It seems (at least for me) that some G&W models never had japanese instructions and papers, mainly those Multi Screens above Pinball (PB-59) (i.e., Black Jack and so on...). Recently, I managed to find a Mario Brows. (MW-56) with japanese stuff, but I NEVER saw Rain Shower or Life Boat with such stuff, even after a hard search in eBay or other sites...

I never saw also games above Mario's Cement Factory (i.e., Manhole (NH-103) and so on...) with japanese papers, neither the Table Top or Crystal Screen series with this material...

Do you ever seen it? Please tell us... [-o

Thanks!

I agree with you, other samples: Tropical Fish (UK Release), EGG (Australian Release) not sure about Life Boat and Rain Shower, but good point you spotted out, at least I don't remember to have seen them with Japanese papers :-k

cheers, gameandwatch

Hi, gameandwatch!

Hmmm... so, Tropical Fish and Egg are not japanese in its essence? I mean, they were not made for selling in the japanese market? Very interesting! This can explain, for instance, why there's not japanese manuals not only for the games you mentioned, but also for Black Jack model and above! But I think, somewhere in this world, that there must be japanese papers for Life Boat and Rain Shower, because there's no logic in this lack of such documentation for Multi Screen models in sequence until PB-59...

Regards,

Carlos.

Hi Carlos,

The following games were never released in Japan according to Japanese Wikipedia:

Rain Shower
Life Boat
Squish
Bomb Sweeper
Safebuster
Gold Cliff
Zelda
DK Circus
Mickey Pano
Manhole
Tropical Fish
Super Mario New Wide
Climber New Wide
Balloon Fight New Wide
Mario The Juggler
Super Mario Crystal
Climber Crystal
Balloon Fight Crystal

All others should have Japanese instruction manuals. I have seen Japanese manuals for Black Jack, Pinball, Tabletops, and Mario's Cement Factory New Wide. The Mario's Cement Factory New Wide Japanese manual is considered rare and I've seen them sell for hundreds of dollars.

- Ash

Hi, Ash!

Many many thanks for your valuable contribution. I saw at eBay (and it's still for sale!) a japanese Mario's Cement Factory with japanese manual... I almost bought it only for the manual, but I've gave up for now. This is the link:

www.ebay.com/itm/Marios-Cement-Factory-G...?hash=item25ae2f03fc

You're welcome. Hey, that's a great find. You might want to snatch up that MCF with the Japanese manual if you're collecting Japanese manuals. They don't show up too often.

I'd probably try to talk him down in price though.

Here are some pics of a DKJR Tabletop manual I own.