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Cirrus
02-16-2005, 08:12 PM
I just got a genny cart of Sonic with a different sticker. Sonic is on the right, and there is mostly a beige background. Is this the NFR cart? Is it rarer or more valuable?
crazyjackcsa
02-16-2005, 08:14 PM
Sounds about right to me. Original Sonic 1 Cart. A picture might help. Which one are you used to seeing?
Querjek
02-16-2005, 08:18 PM
Canadian version.
NeoZeedeater
02-16-2005, 08:20 PM
It has this Sonic artwork?
http://www.eidolons-inn.net/segabase/GMD-SonicTheHedgehog(E)_box.jpg
It could be a Canadian version. Canada got the Euro Sonic art except with the Genesis name instead of Mega Drive.
Untamed
02-16-2005, 08:23 PM
Wow, I was totally unaware of that. I picked up a Sonic 1 cart a few months back and thought the artwork was a variant or something. I guess I know now that it's the U.S. vers.
I grew upon that art, and every other cart I've seen, besides my own now, has been that one. Hum.
Cirrus
02-16-2005, 09:13 PM
It has this Sonic artwork?
http://www.eidolons-inn.net/segabase/GMD-SonicTheHedgehog(E)_box.jpg
It could be a Canadian version. Canada got the Euro Sonic art except with the Genesis name instead of Mega Drive.
It is that basic artwork, but a bit differently arranged on the cart. I'm sure it's the same one. Is that the canadian version? It looks really nice.
crazyjackcsa
02-16-2005, 09:24 PM
Yep, that's the only one I've ever seen, Other than the Rerelease,What did the U.S one look like?
NeoZeedeater
02-16-2005, 09:41 PM
It is that basic artwork, but a bit differently arranged on the cart. I'm sure it's the same one. Is that the canadian version? It looks really nice.
That pic is the European one but the Canadian one's the same except it has a Genesis logo instead of a Mega Drive one.
Yep, that's the only one I've ever seen, Other than the Rerelease,What did the U.S one look like?
http://www.genesiscollective.com/Genesis/BoxScans/Sonic%20The%20Hedgehog%20(BS).jpg
Cirrus
02-16-2005, 09:59 PM
Looks like I have the Canadian cart. I think the art is much nicer. Thanks!
Jasoco
02-16-2005, 10:20 PM
I found that exact version last March. I posted about it at AtariAge at the time.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=45585&highlight=sonic+label
http://www.jasoco.net/data/files/images/sonicvariation.jpg
Looks like this, right?
Cirrus
02-16-2005, 10:41 PM
It sure does. I'm glad to have it. Much nicer art, IMO.
Jasoco
02-16-2005, 10:43 PM
Ditto.
XJR15
02-16-2005, 10:44 PM
I think segahitman has had at least 3 of those, They might be rarer in your area, but at least not michigan :)
Push Upstairs
02-17-2005, 12:52 AM
I have a Brazilian copy of Sonic that also uses that artwork as well.
crazyjackcsa
02-17-2005, 09:56 AM
hmmm. The rerelease has the U.S artwork up here in Canada, but the original is just like what's been posted. I wonder if us Crazy Canucks got any other different artwork for games?
NeoZeedeater
02-17-2005, 11:04 AM
It almost never happens but Pikmin 2 is another example of different box art in Canada than the US.
US
http://images.dvdempire.com/gen/movies/598501.jpg
Can
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx_assets/product_images/235900.jpg
qbertandernie
02-17-2005, 12:50 PM
back in my early days i spent $8 on a loose copy because i had never seen one and thought this was some secret variant. then i found one complete for $1...
\the back of the box is in about 5 languages, so i figured it wasnt from the US....looks cool, but a big waste of $8 i guess....
rbudrick
02-17-2005, 01:32 PM
Label variations...yet another reason USA should bomb Canada... :hmm:
LOL
-Rob
Jasoco
02-17-2005, 06:39 PM
Label variations...yet another reason USA should bomb Canada... :hmm:
LOL
-RobBomb Canada? Who? These guys??
http://www.nationallampoon.com/nl/08_features/Canada/Canada.asp
J/K...
Actually, I like the US Pikmin 2 box in that case. Canada's is too plain. At least in the US, the Pikmin are fighting for their country. The ones on the Canadian one must be French.. or Swiss. Just standing there watching from afar. :P ;) I keed! I keed!