Shigeru Miyamoto and YM-901
Shigeru Miyamoto On this year's E3 in Los Angeles, USA, (www.e3expo.com) Shigeru Miyamoto from Nintendo is present there, too. Shigeru Miyamoto is game developer and producer at Nintendo (more: ==> Wiki).
A member here from gameandwatch.ch has been at the E3 and has met Shigeru Miyamoto. This member, who does not want its name to be mentioned here, did sent my the picture you can see on the right. The Super Mario Bros. YM-901 Shigeru Miyamoto holds in his hands belongs to our member.
Shigeru Miyamoto did sign the YM-901 and asked our member, if it wants to have its name on the game, but our member declined. So, Shigeru Miyamoto answered: «OK, my name only then. And look, I made a little nose here.» and laughed. As you can see, he did indeed draw a nose in the middle of the case.
This special YM-901 is the only one we know of - a very rare piece of Game&Watch history!
Note: the owner of the signed YM-901 clearly said, that the game is not for sale!
Database Update May 2012
The auction data from May 2012 is ready now. Enjoy!
Database search for Mego/TimeOut
Now you can search the database for Mego/TimeOut games as well. First select the game (for example Ball AC-01) and then select Mego/TimeOut from the drop down menu Releases / Packaging / Fakes.
Video about Game&Watch
Jason Cirillo, http://robotubegames.com/, created in 2010 an interesting video about Game&Watch (English):61st Game&Watch discovered?
Picture by Giorgio CantùIt was believed, that there might be more than 60 different Game&Watch Games. Now possibly number 61 was discovered and no, today is not Aprils fools day!But still this new Game&Watch named Angry Birds is a creation done in Photoshop and in Illustrator.
The artist is Giorgio Cantù, Cantù Design Works.
Very nice done!
==> Link to the original page on Flickr.
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