Konami Console Game Release Flyer

[chessage]

While in search of the release dates for the MD/G and SNES ports of Sunset Riders (both North America and European versions), I stumbled upon this official Konami of America release date flyer from mid-1993. It has Sunset Riders down for a North American release on the SNES in November of 1993. The MD/G version was released about a year earlier, but I can't get an exact month. Does somebody have one of these flyers from 1992. Does anyone know if Konami or Palcom Software released this type of flyer in Europe?

[jesus.arnold]

Mobygames says both versions were released in the US in 93, and a year earlier Mega Drive release seems unlikely looking at Konami's usual favouritism to the SNES

[chessage]

Mobygames says both versions were released in the US in 93, and a year earlier Mega Drive release seems unlikely looking at Konami's usual favouritism to the SNES

No, not only does the North American copyright screen say 1992, but it also received a magazine review in December of 1992. You're also forgetting that the MD/G and SNES versions aren't similar at all. Four bosses were chopped out of the MD/G port, so it would make a lot of sense that the MD/G port was released significantly earlier. The European version of the MD/G port was released in early 1993, though. I still can't confirm the exact month of either.

[jesus.arnold]

No, not only does the North American copyright screen say 1992

This means nothing

but it also received a magazine review in December of 1992.

Was it a review of the US release? I have UK magazines with reviews of Ghouls N' Ghosts in them years before the Mega Drive was even available in Europe, as well as other reviews of games that were never even finished properly or released (such as the UK review of Battlemaniacs on the Master System)

You're also forgetting that the MD/G and SNES versions aren't similar at all. Four bosses were chopped out of the MD/G port, so it would make a lot of sense that the MD/G port was released significantly earlier.

The Mega Drive version is a rush job, like many other Konami games on Mega Drive (Hyperstone Heist comes to mind) I don't think many of the big Japanese developers really saw the Mega Drive as a priority tbh, the system wasn't very popular in Japan.

[chessage]

Was it a review of the US release?

I believe so. It was the December '92 issue of GameFan Magazine. I think there's a scan of the review somewhere online.

The Mega Drive version is a rush job, like many other Konami games on Mega Drive (Hyperstone Heist comes to mind) I don't think many of the big Japanese developers really saw the Mega Drive as a priority tbh, the system wasn't very popular in Japan.

That might have to do with why Sunset Riders wasn't released in Japan on the MD, but then again it also wasn't released on the Super Famicom either.