• JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    If I remember correctly, I think the game I liked the most on it was Combat.

    Good game for sure (based on an actual Atari arcade game), but oh man, that system had many games equally-good, as well as borderline amazing. For example, their version of Defender’s sequel Stargate was -seriously- impressive. You can try it out (and others) at this link if you care to: https://www.free80sarcade.com/atari2600_Stargate.php

    You know, I thought that the Sega Master System predated the NES, but I just looked it up, and apparently the NES was 1983, and the Master System was 1986. So I guess it really was the NES that hit it first.

    Oof, I forgot about the Sega MS. Actually, I’d say that was a much closer race than any of the earlier comparisons. For example, they were really close in hardware capability IIRC, with the NES hitting NA in 1985, and the Sega MS coming over ~one year later. By that point I wasn’t really in to consoles anymore, but IIRC theirs was a reasonably close sales and popularity race.