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JT's avatar

I used to see the Sports Pad in Sega catalogs back in the day. But I didn’t get to try one out until last year. I played the Sports Pad football game and the novelty of the controls wore out after a couple of minutes.

I did find out that Sports Pad and/or Sports Pad football is not compatible with all Master Systems, it only worked on the second system I tried.

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Dylan Cornelius's avatar

"I did find out that Sports Pad and/or Sports Pad football is not compatible with all Master Systems, it only worked on the second system I tried."

Intriguing! I did not know this.

Yeah, poor Sports Pad. Not a bad trackball, but as with many Sega peripherals, criminally underutilized.

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JT's avatar

In retrospect it seems obvious to use the controller for bowling and golf games, but as always hindsight is 20/20!

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