RickR Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 The trifecta. TrekMD, nosweargamer, Clint Thompson and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 😍 What a beauty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clint Thompson Posted January 25, 2019 Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 I find it fascating, the v2 of the SMS because it resembles the unreleased Atari Panther so much and I had only just recently stumbled upon the fact that Sega even made a second version of the SMS and it wasn't until I was in my early 20's that I even knew the SMS existed. Very cool 😃 RickR 1 Quote 7800 - 130XE - XEGS - Lynx - Jaguar - ISO: Atari Falcon030 | STBook |STe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted January 26, 2019 Report Share Posted January 26, 2019 Very cool...but no Game Gear? How sad. Lol. Neat. The original one I think will be my fav of the group. I don't know what it is but that big red spot on a rather large wedge shaped console is eye catching. That SMS 2 should feel right at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted January 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2019 I'll save the Game Gears for another post. I have one of the Majesco GG's. I also love the look of the OG SMS. You nailed it: black wedge with red splotch = eye catchy for sure. Justin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 On 1/26/2019 at 10:05 AM, RickR said: I'll save the Game Gears for another post. I have one of the Majesco GG's. I also love the look of the OG SMS. You nailed it: black wedge with red splotch = eye catchy for sure. I'm younger than a lot of you and was still a kid when the Sega Master System was out. My friend was the one with the SMS when it was new and lived in "the biggest house in the neighborhood". It was a very interesting home, his mom designed the house herself with their family in mind, which was pretty large and included extended family living in their home. The house had "wings" of long hallways with sliding pocket doors and a few bedrooms and a bathroom off of each wing. This became the house where all of our friends would meet up and and spend the night at. It was like a hotel! This is the same friend and house I wrote about in the California Games Anthology here: http://www.atari.io/atari-lynx-california-games-3/ I can't tell you how many times my friend and I, as kids, would use the Master System model 1 Power Base as our "control center" to open and close the sliding doors, launch torpedos and control other imaginary functions. We'd pretend the house was a starship, spy base, "cat prison" (don't ask) you name it. In their house they had those long vertical blinds on tall windows and sliding doors that lead outside. Those blinds are always weighted at the bottom with little metal pieces the size of a credit card. We'd pull those out and put stickers on them and they'd become our access cards to get us through doors, past the checkpoints we'd set up in our spy base next to the kitchen and just past the grandfather clock that led into the cat prison. Once we'd get back to the Master System we'd slide those cards into the card slot of the Master System to "check in" to base, which in hindsight I'm sure was awful for that poor Master System. That red control panel on the face of the original Master System was a thing of beauty. It wasn't much more than a decorative overlay placed over a power light, but to us it was like a control panel from Star Trek. It inspired our imagination beyond belief and gave that underdog game system some real personality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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