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

Before the Sega Genesis took the world by storm, the Master System was the Sega console to own in the late 80s. Originally released in Japan in 1985, the Master System made its way to North America in ...

The Sega Master System has turned 40. Sort of. Certainly, the Sega Mark III that became the Master System in the US in 1986 just turned 40. Either way, you’re old if you owned one back then. Sorry. On ...

The Sega Master System is a peculiar part of video game history. It was middling compared to its contemporaries. Not a major success but not the most laughable failure. Not the greatest console of the ...

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