Sega Master System system + games I have review thread (inc. SegaScope 3-D Glasses)

[A Black Falcon]

Well, there were many games released on both the SMS and GG. Most of the SMS versions of those games were Europe/Brazil-only releases because by the time the GG came out in 1990 the SMS was dead in Japan and nearly dead in the US (Sonic the Hedgehog in mid 1991 was the last US SMS release, while in Japan the last game was in late 1989), but there were many ports. Of the 8-bit Sonic games, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic 2, Sonic Chaos, Sonic Spinball, and Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine got SMS ports released in Europe. Sonic Blast also had a Brazil-exclusive SMS port. In each case the basic games are identical, apart for some color differences and the viewing distance due to resolution. (The other six GG Sonic games were GG exclusive, including the two Japan-only ones, and there were no SMS-only ones.)

I think you just took that comment a little too literally, they are pretty much the same games but they aren't 100% identical. Just nearly so. Still though, even though I do have Sonic 1, 2, and Chaos for GG, I'd like to get import EU copies of the SMS releases too, it'd be cool to have them and I'm sure they'd be better with the bigger viewing distance, even if the graphics wouldn't be quite as nice looking thanks to fewer colors. Sonic 2 GG especially I find somewhat miserably hard on the GG, that's probably the first one I'd want.