Is this a new discovery?! Taz Master System 2 version

[Chunkchenko]

Someone on Facebook had recently put up a post showing the pages of a Argos 92/93 spring edition showing off the gaming pages. On the master system games section it shows the sonic and batman variation insert but also has a Taz MS2 variation. Is this already known information as I was only aware of the sonic, Batman and the yet to be discovered home alone variation.

[flatapex]

I would be very intrigued to see if this is real, I know sonic 2 exists but is rare

[retrokevretro]

Yeah, it's known about but like the Home Alone SMSII version, no-one has ever come across one.

[Chunkchenko]

I had seen the advert for home alone but somehow missed this Taz version, interesting regardless!

[ian]

I spotted this and posted it about 6 years ago:
shinobiman.proboards.com/post/108605/thread

I guess there's a chance there may be 1 or 2 copies out there but it's not likely

[flatapex]

I'm trying to find some interesting information, once it is all cross referenced we might be able to piece some idea of the back story

[Chunkchenko]

May 4, 2020 19:58:16 GMT ian said:

I spotted this and posted it about 6 years ago:
shinobiman.proboards.com/post/108605/thread

I guess there's a chance there may be 1 or 2 copies out there but it's not likely

I must have completely forgotten about that post or never saw it haha as far as I remember hasn’t there only been 2 confirmed Batman’s?

[retrokevretro]

A friend of mine used to work in packaging and would generate barcodes for their products, he recently tried to read the SMSII Sonic 2 barcode but it would not scan meaning that these would have been meant for display / advertising purposes only. It makes sense that more SMSII Sonic 2's show up as this game would have been heavily promoted in comparison to Tazmania, Home Alone and Batman Returns.

[Phil]

Just looking at the Sonic 1 screenshot. Did anyone notice it says 'Ring 00' in the top left hand corner? I'm pretty sure that's not how it looks in the actual game...

I'm guessing it's a mock screenshot,the border at the bottom would be a lot bigger too.

[dpkt101]

Hi! I only found out now  (or rather, I never noticed this particular ...) that some games have covers with "Master System II" written on them!

In general .. are these games very rare?

[lambrettadave]

I personally think that if Argos sold these cover versions, there would be alot of them around.
I think there mock ups.

Is it me or is sonic running but no one is actually pressing a direction on the joypad.

Just noticed that there's only one lead from the console as well.

[Phil]

It's definitely a mock up screenshot, maybe it was too tricky to take an actual picture of the game running. Not only does it not say 'Rings' in the actual game, there is also no timer in this picture.

[lambrettadave]

Probably done because it's difficult to get a clear screen shot with a camera