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I'd like to know this myself.

Sega of America was really tiny at the time. I wonder if they just didn't have the resources to do the little bit of localization that would have been needed to reuse the Japanese box art. So maybe somebody just got their cousin who could kinda draw to sketch a few things on grid paper, and boom, done.

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The reason was most likely because they justified their existence (and funding from the parent company) by saying there was a need to adapt the artwork to the tastes of the local market. That may or may not have been true. The reality, however, was that a lot of the artists they contracted with had tight deadlines and were not well-informed about the games they were making cover art for.

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