Sega Master System

The Sega Master System was a console introduced by Sega in 1986, and was capable of 8-bit graphics. It was a rival to the very successful Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

The Master System was regarded as being superior to the NES in terms of color and graphics ) but failed to gain enough attention in both North America and Japan.

However, it was successful in Brazil and Europe. Its life was long enough to see four Sonic games (except Brazil which has five sonic games), before its discontinuation in 1991 in North America. Except in Brazil, where this console remains produced to this day due to the popularity of this console.

List of Sonic games

 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Sonic the Hedgehog 2
 * Sonic Chaos
 * Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
 * Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball
 * Sonic Blast 

Characters Introduced

 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Silver Sonic

Trivia

 * The Master System version of Sonic Blast was only released in Brazil.
 * The Sega Master System makes regular cameo appearances in Cartoon Network's "Regular Show". Both console and controllers are exactly the same despite it apparently being mirrored.
 * The Sega Master System has no exclusive Sonic games, as all games released for the Sega Master System have also been released on the Game Gear.
 * There are 318 games released for the Sega Master System.
 * The Sega Master System had no region lock chip inside the hardware. This means users can play any games from any region.