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The Sega Master system came with a game (Snail Maze) on its BIOS. If you didn’t insert a cartridge, you could activate it by pressing UP, 1, and 2 simultaneously.
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That little game was one of the few things that made the Master System seem better than the NES at the time. I loved my Master System so much, but it just didn’t have games that were anywhere near as fun or cool (at least not to my 6 year-old self).
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Like Songs of Innocence, but easier to get rid of.
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Wrong album, but the joke is good.
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I had the one with Alex Kidd built in, so I never played that.
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Nerdy adolescent me picked the Master System over the NES because its hardware had better specs, not at all considering the difference in quantity and quality of games. But I still had a lot of fun with it.
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Well, there was a missed opportunity to make Atari’s E.T. The Extraterrestrial video game one of the top-selling games of all time. 
And I liked the original Head On so I probably would have dropped a few quarters in to play Dottori-kun.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I loved my Master System, but I was 6 and very aware of the fact that all my friends had an NES and played Mario. It kind of bummed me out that I couldn’t play the same games.
Not impressive for 1990, but most coin-ops in 1983 ran with that. (Plus separate video hardware, and another processor to run the sound chips.)
The wonderful asterisk of a solid 15 years of z80 and 86000 hardware.
Later revisions again had Sonic the Hedgehog included!
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