nintendo Game & Watch BALL

RATH · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject: nintendo Game & Watch BALL

The ball revives as a present of club Nintendo in Japan.
http://club.nintendo.jp/rank2009/index.html
Is there a present in other countries?

tanatron · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:33 am Post subject:

Welcome here RATH!
For those of you not knowing him ,he is one of the biggest collectors worldwide and a very fine expert of this hobby.You might have had a "close encounter of the third kind" with him on ebay where he surely clobbered you on some rare games, but it his site that makes him special :

http://electronic.exblog.jp/

He has so many news , pictures and informations on electronic games that makes you fell bad it is not translated in English!

He's a special one!

Alex

Ps- the 3 games he has just posted were mine! Laughing

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Rik · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:34 pm Post subject:

Welcome Rath! Glad you joined up!

About the Club Nintendo prizes, we have 'Rewards' you can earn in the club:
https://club.nintendo.com/rewards.do
But nothing about a Game & Watch that I can find... What do you have to do in Club Japan to get the Ball game?

As for Rath, I've known about him since before I started the Handheld Museum. WAY back in 1999 or 2000 I discovered a site that I called Valkyrie because of the URL (couldn't read any of the Japanese on the site itself...) :

http://www2c.airnet.ne.jp/valkyrie/index.html

(Doesn't work anymore, no need to click it Cool

)

He had tons of games I'd never heard of before! (This was before eBay really introduced us all to the Japanese market...) It was really exciting, and I still have a couple of little images from that site on the Museum, linking back to that old page.

Here's a picture of some of his collection from 9 or 10 years ago. At the time I couldn't identify probably half of these games, if not more...:

That's just been sitting in my site's directory forever... I kind of used it as a check list. Mr. Green

Finding his site was one of the main reasons I finally decided to make the Handheld Museum in the first place... So you can thank him for that too. Cool

Rik

MADrigal · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:15 am Post subject:

Welcome here, Akio Smile

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RATH · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:53 am Post subject: Hellow

Hellow.

The ball of G&W is a present to the member of the platinum of Club nintendo.

It has already been decided that the ball of G&W is presented from Club nintendo to me in April, 2010.

As for this ball, some minor changes are done.

The battery changes from LR43 to CR2032.
ON/OFF of the sound becomes possible.

In clubs nintendo other than Japan, is such a present done?

Hi.Rik.
10 years passed after it had taken a picture of this image.
My collection is about 1500 now.
About 90% of my collection can be confirmed on my friend's Web page.
http://www.game-nostalgia.net/

NE146 · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:34 am Post subject:

I got my Game and Watch Ball reproduction in the mail this week (1200 Nintendo Points).

https://club.nintendo.com/rewards-details/a/15515.do

..and is it me or is it smaller than the original? While I have a lot of Game & Watches (in boxes at my Mom's house) they're all the Widescreen versions and not the original Silver/Gold series. I used to have Fire as a kid but that got broken and destroyed years ago. :p

Is my memory just bad? Smile

MADrigal · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:38 am Post subject:

Silver and Gold G&W are much much smaller than widescreens. Smile

Congratulations on getting that game, I'm pretty sure it's a highly collectable item Smile

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NE146 · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:58 am Post subject:

blanka · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:53 am Post subject:

I read they tried their best. Fun fact: to hide the connectors in the original silver series, Nintendo used a black mask on the screen. It was not needed any more on later games, but on this reproduction, they added the mask again, just like in 1980. Also the sound mute option is a hidden feature: the looks are not altered by adding some text on the case.

Eggie · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:28 am Post subject:

Thanks for the links to electronic from Rath and nostalgia.
I had them but my computer crashed a few month ago and was missing these links.

It are great websites