U.S. Sonic with UPC sells for $981.33

[Sunnyvale]

But how does the UPC transform it into an American game? Just...how? We've gone through this pages back about the idea that by giving the game a unique SKU is what makes it different. But we've seen how that's not true. Games do not need different UPC codes to be from different regions. And a game can have multiple UPC codes and not count as multiple games. It's completely arbitrary.

If you're going to say the UPC is what makes the difference you need to justify it somehow. All the evidence points to it not meaning jack. Meanwhile, all arguments going for the UPC angle aren't backed up by anything concrete.

It comes off as reverse logic. Rather than ask whether or not Sonic is American and examine the evidence to come to a conclusion, it seems like you're starting from the conclusion that Sonic is American and using the UPC as proof simply because it's literally the only thing there. If UPC codes were notoriously region specific or something like that then you'd have the evidence to back it up. But they don't work that way. It's completely arcane.

I certainly don't know why they stuck on the sticker. But looking at the evidence from a few pages back it doesn't seem to have anything to do with making the game American.

OK, at this point you seem to be going overboard defending your position. No evidence?!? I put it to you there is no evidence for any SMS or NES game being released anywhere specifically, based on your definition of evidence. We have:

1)Witness testimony of high-ranking Sega officials at the time of release
2)Witness testimony of people who saw it/purchased it in stores in the USA.
3)No copies being found in the wild anywhere else have been reported.
4)Adverts from Sega proclaiming the release of Sonic in the US.
5)Three other games that have the same issue, all being US releases, all being recognized as such.

While I am generally a skeptic, it is wrong to say 'nothing concrete'. Find me concrete proof SE was pulled from shelves, and not just snapped up and hoarded. If you have just testimony and words on a page, you have the same evidence you are condemning.

It sounds like you're heading up the 'the UPC doesn't mean it came from the US, it coulda been sold like that anywhere' creek. At this point, sir, it is you who lack evidence and need to provide it. If I claim Toyotas are made in Zimbabwe, and say words from the president of Toyota aren't evidence in this argument, what exactly can you give me that's sufficient evidence? And does not the burden of proof switch to me at that point? You've made it an impossible-to-convince-you scenario. Short of a time machine, scouring every store in the world in 91, I don't think you will accept anything as evidence. If I am wrong, please give me what you would require for proof that the sticker=US release.