Sega Master System questions

[Duncan]

Most of these inquiries come from the garden-variety SMS poster that came with a lot of the games...

1) How many different games actually use the Sports Pad? I know about Sports Pad Football, and the poster says that Great Ice Hockey works with it, but is that it? I know, for instance, that the manual in my copy of Hang On / Safari Hunt claims that the Sports Pad can be used. (How would one even do that?)

2) In the "Sega Card" section, Woody Pop is listed as being available (this would have been in the summer of 1987). I have seen it for the Game Gear, but never as an SMS title. Did this make it out for the SMS at all?

3) Speaking of released games, the "Coming Soon" section lists the following titles (again, this would have been summer of 1987):

Monopoly
SDI
Party Games
Zillion II
Combat & Rescue

Of those, I know only of Monopoly and Zillion II -- what about the others?

4) Back to Woody Pop again. The poster mentions that the "Sega Paddle Control is required for play." Anyone ever seen one of these? And if so, what game would you even use it for? (Woody Pop is a Breakout-kinda game.)

5) Is there another poster out there? I have several copies of this 1987 one (with apparently two different printings at least -- some from Japan and some from Taiwan) but no others.

6) Hang On / Astro Warrior came only as a pack-in with the Sega Base System (the cheap version with just one control pad and no gun). The question here is, is the Base System marked as such on the console itself? Every Master System deck I've ever seen is just that -- it says "Master System" right on the plastic.

Raccoon Lad or anyone else, your expertise is awaited...and any answers to these would be greatly appreciated in the next DP Guide.

[anagrama]

Woody Pop was released for the Mark III in Japan, but never made it to the West. Not sure about the rest...

[Raccoon Lad]

Sports Pad:
Sports Pad Football -required
Great Ice Hockey -required
Great Soccer -optional

Sports pad works with any game when it's set to controll pad mode.

Monopoly - released
SDI - Japanese name for Global Defense
Party Games - early title for Parlour Games
Zillion II - released
Combat & Rescue - probably the working title for Rescue Mission

Woody Pop needed the paddle controll, but apparantly there was an issue with these functioningly properly with Woody Pop on US systems, preventing it's release.

US posters include "space harrier" and After Burner

All SMS units have Master System/Power Base written on them

[Raccoon Lad]

Oh, and the paddle was compatible with several other games, Out Run being one of them.

[davepesc]

So, is 7 years a record for thread necromancy?

Anyway I wanted to ask the same question about the SMS Paddle Control. I see above that Woody Pop was never released, or was it the paddle? Both? Did the paddle ever make it out? I've never seen one.

[SithWarrior]

Dose SMS have less problems compared to the NES front loader, as in having a hard time trying to play games on it because of the pins?

[ApolloBoy]

So, is 7 years a record for thread necromancy?

Anyway I wanted to ask the same question about the SMS Paddle Control. I see above that Woody Pop was never released, or was it the paddle? Both? Did the paddle ever make it out? I've never seen one.

Both were never released outside Japan. This is what the Mark III Paddle looks like:

[Ayce]

Both were never released outside Japan. This is what the Mark III Paddle looks like:

I always wanted to play Woody Pop with that controller.

[PingvinBlueJeans]

Dose SMS have less problems compared to the NES front loader, as in having a hard time trying to play games on it because of the pins?

What cartridge-based system doesn't have less problems than the NES front-loader?

You should've have any issues with the SMS if you clean your games regularly.

[SithWarrior]

alright cool thanks PBJ for answering that.