Database update: September to November 2012

Big update: The auction data from September, October and November 2012 are ready now. Enjoy!

New section: Links

For all of you who want to know more about Game&Watch and other handhelds and consoles, we have now a new link section. If you know an interesting website, you can suggest it here.
==> to the new section

Game&Watch @ gamescom 2012

The MEGA – Museum of Electronic Games & Art (http://www.m-e-g-a.org) – is at the gamescon 2012, August 15th to August 19th 2012, in Cologne (Köln), Germany (http://www.gamescom.de). Beside other games they show all 60 Game&Watch Games!

MEGA is an association for conservation, preservation, documentation and public availability of digital cultural assets in the area of entertainment, information & communications technology, as well as electronic games and digital art. The profile is strongly defined by the needs of our target group.

gamescom is Europe's epicenter for games and gamers. The entire industry will be presenting itself not only to the general public at the trade fair, but also to trade visitors in particular.

Most expensive Game ever for USD 15'000.00?

Some of you might remember the special Green House that was sold over three years ago for about USD $4700.00 (more information here...). Very expensive you might think, but regarding its rarity the price is decent.

Does the same count for the following game? On June 26th a Mickey Mouse from the Panorama Screen Series was sold on eBay. End price was USD $15'000.00!

The game is factory sealed and obviously worth a lot of money to the buyer. A quick research in the Game&Watch database shows, that in June 2011 a Panorama Mickey Mouse was sold for USD $3205.13 (view) – that was the most expensive game the database holds (the Green House mentioned earlier is not in the database).

What will be next? Will the USD $15'000.00 ever get topped? Let's wait and see! Thanks to our member mr_byte,who reported this auction.

==> Link to the auction
or
==> Download as PDF

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.

Blisterpack Boxing

On April 22nd an auction for a very rare Game&Watch game has ended on eBay: A blisterpack Boxing.
Game&Watch games in blisterpacks are rare. In most cases the box of the games is not included in blisterpack games. But there are exceptions as you can see here. This blisterpack contains the box of the game as well! Having a look into the database here on gameandwatch.ch shows, that there is not one single record of such a combination so far.  

This blisterpack Boxing for sure is extremely rare. The end price of EUR 323,00 is rather low in my opinion even if the blisterpack has some damage.

==> Link to the auction or Download as PDF