Quoted from ChadH:If you look at the pic it shows the drops targets have "G E A R S" on them and not "S H I F T". I wonder if that got changed because it would be funny when you would have dropped the F target only.
Very possible. IIRC the Japanese version of Pac-Man was called Puck Man; it was changed when it came to the States to prevent vandalism of the P into an F.