The RetroBeat: I want a Sega Master System collection

Sega has always been good about making its Genesis games easily available. In recent years, we’ve had the excellent Sega Genesis Mini plug-and-play and the Sega Genesis Classics collection for modern platforms. I want to see the Master System get the same respect.

The Master System is Sega’s Genesis precursor. It’s an 8-bit machine, but it was a bit more powerful than the NES. While the Master System wasn’t a big hit in the U.S., it found success in places like Europe and Brazil. That encouraged Sega to keep making games for the platform well into the life of the Genesis. Some of these Master System games also came to the Game Gear, but they usually saw a hit to resolution on the portable hardware.