baudelinog
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See the second half of my post. I said I don't care about too many western developed games.
Most of those games were Japanese developed, and many were probably planned for Japanese release, but were dropped when the Mark III suffered a rapid death and Sega moved on to the Mega Drive (and Game Gear) in Japan. The bolded were off the top of my head Japanese developed, and many of the others probably were too. I even specifically mentioned Wonder Boy III: Dragon's Trap. Some of them even have Japan-only FM audio support and/or play with a different title with Japanese text when run on a Japanese machine, which basically proves this thesis.
There were also some games developed as Game Gear games in Japan which also got Master System releases in the territories it survived as a budget console (eg Sonic 1 and 2).
Secondly, I wouldn't call sloppy stuff like Indiana Jones a 'must have', and some games there were 'good for Master System' (Micro Machines, Ecco, Prince of Persia, Lemmings, Ghouls and Ghosts etc) are kind of pointless when they were later downports of games which were superior on other hardware, eg no real point (apart from possible childhood nostaglia) playing MS Prince of Persia when the vastly superior SNES version exists. In a sense the Master System versions are sometimes sort of like what Game Boy versions of NES/SNES games (eg Duck Tales, Hook, Contra III etc) were - budget port-downs to more simple hardware.
I do have a soft spot for some of the above. I really love MS Ghouls and Ghosts for its playable dinkyness. Most of the Japanese developed ones are pretty good. I have quite a few MS games, but basically no western developed ones. The music in particular usually sucks in western developed games for MS.
I understood what you wrote ... or rather I read it, but the use of the noun " exception" suggests "something that deviates from the standard set above", so this nesting sentences are really abstruse:
"... there are very few western developed games on it that I find worthwhile. The exceptions are the Japanese developed games..."
The exceptions to western developed games are Japanese developed games? In my own translation, I chose 'games that were not released in Japan'. Very own and very free translation, sorry! But, anyway: I still have the same opinion. A LOT of western made games (made by, or made for) are, from my point of view, excellents. Virgin, Core, Codemasters, Bitmap Brothers, Tecmagik, US Gold, Probe, Atari... made very good games for the system in the later years. Better versions in other superior systems? Ok. But really well made games anyway.