U.S. Sonic with UPC sells for $981.33

[Sunnyvale]

Prior to this last post, you had put forth no evidence as to why we could not compare SMS and GBA games. Everyone knows you can't compare Atari 2600 small-scale releases to modern day bootlegs, and that was never in dispute. Thank you for clarifying your argument.

I contend that 'everyone' should know you can't compare 90's marketing technology to modern day, but apparently not

Regardless, the change from UPC to EAN13 took place much before the Sega Master System was released, so they can be compared. The other changes in the UPC system from Sonic SMS to Mario Advanced 4 have no bearing on what we're talking about.

The other changes have plenty of bearing if you want to compare GBA with SMS.

I'm not the guy arguing that there was not intent to sell the product in the US. I think we all know there was intent to sell here, as it was indeed sold by Sega.

I know. Tonythetiger is the one saying there is no evidence of intent.

I still maintain that the other interesting cases such as Radiant Silvergun must logically be accepted though, if we do take a UPC product code to be a logical determination of region.

Does your copy of Radiant Silvergun have a different UPC than a Japanese version?

EDIT: I suppose I should address one more thing in this post to be fair to Sunnyvale. I did say that the existence of a counterexample meant that UPC was shown to be too arbitrary to rely on. There are indeed country codes. I concede that point to you now. Now, I'm wondering why exactly SMA4 would have the same codes. Guess it's an exception, eh?

No clue. I don't collect GBA games. And, as one who doesn't collect the games, I am ready to immediately concede that I know nothing of the regional rarities, variations, international releases...

Which is something I wish the non-SMS collectors would consider here. 53 CIB games and 11 loose, and counting