Mystery about the "cardiogram" solved

For years, Game&Watch collectors have been puzzling of what is known as the "cardiogram" logo. The logo is imprinted on a Fire of the Wide Screen series. It’s clear, that the game comes from Great Britain because it carries the CGL logo. So it was suspected that the company with the cardiogram logo should also come from England.

Old Cockpit Panel from a RAF (Royal Air Force) Tornado FighterNow the secret is revealed: It’s the company Plessey from the UK. Plessey was a British, international electronics, defense and telecommunications company founded in 1917. In 1989, it was acquired by a consortium of GEC and Siemens, which split the assets of the Plessey Group.
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Many thanks to Peter, Aris and Norman for the great hints!

PS: In the Promo FAQ, the Fire is no longer listed as a "cardiogram", but correctly as "Plessey" :)

News about Promo Game&Watch

The FAQ about the advertising Game&Watch was missing two photos:
Chef bélier and Parachute OMO. These pictures are now available and added to the FAQ:

Finally, four new Promo Game&Watch have been discovered!
Parachute Total, Parachute Tricots Saint James, Popeye Kanterbräu and Oil Panic Siteco:

These can also be found in the FAQ about the advertising games.

A big thank you to all the members, collectors and interested people in Game & Watch, who have provided photos and information and provide them here!

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Brazilian Game & Watch?

There's a very interesting story regarding a supposedly Brazilian set of Nintendo Game & Watch items...

Marcus Vinicius Garrett Chiado, a brazilian journalist and historical researcher of the genesis of video games in Brazil, told, in his most recent published work ("1983 + 1984 - Quando os videogames chegaram", yet with no translation to English or any other language than Portuguese), that a Brazilian businessman had interest to officialy sell our beloved gadgets here.

However, the negotiations didn't go forward because his original plan was to use his Brazil's plant to make the final assembly of G&W with parts coming from Japan, which didn't please Nintendo at a first glance. In addition, Nintendo required certain assurances that left the entrepreneur upset to the point of giving up the idea, mainly because his company was very well rated internationally and this lack of confidence hurt him. So, if this had worked, besides the classical international G&W distributions (tricOtronic, J.i21, CGL, Giochi Preziosi, OTOYS, NOA, Pocketsize, Videopoche and others less known - like the Argentinean blue-cased games), we'd have a new Brazilian line, with paperwork and manuals in Portuguese! and, maybe, with boxes containing its own artwork.

Surely it would have been a nice alternative to lower costs for Brazilian customers, who had to face high prices, lack of many items and rare places to find them, back in 80's!

For the interested ones, the original article is on page 21 of the above mentioned book, whose official Facebook page can be reached here (only visible for logged in users at Facebook).