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And another green Fire!
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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
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Update: The auction data for August 2013 are now online. Enjoy!
Rare Game&Watch from Sweden!
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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!
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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!