Master System boy here. Still remember the day I saw that big box with thin blue lines and squares. One of my favourite box designs of all time, if not my favourite. I’m now buying games at a second hand app. Just received a copy of the Master System Encyclopedia in Spanish and can’t wait to read it. After that changed to Nintendo. Don’t know much about the Saturn era. The mega drive era was interesenting but marketing was kinda… wrong (those vhs videos with direct attacks to Nintendo for example).
A friend had a Dreamcast and it was truly something else. So spectacular, like watching the future (or the present at the arcades) at home. What a pity that piracy error.
I remember going with my grandfather to the store for Christmas to buy me a game or two. It was a big deal because they were expensive and I only could buy a game or two during a year. As there were no magazines or internet you were blind about games so the cover was important. I picked Phantasy Star and Ys. Man they were DIFFICULT. The damned passport in Phantasy Star. How many times you get kill just exiting first town. When you arrive to the next place you eventually get used and exploring and finding new areas and treasures and monster really felt like adventure. Sweet memories. Happy Aniversary !!
Here another one that spent HOURS AND HOURS with ISS 64 mastering the through ball. It came home with Mario 64 (maybe my memory fails but it was a release title in Europe) and those were happy times. Hated the 98 version and loved again the 2000 one, with is visual novel style history mode or something like that.
The most perfect football game I remember I think is ISS Pro evolution for the PSX. The spiritual successors for me are the 3Ds Pro evolution soccer 3D ones, probably the games I have played most time in all my life, to the level of feeling embarrassed myself if I look at the console record. Still playing the last one A LOT.
A personal choice: Soccer Shootout for Super Nintendo from Capcom. Quite difficult to master but ultra fun in its indoor mode.
One of the best tennis simulator ever made. Difficult to learn but man, one you got it the matches could be epic. I remember playing matches for hours, 5 sets, fighting for every point. For me, super tennis is nowhere near. With the masterpiece (in its complexity and simplicity at the same time) Top Ranking Tennis for the Game Boy, my favourite tennis game of all time. And I have played a few. Actually, the jimmy connors card is the one in my retro freak right now.
Such great memories since it was my fist console, after the Spectrum and before the game boy. From there I was a Nintendo boy, so the Master System I was nearly my one and only experience with Sega.
Generally I feel there was a bit of… lack of ambition for me in the games. Apart from the masterpieces Wonder Boy III and Phantasy Star. Loved Psycho Fox also. Hated the bump combat on Ys but it was such an enigmatic game you could stop playing.
Castle of Illusion is one of my all time favourites, superior for me to Land of Illusion, less charming. Didn’t know there was a third part ! And saying Lucky Dime is better… well, you’re looking for drama.
Action Fighter, Lord of the Sword, playing double with my dad Super Tennis, the ultra competitive if you find someone who tolerates it Wimbledon, the first level of Bart vs Space Mutants… Oh, such nostalgia…
@rob7979 yes, now you say it I played a lot Mortal Kombat and it was quite good!
Incredible article ! Thanks for being such an interesting web and thanks to the creator of Tunic for such a magical game.
Exploring the game I came across a hidden (i suppose) wooden post that said something like … or something in the game language. I can’t remember well now. At the moment I didn’t understand why it was there but reading this I do.
Cloud Castle theme is an absolute masterpiece that have been stuck in my mind for 30 years now. Blew my mind as a kid.
On another level, this year I heard a Tinashe song that in the first second reminded me of/I’m pretty sure samples the game boy camera music app (which was awesome by the way)
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Master System boy here. Still remember the day I saw that big box with thin blue lines and squares. One of my favourite box designs of all time, if not my favourite. I’m now buying games at a second hand app. Just received a copy of the Master System Encyclopedia in Spanish and can’t wait to read it.
After that changed to Nintendo.
Don’t know much about the Saturn era. The mega drive era was interesenting but marketing was kinda… wrong (those vhs videos with direct attacks to Nintendo for example).
A friend had a Dreamcast and it was truly something else. So spectacular, like watching the future (or the present at the arcades) at home. What a pity that piracy error.
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Happy Holidays! Hope to continue reading this fantastic site next year!
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I remember going with my grandfather to the store for Christmas to buy me a game or two. It was a big deal because they were expensive and I only could buy a game or two during a year.
As there were no magazines or internet you were blind about games so the cover was important. I picked Phantasy Star and Ys.
Man they were DIFFICULT. The damned passport in Phantasy Star. How many times you get kill just exiting first town. When you arrive to the next place you eventually get used and exploring and finding new areas and treasures and monster really felt like adventure.
Sweet memories. Happy Aniversary !!
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Here another one that spent HOURS AND HOURS with ISS 64 mastering the through ball. It came home with Mario 64 (maybe my memory fails but it was a release title in Europe) and those were happy times. Hated the 98 version and loved again the 2000 one, with is visual novel style history mode or something like that.
The most perfect football game I remember I think is ISS Pro evolution for the PSX. The spiritual successors for me are the 3Ds Pro evolution soccer 3D ones, probably the games I have played most time in all my life, to the level of feeling embarrassed myself if I look at the console record. Still playing the last one A LOT.
A personal choice: Soccer Shootout for Super Nintendo from Capcom. Quite difficult to master but ultra fun in its indoor mode.
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One of the best tennis simulator ever made.
Difficult to learn but man, one you got it the matches could be epic.
I remember playing matches for hours, 5 sets, fighting for every point.
For me, super tennis is nowhere near.
With the masterpiece (in its complexity and simplicity at the same time) Top Ranking Tennis for the Game Boy, my favourite tennis game of all time. And I have played a few.
Actually, the jimmy connors card is the one in my retro freak right now.
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Such great memories since it was my fist console, after the Spectrum and before the game boy. From there I was a Nintendo boy, so the Master System I was nearly my one and only experience with Sega.
Generally I feel there was a bit of… lack of ambition for me in the games. Apart from the masterpieces Wonder Boy III and Phantasy Star. Loved Psycho Fox also. Hated the bump combat on Ys but it was such an enigmatic game you could stop playing.
Castle of Illusion is one of my all time favourites, superior for me to Land of Illusion, less charming. Didn’t know there was a third part ! And saying Lucky Dime is better… well, you’re looking for drama.
Action Fighter, Lord of the Sword, playing double with my dad Super Tennis, the ultra competitive if you find someone who tolerates it Wimbledon, the first level of Bart vs Space Mutants… Oh, such nostalgia…
@rob7979 yes, now you say it I played a lot Mortal Kombat and it was quite good!
Re: The Making Of: Tunic, A Love Letter To The Secrets Of Retro Gaming
Incredible article !
Thanks for being such an interesting web and thanks to the creator of Tunic for such a magical game.
Exploring the game I came across a hidden (i suppose) wooden post that said something like … or something in the game language. I can’t remember well now. At the moment I didn’t understand why it was there but reading this I do.
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Cloud Castle theme is an absolute masterpiece that have been stuck in my mind for 30 years now. Blew my mind as a kid.
On another level, this year I heard a Tinashe song that in the first second reminded me of/I’m pretty sure samples the game boy camera music app (which was awesome by the way)