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Teddy Boy, ® variant
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:54 pm
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Afternoon,
I've been on a fact-finding mission and I figured the Sega 8-bit experts are better placed to help: https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?posts/974527/ tl;dr - in the US, the initial batch of Sega Master System games pre-date the slogan "Now, there are no limits." becoming a registered trademark. That means everything from 1986 has this phrase marked with ℠, and almost(?) everything from 1987 has ®. I'm led to believe the entire US 1986 product lineup was reprinted in 1987, so there are both ℠ and ® variants of the earliest Master System games. And I've found photographic evidence to support this... for everything except Teddy Boy (on card). There are claims that a "Now, there are no limits®" Teddy Boy variant exists, but it would be nice to have proof - it's the only one I can't account for (that and the Light Phaser, though that's a bit of a faff). There are no copies on ebay right now and nobody has either scanned it or taken a picture - does it exist? Does anyone here have it? For what it's worth, here's a list of games I can confirm have both variants: Action Fighter Alex Kidd in Miracle World Astro Warrior Black Belt Choplifter F-16 Flying Falcon (card) Fantasy Zone Ghost House (card) Great Baseball Great Ice Hockey Hang-On / Astro Warrior Hang-On / Safari Hunt Marksman Shooting & Trap Shooting My Hero (card) The Ninja Rambo: Fire Blood Part II Pro Wrestling Space Harrier Super Tennis (card) TransBot (card) World Grand Prix |
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Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:22 pm |
We are tracking this in our scans' metadata:
- US scans with "Now there are no limits" and SM: https://www.smspower.org/Scans/Index?action=search&q=group%3Dscans+%24%3AReg... - Scans with "Now there are no limits" and no SM (implying an (R) or nothing): https://www.smspower.org/Scans/Index?action=search&q=group%3Dscans+%24%3AReg... Indeed no Teddy Boy in the latter list, although there is a European version. Our scans are pretty complete and we have been looking for these variants for many years. It doesn't mean it doesn't exist though... |
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Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 3:19 pm |
Rupert/James has a good list going, specific to PAL/Euro releases but it does cover US card games i believe https://shinobiman.proboards.com/thread/10465/1986-1990-european-variations-need...
Barney also has this http://shinobiman.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&t... |
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:58 pm |
I had recently attempted to document all of the cover versions. Besides SM and R versions, there are places of manufacturing that are different. The types are:
No Limits SM (Made in Japan) No Limits SM (Made in Taiwan) No Limits R (Made in Japan) No Limits R (Made in Taiwan) No Limits R (Made in Hong Kong) No Limits R (Made in China) No Limits R (Made in China label) I have not made a list per-se, but all of the ones I found (I looked up every original box type on Ebay) and put them all into here: https://vgcollect.com/browse/segamastersystem/ For Teddy Boy, the only No Limits R that exists is the EU releases. Even the US cover that was imported to Germany has the No Limits SM cover. |
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