Exploring Sega Master System's chronology in direct comparison to the NES lineup has proven education. I didn't own either system as of March 1987, when these two games premiered, yet I distinctly remember being as impressed by the Master System demos I saw at shops as I was by my friends' NES games. Releases like Great Baseball and Space Harrier assure me of my younger self's sanity: They really did blow anything Nintendo had on offer right out of the water. Great Baseball looks (and more or less plays) like Bases Loaded, a game that wouldn't appear on NES until mid-1988. In the meantime, all the NES had to offer on the baseball front in 1987 was Nintendo's own elderly Baseball, a first-generation release hailing from 1983. As for Space Harrier, no one cared about its strange graphical clipping effect at the time, because no one had ever seen a console game crank out so much high-speed action with such huge sprites. Master System obviously couldn't match the Super Scaler arcade orig