Hi, Well i have a basic question here, but i couldn't find the answer by googling it so far.. I was wondering why some of the jap megadrive games have their manuals perforated ? Someone told me it is only the case for the very first games released, but he couldn't confirm this at 100%... Is this statement true ? If yes, why did they finaly (and hopefully) stop this ? Most important, why was this stupid thing done ??? Thanks in advance for your answers
I'm not 100% on this but it's my understanding that it was just early release games that git this treatment and that it was 1st party Sega games Why? Well not entirely sure but I thought it was so that they could be put into a Filofax and carried around to read on the go. Just another crazy Sega inivation and that's why I love them! I'm sure someone will chime in with some clarity soon enough.
That sounds like a solid reason to me. Because Japanese are/were much smaller than the average American home, space is always an issue. It would've been much better to be able to put all the manuals in a folder for easy access rather than having all of the cases out.
Thanks for the feedbacks but still we don't have a sure answer I don't think it is :1st party Sega games, i have some other games which suffered the same treatments. N.B: for example I've checked my copy of Thunder force 2, it is not perforated while almost all of them you may find on eBay are perforated, am I just "lucky" ?
Interesting topic! Unfortunately I cannot provide a bullet-proof answer. The only japanese Mega Drive games I can think of featuring a perforated manual are Alex Kidd and Osomatsu-kun. Talking about design, it's also worth mentioning the different Japanese cartridge designs, e.g. slightly wider and/or differently colored cartridge cases, not to mention the 6+1 Japanese Sun Soft titles (+1 because Panorama Cotton did not come in a small case unlike the other six titles).
