Macross Flyers and other Misc Promo Material

Shawn · 2025-08-03T02:43:50Z

I found a handful of Macross item flyers, and some misc Promotion items, so figured I'd put a placeholder here.

Here is one of the Misc items...a Sega Saturn promo sleeve for the 'upcoming' at the time DYRL game (1997)
It would be displayed in a plastic cd case and placed on the shelf to excite you for what was coming down the road.
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If you zoom real in real close on the game pics shown on the back, you can see the final boss for the 1st stage, which at the time had GLAUG LEGS!

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In the final release for the game, it was changed to a flying boss.
In one of the Sega Saturn Gama magazines around the time (1997) there was an included game disc, which was a common practice at the time for people to preview the upcoming games. The promo disc had stage 1 of the Macross game as a preview, and in that version you can actually play against the Glaug footed version shown above!
I've got the disc and magazine squirreled away somewhere....when I find it I'll include a pic of what issue it was from.
I remember playing it and going 'What the heck is this!??' (I got the magazine a few years AFTER the game was released)

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sketchley · 2025-08-03T04:21:17Z

Woah! That's a neat find!

And the fact that the Gurāji-legged version was semi-officially released is also pretty cool.

※ It's also the first time I've seen a version that matches Kazutaka Miyatake's designs for that particular beast. Reviewing the lineart for it (Kazutaka Miyatake Design Works Macross & Orguss Pgs 92-93) I noticed that the "feet" are slightly different from the Gurāji: 2 toes and a single heel. The zoomed-in image above is consistent with that, as well as the other leg details in the top-most illustration on Pg 93.

Edited 5 hours ago by sketchley