Quote Originally Posted by M.Buster2184 View Post
Correct. To a younger person back in the late 80s, the box art of the SMS games would be a turn off compared to the NES box art.(Judging a book by its cover I know.) Not sure a kid at the time would be aware of or acknowledge the better graphics unless they took time to research it, but what kid does that?
I did that! well sort of. While the artwork was not inspiring. I didn't care, I wanted Shinobi and After Burner II at home.

Back in the 80's I use to always go to the arcades and Sega kicked some major butt back in. So once I heard that Sega was going to have a home console, I about lost it. Even though I already had a NES, the games looked dated compared to the SEGA arcade games, I figured the SEGA arcade ports to the Master System were going to be close to the arcades.