Accolade

Ballistic

I hear Ballistic were a publishing label divised by Accolade for Sega consoles (similar to Flying Edge/Acclaim - i.e. not a separate company so no "co-publishing" involved). There was a page once for Ballistic, but it was deleted and I can't remember why.

Ballistic gave us the unlicensed Mega Drive games (aside from Ishido which is their oldest MD release). After the lawsuit, I think the name was dropped and Accolade took responsibility for things again. So I think the better way of detecting unlicensed games isn't so much to look at the ROMs, but instead the packaging.

Type A (1990)	Type B (1991)	Type C (1993)	Type D (1993)
Accolade (pre-Ballistic)	Ballistic	Accolade (pre-"Genesis Red")	Accolade ("Genesis Red")

I don't know if any "Type C"s were released without a license. These have been sportted with Sega Seal of Quality [i]stickers[/i], presumably added after the lawsuit, but the packaging itself was designed before Accolade got their license. And all those "type C"s were later re-released in Europe with official Mega Drive branding

it also helps to date them. Accolade released lots of things in 1993. -Black Squirrel 12:57, 22 August 2011 (CDT)