).
Brilliant video, love my Sega 8 bit consoles :) The Master System version of the first Road Rash was excellent, shame that the sequel never made it out for either system. I had no idea that Pac in Time was a reskin of Fury of the Furries! Rare that I learn something from a retor video so excellent work! The graphics on Spirou look excellent for the GG. I had Yogi's Goldrush on the Gameboy back in the day, and really enjoyed the game. Sadly you couldn't change into Booboo in that version. Bonus points for your pronounciation of "pic-a-nic" baskets ;) I love the Master System codemasters games with their custom carts and bigger box art - would love to pick up a repro of Dinobasher.
Thanks, Samuel! Ah, really glad I could teach even the most seasoned 8-bit Sega fan something new :) Yes, Spirou looks stunning, I agree. Hahaha glad you liked the "pic-a-nic" baskets, I had to record that bit about five times as I kept laughing.
I think the GG was underrated. I loved my GB and GG I used to love playing it in my bed at night with the lights off. Mickey Mouse on it was a masterpiece
Most excellent video Sir, really interesting!!! Quite surprising nearly all of the games are British/European, makes you wonder what Japanese games were canned :S
yoo pat rileys basketball! love the zoom in on the sprites! AAND OMG PETE! CONGRATS ON 8K SUBSCRIBERS!!! that's amazing i'm so happy for you you have no idea, not just saying that i mean it, you REALLY deserve it! alot! your videos are always TOP NOTCH
Not getting Dinobasher was disappointing. The more SMS games with cool graphics the merrier. Love the fact you used Master of Darkness soundtrack for this video. Truly a man of taste so you get a well deserved like from me. Ha, ha!
@@pferreira1983 The Megadrive/SNES version is extremely hard and unfair, and has only 1 password for the whole game. IMO the released Gameboy version is the best (which is the same as the GG one, only 2 musics are different).
@@onaretrotip I loved the game gear being (More or less) the same exact hardware as SMS. Only the graphics chip being a slightly upgraded version with more of a color palette. Other than that same exact hardware set up for both.
@@onaretrotip I had one back in the day too, played the hell out of it. Just got another one again and had my friend do the capacitor replacement repair on it.
As a kid we used to sit by the side of my mates settee on the floor plugged into the wall (as GGs ate batteries!) just to play this thing. I remember getting incredibly far (or it felt like it) in Cosmic SpaceHead and being so proud when we solved some of the puzzles it presented us with. Great memories for such an often overlooked system :) and thanks Pete for the great video as always. love your work, keep it up!
I love hearing memories like that. The Game Gear was certainly a battery guzzler back in the day (and still is, although batteries are substantially better these days). Agreed, it's definitely an overlooked system! Thank you very much, I'll do my best.
I had several game systems. First was A2600, though my dad had Odyssey/Odyssey 2, NES, SMS, Turbo GF16, SNES weith super game boy, Genesis with MS adapter and Sega CD, PS1, and 64 for consoles. Plus several emulators. Game boy, Game gear, and the Atari handhelds. Several different apple 2+/E clones, My dad had Vic 20 and real apple 2E. plus several different PCs with different windows. I had the Atari 2600 basic cart but on that system it was hampered by the fact you couldn't save.
WOW I never knew that the Fury of the Furries version of Pac in Time was planned for GameGear! I always loved this version of Pac in Time more than the SNES one, tho I liked Fury of the Furries more. Somehow as a kid I could actually play these games, now not so much as I suck at controlling the furries or pac man :)
Something that always seems odd to me is people stating that the Master System was more popular than the NES here in the UK; I don't doubt that they're correct, but growing up in the late-eighties/early-nineties I knew a total of one person who had a Master System - everybody else I knew had a NES, either Nintendo- or (one girl) Mattel-branded (and my family wasn't wealthy enough to have either! :P)
I think that's unusual. I actually played a lot more NES than Master System as a kid, as my mate over the road had one (him and his two older brothers chipped in to get one for Christmas), but they were the only people I knew had a NES. Every other console owner had Master Systems. To be honest though, most people had a Spectrum, Amstrad, or C64.
As I wrote, I don't doubt that was unusual and that the figures are correct and that it was more common for people to have a Master System than a NES - and that it was more common to have an 8bit computer than either - but it feels strange to read or hear that as it doesn't reflect my experience at all; my school had a few BBC Micros, and one girl I knew had a Amstrad CPC 6128, but those were the only 8bit computers I ever used, and I've never even seen a Spectrum or Commodore 64 in real life. And no, I'm not a Nintendo fanboy :) Whilst my first console was a SNES - at a time when I think the PlayStation might already have been released - I almost got a Master System instead as I was big fan of the 8bit Sonic games and - after playing a lot of Bug! and watching in awe as a cousin completed perfect laps in Daytona - I wished I could've had a Saturn, in spite of the first model controller being almost too big for my hands :) (It's also strange to read or hear about people renting games, as nobody I knew did - they saved up (or got cracked copies for their Amigas...))
Wow that's crazy (regarding the 8-bit computers)! As much as I copied disks for my Amiga, I did rent games as well (not sure which consoles I rented for, but definitely PlayStation). Interesting you mentioned Saturn, as that's the console that nobody had in my experience, and I never even saw one back in the day.
Besides the Amiga and the Master System, that's kind of a list of platforms that I've never encountered ;) I don't remember the first game that I ever played; I think that it might have been the original Star Wars arcade game at an arcade in Lowestoft. I know that I played Super Mario Bros. before I played its sequel, but I didn't particularly care for it, mostly because it was too difficult for me; its sequel was the first game I was awed by, partly because it was a lot easier, partly because it was a lot more varied, and partly because it felt to me that there was a world to explore without worrying about a time-limit - if I'd known the expression at that age I'd have uttered "holy SH*T!" when I realised that you could have Mario walk left and go back to where you been before o_O The preponderance of NES where I lived _might_ have been because of a Japanese family who came to live nearby; I was friends with one of their sons who had a NES, but I don't remember that they were the first person I knew to have one, and I don't remember them mentioning having a Famicom back home; and that still wouldn't explain my never encountering the more common 8bit computers. There was a corner shop near to where I lived that had a selection of games on tape; I don't remember that I ever knew for what system, but from what I do remember of the screenshots on the back of the cassette cases I think they were likely for the Commodore 64; but, as I wrote, I've never actually encountered a Commodore 64 in real life - and I don't even know if the friend whose family owned the shop had one! Computers I encountered during that era: - Unknown computer that used 5.25 inch disks (it might have been a BBC Micro) - BBC Micro - Archimedes (I'm not certain) - CPC 6128 - Amiga 500 (I'm not certain) -- 1200 - Macintosh (680X0) * - Macintosh (PowerPC) * - PC Consoles I encountered during that era: - Game Boy * -- Color * - Game Gear - NES - Master System - SNES * - Mega Drive - Saturn - 3DO - PlayStation - N64 * (*: my family owned this system towards the end of that era)
another great list brother. Its funny cause here in missouri all we had was nintendo. I used to read about master system games and turbo grafx games in EGM, but the market here was mainly nintendo. I used to give my name and number to local game stores if and when a master system or tg-16 would be for sale. Unfortunately, it was not till i was older and ordered them off ebay did i have them.
Thanks, Tom! Yeah, I know that the Master System wasn't big at all over there compared to Nintendo. I never saw a TurboGrafx until I was probably in my late twenties! Love my PC Engine now though. Ah, it's nice catching up now on all the stuff we missed back in the day, I love it. I never had PCE or Saturn but they've turned into two of my favourites.
Great vid as always Pete buddy. Always wanted a game gear back in the day... if road rash 2 had come out on it I defo would of kept on at my mother for 1 😂
Great video.... we love the game gear! one of the first gaming systems I ever owned... the Pac-in-time game looked class... might have to give that a blast on the SNES.
Thanks! Me too, I had a Game Boy first but when the Game Gear came out I had to get one, so it was nice to have the choice of playing either. I played the Game Gear ROM of Pac-in-Time and wasn't much of a fan, but I may do the same and try the SNES version.
My biggest complaint with this episode is that you didn't mention the reasons why "most" of the games were cancelled! You know that's the biggest reason why we're here, right? You expect me to find out myself? Fine, this will take alot of editing though. 1: Road Rash 2's Game Gear port never had the m/o behind its cancellation specifically mentioned, but my educated assumption is that Probe Entertainment (who worked on the GG port of the 1st game) were suffering financially at the time & were bought out by Acclaim who turned them into their UK branch. Acclaim most likely tried to finish the port but EA stripped them of the license due to them being disappointed with the presentation & other things. Fearing layoffs, Acclaim sold the source code to Domark who partnered up with Warner Brothers to publish the game. They then pitched the idea to Kawasaki for a Racing Tournament game as some sort of sponsorship deal, which they accepted & hired Lankhor to finish the job Acclaim started. Lankhor then completely finished the code & brand conversion over to Kawasaki & they then released it as K.S.C! 2: Barbie Super Model huh? Well, this 1 is simple enough. It was cancelled due to the poor sales of the handheld & the terrible reception it received on both SNES & SMD. 3: Pac - In - Time is tricky but it's most likely that it was cancelled for the Genesis & Game Gear because Sega refused to license the 2 ports for not meeting their quality standards. Namco also felt that the Sega ports would underperform due to the failure of the Sega Add-ons & the upcoming release of the Sega Saturn. Maybe they were cancelled due to the lackluster sales of the other ports despite being good. 5: Yogi Bear's Gold Rush had its Game Gear port cancelled due to the developers feeling that the handheld system wasn't profitable enough & Nintendo requested the publisher to keep the game Game Boy exclusive. The game performed mediocre both criticality & financially on Game Boy which was basically what killed the GG port. 6: Crazy Faces was cancelled due to the company not affording to release 2 games at the same time. They ended up releasing a Similar game for the Game Boy that same year. 7: Wildsnake's Sega ports were cancelled due to the Nintendo ports not selling well & their critical performance was underwhelming. Also, Sega was culling its portfolio of Genesis & Game Gear releases to make way for the Saturn. As for Alex endorsing the game? The publisher bribed him with $4 Million American Dollars to present the game for Markey value! 8: Sonic's Edusoft was cancelled due to the developers receiving a "cease & desist" letter from Sega for they didn't want Sonic involved with the title. The publisher then just decided to cancel the game rather than reskin it, since it would mean the entire theme would have to change.
I probably wouldn't have gotten any of these. Never had a sms until recently and being a true 80s/90s kid my GG was committed to Mortal kombat samurai showdown X-men and Spider-Man vs kingpin. Also my tv tuner was always close by.
Don't think I had any of those as a kid - I had Wonderboy, Wonderboy III, Columns, Sonic, Sonic 2. I forget what else. Think I had Psychic World possibly. But yeah, I didn't have a Master System either.
Nice! Yeah, I have a charger, and that battery pack that is absolutely massive haha. Much better with a mains lead, so you don't have to spend a fortune on batteries.
Yeah, Road Rash II would've been awesome, Ryan! Yogi looks okay, but nothing particularly unique as platformers go, and the Game Gear had a few decent ones.
I'm not entirely sold on that one, it looks a bit samey, and I played a bit of it and I got stuck really early on. I might try out the SNES version on my Everdrive.
Yeah, love both consoles and very much still worth playing. Thankfully batteries are far better now than they were in the early 90s haha. Ah, thanks, that's very kind. Not going to happen though!
A lot of possibly good games. sad that they were never released. But i think that the game gear had a lot of good games. Though not as many as the gameboy.
Ahh this is doing my head in.... what game is that chip tune you have used on the master system section... i know i owned it as a kid but cant place it....please end my suffering. Many thanks Edit Its wonderboy in monster land i think. Am i correct?
Master System was NOT more popular than NES in all of Europe. NES stomped Master System here in Scandinavia for example and NES did better in France too.
Another cancelled Master System game was The Godfather. I have a leaflet advertising it, with a screenshot, but thats the last i ever heard of it.
Oh yeah? That's interesting, I've not heard of that one. Based on the film I assume?
Was it similar to the Amiga/PC game that came out around the same time?
Love the use of Vampire: Master of Darkness music in this video. That game was Sega's answer to Konami's Castlevania games, since Konami never developed for the Master System and Game Gear (and they totally should have. While Master of Darkness tried to fill the Castlevania void, the Master System and Game Gear could have also used games from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tiny Toon Adventures, and Rocket Knight Adventures).
Great game, and great music!
Brilliant video, love my Sega 8 bit consoles :) The Master System version of the first Road Rash was excellent, shame that the sequel never made it out for either system. I had no idea that Pac in Time was a reskin of Fury of the Furries! Rare that I learn something from a retor video so excellent work! The graphics on Spirou look excellent for the GG. I had Yogi's Goldrush on the Gameboy back in the day, and really enjoyed the game. Sadly you couldn't change into Booboo in that version. Bonus points for your pronounciation of "pic-a-nic" baskets ;) I love the Master System codemasters games with their custom carts and bigger box art - would love to pick up a repro of Dinobasher.
Thanks, Samuel! Ah, really glad I could teach even the most seasoned 8-bit Sega fan something new :)
Yes, Spirou looks stunning, I agree. Hahaha glad you liked the "pic-a-nic" baskets, I had to record that bit about five times as I kept laughing.
Barbie walking along the beach looks very California Games! Nice video very informative!
Ha, yeah it does. Thanks, Rob!
I think the GG was underrated. I loved my GB and GG I used to love playing it in my bed at night with the lights off. Mickey Mouse on it was a masterpiece
It certainly was, Peter! I loved my Game Boy and Game Gear too. Good times :)
Awesome stuff and is that master of darkness music? Lovely stuff
Thanks, Kev! And yes, yes it is.
Yogi bear & barbi do have amezing paralax scrolling effects.
Hahaha.
Most excellent video Sir, really interesting!!!
Quite surprising nearly all of the games are British/European, makes you wonder what Japanese games were canned :S
Thanks, Larry! Glad you enjoyed it. Indeed it does.
Absolutely, would love to see an equivalent Japanese list.
yoo pat rileys basketball! love the zoom in on the sprites! AAND OMG PETE! CONGRATS ON 8K SUBSCRIBERS!!! that's amazing i'm so happy for you you have no idea, not just saying that i mean it, you REALLY deserve it! alot! your videos are always TOP NOTCH
Haha thanks, Paul. Never thought I'd get this many people watching my stuff, I'm very grateful. Thanks for the kind words mate.
Not getting Dinobasher was disappointing. The more SMS games with cool graphics the merrier. Love the fact you used Master of Darkness soundtrack for this video. Truly a man of taste so you get a well deserved like from me. Ha, ha!
Ha, thanks. Great soundtrack!
You are right, the Spirou game looks fantastic for a Game Gear title. Shame that one never made it out!
Yeah, lovely graphics on Spirou, Nick! A shame indeed.
At least you have the Mega Drive one.
@@pferreira1983 The Megadrive/SNES version is extremely hard and unfair, and has only 1 password for the whole game. IMO the released Gameboy version is the best (which is the same as the GG one, only 2 musics are different).
@@supmattboy I quite enjoyed what I played but I didn't do a full playthrough so cannot agree or disagree with you.
Whatever happened to The GodFather on the MasterSystem?
No idea, it just seemed to vanish. Not sure if anyone knows!
Woah, woah, woah, woah!
You mean we missed out on Barbie Supermodel?! And I thought waiting for Kingdom Hearts 3 was painful!
Another great one dude 🤪
The game you never knew you couldn't live without! Hahaha. Thanks, One-T!
Wildsnake looks interesting, top work Pete👍
Yeah, interesting take on the genre I think. Thanks, Steve!
Bust out snake game for the TI graphing calculators.
I was having a nice day until I saw all the games here that we could have had. The Game Gear was a lovely system and it gets a bad rep.
Ah, sorry about that. Agree, it certainly gets treated unfairly; great little handheld.
Master System is also one that gets a bad rep undeservedly states side. I love both SMS and Game Gear.
Nice video bro! Love the master system!
Thanks, Travis!
Awesome video Pete! The game gear is one of my favorite handhelds :-)
Thanks, Mark! Me too, I absolutely loved it as a kid, and I'm still finding new games to play on it.
I plan to go for a complete US library at some point.
Oooh! Cart only?
Yea and if I can find any CIB for a reasonable price I'll pick them up.
Game Gear was always my favorite handheld
Such an underrated handheld, Zach. I think the original Game Boy just edged it for me, but I absolutely loved the Game Gear (and still do).
Man, did I love the Master System.
I never owned one as a kid, but loved playing them at friends' houses.
@@onaretrotip I loved the game gear being (More or less) the same exact hardware as SMS. Only the graphics chip being a slightly upgraded version with more of a color palette. Other than that same exact hardware set up for both.
@@maxxdahl6062 Yes, I loved my GG too as a kid.
@@onaretrotip I had one back in the day too, played the hell out of it. Just got another one again and had my friend do the capacitor replacement repair on it.
@@maxxdahl6062 Nice. I had my caps replaced a couple of years back as it was starting to fade.
As a kid we used to sit by the side of my mates settee on the floor plugged into the wall (as GGs ate batteries!) just to play this thing. I remember getting incredibly far (or it felt like it) in Cosmic SpaceHead and being so proud when we solved some of the puzzles it presented us with. Great memories for such an often overlooked system :) and thanks Pete for the great video as always. love your work, keep it up!
I love hearing memories like that. The Game Gear was certainly a battery guzzler back in the day (and still is, although batteries are substantially better these days). Agreed, it's definitely an overlooked system! Thank you very much, I'll do my best.
I had several game systems. First was A2600, though my dad had Odyssey/Odyssey 2, NES, SMS, Turbo GF16, SNES weith super game boy, Genesis with MS adapter and Sega CD, PS1, and 64 for consoles. Plus several emulators. Game boy, Game gear, and the Atari handhelds.
Several different apple 2+/E clones, My dad had Vic 20 and real apple 2E. plus several different PCs with different windows. I had the Atari 2600 basic cart but on that system it was hampered by the fact you couldn't save.
Nice. My first system at home was an Amiga 500, followed closely by a Mega Drive and Game Boy, then I got a Game Gear. Good times!
@@onaretrotip
Got a Stella emulator to play just one game Deuteros.
An ST emulator?
@@onaretrotip yes called stella
0011peace Nice.
WOW I never knew that the Fury of the Furries version of Pac in Time was planned for GameGear! I always loved this version of Pac in Time more than the SNES one, tho I liked Fury of the Furries more.
Somehow as a kid I could actually play these games, now not so much as I suck at controlling the furries or pac man :)
Oh man, I absolutely suck at controlling them too. Hahaha.
That Barbie game looks amazing!
Sheer quality.
Funny how interchangeable these SEGA games are, that Barbie game is exactly like the Genesis version. Not that I would know from playing it....
Who you trying to fool, Marcus? Hahaha!
we believe you secret Ken! 🙊
Yeah the master system/game gear is ALMOST 16 bit. The GPU has a 16 bit data bus.
@@maxxdahl6062 Master System couldn't do GG's graphics.
@@pferreira1983 Only thing game gear had was more of a color pallette. Everything else is exact 1:1 same with Master system.
Something that always seems odd to me is people stating that the Master System was more popular than the NES here in the UK; I don't doubt that they're correct, but growing up in the late-eighties/early-nineties I knew a total of one person who had a Master System - everybody else I knew had a NES, either Nintendo- or (one girl) Mattel-branded (and my family wasn't wealthy enough to have either! :P)
I think that's unusual. I actually played a lot more NES than Master System as a kid, as my mate over the road had one (him and his two older brothers chipped in to get one for Christmas), but they were the only people I knew had a NES. Every other console owner had Master Systems. To be honest though, most people had a Spectrum, Amstrad, or C64.
As I wrote, I don't doubt that was unusual and that the figures are correct and that it was more common for people to have a Master System than a NES - and that it was more common to have an 8bit computer than either - but it feels strange to read or hear that as it doesn't reflect my experience at all; my school had a few BBC Micros, and one girl I knew had a Amstrad CPC 6128, but those were the only 8bit computers I ever used, and I've never even seen a Spectrum or Commodore 64 in real life.
And no, I'm not a Nintendo fanboy :) Whilst my first console was a SNES - at a time when I think the PlayStation might already have been released - I almost got a Master System instead as I was big fan of the 8bit Sonic games and - after playing a lot of Bug! and watching in awe as a cousin completed perfect laps in Daytona - I wished I could've had a Saturn, in spite of the first model controller being almost too big for my hands :)
(It's also strange to read or hear about people renting games, as nobody I knew did - they saved up (or got cracked copies for their Amigas...))
Wow that's crazy (regarding the 8-bit computers)! As much as I copied disks for my Amiga, I did rent games as well (not sure which consoles I rented for, but definitely PlayStation).
Interesting you mentioned Saturn, as that's the console that nobody had in my experience, and I never even saw one back in the day.
Besides the Amiga and the Master System, that's kind of a list of platforms that I've never encountered ;)
I don't remember the first game that I ever played; I think that it might have been the original Star Wars arcade game at an arcade in Lowestoft.
I know that I played Super Mario Bros. before I played its sequel, but I didn't particularly care for it, mostly because it was too difficult for me; its sequel was the first game I was awed by, partly because it was a lot easier, partly because it was a lot more varied, and partly because it felt to me that there was a world to explore without worrying about a time-limit - if I'd known the expression at that age I'd have uttered "holy SH*T!" when I realised that you could have Mario walk left and go back to where you been before o_O
The preponderance of NES where I lived _might_ have been because of a Japanese family who came to live nearby; I was friends with one of their sons who had a NES, but I don't remember that they were the first person I knew to have one, and I don't remember them mentioning having a Famicom back home; and that still wouldn't explain my never encountering the more common 8bit computers.
There was a corner shop near to where I lived that had a selection of games on tape; I don't remember that I ever knew for what system, but from what I do remember of the screenshots on the back of the cassette cases I think they were likely for the Commodore 64; but, as I wrote, I've never actually encountered a Commodore 64 in real life - and I don't even know if the friend whose family owned the shop had one!
Computers I encountered during that era:
- Unknown computer that used 5.25 inch disks (it might have been a BBC Micro)
- BBC Micro
- Archimedes (I'm not certain)
- CPC 6128
- Amiga 500 (I'm not certain)
-- 1200
- Macintosh (680X0) *
- Macintosh (PowerPC) *
- PC
Consoles I encountered during that era:
- Game Boy *
-- Color *
- Game Gear
- NES
- Master System
- SNES *
- Mega Drive
- Saturn
- 3DO
- PlayStation
- N64 *
(*: my family owned this system towards the end of that era)
You don't need to see his identification Yeah... but just being British tends to bump folks to the back of the line. :)
so that's why this pac in time game looks SUSPICIOUSLY similar to fury of the furries?
Yes indeed! Dun dun duuuuuuun.
another great list brother. Its funny cause here in missouri all we had was nintendo. I used to read about master system games and turbo grafx games in EGM, but the market here was mainly nintendo. I used to give my name and number to local game stores if and when a master system or tg-16 would be for sale. Unfortunately, it was not till i was older and ordered them off ebay did i have them.
Thanks, Tom! Yeah, I know that the Master System wasn't big at all over there compared to Nintendo. I never saw a TurboGrafx until I was probably in my late twenties! Love my PC Engine now though. Ah, it's nice catching up now on all the stuff we missed back in the day, I love it. I never had PCE or Saturn but they've turned into two of my favourites.
Perfect! Always excited to see your videos mate. Keep pushing, you will increase your subscribers!
Thanks, Shahid! I'll do my best mate.
Great vid as always Pete buddy. Always wanted a game gear back in the day... if road rash 2 had come out on it I defo would of kept on at my mother for 1 😂
Thanks, Steve! I loved my Game Gear as a kid.
Great video.... we love the game gear! one of the first gaming systems I ever owned... the Pac-in-time game looked class... might have to give that a blast on the SNES.
Thanks! Me too, I had a Game Boy first but when the Game Gear came out I had to get one, so it was nice to have the choice of playing either. I played the Game Gear ROM of Pac-in-Time and wasn't much of a fan, but I may do the same and try the SNES version.
Cool.its not often these systems are covered. I guess you explained why at the start.
Thanks! Yeah, they definitely get a lot more love over here in the UK.
My biggest complaint with this episode is that you didn't mention the reasons why "most" of the games were cancelled! You know that's the biggest reason why we're here, right? You expect me to find out myself? Fine, this will take alot of editing though.
1: Road Rash 2's Game Gear port never had the m/o behind its cancellation specifically mentioned, but my educated assumption is that Probe Entertainment (who worked on the GG port of the 1st game) were suffering financially at the time & were bought out by Acclaim who turned them into their UK branch.
Acclaim most likely tried to finish the port but EA stripped them of the license due to them being disappointed with the presentation & other things. Fearing layoffs, Acclaim sold the source code to Domark who partnered up with Warner Brothers to publish the game. They then pitched the idea to Kawasaki for a Racing Tournament game as some sort of sponsorship deal, which they accepted & hired Lankhor to finish the job Acclaim started. Lankhor then completely finished the code & brand conversion over to Kawasaki & they then released it as K.S.C!
2: Barbie Super Model huh? Well, this 1 is simple enough. It was cancelled due to the poor sales of the handheld & the terrible reception it received on both SNES & SMD.
3: Pac - In - Time is tricky but it's most likely that it was cancelled for the Genesis & Game Gear because Sega refused to license the 2 ports for not meeting their quality standards. Namco also felt that the Sega ports would underperform due to the failure of the Sega Add-ons & the upcoming release of the Sega Saturn. Maybe they were cancelled due to the lackluster sales of the other ports despite being good.
5: Yogi Bear's Gold Rush had its Game Gear port cancelled due to the developers feeling that the handheld system wasn't profitable enough & Nintendo requested the publisher to keep the game Game Boy exclusive. The game performed mediocre both criticality & financially on Game Boy which was basically what killed the GG port.
6: Crazy Faces was cancelled due to the company not affording to release 2 games at the same time. They ended up releasing a Similar game for the Game Boy that same year.
7: Wildsnake's Sega ports were cancelled due to the Nintendo ports not selling well & their critical performance was underwhelming. Also, Sega was culling its portfolio of Genesis & Game Gear releases to make way for the Saturn. As for Alex endorsing the game? The publisher bribed him with $4 Million American Dollars to present the game for Markey value!
8: Sonic's Edusoft was cancelled due to the developers receiving a "cease & desist" letter from Sega for they didn't want Sonic involved with the title. The publisher then just decided to cancel the game rather than reskin it, since it would mean the entire theme would have to change.
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Awesome! What about Pat Riley and Dinobasher?
I probably wouldn't have gotten any of these. Never had a sms until recently and being a true 80s/90s kid my GG was committed to Mortal kombat samurai showdown X-men and Spider-Man vs kingpin. Also my tv tuner was always close by.
Also sweet intro.
Don't think I had any of those as a kid - I had Wonderboy, Wonderboy III, Columns, Sonic, Sonic 2. I forget what else. Think I had Psychic World possibly. But yeah, I didn't have a Master System either.
Ha, thanks mate!
onaretrotip no problem.
That Master of Darkness' stage 1 song is Chocolate Rain!!
Hahaha.
Good isn't it?
Game Gear rocks!
Hello there! It certainly does.
Another great video Pete , road rash 2 would have been a great on the game gear
Thanks, Scott! Yeah looks decent from the shitty footage. Shame.
I still have my Sega Game Gear I used to play Sonic 2 I just found out it the system had a charger for it I never knew that.
Nice! Yeah, I have a charger, and that battery pack that is absolutely massive haha. Much better with a mains lead, so you don't have to spend a fortune on batteries.
Great list of games as always ;-)
Thanks, Dennis!
none of these game tickled my fancy
Hahaha lucky they were cancelled then!
Nice vid on this amazing console. Enjoyed Pete nice one.
Thought you might like some Master System action, Ben! Cheers.
At least Road Rash 2 got a Game Boy Color release years later!
I've not played that actually. Is it any good?
Nice list of games, a few gems in there 👍
Thanks, James!
Road rash two would have been a cool port. The Yogi game didn’t look half bad either.
Yeah, Road Rash II would've been awesome, Ryan! Yogi looks okay, but nothing particularly unique as platformers go, and the Game Gear had a few decent ones.
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That Sonic educational looks absolutely shocking. The sprites are just copied from previous games! [Ben]
Haha I know, right! So lazy.
What is the game with the chopper on 0:52?
Choplifter.
Nice, great vid :)
Thanks, Dan!
I wonder what the first cancelled video game
Hmm... I'd be interested to know that too!
Pac in time would have been awesome
I'm not entirely sold on that one, it looks a bit samey, and I played a bit of it and I got stuck really early on. I might try out the SNES version on my Everdrive.
Game gear is awesome awesome.
So underrated, and often treated unfairly.
Sega Master System still a top system. Game Gear remember only use Duracell, you should get another 75k viewer on this video with easy.
Yeah, love both consoles and very much still worth playing. Thankfully batteries are far better now than they were in the early 90s haha. Ah, thanks, that's very kind. Not going to happen though!
Awesome video
Thank you, William!
These vids are awesome :-D
Thanks a lot, Ed! Glad you're enjoying them.
A lot of possibly good games. sad that they were never released. But i think that the game gear had a lot of good games. Though not as many as the gameboy.
Yeah, Game Gear had some fantastic games, but the Game Boy's library is just so tough to beat.
Give me rode rash 2. Spirou. Dinobasher.
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Ahh this is doing my head in.... what game is that chip tune you have used on the master system section... i know i owned it as a kid but cant place it....please end my suffering. Many thanks
Edit
Its wonderboy in monster land i think. Am i correct?
Close, it's Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap (although certain tunes I believe did also feature in Monster World).
What's the song playing at the start?
vagrantlibertine It’s from Master of Darkness on Master System.
Thanks. :)
Some of the notation has a vague resemblance to the dungeon song from Phantasy Star.
No problem! Ah, does it? I'm not familiar with it.
onaretrotip Heh, I bought that game in the Nintendo E-shop and its amazing.
whats the name of the songs in the video?
not sure of all but the master of darkness music is in there
Cancelled Sega Games ✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️🎮🎮🕹️🕹️☯️☯️🤧🤔✝️✝️✝️✝️🎮🕹️🕹️🕹️☯️☯️🦊🦊🦊🦊🐺🐺
RIP
Master System was NOT more popular than NES in all of Europe. NES stomped Master System here in Scandinavia for example and NES did better in France too.
Interesting. Still, in Europe as a whole the statement's accurate.
Really???
did you just make a video without the titular in it?
Fuck, sorry man. Was obviously having an off day. I have a GBA one coming up so I'll try to slip one in just for you.
onaretrotip cheers bud
Pacman in water 😂
Haha I know, right.
Akira mega drive/genesis ?
What about it?
Giving me life.
:)
The canceled Yogi Bear game looks so bland and boring it makes me wanna die
LOL
Cool video😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Thanks, John!
I always thought Spirou was Tin Tin?
No, I think they're similar because that was the French/Belgian comic style at the time (maybe).
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It's not just this video, TH-cam is screwed at the moment. A lot of people can't watch anything tonight.
Big nose the caveman had Wonderboy iii dragons trap music!
Hahahaha indeed!
Fortunately,all of them are uninteresting :)
I'd disagree there, there are a couple that look okay. Nothing mind-blowing though.
first
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