Best sega master system games ever

That stands for Chase Special Investigation Department for those not in the know. The game has five levels that work in a similar way. The car is continually moving away from Tony and Raymond, so catching up to it means taking the right roads, not crashing, and putting the pedal to the metal. Speaking of fast-paced racing games, Out Run is another arcade port that went on to get positive reviews from everyone who crossed its path.

Road racing games are always great as they incorporate the need to dodge traffic as well as trying to beat opponents. Out Run influenced so many different games and is considered by many as one of the greatest racing games of all time. The Master System port came closest to recreating the original buzz of the arcade title. California Games follows the popular Summer Games and Winter Games titles ported to multiple consoles.

It revolves around sports that are popular in Sunny California, the type of things that people who look better than me do down in L. Any Master System owners out there looking for a Mario and Sonic sports-style compendium need this in their lives! Well, six sports are available to try out in California Games.

Have a go on the Half Pipe, or show off your skills while Roller Skating. Surfing, and BMX also replicate that cool-Cali vibe anywhere in the world from the comfort of your sofa. Footbag and Flying Disc finish off the set. And a flying disc is a frisbee, another sport which Americans take very seriously.

What are you waiting for? The gameplay is very similar to the first title in the series with some cool new features for fans to enjoy.

King Arthur is back, and gamers must take him through a series of levels crawling with undead baddies and demonic ghouls. Arthur now has the ability to fire up and down while moving through the air, adding to his list of existing kick ass skills. Uncover weapons from chests and golden armour to release immense attacks. The first five levels must be completed twice, so the game technically has eleven levels.

Loki waits on level 11; do you and Arthur have what it takes to defeat him? Fantasy Zone takes the 18th spot in this list of the best Master System games ever made! This game was a huge arcade hit despite not gaining the attention of the media. This Master System game is one of the weirdest and most colourful titles ever made. Fantasy Zone is the first game in the series and sees players controlling Opa-Opa in a scrolling-shooter-spectacular.

Opa-Opa uses bullets and bombs to take down enemies that look too nice and fluffy to prove a danger to humanity. Upgrade weapons and engines in the flying shop, and prepare for that all important boss battle at the end of each level.

From cutesy shooter to all-out warfare, Operation Wolf takes the 17th spot in our list. Some readers may remember this title from our list of the best Commodore 64 games. Players control Roy Adams, a Special Forces Operative charged with saving prisoners and gunning down bad dudes. This is one of the first and best shooting titles to feature an immersive storyline and encapsulates all the thrills and button-mashing excitement from the days of arcades.

Operation Wolf comprises of six stages, each one boasting various challenges and obstacles that players must overcome. Defeat a specified number of enemies, meet the criteria for the level, and proceed to the next stage. Avoid knife attacks, grenades, bazooka blasts, helicopter gunships, and much more. Comix Zone is the classic tale of a creator trapped within his own work.

Sketch Turner, comic-book artist and freelance rock musician basically the man we all aspire to be , is pulled into the panels of his creation. The games comic-book aesthetic has dialogue bubbles and often lets you choose which panel you want to visit next.

The animation and sound effects are magnificent, pushing the hardware beyond its supposed limitations. It may imitate a 2D art form, but it's by no means flat.

With the popularity of comic books these days, it's surprising no one has gotten around to remaking or knocking off this game.

Something of a touchstone of second-tier Sega properties, cutesy platformer Flicky's legacy is long: The titular baby blue birds make repeat appearances throughout the Sonic series, as well as sneaking into titles such as Super Monaco GP and Shenmue, and inspiring a level of the Game Boy Advance's Gunstar Super Heroes. So what's so special about the flickies, or their confusingly-named mascot, Flicky herself?

The title offers platform play of a more confined bent than the genre was tending toward at the time, pitting Flicky against a horde of bird-hungry housecats named Nyannyan. Yes, just like Nyan Cat.

The cute setup and simplistic one-button control scheme mask a tight arcade challenge style of play, always good for revisiting amid excursions into more expansive platformers such as Sonic or the Illusion series. Current page: Page 1. Our aim as the global GamesRadar Staff team is to take you closer to the games, movies, TV shows, and comics that you love.

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The story was some hogwash about Dr. Robotnik taking control of a mountain fortress with a pinball defense system, which is an incredibly oddball scheme even by video game villain standards. It certainly is strange on the Master System, for which this has the honor of being the sole extant example of the pinball-sim genre unless you count the fairly dire mini-game in fairly dire-minigame collection Casino Games.

The pyrotechnics may have been downgraded from the Genesis original, but this is still an admirable Master System showing for an oft-neglected genre. In later generations, a title as then-unique as Marble Madness would be heralded alongside the likes of Rez or Katamari.

Back in the 8-bit era, though, everything was kind of new, so you could base a title on sentient maybe glass spheres racing against each other until gravity gave out, and no one would really turn a head.

Offering a chunky, stripped-back take on the sort of rolling-maze challenges that would later fuel the likes of Super Monkey Ball, in two-player Marble Madness was an unforgiving duel, the likes of which were seldom seen on 8-bit machines.

Time was when you could release a side-on collect-em-up and it'd do decent bank so long as the title was kind of clever and the main character was some sort of amusing animal. But by , the bar had been raised somewhat - so for U.

Gold's last release on the Master System, the title had not one but two movie puns in it! And that's not even considering the main character being a sassy goldfish and also a telescope-torsoed crime-fighting robot, bent on saving Santa's workshop and liberating the penguins imprisoned therein.

It's brightly colored fun from a seasoned developer, working the humble SMS as hard as it knew how. Never say the Master System wasn't game for a fight. Adapting one of the most flat-out arcade shooters of its day for the little black beast was challenge enough, but add in that game's signature control system - featuring ambidextrous four-way firing a la spiritual predecessor Robotron - and that scrappy little two-button pad starts to look positively inadequate.

Future N64 standouts Probe Entertainment gave the conversion a damn good try, though: retaining the crucial two-player, shrinking the controls down to dual-fire, and keeping the enemy count as high as could be reasonably expected. This is a strategy based, feature-packed game, with 3D tunnel effects that made it different from the generic fantasy world prevalent in the rival consoles.

You must defeat the bad guys but you are not alone. You will group with a warrior and a wizard on your quest to defeat the dark forces. The game was such a huge hit that we later come to see many more subsequent parts of the game. This horizontal scrolling platform game features Sonic as the main character but this new part of the game marks the debut of Tails as a character who Sonic must rescue.

Through the game, you must collect rings, save animals and kill the evil bots to defeat the evil Dr. To make it further interesting, you could ride in a minecart, glide on gliders, skim across waters and float in bubbles, what else could one need in a platform game? Asterix is a side-scrolling platformer that partly reminds you of Mario but with plenty of original scenes and much more puzzle elements. Also, it has two characters Asterix and Obelix in the sequel.

Both have different abilities which give you two different approaches to clear a level. Your characters must travel all over the world to protect druid Getafix from a dreadful fate in Rome.