Hi guys, I am new here and also new to collecting G&W. I have some questions which I can't seem to find the answers for. Hope you guys can help me out.

So I see all these versions called Vandame, SNCF, Alsthom, Candia. What are they?

Also, is there an English version of the Auction search function?

Many thanks for your help!

Hello pooch and welcome to the forum!

pooch wrote: Hi guys, I am new here and also new to collecting G&W.

Since when are you collecting and how many Game&Watch do you have already?

pooch wrote: I have some questions which I can't seem to find the answers for. Hope you guys can help me out.

We'll do our best for sure

pooch wrote: So I see all these versions called Vandame, SNCF, Alsthom, Candia. What are they?

These are some very rare special "advertising" versions. Some big companies did ask Nintendo to produce a few Game&Watch with their logo imprinted on it. I don't know for how many games these companies did ask for, probably just for one hundred or a few hundreds.
So, Nintendo did produce some Game&Watch games with an extra logo imprinted on the games, such as Mitsubishi, Van Damne, SNCF etc.

These games really are extremely rare and very hard to find...


There are some information about this in this FAQ here .

pooch wrote: Also, is there an English version of the Auction search function?

Yes. I just now did notice that there was a bug... After a small upgrade two days ago, on some pages the translation did not work anymore. I have now fixed the bug. Please select "English" from the drop down menu below the navigation to your left, and now the pages should be in English again.
Thank you very much for pointing this out!

Please let us know if you have more questions and enjoy collecting Game&Watch!

- Patrick