Interesting. Sega did a lot of that kind of thing. Thunder Force III had a rare European release for example on the Mega Drive, but they just imported the Genesis copies and slapped some kind of sticker on it. And then they did a similar thing with Sonic & Knuckles on late print runs, where they took "parts" of the Genesis version, such as the internal trays and miss matching them with our version (we had a grey tray in Europe, you guys had red, but later European print runs had the red tray and some had the Genesis manual I think).prfsnl_gmr wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 2:15 pm
The games were released in NA, but for those releases, Sega just imported some copies from Europe and slapped a new UPC sticker on them. Copies with the UPC sticker are frequently MUCH more expensive than the imports, and while I’m a pretty crazy collector, I’m not so crazy that I’m willing to pay 100s of dollars for a UPC sticker! Accordingly, I’m just going to import copies of those games.
Anyways, good luck completing your set. Golden Axe Warrior is one I want to pick up. I was watching a copy on an eBay auction recently, but unfortunately it went higher than I wanted to pay.
