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NAVIGATION
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 The first ever Nintendo handheld gamming device was the "Game and Watch". First released in 1980, the Game and Watch went on to become massively popular and was reincarnated many times with new games and designs.
The image on the left shows a "Super Mario Bros" Game and Watch.
Many different versions were available and each unit was a self contained game. Versions made include now titles, such as Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong. |
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Some interesting Game and Watch units
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Here as some interesting Game and Watch games and designs. The
Donkey Kong unit with two screens could well have helped Nintendo come
up with the Idea of the DS.
The "Game and Watch watch" was a nice idea......
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The handheld system that would dominate the games
world for the next 15 years was launched in the Spring of 1989.
Nintendo had wanted to combine their two previous successes, the "Game
and Watch" series and the "Nintendo Entertainment System", the NES. The
Game and Watch machines could only handle one game at a time, and
Nintendo wanted to develop a kind of portable NES.
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 One of the most succesful and addictive games of all time. Tetris helped make the Gameboy into what it is.
The game is a very simple idea. It consists of arranging falling blocks of various different sizes into lines, which then disappear.
Tetris was actually programmed and designed in Moscow, Russia. Although Tetris was npt particularly advanced graphically for the time, it overcame this by being a pure gaming experience. |
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Other good/ important GB games
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Super Mario Land- Classic Mario platform action on the small screen and portable- Brilliant. Was followed by a sequel.
The Legend of Zelda- Link's awakening- Building on the success of the two NES Zelda games, GB Zelda was a great game.
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