For starters, most NES collectors know of the 6 different Impossible Mission II versions out there (AVE, SEI b&w, SEI color, HES normal cart, HES piggyback, and Milmar). What only some people know is that HES released a few games with US boxes instead of their own cases, and with a HES sticker on the boxes.
This had not yet been documented for Impossible Mission II, so when I saw a HES version with SEI box + sticker on the German eBay I just had to win the auction, and now it turns out that the box has a German SEI/Epyx sticker on it, and the manual inside is partially in German!? I don't own the normal HES version of the game so I can't compare them, but could it be that this is a German / European release of the game? Does anyone know if the Australian HES Impossible Mission II also has a multilingual manual?
I'm definitely glad I won this auction
-Speedy