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hydr0x
10-26-2003, 12:34 PM
I mentioned this a few month ago in a MD Rom topic, and i finally did scan the cartridge...

has anyone ever seen this, genesiscollective doesn't have it, i can't find ANY info on it but i'm 99% sure it's an official cart

http://mitglied.lycos.de/janbaart/ebaybilder/sixpack.jpg

would be great if someone knows anything about this, but also if noone doesn't as i would own a pretty rare cart then ;)
MarioAllStar2600
10-26-2003, 01:25 PM
Is that PAL or NTSC?
Balloon Fight
10-26-2003, 01:32 PM
I'm guessing thats pal.
Vroomfunkel
10-26-2003, 01:33 PM
Yeah, I am pretty sure that I have seen these before... I think it might have been bundled with the Megadrive in one of the later deals.. but I'm not sure.

Can't find it on anything current or closed on Ebay UK ... but I would be suprised if it is rare, since those Mega Games type carts always seem to be fairly common. I might be wrong though!

Vroomfunkel
anagrama
10-26-2003, 01:58 PM
That's the first time I've seen that one - It's got the same games as MegaGames 6 Vol. 2 [which is fairly hard to find anyway, only being released briefly as a pack-in in some parts of mainland Europe & Australia. Vol. 1 & 3 are much more common.], but has the same name as the US version of MegaGames.
The -18 suffix on the part no. suggests that it's was released only in Germany.

hydr0x - did you buy it new or 2nd hand? No box or manual I suppose?
hydr0x
10-26-2003, 02:55 PM
i bought it 2nd hand half a year ago from some turkish (<<right? someone from the turkey) seller in my city who sells a lot of used video game stuff

i could ask him where he got it from, but i don't know if he can remember!

@vroom, mhhh that's what i hear all the time when i show these pic/cart to someone, but NOONE can find any info on the net or even find it on ebay or something like that. I suppose that's because the Mega Games are common, but this one seems to be pretty rare

it's PAL, no manual or box :(
sisko
10-26-2003, 04:04 PM
Hmmmis there another 6 pack in the UK?

The US one has Sonic, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Columns, Hang On and Revenge of Shinobi.

Maybe this is just the OK version of our US version?
anagrama
10-26-2003, 04:40 PM
Hmmmis there another 6 pack in the UK?

The US one has Sonic, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Columns, Hang On and Revenge of Shinobi.

Maybe this is just the OK version of our US version?

There's a whole bunch of PAL ones:

Mega Games 1 (Columns, Super Hang-On and World Cup Italia '90) - Same as Genesis 'Triple Score'
Mega Games 2 (The Revenge of Shinobi, Streets of Rage and Golden Axe)
Mega Games 3 (Super Thunderblade, Alien Storm and Super Monaco GP)
Mega Games 6 (World Cup Italia '90, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, The Revenge of Shinobi, Super Hang-On and Columns) - *nearly* the same as the US 6-Pack (World Cup Italia '90 instead of Sonic)
Mega Games 6 Vol. 2 (World Cup Italia '90, Alien Storm, Super Monaco GP, Super Thunderblade, Super Hang-On and Columns)
Mega Games 6 Vol. 3 (Sega Soccer, Columns, Super Monaco GP, Revenge of Shinobi, Sonic 1 & Streets of Rage)

aswell as Classic Collection (Gunstar Heroes, Flicky, Alex Kidd & Altered Beast) and Sega Sports 1 (Super Monaco GP, Ultimate Soccer & Wimbledon)

The rarest seems to be MegaGames 6 Vol 2, (although while loose copies of Vol. 3 are common, boxed copies are much rarer)
thegreatescape
10-26-2003, 05:49 PM
I'd say its just a packaging variation of Megagames 6 vol.2, which would indeed make it rare :)

If its anything like the Megagames 6 vol. 2 (which is rather common here too :D ) that we got, there wouldnt have been a box because it was indeed a pack-in, advertised as a Mega drive II with 6 games included. I think there was a manual, which was just all six manuals combined to make a booklet, but its not the sort of thing everyone would keep and zip-lock away.
Arqueologia_Digital
10-26-2003, 06:26 PM
I think itīs a pack from Europe, but not from UK, itīs from Spain, i think a years ago Erbe (a famous game publisher in that country) released a pack series, but iīm not sure...
anagrama
10-26-2003, 06:49 PM
I think itīs a pack from Europe, but not from UK, itīs from Spain, i think a years ago Erbe (a famous game publisher in that country) released a pack series, but iīm not sure...

I'm pretty sure it's German rather than Spanish. Every cart I've seen with a -18 suffix in the part number or catalogue number has been a German variant. Spanish localized games have a -06 suffix.

European variants I've seen:
xxxx-03 = ?? (only seen it on Shining Force II, which has 6 languages on the back of the box, but game and manual are all English)
xxxx-05 = UK
xxxx-06 = Spain
xxxx-09 = France
xxxx-18 = Germany
xxxx-20 = Holland (?)
xxxx-50 = Europe-wide
Ed Oscuro
10-26-2003, 06:55 PM
Huh, I wondered why Erbe games had Spanish text in them! Thanks a lot!

...I needed to know for my Shinobi page.
hydr0x
10-26-2003, 07:42 PM
thx for all your input, it seems as if i really got a rare item (FINALLY, my rarest thing is Chavez II lose :p )

i think i'm going to ask the seller were he got it from and see if he perhaps has a manual floating around, i didn't check everything he had, cause he has quite a lot of manuals that are a bit overpriced
Arqueologia_Digital
10-26-2003, 09:02 PM
Huh, I wondered why Erbe games had Spanish text in them! Thanks a lot!

...I needed to know for my Shinobi page.
Beware!, some Erbe carts had text in spanish!!!, but i think not all of them
Ed Oscuro
10-26-2003, 09:22 PM
The thing is, I was looking at the Erbe release of Shadow Dancer on the Spectrum and noticed that this screen flashed by really quickly (an anti-drug message). I managed to take a picture and realized it was Spanish text. I assumed it had to be southern america/mexico, but now I know differently! Very useful to know.

[o]Was[/i] the Speccy released in South America?
hydr0x
10-27-2003, 05:06 PM
asked the seller today, but he had no idea where he got it from, he's pretty sure another person sold it to him though

he also didn't have a manual or box :(

picked up a saturn controlloer+daytona usa complete+daytona usa lose+vf remix complete+ ultimate mk 3 lose for 9.00 though
Arqueologia_Digital
10-27-2003, 06:08 PM
[o]Was[/i] the Speccy released in South America?
No...i think...
Ed Oscuro
10-27-2003, 06:14 PM
Ah, that's what I thought. As if that region needs any more crazy consoles :D

I bet it would've been popular, though. The price on those machines was a great point.

Lol @ my "[o] [/i]" tags. I guess there's Italic and Otalic, perhaps.
Arqueologia_Digital
10-27-2003, 06:19 PM
Ah, that's what I thought. As if that region needs any more crazy consoles :D

I bet it would've been popular, though. The price on those machines was a great point.

Lol @ my "[o] [/i]" tags. I guess there's Italic and Otalic, perhaps.
Well, there are a lot of obscure and crazy consoles, but not the same that in USA, for example: Electrolab Supervision, EDU Juegos, Dynacom, Family game, Froggy 2600, and the list continues...
hydr0x
10-28-2003, 05:06 AM
still noone who knows this cartridge? great :) :D
Zubiac666
10-28-2003, 07:14 AM
I'm not sure but I think my fav gamestore has one or more of these babies.
If I remember right it was even boxed.
I'll go there tomorrow and report u if it is the same.

:o
anagrama
10-28-2003, 08:06 AM
I'm not sure but I think my fav gamestore has one or more of these babies.
If I remember right it was even boxed.
I'll go there tomorrow and report u if it is the same.

:o

I'll pay a good price for a boxed copy, I'm not too bothered about a loose one though.

hydr0x - I'll keep my eyes peeled for it when I'm checking German auctions, and let you know if/when I see any more copies.
hydr0x
10-28-2003, 11:38 AM
if u find a box/manual for the game pls tell me, i'm willing to spend money on it :p
anagrama
11-02-2003, 03:24 PM
Finally spotted a couple of these:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2762199572&category=8214
(It's the loose cart nearest the top of the pic)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2762970024&category=8214
(loose cart again)
Daltone
11-02-2003, 05:09 PM
Hmm that looks damn familiar. Can't quite place it though. A mystery indeed.
hydr0x
11-03-2003, 05:03 AM
hey anagrama, great research, i will ask the two sellers where they got the game from ;) perhaps one of them got it as a pack-in. << i think it is a german pack-in as only lose copies seem to pop up. It still seems as if it's a pretty rare cart, only 2 carts on german ebay in what? 2 weeks? and both only included with a system :)
anagrama
11-03-2003, 07:12 AM
Yeah, it seems fairly hard to find (R6-ish), though I imagine not in great demand since it's just a variant of MegaGames 6 Vol.2, which is just a compilation of pretty common games anyway.
From the available evidence, I'd certainly lean towards it being a German-only pack-in.
hydr0x
11-03-2003, 07:53 AM
an R6 would be fine to me, it would still be my rarest item together with Chavez II :embarrassed: