CD Sonic advertising Sonic CD trivia!

I was playing CD Sonic, the Beta of Sonic CD, yesterday and was explaining to my son the differences from the Beta ver to the Retail ver...

...As I was playing the game on the the first level I just happened to tell him about the first Dr Robotnik boss that in the Beta game had pincers for hands as opposed to bumpers...

...After playing I never thought any more about it

This morning he comes up to me with an official SEGA advert...

...With the U.K games you often got a fold up poster in the case, that had a pic of Sonic on one side and on the other side had the latest/forthcoming SEGA range...

Anyway the advert clearly showed the Beta ver of the MegaCD game rather than the Retail!!!!!!

...I wonder why SEGA showed the wrong ver in their advertising???

Btw heres the proof...

 

Probably had the ad worked out really early, anyway good observation!

 

I saw that pic before as well.
Probably just a lead time thing when it comes to printing up these flyers/adverts.
Hell, some flyer from Sega here in the states had the Sega CD labeled as the "Genesis Mega CD" a few months before it came out.

 

In actuality, you see quite a bit of this often. Look at the screenshots on the back of Ocarina of Time: Several were beta pictures. Not to mention they did the same thing for the GCN version.

 

Indeed.

The other thing I found rather funny was the original 1989 packaging for the US Sega Genesis system (the carton that the console shipped in) actually featured a Mega Drive cart clearly inserted in the cart slot of the system!

The same thing showed up in some of the early promo/advert material. See here:

http://homepage.mac.com/greggillis/images/YWWNBTS.jpg

 

Stuff sometimes has to be printed before the final decisions have been made. The changing of the pincers was probably in one of the last batches of changes.

Some vintage Starwars toys have pictures of the prototype mockups on the cardback. Later versions of the same cardback then get replaced with pics of the production items.

 

If you look on the back of a JaguarCD box there's a ton of game screenshots on it from games that never saw the light of day

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Check out the Rambo III screen in that advert. It doesn't exist in the final version either!

 

lol, there's a modem under the game boxes in that picture too!

 

that is correct, i posted a pic and a thread about this awhile back, shocking that they had the thing ready for us releae, question is how far were they before they dropped it.

 

Heh, this thread reminds me of how on the back of my GCN box there are pictures of Donkey Kong Racing and Kameo.