World of Illusion (PAL Megadrive)

[anagrama]

I got a second copy of this amongst a bunch of games today, and the cover has a couple of differences to my original.
The original looks like any other black-box Megadrive game, and has 8 languages on the back:

The second looks more like a Genesis game [but is definatly PAL].
There's a solid border around the front cover, and a bar-code on the spine rather than the back, and it's in only English on the back cover (there's no manual with mine, the pics are from eBay):



A quick check on eBay suggests that the original is much more common.

Does anyone know if the Genesis-like version was possibly a pack-in at some point? Or if there are any other games like this?
I know there's a few of packaging variations throughout Europe, mainly for games with translated in-game text (and some 3rd Party games), but it's the first time I've seen the Genesis-style box for a Megadrive game.

[tinsair]

Batman Returns & Home Alone are also like this as I have them both, never seen that one before.

Maybe they are Australian as the gold seal of Sega are on some of their games

[anagrama]

Batman Returns & Home Alone are also like this as I have them both, never seen that one before

Thanks! Now you mention it, I have seen both of those before aswell, but never picked up on it until I had the two World of Illusions side-by-side.
Looking at eBay suggests that both Batman Returns and Home Alone are more common with this variation than in 'standard' packaging.

Maybe they are Australian as the gold seal of Sega are on some of their games

I did wonder that, but all the ones on Australian eBay have the usual covers.
I guess it was just a short-lived variation for some UK games. I'll keep an eye out for any more.