Awesome news for people who love 8-bit games, or just wonderful things: Sega Master System games will be offered on the Japanese Virtual Console starting in February, with other territories to follow. It looks like the base price for games will be 500 points, with the customary 100 tacked on for licenses. Sega Mark III games and even Game Gear games will be offered for download -- marking the first handheld games available through the VC, all thanks to the Game Gear and the Master System using identical hardware.The first two offerings? Fist of the North Star for 600 points (yay?) and Fantasy Zone for 500 points (yay!) Neither Nintendo nor Sega have updated their Virtual Console pages to reflect this development, so we'll get to freak out again when that happens. For now we can just dream about what the future holds. Remember ALF? He could be back -- in Virtual Console form.
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1-25-2008 @ 3:46AM
Candace Savino said...
I'm so happy right now! God I love the Sega Master System.
And, oh my, Fantasy Zone!!! ... this is all just too much to take in right now. Excuse me while I go jump up and down for a while. :D
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1-25-2008 @ 5:08AM
J-Lololololololololololololo said...
i just crapped my pants. i never thought this day would come!!! ALEX KIDD!!! BLACKBELT!!! GHOST HOUSE!! SHINOBI!!! there is a god
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1-25-2008 @ 7:37AM
Nigeria said...
So what good games did the Master System have apart from Alex the Kidd? And Sonic of course.
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1-25-2008 @ 7:46AM
XDragon said...
All I have to say is Phantasy Star 1!
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1-25-2008 @ 8:20AM
racecar said...
My life is complete now! *wipes tear* Phantasy Star, Alex Kidd, Fantasy Zone, Action Fighter... All the great games from my youth are now possible! This makes my day.
-racecar
http://everybodyvotes.blogspot.com
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1-25-2008 @ 8:35AM
racecar said...
Oh, and bonus points to you JC for a good Simpson's reference at the end there.
-racecar
http://everybodyvotes.blogspot.com
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1-25-2008 @ 11:46AM
Nate said...
Agreed on the Simpsons reference. Makes me think of Pogs...
1-25-2008 @ 9:11AM
Mr Khan said...
Sweet, Phantasy Star, Shinobi, Alf (lol), and Alex Kidd in Miracle World
More games to purchase, especially Phantasy Star I
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1-25-2008 @ 9:23AM
Zack W. said...
I remember Fantasy Zone this on NES. Is this one better?
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1-25-2008 @ 9:27AM
Garu said...
I was looking for ALF to be back... in POG form.
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1-25-2008 @ 10:50AM
Mr Khan said...
"But i traded your soul for Alf pogs. Remember Alf? He's back, in pog form."
1-25-2008 @ 9:32AM
Ghaleon said...
PS is great, but in case you don't recall it's not really worth going through, haha. I think it'll be one of those games like 1/100 downloaders finishes.
Alex Kidd! -- I wish I hadn't bought Miracle World for $15 last fall now.
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1-25-2008 @ 1:25PM
racecar said...
Dungeon crawling in Phantasy Star 1 made me into a professional cartographer. I always had my stack of graphing paper right next to me every time I was playing. It was a ton of fun.
-racecar
http://everybodyvotes.blogspot.com
1-25-2008 @ 10:00AM
Buntaro said...
Aleste/Power Strike I and II !!!
And though there might be some licensing issues, I also hope for some Disney games (Perhaps hard to believe for some younger gamers, but back when Sega, Capcom and Konami took care of making cartoon based games, they actually turned out great)
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1-25-2008 @ 10:11AM
mstngo said...
I was one of the .8 that had one
Please release phantasy star!!!
One of the greatest RPG's of it's time.
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1-25-2008 @ 11:40AM
Habb said...
Eh, I'd be more excited about this if Nintendo was actually releasing 3-4 games a week in the US. Instead, we are getting 1-2 games a week here. I can't excited about 1 game a week, 2 games a week.
Even when we get the Sega games here, at a rate of 1 or 2 games a week, it's going to take years before Nintendo finally gets to the Sega Master System games that I'd actually want, like Penguin Land and Quartet.
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1-25-2008 @ 2:28PM
Unbreakable_idea said...
While we're wishing for the fantastic, how's about Safari Hunt with full Wiimote control light gun style.
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1-25-2008 @ 3:49PM
MCX said...
My fav Master System games Alien Syndrome, Rambo, Double Dragon, oh man... Bomb Raider was da bomb!!!
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1-25-2008 @ 4:16PM
Dolph said...
TEDDY BOY!
http://allgame.com/cg/agg.dll?p=agg&sql=1:1790
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2-01-2008 @ 11:13PM
justincredible said...
Oh man do you guys think they'll put Ninja Gaiden SMS on there? It only came out in Europe and was made by Sega (loaned from Tecmo) If they'd put that, Golden Axe Warrior, Shinobi and Cyber Shinobi I'd be so happy I'd crap my pants!
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2-28-2008 @ 4:23PM
Howard said...
Is Penguin Land available in a new form? This was the best game ever
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