Super Famicom Yoshi’s Island station (Japanese). It holds 6 games and a Super Famicom system.
Nintendo 64 storage tower (Australian exclusive). Holds 20 Nintendo 64 games.
Nintendo 64 Yoshi’s Story game storage (Japanese). It holds 8 games, either N64 SF/SNES and SF satelleview.
Super Famicom station. Holds 12 games and a Super Famicom system.
Released in Australia in 1999 was this Star Wars Double Play. A bundled pack including two of the Star Wars N64 games – Rogue Squadron and Episode I Racer.
There were 4 Double Play packs released. All were bundled with Star Wars Episode 1 Racer and one other Nintendo 64 game. They were advertised at a special price so there were some savings to be had by purchasing these Double Play packs.
Being released well into the life of the N64, it is marketed by the packaging as “Must have Nintendo 64” and in fine print at the bottom of the sleeve “Contains two ‘classic’ Nintendo 64 games”. All games in these packs are the ordinary Australian releases, the only ‘special’ part is the sleeve.
It is very similar to the Perfect Dark expanded edition, in the way it is packaged. The Perfect Dark sleeve is a shiny plastic feel, almost poster-like. Where as the Double Play sleeve is cardboard, very similar to game boxes.
These Double Play packs do appear from time to time but are never advertised for long and are very popular among collectors. I’m sure over the past 18 or so years since these were originally sold, a lot of sleeves would have become damaged and discarded which makes this all the bit trickier to find as a complete set.
Source: Harvey Norman, two for the price of one ad.
There were many nice Sega Mega Drive 2 bundles released throughout its lifetime and on this post I want to focus on my two favourite bundles. Both of which happen to be from Disney franchises. The Jungle Book Pack and The Lion King Pack (Australian version)
The Jungle Book Pack was released exclusively to Australia in 1994. It was bundled with the Mega Drive game The Jungle Book but it included more than just the bear nessecities! It also included the game Aladdin. The outer packaging wasn’t just a sleeve like other MDs but was an actual box with a folding tabs, covering a standard MD console box.
It’s the art work and vibrant colours that makes this pack a standout.
Next is The Lion King Pack. There were a few different Lion King packs released on the Sega Mega Drive; the MD 1 Lion King Pack, the European MD2 Lion King Pack and the Australian MD2 pack.
The Lion King Pack was also released in 1994. Mine has the price sticker of $199 bought in a Virgin store.
To illustrate the differences in box art, we have the UK Lion King Pack at the top, and on the bottom is the Australian Lion King Pack.
As you can see the UK pack has a sleeve and the AUS Pack has a box. The console from the AUS Pack also has a sticker stating the box is for “Inner packaging only”.
The art work design again is an eye catcher.
Source: Australian retailer “The Gamesmen” selling both bundles for Christmas in 1994 (back left and back right)
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