Zillion… my first experience with a graphical puzzle world that seemed infinitely big.

Me and my little brother futzing with the “3d” glasses.

But mostly:

SURELY REVIVE ZANONI

When I was around 7-8 years old I’d get up early some Saturday mornings and do some simple chores around the house. Things like vacuum the living room and clean my room. Then I’d ask my parents for some money to go rent a Sega Master System and a couple of games. The console was around 5€ and the games 2€ each.

There was a gas station around a kilometer from our house that rented out games. So I’d walk there on my own, ask for a console, pick a couple of games, some candy, give them my personal details and hand over the money. Then carry the stuff back home.

I rented and played a bunch of different games like Psycho Fox, Ghost House, World Games and Alex Kidd. But the games I really fell in love with were games like Wonder Boy III, Miracle Warriors, Lord of the Sword, Spellcaster and Phantasy Star.

My older brother and me would take turns playing. For RPG’s I’d go to bed early and get up early while he’d stay up late. So we would essentially play in shifts. The console and games needed to be returned at 18:00 on Sunday, so we’d try to get the most out of it.

My brother fell out of gaming and doesn’t remember half of the games we played. But I still treasure those weekends and remember all the Master System games from my childhood.

My friend nextdoor had a Master System. I remember playing a lot of California Games, especially surfing and footbag.

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Sonic 1 or 2 were fantastic and completely different from their Mega Drive/Genesis counterparts

I still go back to California Games every once in a while.

I loved Asterix, but I dont think I could stand going through that nowadays.

Golden Axe was cut down compared to the MD or the Arcade version, but still impressive for the MSII I had.

My first system was a ColecoVision, but Master System is really the first system I have vivid memories of from childhood. I think the Master System overall was my favorite part of being 4-6 years old - playing Shooting Gallery, Fantasy Zone, Ys, Missile Defense 3D (I think that was the name), etc., It also felt mysterious (?) to me because a.) I was the only kid I knew with one and b.) things like the hidden game (I forget the game exactly) that would come on if turned on the system with no cartridge inside.

My favorite Master System memory is playing Double Dragon with my dad.

I heard the Alex Kidd in Miracle World theme music as soon as I saw that picture. The Master System was my first console. Alex Kidd was built in, I remember writing the roshambo combos for the bosses down everywhere. But I also had Sonic 1 and 2, Spiderman vs The Kingpin, Tom and Jerry: The Movie and Cool Spot. Fun times.

I had an OG one in US. I never met anyone else that did except my uncle. My first game was Fantasy Zone. Remember finding it very stressful . Played a lot of Psycho Fox, Space Harrier, built-in Hang-On and shooting gallery, Outrun, Rampage. Lots of weird games too. The Space Harrier and Outrun soundtracks were bangers.

I’m still making them for the first time! i never had master system but i got a nice retro game collection going for twitch streaming and included the master system library, so I’ve finally been able to check it out

Stealing graph paper from my dad’s desk so I could manually map the dungeons in Phantasy Star.

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playing fantasy zone when i went over my step sisters house :)

Crazy golf game

I’m not Brazilian or French, so my main memory is walking past the boxes on the store’s video games aisle. The graph paper pattern on the labels was cool.