Showing posts with label 1982. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1982. Show all posts

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Game & Watch: Green House

Inchworms?? Oh-My-God. Let's clean that mess.

Ok, now it's time to get serious; here's Green House from the beloved Nintendo's Game & Watch series. It's a Multi Screen game, so it pretty much looks like an old version of the Nintendo DS.

Quote from Wikipedia: 'The object of the game is to protect the flowers at each corner of the screen with a can of bug spray from enemies. Worms crawl towards the top flowers while spiders slowly climb down webs to the bottom flowers. When three flowers have been eaten, you lose.'
That sounds as simple and addictive as ever! Actually, 'Green House' is considered by some as the most fun and action-packed Game & Watch title ever. You can check it out by yourself in this great Youtube video.

As usual, I got this item thanks to eBay. Since the Game & Watch are becoming more and more expensive lately, I got this one for 99.99€ (+31€ of shipping costs, do you believe it?) It was sent from Belgium, nicely packed in a box full of Quick logos everywhere.

On a side note, I completely vectorized the front box of Green House. It took a lot of hours, but I'm happy with the result. You can download the .EPS files below along with the RAW scans.






INFORMATION ABOUT THE ITEM
  • Title: Green House
  • Release date: 6th december 1982
  • Manufacturer: Nintendo
  • Serial: GH-54
  • Sold: More than 1,000,000 worldwide
  • Status: Item complete (needs to be verified though, as the item wasn't brand new or sealed)

CONTENT OF THE ITEM
  • 1x Box (English)
  • 1x Handheld 'Green House'
  • 1x Manual (16 pages) (English)
  • 1x Insert 'Caution' (English) (Serial: 820626 A)
  • 1x Insert 'How to Play' (English) (Serial: 821126 A)
  • 1x Insert 'Warning' (English) (Serial: 820507 A)
  • 1x Insert Battery Cover Seal (English) (Serial: 820906 A)
  • 2x Batteries (Model: LR44)

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
  • The Green House logo uses the font Frankfurter
  • A LOT of valuable information about this game can be found here



RAW Scans @ Rapidshare
(600 dpi, JPG compression, 33.2 mb)
EPS Vectors @ Rapidshare
(0.1 mb)

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Tronica: Shuttle Voyage

Shuttle Voyage, nicely (and proudly) sitting in a corner of my room

Shuttle Voyage... well, it's really not easy to find information about this game. So, let's work a little bit! According to the manual, it's a 'handheld calculator with clock, alarm and game function'. Great.

Let's talk about the calculator first: it's able to handle 8 digits, and perform additions, substractions, multiplications, divisions and % functions. Decimals are supported too. That thing is a beast! :D

Regarding the clock and alarm, it's able to display hours (12 hour display with PM), minutes and seconds. When the handheld is in Clock Mode, then a game demo is performed.

...OK, what about the game then? The player is able to choose between 2 skill levels: Game A and Game B (does it remind you anything?). The goal is to land a shuttle on a planet while avoiding invaders that are attacking from above and below. Nasty invaders! The game ends when the shuttle has been hit 3 times, and the maximum score is 999 (funny, since it's able to display 8 digits, but anyway...).

I bought 'Shuttle Voyage' in april 2012 for 40€ (+6.50€ of shipping costs from France).






INFORMATION ABOUT THE ITEM
  • Title: Shuttle Voyage
  • Release date: 1982
  • Manufacturer: Tronica
  • Serial: MG-8 (GAME & CLOCK & CALCULATOR)
  • Status: Item complete (Still needs to be verified)

CONTENT OF THE ITEM
  • 1x Box (English)
  • 1x Handheld 'Shuttle Voyage'
  • 1x Manual (16 pages) (English)
  • 1x Insert 'Game & Clock Extra Screen' (English)
  • 2x Batteries (Model: LR44)

TEXT WRITTEN ON THE BOX
  • Game with Quartz Alarm Clock + Calculator
  • Hour, Minute and Second Display
  • Daily Alarm
  • Simulated Sound Effects (Game Mode)
  • Exciting Game with 2 Skill levels
  • Automatic Digital Scoring
  • Extra Screen

TEXT WRITTEN ON THE HANDHELD
Rating: DC3V - 0.12mW
Battery: LR44 (or SR44) x2
If this product malfunction press ACL or try new batteries
Pat. Pend. 1982


RAW Scans @ Rapidshare
(600 dpi, JPG compression, 39.7 mb)