Professor Asobin

Also appears in early SMS German manuals. I Can confirm Hang On and Great Soccer, but not World Grand Prix. Will scan and upload those at some point. Fantasy Zone German manual has already been uploaded here and also includes him. I suspect that early non-US manuals (English only) also do, but I can't confirm yet ... hopefully I can shortly. Still, those need re-categorising as they currently say either UK or AU but were actually released well before UK SMS release and were released in all non US and non DE (I guess they were the only country which ordered enough for Sega to localise packaging to the local language) markets such as Italy, Hong Kong, and Australia. I guess the standard category would be "EU", but as Italy had it's own manuals (unlike Germany based off of the pre-production manuals rather than the production manuals, so it seems likely that these were produced by the local distributer rather than Sega) the only other two known countries to receive these variants were outside of the EU. So what category should these variants fall under? EU, or create a new "PAL" region?--Pirate Dragon (talk) 20:47, 17 March 2015 (CDT)

I'm not entirely sure if it's the best way forward, but I've been thinking for a while that "overseas" might be a better term. Although this was more from the perspective of arcade flyers like this one and this one, where the text is in English, but there's no clear indication as to which region it's from (which is why some are marked "US" and others "EU" - TAFA does this too). I'm not super convinced it's the best way forward though, and something like "world" is too vague.

My concern with using "PAL" is that we might run into a country that uses NTSC -Black Squirrel (talk) 04:32, 18 March 2015 (CDT)