Nintendo TL-28 Electronic Game, Turtle Bridge Game & Watch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1982
name: label: maker
content: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic game is part of Nintendo’s Game & Watch series. It has a rectangular plastic case and five plastic keys with a screen at the center that is 2” wide and 1 ¼” high. The screen shows water with cliffs on each side and sand underneath. Text left of the screen reads: GAME (/) & (/) WATCH (/) Nintendo. Text above the screen reads: TURTLE BRIDGE. A mark below it reads: WIDE SCREEN.
label: Description
content: The plastic back of the screen has a compartment for two small batteries and a small metal kickstand. A mark molded into the plastic reads: MODEL NO.: TL-8 (/) RATING: DC3V- 0.0002W (/) BATTERY: LR43(orSR43)x2 (/) Nintendo Co, Ltd. 1982 (/) PAT. PEND. MADE IN JAPAN. A sticker on the back reads: 12293654.
label: Description
content: According to an article in <I>Wikipedia</I>, this “is a widescreen version Game & Watch that was released on February 1, 1982, with product number TL-28. The player uses a line of five turtles as stepping stones to transfer baggage from one side of a river to the other. Once a package is tossed to a colleague on the other side, the player can return to the home bank to fetch the next package. The turtles are not motionless but will dive to feed on any fish within reach, and they dive more frequently as the game progresses. The player may need to wait for the colleague on the far bank and cannot return to the home bank while carrying a package.” The same source says that over 1,000,000 copies of the game sold.
label: Description
content: A March, 1982, advertisement lists the game as on selling for $34.95. It indicates that the game sells for as much as $55.00.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: “List of Game & Watch Games,” <I>Wikipedia</I>, accessed September 12, 2014.
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, March 14, 1982, p. 4.
label: Description
content: Florent Gorges in collaboration with Isao Yamazaki, <I>The History of Nintendo 1980-1991 The Game & Watch Games, an Amazing Invention</I>,pix'n love publishing, < vol. 2, esp. p. 77.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John B. Priser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0988.270
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.270
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic game
label: Object Name
content: game, electronic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (back of case, keys, screen material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (front of case, screws material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 4 3/8 in x 2 5/8 in; .9525 cm x 11.1125 cm x 6.6675 cm