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3 minutes ago, DefaultGen said:

Dunno if the Sonic people ever figured anything else out, but there's a Printed in Japan copy with a receipt from before Sonic 1's "release date" (I know that Sonic 1 had a real release date, but June 23 is the unsourced one floating around). If it's not the first, it's at least tied for first as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks, yea leaning toward south San Francisco as the likely first offices. Before Redwood City.

segaretro has the south San Fran offices listed as in use 1986-1989

https://segaretro.org/Sega_offices

Wondering if there has been any research on which copy of Sonic the Hedgehog is considered first print? Back of the game has variants with the following:

Made in Japan, Redwood City Address

Made in Japan, South San Francisco Address

Printed in Japan, South San Francisco Address

I’ve excluded the K-A variants as they were likely later. Thoughts?

Thanks all, appreciate the insight.

Was going through the collection a little while back and noticed a variation in the original gameboy console.

I’m assuming the turtleneck on the model, and the darker green console screen is the older of the two versions?

Any thoughts?