History Main / SequelFirst

* The second album by {{The Move}} was released in the US before their debut albums.

* The second albums of both PinkFloyd and {{The Move}} were released in the US before their debut albums.

* The second albums of both {{Pink Floyd}} and {{The Move}} were released in the US before their debut albums.

* ''{{Earthbound}}'' (''Mother 2''), the second in the ''Mother'' series, and the first [[NoExportForYou (and only)]] one to be released in the US. The original ''Mother'' was originally slated for a North American release under the title ''Earthbound'', but was scrapped after being completed; when the prototype surfaced years later, the hackers that made the game playable in emulators also changed the title to ''Earthbound Zero'' to avoid confusion.

* ''{{WarioWare}}: Touched!'' came out before ''[=WarioWare=]: Twisted!'' in America and Australia. This is a problem in itself, since the latter game obviously serves as 18-Volt's real introduction in the series.
** In addition to this, Twisted unlocks a secret video in Touched when Touched is played with Twisted in the GBA slot, thus meaning that the WarioWare game that game out three months AFTER Touched did unlocked a video in Touched.

* The AdventureGame for the NES that was called ''Tombs & Treasure'' in North America was a port of a PC-8801 game called ''Taiyō no Shinden Asteka II''. As the name indicates, this was a sequel to a game called ''Asteka'' (a command line-driven [[InteractiveFiction text adventure]] with some graphics), which was never translated into English.

* For some reason, the American leg of the {{Genesis}} ''TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway'' tour was scheduled to happen before the [[{{Understatement}} often difficult to follow]] ConceptAlbum had even been released in the US. The band ended up playing the entirety of the album to audiences who hadn't heard it yet and certainly weren't expecting [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible anything like that]].

* ''GundamWing'' was the first {{Gundam}} series to air on Cartoon Network's Toonami block, causing many fans to imprint on it like baby ducklings and judge all subsequent Gundam releases based on it. This made life very difficult when they got around to airing the original ''MobileSuitGundam'' with its extremely dated animation.

* Outside Japan and North America, the Mario RPG spinoffs came out of nowhere and started with ''VideoGame/PaperMario'', which of course made the call backs confusing. As a result, in those regions ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' is often used to describe the series. The original 1996 ''SuperMarioRPG'' did, with a little bit of bowdlerising, eventually make it to PAL regions... in ''2008''. Three generations and three sequels later.

* Outside Japan and North America, the Mario RPG spinoffs came out of nowhere and started with ''PaperMario'', which of course made the call backs confusing. As a result, in those regions ''PaperMario'' is often used to describe the series. The original 1996 ''SuperMarioRPG'' did, with a little bit of bowdlerising, eventually make it to PAL regions... in ''2008''. Three generations and three sequels later.

* The Genesis and Turbografx remakes of''{{Valis}} 1: The Fantasm Soldier'' weren't released until after ''{{Valis}} IV'' was released in Japan (and Valis II in the US). Only the former made it to the states.

* The first ''{{Pokemon}} Stadium'' game released internationally was actually the second released in Japan. The first was skipped over entirely because it actually did not have the full roster of Pokemon at the time.

* ''Advance Wars'', released for the GBA in 2001, is actually part of the long-running ''[[NintendoWars Famicom Wars]]'' series which dates back to the original ''Famicom Wars'' (natch) in 1988. Ironically enough, the Japanese version of ''Advance Wars'', ''Game Boy Wars Advance'', was not released in Japan until 2004 when it was included in a two-in-one cartridge with its sequel.

* Though not necessarily a true example, it is worth noting that [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Adventure 2: Battle]], a remake of Sonic Adventure 2, came out before Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, a remake of Sonic Adventure.

** It actually WASN'T a sequel but a port of the original. Which adds more confusion seen as the port itself was later released in Japan.

* Before ''ClockTower'' on the PlayStation, there was the NoExportForYou ''ClockTower: The First Fear'' on the SNES.

->--''TheAngryVideoGameNerd''

-> ''TheAngryVideoGameNerd''

* ''Jojo's Bizarre Adventure'' is a good example of this trope. Jojo is split into "Parts", each part including a different main character. When the show was adapted into an Anime, only Part 3 "Stardust Crusaders" was adapted, and they started with the final arc of Part 3, before going back years later and doing the earlier part of the series. This was later released in America, along with a Part 3 Video game by Capcom, and thus Part 3 became the most popular Part of the story in the US. Because of this, when Viz optioned the rights to the Manga, they skipped parts 1 and 2 and went straight to part 3, but removed the "Stardust Crusaders" subtitle, simply showing it as "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", with no apparent plans to release the first two Parts yet in any form yet.

** The Italian cut (which removes humor) of Dawn of the Dead is now out in America as ''Zombie: Dawn of the Dead''. Weither this makes things more or less confusing is up for debate.

* ''{{Earthbound}}'' (''Mother 2''), the second in the ''Mother'' series, and the first (and only) one to be released in the US. The original ''Mother'' was originally slated for a North American release under the title ''Earthbound'', but was scrapped after being completed; when the prototype surfaced years later, the hackers that made the game playable in emulators also changed the title to ''Earthbound Zero'' to avoid confusion.

* ''SuperRobotWars'', although that's for a very good reason.

* Related is AdaptationFirst, a tendency for a startlingly large number of video game franchises in Japan to have their ancillary products (such as anime series or manga) cross the Pacific without the actual games making the jump. This happens to visual novel or otherwise text-heavy games nearly without fail. Examples include ''SakuraTaisen'', ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', ''{{AIR}}'', ''{{Kanon}}'', ''FateStayNight'', ''{{Tsukihime}}''... the list is huge.

* The first ''ThunderForce'' game to be released outside of Japan was ''ThunderForce 2''. Infact, the first ThunderForce (which was a rather dull ''Xevious'' clone released on three Japanese microcomputers) is so obscure that This Troper remember seeing a review calling ''ThunderForce 2'' the first game in the series.