Wide Screen

Wide Screen games were introduced in June 1981. New screen size, hence the name Wide Screen, together with new game characters. Three well known cartoon figures where licensed by Nintendo. Popeye, Mickey Mouse and Snoopy. From June 1981 to April 28th, 1982 Nintendo released 10 different games. Well, actually it was 9 games. Mickey Mouse and Egg are practically the same game. The only difference is that Mickey where replaced by a wolf and sold as Egg.

Games in the Wide Screen series (Click to enter):

Parachute

Octopus

Popeye

Chef

Mickey Mouse

Egg

Fire

Turtle Bridge

Fire Attack

Snoopy Tennis

 

General pictures of Wide Screen Series items:

Foam:

Front                                                       Back
Wide_Screen_Foam_Front.JPG (60395 bytes)            Wide_Screen_Foam_Back.JPG (61787 bytes)

Papers:

Caution                                                                       Cautions                      Warning
Wide_Screen_Caution.jpg (63627 bytes) Multi-Screen_Caution2.jpg (68889 bytes) Multi-Screen_Caution3.jpg (65337 bytes)              Wide_Screen_Cautions.jpg (65276 bytes)               Wide_Screen_Warning2.jpg (53710 bytes) Wide_Screen_Warning3.jpg (48655 bytes)

Batteries:

Front                        Back                        Stickers
Wide_Screen_Battery_Front.JPG (62989 bytes)               Wide_Screen_Battery_Back.JPG (62333 bytes)              Wide_Screen_Battery_Stickers.jpg (24582 bytes)

Plastic Bag:

Wide_Screen_Plastic_Bag.JPG (63963 bytes)

 

My Favourite WIDE Screen Games in order:

Rank
Game
Comments
1. Popeye (PP-23) Excellent Fun! Specially trying to avoid Brutus Fists.
2. Turtle Bridge (TL-28) First Game and Watch I owned.
3. Fire (FR-27) Actually more fun than RC-04 as you get your points faster.
4. Chef (FP-24) I love the way the mouse takes the fallen food.
5. Octopus (OC-22) I like this because depending on how brave you are you can get loads of gold.
6. Parachute (PR-21) Another Classic.
7. Snoopy Tennis (SP-30) Fun. I like when the ball is hit back to me. Very confusing.
8. Fire Attack (ID-29) Good fun, but I keep forgetting to press the hit button.
9. Mickey Mouse (MC-25) Better than Egg because...eh...well it's Mickey
10. Egg (EG-26) Quite fun, but you never seem to know witch egg is going to drop first.