I split towards Nintendo during that war, so never really saw many of the Master System games, tbh. I should do a dive into some of them -- I'm sure there was some good stuff I just never encountered.

StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

I was a bit too young for this era of gaming but I do recall being very young and playing atari at my cousins house. The first gaming system I owned was the sega master system. 

Oddly enough I am currently playing Sega Ages Phantasy Star on my kids Switch. I loved this game as a kid and recall my dad playing with me for hours as we worked through the dungeons and trying to accumulate mestas and HP. 

grayruby

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Mr Intellivision Adverts & Commercials, George Plimpton (2020)

Very true. Growing up I had a 2600, and while I enjoyed playing Intellivision games when I visited friends who had them, I never switched loyalties. It helped that there were simply more Atari games, and once third party manufacturers like Activision (remember when they were a scrappy independent studio?) and Imagic started making games, the quality improved drastically.