Mickey is the unsung hero of the SEGA console collection, providing an enthralling action-adventure title with lots of item-collecting action and bad-guy-beatdowns (mouse style). Our second Disney title features the main mouse himself – Land of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse! I love this game, and hopefully you will too! 9. Players can use either Asterix or Obelix in this adventure, making use of their special abilities to solve problems and kick some serious ass along the way.
The duo (as well as the lovable Dogmatix) must travel all over the world to save the druid Getafix from a terrible fate in Rome (it’s a comic, so I don’t imagine it would be that terrible). I love Asterix and Obelix, and the fact that I’ve put it at Number 10 on the list shows more that I couldn’t wait to write about it rather than it not being as good as the following titles. I think I might take a break from this article and have a play on it now! Still, SEGA excelled themselves with this title the rich colours, character expressions, and storyline are superb. Our french-created Gallic heroes take the Number 10 spot on our list of the best Master System games for this Super Mario-esque side-scrolling platformer.Ĭonverting a comic book character into a game isn’t that hard to do because they’re already essentially a cartoon. If you made a game that looked as good as Asterix, then you’d want to stick screengrabs of the action on the front cover too! The Lucky Dime Caper Starring Donald Duck Vampire: Master of Darkness is a top game to kickstart our list of the best Master System games, and it’s only going to get better from here on out! 12. I’m not sure why one of the first bosses is Jack the Ripper, but I guess he was on a par with a fictional blood-sucking tyrant in evening wear. The weapons in the game are all common of the era – the 19th Century, and the Doctor looks as though he could well be a Victorian country practitioner. Weapons can be upgraded as you pick up new items through the game, but one wrong move can see you going all the way back to a dagger that’s about as much use as a chocolate teapot (do vampires like tea?). You play as Dr Ferdinand Social (SEGA, why do so many of your characters have rubbish names!), and you’re on a mission to kill Dracula. Vampire: Master Of Darkness is a fun title to play through with some notable elements that make it a great game (and some that are super annoying). It was always going to be difficult to make characters more exciting and memorable than those of the Belmont clan, but this game does well to carry on that same level of ‘minor fear’ that seems so disappointingly tame in today’s age of pant-wettingly terrifying horror films.
With Nintendo securing the Castlevania series and not letting anyone else have a slice of the pie, SEGA had to get creative to fill the ‘bone-chilling’ horror gap in the Master System’s repertoire. Double Dragonĭo you dare to delve into the world of Vampire: Master of Darkness? Of course you do retro gamers are made of hard stuff!
If at any point you think that I’m referring to a text message, then close the article and go and rethink your life. N.B – If you see me referring to SMS, then I’m talking about the SEGA Master System.
The SEGA Master System is hailed as being the main drive behind the development of the SEGA Genesis/Megadrive (and you can check out our list of the best SEGA Genesis games after you’ve read this article!), and that rectangular controller still makes me excited whenever I see it- that’s a proper bit of retro kit!Īt the end of this list of the best Master System games of all time, I’ll give a brief intro (or outro) to any of our readers who haven’t come across one of these epic consoles before.īut for now, lets kick off with the 10 best Master System games of all time and check out which made the cut! Few noises from my childhood bring back as many memories as the word ‘SEEEGAAAAA’ whenever I plugged in one of the best Master System games.Īlthough I wasn’t actually alive when this thing came out, I used to play on it with my uncle and cousins when I was a kid, getting my first taste of the world-famous speed-freak hedgehog and some of the other incredible characters in this list.