It was my second console after the Atari. It was a huge upgrade and we loved playing on it. The Mega Drive a few years later was my next one.
In low income countries like Brazil they apparently still sell them new but licensed by a local manufacturer with another name I believe. It was so popular it still sells 30 years later.
Tectoy. They also kept releasing games way after the ms was dead else where. Oh and they did their own ms port of street fighter 2!
https://segaretro.org/Street_Fighter_II%27
There’s quite a few Tectoy ports of Sega games that were Genesis only everywhere else. Including games like Sonic Spinball.
The ironic thing is while Tectoy kept making MS games because it was cheap, those games now go for a small fortune (relatively speaking) in Europe because the were never exported out of Brazil.
Was the Sonic Spinball port much different than the Game Gear version? My understanding is the Game Gear port was by Sega and the two systems are very similar.
You're right: many of TecToy's Brazil-exclusive Master System games were tweaked versions of Game Gear releases. That includes games like Ecco 2, Mortal Kombat 3 and Sonic Blast, but not the aforementioned Street Fighter II which they developed independently.
I think the Master System version of Sonic Spinball came from Sega themselves though. It was sold in Europe as well as Brazil.
