[Game Gear] European releases - anything missing?

[anagrama]

I've recently been helping out with adding all the European Game Gear releases into the database, and thought I'd post the current list here in case there's anything been missed.
If anyone can spot anything not listed here (and ideally support it with a pic), let us know! :)

Confirmed European releases (200)

Addams Family, The
Adventures of Batman & Robin, The
Aerial Assualt
Aladdin
Alien 3
Alien Syndrome
Archer MacLean's Dropzone
Arena
Ariel: The Little Mermaid
Asterix and the Great Rescue
Asterix and the Secret Mission
Ax Battler: A Legend of Golden Axe
Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II
Baku Baku Animal
Batman Forever
Batman Returns
Battletoads
Bonkers Wax Up!
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Bugs Bunny in Double Trouble
Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse
Chakan
Championship Hockey
Cheese Cat-Astrophe starring Speedy Gonzales
Chessmaster, The
Chuck Rock
Chuck Rock II: Son of Chuck
CJ Elephant Fugitive
Clutch Hitter
Columns
Cool Spot
Cosmic Spacehead
Crash Dummies
Crystal Warriors
Daffy Duck in Hollywood
Deep Duck Trouble starring Donald Duck
Defenders of Oasis
Desert Speedtrap
Desert Strike
Devilish
Disney Double Pack
Double Dragon: The Revenge of Billy Lee
Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
Dragon Crystal
Dragon: The Brucle Lee Story
Dynamite Headdy
Earthworm Jim
Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco: The Tides of Time
Ernie Els Golf
Evander Holyfield's 'Real Deal' Boxing
Excellent Dizzy Collection
F1
F1 World Championship Edition
F-15 Strike Eagle
Factory Panic
Fantasy Zone
Fantastic Dizzy
Fatal Fury Special
FIFA International Soccer
FIFA '96
Galaga 2
Garfield: Caught in the Act
George Foreman's KO Boxing
Global Gladiators
G-LOC: Air Battle
GP Rider
Halley Wars
Home Alone
Hook
Hurricanes
Incredible Hulk, The
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Itchy & Scratchy Game, The
James Bond 007: The Duel
James Pond 2: Robocod
James Pond 3: Operation Starfish
Joe Montana Football
Judge Dredd
Jungle Book, The
Jurassic Park
Kawasaki Superbikes
Klax
Krusty's Super Fun House
Land of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse
Legend of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse
Lemmings
Lion King, The
Lucky Dime Caper starring Donald Duck, The
Madden '96
Man Overboard!
Marble Madness
Marko's Magic Football
Master of Darkness
Micro Machines
Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie
Monster Truck Wars
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat II
MTV's Beavis & Butthead
NBA Jam
NBA Jam TE
NFL Quarterback Club
NHL Hockey
Ninja Gaiden
Olympic Gold
Ottifants, The
Out Run
Out Run Europa
Paperboy
Pengo
Pete Sampras Tennis
PGA Tour Golf
PGA Tour Golf II
PGA Tour Golf '96
Phantom 2040
Popils
Power Drive
Power Strike II
Predator 2
Primal Rage
Prince of Persia
Psychic World
Putt & Putter
Quest for the Shanven Yak starring Ren & Stimpy
Revenge of Drancon
Rise of the Robots
Ristar
Road Rash
Robocop 3
Robocop vs. Terminator
Schtroumpfs Autour du Monde, Les
Sega Game Pack 4-in-1
Sensible Soccer: Euiropean Champions
Shinobi
Shinobi II: The Silent Fury
Simpsons, The: Bart vs. the Space Mutants
Simpsons, The: Bart vs. the World
Slider
Smurfs, The
Solitaire Poker
Sonic 2-in-1
Sonic Blast
Sonic Drift Racing
Sonic Labyrinth
Sonic Spinball
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog Chaos
Sonic the Hedgehog Triple Trouble
Space Harrier
Spider-Man
Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six
Star Wars
Stargate
Streets of Rage
Streets of Rage II
Strider Returns
Striker
Super Columns
Super Kick Off
Super Monaco GP
Super Off Road
Super Smash TV
Super Space Invaders
Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Superman: The Man of Steel
Surf Ninjas
T2 Terminator 2: Judgement Day
T2: The Arcade Game
Tails' Adventure
Talespin
Tarzan (Disney's)
Taz in Escape from Mars
Taz-mania
Tempo Jr
Terminator, The
Tintin au Tibet
Tom and Jerry: The Movie
True Lies
Ultimate Soccer
Virtua Fighter Animation
VR Troopers
Wimbledon
Winter Olympics
Wizard Pinball
Wolfchild
Wonder Boy
Wonderboy: The Dragons Trap
Woody Pop
World Class Leaderboard
World Cup Soccer
World Cup USA '94
WWF Raw
WWF Wrestlemania: Steel Cage Challenge
X-Men: GameMaster's Legacy
Zool

Thanks! :)

[Slipdeath]

Just for reference, you have checked every game on the US list to check if they had a PAL counterpart right?

[anagrama]

It was compiled from a mixture of (pretty sketchy) older online lists, early 90's Sega mags, a year or so of on/off eBay watching and a few other sources. I've seen some kind of solid proof for everything I've confirmed.

There's little point checking for a Euro equivalent of every US release since several publishers ignored Europe altogether.

[yok-dfa]

Is this information already available in the online rarity guide because i can't seem to find any info on european games in there yet??

[digitalpress]

Is this information already available in the online rarity guide because i can't seem to find any info on european games in there yet??

That's what he's working on now, and what prompted his question. It will be in the database soon after any holes are filled.

[anagrama]

Yeah, I sent the file back to Joe last night - should be up shortly :)
There's no rarity info yet, just a basic gamelist - haven't got the time to properly research it for now.

[sharp]

I'm almost sure Dracula was released in Europe. But won't take poison for it, as it's 10 years ago I sold my GG.

[anagrama]

I'm almost sure Dracula was released in Europe. But won't take poison for it, as it's 10 years ago I sold my GG.

It's on the list as 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' ;)
Oddly, that was one of the last ones I confirmed - spotted one on eBay Germany a few days ago.

[tinsair]

Have you tried this site for any missing info?

http://www.game-gear.info/softpal.htm

You may have already been there, but I havent seen the Sonic 2in1 game before and it has a picture.

[anagrama]

Have you tried this site for any missing info?

http://www.game-gear.info/softpal.htm

You may have already been there, but I havent seen the Sonic 2in1 game before and it has a picture.

Cheers! Hadn't seen that before :) I'll add the Sonic 2-in-1 and there's a few more for the unconfirmed list aswell :)

[hydr0x]

Have you tried this site for any missing info?

http://www.game-gear.info/softpal.htm

You may have already been there, but I havent seen the Sonic 2in1 game before and it has a picture.

Cheers! Hadn't seen that before :) I'll add the Sonic 2-in-1 and there's a few more for the unconfirmed list aswell :)

that's one of Mr. Saturn's sites if i'm not mistaken (he has one for every Sega system, except DC) and they are usually quite reliable, he sometimes is missing games, but i haven't seen games listed that weren't released... if you need confirmation of something on his list i could ask him about it, he's active on a german board i visit

[anagrama]

that's one of Mr. Saturn's sites if i'm not mistaken (he has one for every Sega system, except DC) and they are usually quite reliable, he sometimes is missing games, but i haven't seen games listed that weren't released... if you need confirmation of something on his list i could ask him about it, he's active on a german board i visit

Yeah, that would be great if you could - it does look like a pretty solid list, but I'm wary of 'confirming' anything without at least seeing a picture. I'll PM you later on once I've had a chance to double-check his list for any I've not confirmed...

[tinsair]

Yeah many have box scans on the site, but no actual cart pics.

[tinsair]

Just a quick question, how do you distinguish PAL and US Game Gear games when they are cart only pics?

[anagrama]

Just a quick question, how do you distinguish PAL and US Game Gear games when they are cart only pics?

It's not always possible from just the cart - some US games have the purple stripe down the side, some PAL carts have -50 at the end of the 670-xxxx product code and the type-face used for 'Game Gear' on the cart can sometimes give it away aswell.
For any where it's not immediately possible to tell, I haven't confirmed them until I've seen a box. (For example, I'm fairly sure that The Majors: Pro Baseball had a European release, but still haven't seen a box and the cart is ambiguous. Unconfirmed until then!)

[hydr0x]

yeah the Pro Baseball cart really doesn't tell you much, maybe you can ask the seller of this one

http://cgi.ebay.es/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=8203&item=5185686414

http://i2.ebayimg.com/02/i/03/da/55/22_1_b.JPG

[tinsair]

For the part # are you going to put the number on the side of the box, like your Mega Drive rarity list, or is it going to be cart part #?

It seems that not many games were release PAL, only 189 so far! O_O

[anagrama]

The box number. That's what the US list uses and it keeps things consistent with all the other Sega lists.

As I said, there's a few of the unconfirmed ones that I'm pretty sure exist, but want to be entirely sure before adding them (there's also some that I don't think exist, but I've mentioned them on the off-chance).
Possibly one or two others that have entirely slipped through the net so far aswell - I'd expect the final count to be around or just over 200.

[tinsair]

Oh also found FIFA Soccer '96, I'm sure it's the PAL box anyway take a look:

http://www.consolepassion.co.uk/sega-game-gear-games.htm

[anagrama]

Heh - I was actually looking at the site a couple of days ago, and used it to confirm a couple of other releases but must have missed that one. Cheers! :)

[Arcturius]

What about Galaga 2. Friend of mine in Aust has a copy (only manual and cart though) this is a scan of the manual cover:-
http://www.furnation.com/aneirin/DC/Galaga2.jpg
I'll ask and see if he can scan the cart label too but this one isn't mentioned in the US or PAL lists as far as I could see.

[anagrama]

Ooh, thanks! :) Wonder if that's the same as the Japanese Galaga '91?

[Arcturius]

Dunno it's been puzzling us to (unfortunatly he'd just gone off line when I went to ask So I'll try to get a scan off him tomorrow night I'll post it here when I get it)

[anagrama]

Found a few more references to it online, and the box can be seen here:

http://www.playnow.com.au/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=010992

That's also an Australian site, so maybe it's a little easier to find over there?
I don't think it's Oz-exclusive though, since there were a few mentions of it on Spanish & French sites aswell, amongst others.

[tinsair]

Maybe it didn't have a UK release, just other European countries?

[hydr0x]

ok, Mr. Saturn replied to my PM about the games

here's roughly what he said

"sorry, i don't store the pics of the games i see, but i can guarantee that i have seen picture proof of every game on the list (hydr0x: he didn't mention the unrecognizable cart problem, so i don't know if that's 100% reliable) in exactly that version, so every game marked as PAL release exists as PAL."

well, i usually trust him, so you should put those on a MUST-exist, but pending list or something like that...

he also asked if you could provide pictures of the games you mentioned that he didn't have so he can add them to his list

[anagrama]

Cheers Jan, I've PM'd you about the other pics :)

[Arcturius]

Sorry took a day longer to ask him for the cart scan as I was pretty sick yesterday }:(
http://www.furnation.com/aneirin/DC/Galaga2C.jpg
The serial on the Cart is:- 670-2297 (dunno if that's any use or not)

[anagrama]

Cheers! ;) I've been having a look around, and it doesn't seem to have been dumped yet.
I suspect it is just the same game as the Japanese Galaga '91 (which has been dumped).

[anagrama]

Confirmed GP Rider, NHL Hockey & Surf Ninjas :)

I've also split the unconfirmed games into 'Probable'/'Doubtful'/'???' categories.

[tinsair]

Are there some Brazilian releases included on your list?
If so what ones are they? Because I'm sure I have seen some brazilian releases at some point, then again it might be my eyes deceiving me LOL

[anagrama]

Nope, just European releases.
I've seen some TecToy carts on eBay (no exclusives), but don't plan to research them anytime time soon.

[tinsair]

Ok I think the one a saw was Mortal Kombat 3 anyway, so it wasnt a TecToy exclusive.

[anagrama]

Spotted Monster Truck Wars hiding amongst this nice German bundle :)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11258&item=5194589212

[anagrama]

Confirmed Power Drive & scrubbed most of the doubtful ones from the unconfirmed list. :)

[yok-dfa]

Spotted Monster Truck Wars hiding amongst this nice German bundle :)

What's so special about that one? I've had it for some time now...

Cheers,
Raymond

[anagrama]

What's so special about that one? I've had it for some time now...


Nothing particularly special, other than it being fairly hard to find - I just hadn't confirmed a Euro version before spotting that one above.
I've seen a couple more since then, and they all seem to have been in/around Germany - suggesting perhaps a fairly limited distribution.

[yok-dfa]

I've seen a couple more since then, and they all seem to have been in/around Germany - suggesting perhaps a fairly limited distribution.

I think i got my copy from a dutch seller, but i'm not sure if he was the original owner...

[anagrama]

Can scratch another from the unconfirmed list - just spotted a Euro Return of the Jedi on eBay France :)

[Fabsy]

Hi guys, I don't know if you'd like to ocunt this one in as it wasn't exactly a game "release".

When I got my Game Gear as a wee lad in Portugal, the system came with a pack-in called "Sega game pack 4 in 1". Obviously, this game didn't come with a box. If you want a scan, I wil
l gladly provide one 8-)

[anagrama]

It's already on the list ;)

[Fabsy]

Whoops, sorry about that, I forgot to check under "sega" :embarrassed:

[anagrama]

Finally comfirmed Championship Hockey (there's a loose cart in a bundle on eBay UK). Looks like that's one of the top Euro rarities (as with the SMS version).

[Speedy_NES]

Casino FunPak:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11259&item=5206292959&rd=1

Pac-Man:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11259&item=5206292421&rd=1

The seller states on both auctions that they are German PAL releases.

-Speedy

[Speedy_NES]

came across another one:

Paperboy 2:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11259&item=5205859246&rd=1

-Speedy

[anagrama]

He might say they are German, but all 3 of those are really US releases. Cheers anyway though!

[Raccoon Lad]

Not sure if this is the proper thread for this, but Dinobasher needs to be added to the GG rumor mill section. The March '94 review in Sega Power mentions a pending release for both the SMS and GG versions.

The scan's available in SMSPower's scans archive.

[anagrama]

Cheers Keith, I'll throw it in when I've next got the file.

[sharp]

I found a mistake in the database.

The Sega Game Pack 4 in 1 was sold with box. Ok I also never saw one until I found this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8198396319 on eBay. I think that's proof enough that there was a boxed version. I will deliver scans on rfgeneration, when I received the game, if wanted I can also deliver them for here. Maybe there should be a not to the game that the boxed version is realy hard to find, as almost all copies came as a pack-in cart.

[anagrama]

Wow, thanks! I guess it's like the later Mega Games MD compilations then - boxed versions do exist but are MUCH rarer than the loose pack-in ones - I've seen dozens and dozens of the 4-in-1 carts, but no box. Could ya let me know the part number when you get it?

Cheers! :)

[sharp]

Wow, thanks! I guess it's like the later Mega Games MD compilations then - boxed versions do exist but are MUCH rarer than the loose pack-in ones - I've seen dozens and dozens of the 4-in-1 carts, but no box. Could ya let me know the part number when you get it?

Cheers! :)

No problem, I will give you the number.

And yes it's a bit like those later 6 in 1 MD games, but these show up sometimes. Most likely because people kept the plastic MD boxes, and threw away the carton GG boxes as there was a plastic case inside.

[sharp]

http://i22.ebayimg.com/02/i/06/30/3d/1c_1_b.JPG

a picture of the box of this are euro release