Retro find: Snoopy Game & Watch tabletop

A While ago I was visiting our neighbour town where happened to be a trailer-flee market taking a place. We had to stop and take a look with my family. Actually I was the driver so they had no choice :)

After walking around for a while I met a older man with this old but working Nintendo's Snoopy Game & Watch tabletop which he was willing to sell for 50 euros. Overall quality is decent as there are no big dents, cracks and or broken buttons.
After some bargain and finding out that the battery cover was missing we settled the price at 25 euros.

Testing again at home I was happy to see that everything was working perfectly, sound, gameplay, buttons etc.

That battery holder DIY tape fix really needs some better alternative. Still a good find in my opinion as being pretty rare Nintendo Game & Watch. Now that I think of, I've probably seen a tabletop version only once before.

I'll get back to this when I manage to make or buy new battery cover for this. Maybe a teardown video with a test run.

to be continued...

Did you know?

Snoopy is a Game & Watch game released as a part of the Table Top series on June 5, 1983, and as a part of the Panorama series on August 30, 1983. It was the first game in the Panorama series. It is a single-screen single-player Game & Watch. Hirokazu Tanaka composed the game music.[28]

Source: Wikipedia.

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