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SEGA Mail Away Game Information Pamphlets
Post Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:11 pm
Going through all my SEGA stuff, I noticed two things that I forgot about. Apparently, back in the day, you could mail the company for game hints for whatever game you liked and receive a copied walkthrough of sorts. I have two of these, has anyone seen any others or has seen the original files or what not?
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Post Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:17 pm
I got some of them and lots of copies from Raccoon Lad.

Here is a list of what I know of:

Helpful Hints Sheets
(enclosed in brackets the number of pages for each)

- [1p] Teddy Boy / Choplifter
- [2p] Zillion (+computer commands)
- [6p] Y's Walkthrough
- [2p] Action Fighter / My Hero / Wonder Boy / After Burner, Maze Hunter 3-D
- [1p] Space Harrier / F-16 Fighting Falcon / Enduro Racer / Global Defense / Zaxxon 3-D
- [2p] Black Belt / Ghost House
- [1p] Fantasy Zone
- [2p] Fantasy Zone / Fantasy Zone 2
- [1p] Double Dragon
- [1p] Kung Fu Kid
- [2p] Rocky / Great Baseball / Great Ice Hockey / Basketball / Great Football / Pro Wrestling
- [2p] Alien Syndrome
- [2p] Alien Syndrome (alt)
- [3p] Ghostbusters
- [3p] Alex Kidd in Miracle World
- [3p] Zillion (alt)
- [2p] Zillion 2
- [4p] Golvellius
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Post Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:50 pm
There's a few more too. Someone either here or at SMS.com posted a zip of a bunch of scans of these about a year or 2 ago.

Also, there's supposedly one for Phantasy Star. Which would be cool to have.
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Post Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:49 pm
It was here. See the list and the big directory o'junk.
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Post Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:52 pm
Cool, think you guys could shoot me a link or some copies, I have one that's not on that list, Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap. It's three pages, front/back. and a map at the end.
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Post Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:27 pm
Maxim wrote
It was here. See the list and the big directory o'junk.


I suggest to have that added to scans/ someday.
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Post Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:43 am
Cool, thanks! If anyone wants to check out the Wonderboy III one, let me know, unless it's already on the list there. Should have clicked the link first.
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Post Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:30 am
Hey, uh, anyone actually have zip files of the printouts so I can print out my own? The only thing in that list are pretty crappy jpgs of the front page of some of them, nearly impossible to print out with any bit of quality.
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Post Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:08 am
Stan Stepanic wrote
Hey, uh, anyone actually have zip files of the printouts so I can print out my own? The only thing in that list are pretty crappy jpgs of the front page of some of them, nearly impossible to print out with any bit of quality.


Well I guess they must be rescanned properly someday, then.
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Post Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:52 pm
Today please.
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Post Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 7:15 am
Here's an update list of the hint sheets I have (number of pages under brackets)

- [2p] Action Fighter / My Hero / Wonder Boy / After Burner, Maze Hunter 3-D
- [1p] Space Harrier / F-16 Fighting Falcon / Enduro Racer / Global Defense / Zaxxon 3-D
- [3p] Astro Warrior + Quartet
- [3p] Alex Kidd in Miracle World
- [3p] Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
- [2p] Alex Kidd: High Tech World
- [1p] Aztec Adventure
- [1p] Cloud Master
- [1p] Choplifter
- [1p] Double Dragon
- [2p] Fantasy Zone + Fantasy Zone II
- [4p] Golvellius
- [2p] Kenseiden
- [2p] King's Quest
- [1p] Penguin Land
- [1p] The Ninja
- [2p] R-Type
- [3p] SpellCaster
- [1p] TransBot
- [5p] Ys
- [5p] Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap
- [3p] Zillion
- [2p] Zillion II

I haven't been tracking them very thoroughly so probably missing many. Any other?

Kenneth spotted a Phantasy Star auction with what appears to be one:

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Post Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 9:46 am
☝️ my auction.... I scanned the sheets before listing, I'll pass them on to you guys sometime in the future.
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Post Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:08 pm
I acquired more sheets in 2018, here's the list I had until recently:

- [2p] Action Fighter / My Hero / Wonder Boy / After Burner, Maze Hunter 3-D
- [1p] Action Fighter
- [3p] Alex Kidd in Miracle World
- [3p] Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
- [2p] Alex Kidd: High Tech World
- [2p] Astro Warrior
- [3p] Astro Warrior + Quartet
- [1p] Aztec Adventure
- [1p] Black Belt
- [2p] Black Belt / Ghost House
- [1p] Bomber Raid [Activision header]
- [1p] Carmen Sandiego
- [1p] Choplifter
- [1p] Cloud Master
- [1p] Cyborg Hunter [Activision header]
- [1p] Double Dragon
- [1p] Fantasy Zone
- [2p] Fantasy Zone + Fantasy Zone II
- [4p] Golvellius
- [3p] Ghostbusters
- [2p] Ghost House
- [1p] Great Baseball
- [1p] Great Ice Hockey
- [2p] Kenseiden
- [2p] King's Quest
- [1p] (The?) Ninja
- [1p] Ninja
- [1p] My Hero
- [1p] Penguin Land
- [6p] Phantasy Star
- [1p] Rastan
- [1p] Rambo First Blood Part II
- [1p] Rambo III
- [1p] Rocky
- [2p] R-Type
- [3p] Quartet
- [1p] Shanghai
- [1p] Space Harrier / F-16 Fighting Falcon / Enduro Racer / Global Defense / Zaxxon 3-D
- [3p] SpellCaster
- [1p] Teddy Boy
- [1p] Teddy Boy / Choplifter
- [2p] Time Soldiers
- [1p] TransBot
- [1p] TransBot + Rambo First Blood Part II
- [2p] The Ninja
- [5p] Ys
- [1p] Vigilante
- [1p] Wonder Boy
- [2p] Wonder Boy in Monster Land
- [5p] Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap
- [3p] Zillion
- [3p] Zillion (inc/ computer commands)
- [2p] Zillion II

And then in March 2020 I acquired a large binder apparently used by Sega Hotline Employees up to 1991, which hopefully contains the final version of every hints sheets. Pictured below.

https://comics.ha.com/itm/memorabilia/miscellaneous/sega-employees-tip-hotline-m...
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Post Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2022 10:24 pm
Holy smokes... did these ever get scanned?
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Post Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2022 9:44 pm
Funny I recognized the map of Castle of Illusion pretty much straight away. Played that quite a few hours...
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