Australian Mega Drive Cart Variations

Before they became "Game Nation", Sega Ozisoft pretty much handled anything Sega in Australia, including the manufacture of most Master System and Mega Drive releases. Aside from the "Made in Australia" or similar print on the rear of the cart there were some other differences between Australian and Europe PAL games, and US Genesis games..

SEGA Gold Collection

It was never made clear what qualified a game for the "gold collection", but from what I've seen the games that were (re?)released as gold were popular, early to early-mid releases. Gold collection games were also cheaper than new release games (similar to sony's Platinum/GH for psone). Gold collection games included: Shinobi III, Wrestle War, The Ottifants, Sonic 2, Ecco and Streets of Rage.

SEGA Platinum Collection

The Platinum collection seems to be simply a later version of the gold collection, with later release games. As seen above, Platinum games had a blue print, fold out manual (to save on production costs?), though theres no difference in the cart sticker. Platinum games included: Aladdin
Mortal Kombat II , Sonic & Knuckles , Sonic 3 ,SFII: SCE.

Silver carts and cases

Several games were released with a metallic silver box instead of the standard black one, but its unclear why. Aside from the color, the cart and case/artwork are identical to the standard black boxes.
Confirmed carts:
Art Alive
Asterix and the power of he gods
Champions: World Class Soccer
Daffy duck in Hollywood
Mega Games 1
Warlock
The Jungle Book
Shinobi III
Samurai Showdown
Sub-Terrania
X-men 2

The silver carts are by far my favourite of the Aus exclusives.

Double Packs

Basically 2 carts in a VHS Cassette box with a new cover to match. My guess would be that they were released late in the Mega Drives lifetime to keep sales up in the face of newer consoles.I suspect that they were exlusive to Big-W (a retail chain similar to k-mart), but the only evidence to support this are the Big-W price stickers on a lot of the cases (I've yet to see a non Big-W price sticker). A manual is included for each game, most are in the ozisoft "blue and white" print/fold out style. Confirmed double packs include:
Another World + Arcades Revenge (spiderman/x-men)
Ariel the Mermaid + Ecco the Dolphin
Davis Cup + Gunstar Heroes
Jungle Book + Columns
X-Men + Space Harrier 2
Quackshot + Battle toads
Ranger X + Aladdin
Combat Cars + World Cup Italia '90
Double Clutch + Joe Montana Football

VHS style cases

Mmmkay I have no idea whats going on here, but for some reason Ozisoft released a few games with a vhs case variant. The case is a regular VHS cassette tape case with a new cover to match (notice the blue border around 3 edges of the image instead of 2). One can only assume it was because Sega Ozisoft either ran low on standard Mega Drive cases, or because it was cheaper.

VHS style games:
Light Crusader
Marsupilami
Sonic & Knuckles Platinum
Vectorman

Sega Sport re-releases

Similar to the gold/platinum re-releases, except for sport titles. Released later on in the Mega Drives life and probably at a budget price. Sega Sport games include:

WWF Raw
Pete Sampras Tennis 96
Fever Pitch soccer
Brian Lara Cricket
NBA Jam
Foreman for real
Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA Allstars

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