{"id":34954,"date":"2018-07-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/the_japanese_version_of_sonic_mania_plus_comes_with_a_gorgeous_mega_drive_reversible_cover"},"modified":"2018-07-23T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T15:00:00","slug":"the-japanese-version-of-sonic-mania-plus-comes-with-a-gorgeous-mega-drive-reversible-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/23\/the-japanese-version-of-sonic-mania-plus-comes-with-a-gorgeous-mega-drive-reversible-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese Version Of Sonic Mania Plus Comes With A Gorgeous Mega Drive Reversible Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/the_japanese_version_of_sonic_mania_plus_comes_with_a_gorgeous_mega_drive_reversible_cover\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/the_japanese_version_of_sonic_mania_plus_comes_with_a_gorgeous_mega_drive_reversible_cover\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/the_japanese_version_of_sonic_mania_plus_comes_with_a_gorgeous_mega_drive_reversible_cover\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\" \/>\n<p>Last week, we showed you a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/random_sega_has_hidden_a_lovely_secret_message_in_sonic_mania_plus_artbook\">lovely secret message that Sega had hidden<\/a> on the back cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_mania_plus\"><strong>Sonic Mania Plus<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; artbook, thinking that it would definitely be the coolest thing we see from the deluxe bundle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, we&#8217;ve discovered that the Japanese version has its own exclusive Mega Drive-inspired reversible sleeve, fitting for that particular region, and it certainly gives that previous find a good run for its money.<\/p>\n<p>The cover is aiming to replicate the Japanese version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/megadrive\/sonic_the_hedgehog_3\"><strong>Sonic the Hedgehog 3<\/strong><\/a> on Mega Drive (or Sega Genesis for those of you in North America). You can see a side-by-side comparison of the two covers in this unboxing video below, shared on YouTube by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCglptaKA4eqejYu2eTtj1gA\">&#8230;Since Spacies<\/a>. The comparison can be seen from around the 3:10 mark.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>While it&#8217;s all down to personal taste, we think this reversible cover has the North American and EU versions well and truly beat. The Japanese version is different in a couple of other ways, too, most notably losing that shiny gold cover for more of a matte finish. Either way, though, it&#8217;s another lovely edition and has several members of Team Nintendo Life hovering over the &#8220;import&#8221; button as we speak.<\/p>\n<p><em>As ever, feel free to share your thoughts with us in the comment section down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we showed you a lovely secret message that Sega had hidden on the back cover of Sonic Mania Plus&#8216; artbook, thinking that it would definitely be the coolest thing we see from the deluxe bundle.\u00a0 Now, though, we&#8217;ve discovered that the Japanese version has its own exclusive Mega Drive-inspired reversible sleeve, fitting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}