17:59: Revisiting the Master System games from my childhood (Part 1): thetangent.space/2026/sega-1/

My introduction to console gaming was at my grandparents’ house. I’m not sure how old I was — maybe 5? But my grandfather, who always loved technology, had a Sega Master System, and one day he was looking after me and introduced me to it. I’d played games on the family’s Acorn computer before, but never a home console. The selection of games he had was a bit random. Most of them don’t seem to...