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Looking for that perfect Christmas gift for the person who has everything? Need something unique for your gamesroom or lobby area? Stuck indoors and need something to fill the void in your life as well as that void in your house? Well have I got just the thing - the World's largest playable Game & Watch could now be yours to own!
If you are geniunely interested in buying it then please send an email to: octopus@tomtilley.net
I will send you a reply email to confirm that I have received your email and as soon as I have found a suitable venue for conducting the sale online I will send an email out to those who have expressed interest in buying it. If you have any suggestions about a suitable online venue for the sale then please let me know in your email.
Game & Watch Octopus was released as part of Nintendo's Game & Watch Wide Screen series on July 16, 1981 so next year will be it's 40th anniversary! Wikipedia has more details on the original game. An aunt kindly brought one back as a gift for us from an overseas trip when I was a child. I originally built this one over a period of about 6 months in time for Maker Faire Adelaide, 2017. When I first realised how big it was I decided to apply for a Guinness World Record.
The giant Game & Watch has appeared in public for people to play at Maker Faire Adelaide in 2017, and at the Adelaide Fashion Week Street Party, the Parks Library TexPo, and at the Adelaide Retro Computing Group (where I cracked the screen!) in 2018.
You can find a list of online articles about this machine in various languages at https://tomtilley.net/projects/game-and-watch/#media.
You can also find more details about its original construction at https://tomtilley.net/projects/game-and-watch/ although the stand has now been modified to support the current TV.
It's 193 cm wide x 116 cm high (approximately 6'4" x 3'10") and is just under 17 times bigger than the original handheld game. It sits on the supplied stand at an angle of 51 degrees and occupies a space of approximately 2m wide x 0.9m deep x 1m high. The main body of the device folds in half and it can all be transported in a Hyundai i30 (albeit with the ends of the top and bottom bumpers up near the front passenger's head).
I haven't weighed the individual parts but the largest individual weight component is the TV used for the screen which weighs 25kg. I would estimate that in total (including the stand) it weighs around 90kg.
Taking up space in our garage in South Australia, about 1 hour's drive from Adelaide.
Any packing or shipping costs will be at the new owner's expense.
It is not designed to be mounted on a wall. The supplied stand holds it at 51 degreee angle like the original or it is possible to play it flat on a table but note that the TV still requires adequate airflow. In the second picture below the top and bottom of the machine overhang the edges of the table so air can come up from underneath and there is a small USB-powered fan in the top bumper to help keep air moving.
No. My lovely wife has been very understanding thus far but building another giant Game & Watch would be pushing it.
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