"Wow! 20 games in 1! That sounds fantastic! I wish I had a cartridge like that!" I might have thought something like that as a kid, when games were expensive and didn't come flying in the window. Thank Odin I didn't know about "20 em 1", and wasn't born in Brazil.
Most of the Brazil-only SMS-games are either ports of Game Gear-games or hacks of other titles, but this was actually a game Tec Toy had cooked together themselves, and somehow they thought it was a good idea to bundle it with all their Master System 3s. With games like this, it's strange the Master System did so well in Brazil. They must have been aiming for a really young audience with this one, or perhaps the guy who made it had just learned to program and was only able to make the simplest programs and games (Look at game 17 for example, which seems to be very buggy with that other guy suddenly disappearing underneath the ground). Either way, "20 em 1" sucks, and not in a good way. You get 20 games all right, but none of them are worth spending any time on at all. They are all incredibly slow, boring, repetetive and easy, and some of the games are actually the same game as another, just with different graphics. Just wish you could get some different music as well! The same slow, boring and repetetive music (which you perhaps could say fits the game well) plays on all games, and if you play "20 em 1" for more than 15 minutes I'm sure your head will explode because of it.
What is the point of these 20 games anyway? You walk back and forth, trying to collect things that falls at an incredibly slow pace from the sky, and get points for doing so. Or you drive a motorbike down the screen with almost no obstacles, or you play squash and have to wait 20 seconds for the ball to return to you. It's all so easy, and if you just open your eyes once every few minutes, you're on your way to "glory" - you see a guy holding a trophy, and then you just continue the same game, but with less time. But even if you fail, you get to continue, and then have the same amount of time. And the score hasn't dropped to 0 or anything - you just continue with the same score. So if you are trying to get a high score, it's actually good to fail. But it doesn't matter anyway. The game will just go on and on forever, and how many points you get depends on how long you play. Hopefully that won't be too long. Not if you don't want to die of boredom. Literally!