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News about Promo Game&Watch
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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?
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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).
Finnisch Manual
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Instructions for the Game & Watch Games are available in several different languages. Newly discovered was a manual in Finnish for the game DJ Junior of the New Wide Screen series. A nice find of a retrogame collector named GameCollector90.
In Finland the games were imported and sold by the Finnish company Kioskkette Rautakirja. The manual is an original and was part of the Game DK Junior, which GameCollector90 had bought on the Swiss Ricardo auction platform.
The seller bought the game originally in 2004 on an auction platform in Finland.
Many thanks to GameCollector90 for the info and the photo!
First Promo Game&Watch from the Panorama Screen Series!
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A few days ago, a collector discovered and bought a Promo Game&Watch from the Panorama Screen Series. It’s the first known Promo Game of the Panorama Screen Series ever!
The imprint shows the logo of the company Agfa. This company mainly is known for developing, manufacturing and distributing analogue and digital imaging products and systems.
Thanks a lot to our member bmogeda for the information and for the pictures.
