Revisiting the Master System games from my childhood (Part 2)

My earliest console gaming memories are on my granddad’s Master System. Since getting into retro handhelds, I’ve been revisiting the Sega Master System games from my childhood. Check out Part 1 for more! Super Monaco GP My granddad and I agreed: this game sucked. But I was interested to find out: were we right in this appraisal? Yes, yes we were. Super Monaco GP on the Master System was a cash-in on the acclaimed game of the same name on the Mega Drive. It’s an 8-bit racing game with a sort of pseudo “3d” perspective. It’s ugly, it’s boring, and it’s for some reason always in split-screen mode, even in 1-player (you just play in split-screen against a computer player two). The courses take 5-6 minutes, and there’s 16 of 'em. A whole stinking hour and a half of painfully dull F1 racing, in which you’ll almost certainly lose every race. I hope you like looking at this screenshot, because this is what the entire game looks like. You can customise your vehicle between races, and are…