Sealed SMS games

[TurboGenesis]

Golden Axe Warrior was a regular USA release. It has a USA case and manual. I am almost certain that this game was in standard SMS wrap when I buy it back in the early 1990s at TRU…

I also have Sonic the Hedgehog which was a European game brought over as it have multi language case and panoramic manual.

[ninjabearhug]

Golden Axe Warrior was a regular USA release. It has a USA case and manual. I am almost certain that this game was in standard SMS wrap when I buy it back in the early 1990s at TRU…

I also have Sonic the Hedgehog which was a European game brought over as it have multi language case and panoramic manual.

Most European SMS RPG's have USA style cases and manuals for some reason. As far as I am aware there was no specifically printed USA release of Golden Axe Warrior, the US version is the Euro release with a UPC sticker. You can tell the difference of a specifically printed US release by checking on the back cover. Here's an example using another well known SMS RPG:

US Phantasy Star ( Sega Of America on back cover)

Euro Phantasy Star (no mention of Sega Of America on the back cover)

[grolt]

Most European SMS RPG's have USA style cases and manuals for some reason.

The reason being that since the RPGs are text-heavy and English only, it makes no sense to advertise it in other languages because none of the others could play it. I believe all those RPGs (Golvellius, Ys, Lord of the Sword, Phantasy Star, SpellCaster, Golden Axe Warrior) were only released in the UK, Canada and the US (other than the Mark III or Tec Toy versions) because of the language barrier.

[PingvinBlueJeans]

I believe all those RPGs (Golvellius, Ys, Lord of the Sword, Phantasy Star, SpellCaster, Golden Axe Warrior) were only released in the UK, Canada and the US (other than the Mark III or Tec Toy versions) because of the language barrier.

Correct.

[tom]

wrong

here's the German release of Phantasy Star with German manual:


here's SpellCaster:


here's Ys:


and so forth (pictures with kind permission).

basically, every other European country had their own language manual, mostly Germany, France, Spain, Italy

[PingvinBlueJeans]

wrong

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basically, every other European country had their own language manual, mostly Germany, France, Spain, Italy

I stand corrected...I've never seen those. Is that just sticker on the Y's box, I presume? What do the backs of the cases look like?

[tom]

Sticker on Ys box says: German instructions enclosed

as for back of European SMS boxes, they were sometimes in English only, sometimes multi language