This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: SEGA Retro claims that Pachinko was recalled for having a "game-breaking bug", where it was replaced by Pachinko II. What is this bug?
Pachinko is ironically one of the rarest and most expensive games for the SG-1000 due to the game being reworked rather quickly and being replaced with Pachinko II.