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Game&Watch Book available!
The Game&Watch books are available now!200 Softcover-Editions are on stock now.
The ordering system with BIC / IBAN and PAYPAL is currently being installed on the website www.gameandwatch.at.
Right now it's possible to reserve books there.
If youn want it faster, you may order your book(s) directly at Dave:
Price:
Softcover Book: EUR 39,95,
Hardcover Book, limited to 500 editions, with certificate, signed by the authors, numbered and it comes with an extra, double side printed bookmark (one side has silver-color print): EUR 59,95
Shipping fees:
Please ask while ordering.
==> The hardcover Book is supposed to be ready by December 18th.
http://www.gameandwatch.at
Update: Game&Watch book latest news
The current status is as follows:
Currently, the authors are waiting for the offer from the printing company. After that, production will start. This will take about ten to 14 days. During this time, the authors will provide an application form for their newsletter. Everyone who subscribes to the list will be notified once the book is ready for shipping. That will be the case about by the end of November.Everything took more times as planned. The reason is, that the authors Dave and Gerhard manage everything themselves. They have neither a publisher nor they have support from someone else who would help them (or could help) and the work of such a book is enormous!
Well, let's wait and look forward eagerly to the new Game & Watch book!
Reading instead of gaming – a new book about Game&Watch!
The legend of Game & Watch goes on and on!
The legend of Game & Watch goes on and on!Soon a new book about the popular Nintendo Game&Watch handheld games from 80s will be published. The following facts are already known:
its title is Der inoffizielle Game&Watch Sammler-Katalog.
The book is produced by the two authors Dave (David) Gschmeidler and Gerhard Meyer. They are from Vienna in Austria. Since their early days they got into videogame culture, design, music and media.
It will still take some time until everything is ready, but gameandwatch.ch has the worldwide exclusive right to report about it already!
Promotional version Mickey&Donald "siteco"
Game&Watch still is good for surprises!It's known that some Game & Watch games were produced as promotional versions.
These are games having an additional (company) logo printed on them, on behalf of companies.
It's unknown how many different ones of them exist. But now another one appeared:
Siteco Mickey & Donald
Siteco is a German company with a subsidiary in France that had given away the promotional games.
http://www.siteco.co.uk/en/company/corporate-profile.html
Many thanks to our member gameandwach for the information and the pictures!
And another green Fire!
We reported a few times about a green Fire FR-27 from the Wide Screen series.
Last time in March 2012 (open article in new Window/Tab).
Usually, the case of a Fire FR-27 is blue, but in very few cases it's green. It's still not clear why the case is green. Conceivable would be a manufacturing fault or that it has to do with the plastic pellets used at that time. However, this would not match the quality management of Nintendo. They would have noticed such errors and hardly brought the games to the market. Maybe Nintendo has deliberately changed to green.
The game shown here comes from a shop located in the Netherlands just across the border to Belgium. Therefore the game might come from Belgium originally and that's why one of the instruction is in French. The green Fire from March 2012 (see link above) had a manual in German. It's unclear if the different instructions were shipped from the beginning with the Games or if they were added later by collectors.
There is more information here in the forum:
http://www.gameandwatch.ch/de/forum/9-game-watch-diskussionen/5216-game-and-watch-fire-gruene-vorderfront.html
Many thanks to our member Barr for the information and for the pictures! {jcomments off}
Database update: August 2013
Update: The auction data for August 2013 are now online. Enjoy!
Rare Game&Watch from Sweden!
Once more a Game&Watch rarity was discovered. A Fire Attack ID-29 from Sweden that has an additional special imprint on the box: HO. This is similar to the games from France with the J.i21 logo imprinted.The HO. stands for Henrik Oskarson, this name is imprinted on the box as well. On the backside of the manual you can see the name of a company called Bergsala Handels AB. Probably this was the general importer of the G&W games. It's unknown why the name Henrik Oskarson is imprinted on the box.
Many thanks to our member gameandwatch who reported this and send the pictures.
Blaupunkt Parachute promo game!
And once more a rare promotional version of Game&Watch was discovered:
A Blaupunkt Parachute!
Blaupunkt GmbH is a German manufacturer of electronics equipment, noted for its home and car audio equipment. It was a 100% subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH until March 1, 2009 (Date of closing).
Source: Wiki
The game was discovered outside of ebay. The previous owner of the game was first owner. He told, that such promo games were given to staff members of the company. They were supposed to give the games to their customers. But many promo game found its way to the home of the staff members instead, for their kids....
Many thanks to our member gameandwatch for providing the information and the pictures!
Database update: March 2013
Update: The auction data from March 2013 are now online. Enjoy!
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