Popular games for platform Game & Watch
The first Game & Watch version of Donkey Kong Jr. is the first game in the New Wide Screen series. It is a single-screen single-player game.
Donkey Kong II was developed by Nintendo R&D1 and released as part of the Game & Watch Multi Screen series, featuring two LCD screens. It was released in 1983. Donkey Kong Jr. has to touch a key, then it moves up to the top screen. Donkey Kong Jr. has to climb to the top screen while avoiding things such as electrical wires. When he gets to the top screen, Donkey Kong Jr. will have to touch the key again, and it will move to the keyhole of one of the chains. Donkey Kong Jr has to climb up the rope below the keyhole, while avoiding birds. When he gets to the top of the rope, one of the chains will unlock. He has to do this 4 times until he saves Donkey Kong. After that, the game will start over, at a somewhat faster pace.
Donkey Kong is a Multi Screen Game & Watch game released in 1982. It was based on the arcade game Donkey Kong, with gameplay based only on 25m, the first stage from the arcade version. This was the first Game and Watch game to be based on pre-existing Nintendo characters, and it was the first video game system to include the D-pad, a feature of all future Nintendo systems. The game unit's model is DK-52, with the DK standing for Donkey Kong. The game was a huge success, selling over 1,000,000 copies worldwide.
The Table Top version of Game & Watch Popeye. The game is the same as the Panorama Screen version.
Octopus is a Game & Watch game that was released on the G&W widescreen series. In the game, you, the diver, must get around an octopus whom is trying to capture you and get to the treasure. When Mr. Game & Watch returns to the salvage ship, he gets three extra points. The player's three chances are measured by extra divers on the savage ship. When one is attacked by the Octopus' tentacles, another takes his place.
The New Wide Screen version of Balloon Fight for the Game and Watch. The game is similar to the NES classic Balloon Fight, particularly its Balloon Trip mode. The model number for the original version is BF-803, while the model number for the New Wide Screen version is BF-107. The BF in the model numbers stands for Balloon Fight.
Turtle Bridge is a widescreen Game & Watch video game released in 1982 by Nintendo. In the game, you must get the character from one side of a lake to the other by jumping on the shells of turtles that are protruding from the water. If you jump on a turtle at the wrong time, then you will have to go back to the beginning. The fact that the turtles gain your character access to the other side of the lake is where the game's name originates from.
Mario's Cement Factory is a Game & Watch game. Two versions of the game were produced: the first was for the Game & Watch Table Top and the second was a more conventional New Wide Screen Game & Watch. In both versions, Mario's mission in the cement factory is to open doors to prevent cement containers from overflowing. To get to the different containers, Mario has to jump onto moving platforms. The game was remade as a downloadable DSiWare title.
Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. is a special Game & Watch released for the Super Mario Bros. 35th anniversary. It includes Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, a special version of the Game & Watch game Ball and a clock based on Super Mario Bros. It was the first Game & Watch game released after Mario the Juggler (released in 1991) and the first game in the new line of Game & Watch handhelds called Color Screen.
Boxing is a Micro VS. Game & Watch game released in 1984 by Nintendo. In America, the game was originally known as Punch-Out!! (named after the popular franchise), though when the game was included in Game & Watch Gallery 4 they changed the name back to Boxing. The model number for the game was BX-301. Within the box of the game were the unit, LR44 batteries, and a caution leaflet. In the game, you'll box another character. The game is seen from a 2D perspective, and your character is always on the right. The only difference between Boxing and Punch-Out!! were the names and the box. The American box had artwork that was made specifically for it.
A port of Vermin with Link as the protagonist, released in Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda (Color Screen Series).
Helmet is a Game & Watch game that was released in 1981. In the game, you have to run from one house to the house across from it without getting hit by falling tools that your enemies is throwing at you. Sometimes the door on the other house will close, making you run around until it opens.
Black Jack is a Multi Screen Game & Watch game released in 1985 by Nintendo. A Pocketsize version was also released. The game is simply Black Jack on an LCD screen. The game is very different from the standard Game & Watch games. If your cards amount to a combined number of 21, then you win the game. Black Jack is the last Game & Watch video game to be released in Japan. All games released after Black Jack were released only in other countries, despite being made in Japan.
Fire is a silver type Game & Watch video game unit that was initially released on July 31, 1980. The game is one of the best selling in the Game & Watch series selling an astonishing (albeit estimated) 1,000,000 copies worldwide. A re-release for the game was made for the Wide Screen units, which sold 200,000 more units that the silver edition. This particular version of the game was released on December 4, 1981. In the game, you'll control two separate characters holding a stretcher of some sort. In the game, people are jumping out of a burning building, and your goal is to get them to safety by using the stretcher to bounce them into an ambulance, with most taking more than one bounce to get there.
Safebuster is a multi-screen Game & Watch game released in January of 1988. The game was never released in Japan. The game's model number was JB-63. Worldwide Nintendo manufactured an estimated 500,000 Safebuster models. A pocket size version of Safebuster was also released in America and Europe. Safebuster also appears as an unlockable museum game in Game & Watch Gallery 4, albeit in Classic version only. In this game, the player controls a man who must catch bombs. By pressing the left or right buttons, you can move the man in the direction of the pressed button. After catching them, he must move to the edges of the screen to dispose the bombs. However, he can only hold up to three bombs. If a fourth one is caught, it will explode instead, as if a bomb was missed.
The New Wide Screen version of Game & Watch Manhole.
Balloon Fight is a Crystal Screen and New Wide Screen Game & Watch game released in 1986 (CS) and 1988 (NWS). The game is similar to the NES classic Balloon Fight, particularly its Balloon Trip mode. The model number for the Crystal Screen version is BF-803, while the model number for the New Wide Screen version is BF-107. The BF in the model numbers stands for Balloon Fight.
Port of the Game & Watch version of Donkey Kong Jr. for the Table Top series. It was later repackaged and sold by Coleco.
Donkey Kong 3 is a Micro VS. Game & Watch video game released in 1984 by Nintendo. It is one of three multiplayer Game & Watch video games. The model number for Donkey Kong 3 is AK-302, with the AK standing for Attack Kong. The game, while bearing the same title, is entirely different from the arcade game Donkey Kong 3. In this game, one player will control Stanley, and the other will control Donkey Kong. Nintendo manufactured 250,000 units of the game worldwide.
Egg is a Game & Watch video game released in 1981. The game was similar to the previously released Mickey Mouse game, though due to copyright issues which prevented them from using the brand in some countries, they replaced Mickey Mouse with a wolf, though the gameplay remains essentially the same. The countries where Mickey Mouse was replaced by Egg include some Asian countries and Australia. In the Soviet Union there were the wolf and the hare from Soviet animated TV series Nu, Pogodi!. Egg was never released in Japan. Within the box were LR43 batteries, a caution leaflet, and battery stickers. The game sold an estimated 250,000 units worldwide. The game's model number is EG-26. Interestingly, Egg was included in the Game Boy Color video game Game & Watch Gallery 3 in 1999.
Tetris is a canceled Multi Screen Game & Watch. The game was supposed to be based on the Tetris series.
A Table Top port of Mario's Cement Factory.
Game and Watch game from the Wide Screen series that was re-released as a Nintendo DSi Virtual console game.
Zelda is a multiscreen Game & Watch game that was only released in English as a stand-alone system pre-loaded with the single game. It has dual screens which fold in a clamshell design, similar to the Nintendo DS. It was re-released as part of the Nintendo Mini Classics line in 1998 and 2007. The complete game can also be unlocked in Game & Watch Gallery 4 for the Game Boy Advance and Wii U Virtual Console. Its core formula is based on that of the original The Legend of Zelda, where Link must fight through eight dungeons and obtain the eight shards of the Triforce of Wisdom. However, it bears more gameplay similarities to The Adventure of Link, since it is 2D and from a side-on perspective. The game features an original, though minimal storyline.