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Game & Watch series
Sign in to saveAlso known as Game & Watch, Nintendo Game & Watch series, Nintendo Game & Watch, Game and Watch, Game and Watch series, Nintendo Game and Watch, Nintendo Game and Watch series, G&W
handheld electronic game series developed and published by Nintendo between 1980 and 1991
Key facts
- Also known as
- Tricotronic (West Germany, Austria) Time-Out (North America)
- Developer
- Nintendo R&D1
- Manufacturer
- Nintendo
- Type
- Handheld electronic games
- Generation
- Second
- Released
- 28 April 1980 ( 1980-04-28 )
- Introductory price
- ¥5,800 (equivalent to ¥8,595 in 2024)
- Units sold
- 43.4 million
- Cpu
- Sharp SM5xx
- Memory
- 260 B RAM
- Storage
- 1,792 B ROM
- Display
- Segmented liquid-crystal display
- Best selling game
- Donkey Kong (8 million)
- Successor
- Game Boy
- Made in
- Japan
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- handheld game console
- Country
- Japan
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Followed by
- Game Boy
- Developer
- Nintendo Research & Development 1
- Manufacturer
- Nintendo
- Official website
- www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/dsiware/game_and_watch/index.html
- Image
- Game-and-watch-ball.png
Show 10 more facts
- topic has template
- Template:Game & Watch
- discontinuation date
- 1991-10-14
- language of work or name
- Japanese
- inception
- 1980-04-28
- Commons category
- Game & Watch
- topic's main category
- Category:Game & Watch
- publication date
- 1980-04-28
- units sold
- 43400000
- mascot
- Mr. Game & Watch
- title
- ゲーム&ウオッチ
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Encyclopedic overview
Game & Watch is a series of handheld electronic games developed by Nintendo. Designed by Gunpei Yokoi, the first game, Ball was released in 1980 and the original production run of the devices continued until 1991. The name Game & Watch reflects their dual functionality: a single game paired with a digital clock on a segmented liquid-crystal display (LCD) screen. The Game & Watch series proved a monumental success, selling a total of 43.4 million units globally, marking Nintendo's first major worldwide success with electronic games.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Game & Watch series” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.