Gunpei Yokoi was taken from us far too soon. His game development philosophy is still being used by Nintendo to this day: Lateral Thinking with withered technology. not everything has to be bleeding edge, sometimes you just need a stable game engine and a fun idea.
My grandmother used to work at a thrift shop and she never me a Donkey Kong Game and Watch as a kid. I played the heck out of that system, and it still reminds me of her. I played the emulated version and it brought back a ton of memories. She passed during covid and Donkey Kong Game and Watch is one of my treasured gifts from her.
I was there as a kid in 1982-83 for the handheld craze...it was exciting. Game and Watches came out all over the school at break time. First having a no-name (Tiger?) LCD game and then eventually getting a Donkey Kong Jr. Had a PacMan game watch (actual watch) in 1983. At the same time, going to the arcade on the weekend and playing Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Galaga, Moon Patrol...
Before we got the Gameboy, I had only 2 Game & Watch games growing up. Super Mario Bros. and Mario's Cement Factory are staples of my youth. They're still fun, and I still play them via emulation to this day!
This channel is quickly becoming my favourite in youtube. Really handy tips, good reviews on consoles, and this video is just divine. I’ve heard of these game & watch devices but I grew up in East Europe where we had the soviet copies of these, but personally I’ve never had one of those either. I’ve never known that there were compilations of these or the romset which even has the picture of the original console while you’re playing, and without this channel, most probably I would have never come across these. I’m getting these and try them out asap, this is charming as heck. Thanks for the interesting topic!
I had (still have, in fact) Mario Cement Factory when I was a kid. I never understood, as a kid, what Mario was doing in a cement factory, but I remember spending a *lot* of time playing it on long car trips.
Same, I think even down to the game it was. Was that the one with different levels and levers? I was too young to even know what a factory was or what I was supposed to be doing in the game. I think i was so young I just sort of figured out what it was that made the game keep going, and kept doing that. But I had no idea what it was supposed to be or what I was supposed to be doing.
Makes me feel old that my first hand held wasn't lcd, it was Mechanical. Tomy created a series of mechanical hand helds in the late 70s. 1978 racing game Digital Derby was my first. You had to steer a car to avoid other cars on film that rolled down the screen.
The problem with the Tiger handhelds was they tried way too hard to make their games more complex and modern in spite of using outdated technology which made them more convoluted. Game&Watch worked because the games were simple and easy to get the hang of within a few seconds
My grandpa had this fishing game that was set up the same as these that he kept by his recliner. Lots of time spent as a kid "reeling in" little images of fish.
I've been collecting these for about 15 years, still love them. The values are getting pretty nuts now though. PS the maze ones are my personal favorites, they never get old. Like Bombsweeper and Squish.
I haven't thought about the old Tiger LCD handheld I used to have as a kid in forever. I think we had about three or four between me and my brother. Only title I can remember is road rash.
I remember playing octopus and fire on a bootleg handheld my dad bought me when I was a kid. I remember loving it despite not really knowing how to play hahah. Never knew what happened to that handheld though, I probably lost it somewhere somehow
I love the videos very much! I found you because of your setup tour, and i've been hooked ever since! keep up the awesome work! Kem! (will be continuing to watch more and loving it)
Loved learning a bit of the history of these classic games. I have to agree with the fact that if you played for a few minutes the difficulty ramps up super quick. Fun times.
I still have Fire, Octupus, Manhole, bomb sweeper, mario bros but it was a light blue one. All in their boxes (except mario and bomberman) bought by my dad in 1990 trip to Miami. Played a lot until I got a Game boy in 1994. Happy times!
I collect these! The hardware is still REALLY impressive!! I also have most of the G&W games loaded onto my Analogue Pocket. They’re surprisingly addictive and fun!
Played only some Soviet clones by Elektronika as a kid - Nu pogodi (Egg) and Tiany okeana (Octopus). Don't think I owned any but definitely fun at that time as I remember.
I wanted a casio game wrist watch, but my grandparents got me the mario game & watch. Much harder to sneak into school. I still have it though. Many childhood hours spent on that.
Parachute was my first handheld game, i love how amazing it is to emulate with the entire device faithfully re-created on screen on my miyoo mini plus :)
My grandmother bought me the Zelda clamshell game and watch in 1989. I still have it and it still works. It is in reasonably good shape and i pull the thing out to play every now and then.
I remember when I was a child a couple of these were floating around my home, last year I picked up the Game & Watch Zelda Edition, the modernized Game & Watch, it is pretty awesome and its formfactor is amazing, it feels just like when I was a little kid holding the Game & Watch in my hands! That was the first time I realized nostalgia can be experienced through physical touch, not just from sight and sound.
My older sister had that first Mario game and watch where they were sorting parcels, but I didn't play it very much. What I did play a lot was a racing game that used the same kind of tech, you were racing down a highway and had to dodge from one lane to another to avoid the traffic. No idea what it was called. I think I mostly played it in the car. Thanks for the video Tech Dweeb!
I owned the fire game and watch in the mid 80s, I spent so long playing it I could clock it every single time. I recently played it on an emulator and still have not lost the skill I built up back then.
We had an exchange student from Japan come stay with us for a month in 1982 and she brought us 2 of the Game & Watch games, one was Parachute and the other was Popeye. I would play both of them for hours on end. They started my love for handheld gaming devices which still continues to this day.
I just did a personal deep dive in retroarch I spent more time playing than I ever thought I would. I feel now that warioware is the next evolution of game and watch collections.
I just had a vision while watching TechDweeb having like a small "History of Gaming"-Museum in his town. Displaying all his stuff in shiny condition and showing little kids how gaming began. I imagine a cool fridge with root beer in there, some consoles to try out. And of course he'd donate a lot of his income to families in need and stuff. Oof I have so many ideas for that little vision. Love🖤🧡
G&W are deeply rooted in my childhood memories. The first time I saw the Gameboy, it first appeared like a step back to me: compares to a G&W the screen was dim and blurry, without colors and the device was far bulkier. That’s when I understand It was usine game cartridges allowing more diverse and complex gales that I understood how good it was. But G&W are really a beautyful and fun piece of tech.
Great video! 🤓 Nice to see the actual devices in the video as well. They have such a cool aesthetic. These games were fun to play via emulators this month. Good pick.
Tennis for Two, created by physicist William Higinbotham and introduced in 1958 at Brookhaven National Laboratory Was the world's first Video game. Also Electronic Quarterback is a handheld electronic game made by Coleco in 1978
I remember having one of these. Mario bros factory I think it was. Single screen. Can't remember exactly what the gameplay was but it think it was having to move around and flip switches that lifted trapdoors
These are great for the RG Nano (which I got mostly thanks to your videos). Gonna take it back to the frontlines with me when I recover from wounds, will update as to whether or not it is indeed built like a tank. Maybe one day Christopher Walken will present it to my son, who will later have a whole misadventure to get it back...
It was great playing the game . Games have come so far and are ever changing but through all that we're still the same dweebs we were as kids now that we're adults.
I got Fire for my 6th or 7th birthday or so. Must be somewhere around the early 1980's. Together with the Pac Man arcade cabinet, it started my affinity for gaming.
I grew up with G&W in the 80s. Discovered them when I was accompanying my dad to a bar where he used to occasionally drop by to have a drink on the way home. This is why we were living in Cairo at the time. They were chained to the bar. Perfect distraction for a child. I own 8 and most of them are boxed and in great condition. The real challenge is to get the score past 999. After that it just goes back to 0. I challenge myself to go past that on game A & B before I move on to the next game.
My dad bought Ball the first G&W for my sister and I. We played that thing to death. Later i bought another one called chef. It was pretty good but Ball with the juggler was my fave. One kid at school had the double screen Donkey Kong that we were all envious of.
I had the original orange Donkey Kong dual screen. My mum scratched our address on the silver front just in case I lost it. I was so annoyed as I was one of those kids that treasured every device I had, never scratched or damaged a thing. I sold it 5-6 years ago. Somewhere in the UK is my DK handheld with my name and address etched onto it.
I have some very cool old Casio LCD games, with excellent mechanics, I also have the 2 modern Game and Watch special editions of Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda which are very beautiful.
I have to say that even as someone born in the End-70s I was quickly bored by the LCD games back then. There were a few exceptions, for example Tomy Pac-Man or Donkey Kong jr. For me, the games offered too little variety, even if they were of course challenging due to the increasing levels of difficulty.
1:45 I bet his name is Francis or Norman. He looks like Bert from Sesame Street. Sorry, I couldn't help myself. I am sure he's a cool dude. I'll try not to steal his lunch money. 😂✌️
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Gunpei Yokoi was taken from us far too soon. His game development philosophy is still being used by Nintendo to this day: Lateral Thinking with withered technology. not everything has to be bleeding edge, sometimes you just need a stable game engine and a fun idea.
My grandmother used to work at a thrift shop and she never me a Donkey Kong Game and Watch as a kid. I played the heck out of that system, and it still reminds me of her. I played the emulated version and it brought back a ton of memories. She passed during covid and Donkey Kong Game and Watch is one of my treasured gifts from her.
Oh, I was expecting the Milton Bradley Microvision handhelds since they were the first gaming handhelds but Game & Watch handhelds are cool too
I was there as a kid in 1982-83 for the handheld craze...it was exciting. Game and Watches came out all over the school at break time. First having a no-name (Tiger?) LCD game and then eventually getting a Donkey Kong Jr. Had a PacMan game watch (actual watch) in 1983. At the same time, going to the arcade on the weekend and playing Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Galaga, Moon Patrol...
Before we got the Gameboy, I had only 2 Game & Watch games growing up. Super Mario Bros. and Mario's Cement Factory are staples of my youth. They're still fun, and I still play them via emulation to this day!
I love the classic Octopus I played it so much back then I need to buy it back
This channel is quickly becoming my favourite in youtube. Really handy tips, good reviews on consoles, and this video is just divine. I’ve heard of these game & watch devices but I grew up in East Europe where we had the soviet copies of these, but personally I’ve never had one of those either. I’ve never known that there were compilations of these or the romset which even has the picture of the original console while you’re playing, and without this channel, most probably I would have never come across these. I’m getting these and try them out asap, this is charming as heck.
Thanks for the interesting topic!
I think the Playdate draws a lot of inspiration from the Game and Watch systems.
My favorite lcd old school handheld was a lightsaber that had a small screen in the middle with a few buttons. I took that thing everywhere
Super Mario Bros. Mini Classics was my first Nintendo handheld, but my first LCD was the Radio Shack Raceway Handheld from 1989
I had (still have, in fact) Mario Cement Factory when I was a kid. I never understood, as a kid, what Mario was doing in a cement factory, but I remember spending a *lot* of time playing it on long car trips.
Same, I think even down to the game it was. Was that the one with different levels and levers?
I was too young to even know what a factory was or what I was supposed to be doing in the game.
I think i was so young I just sort of figured out what it was that made the game keep going, and kept doing that. But I had no idea what it was supposed to be or what I was supposed to be doing.
Mario's plumbing skills are not the best.
When business is slow he works in a cement factory to earn a crust.
Mario lore is actually wild.
@@Bruwulf I used to see that one when I was 7 in 2001 at Walgreens, but never got it.
Dang I want that book, it looks sweeet. And TIL there were a lot of Game and Watches. I thought there were, like, four of them.
Makes me feel old that my first hand held wasn't lcd, it was Mechanical. Tomy created a series of mechanical hand helds in the late 70s.
1978 racing game Digital Derby was my first. You had to steer a car to avoid other cars on film that rolled down the screen.
They were called _'Pocketeers'_ in the UK.
I remember them in shops in the early 1980s.
The problem with the Tiger handhelds was they tried way too hard to make their games more complex
and modern in spite of using outdated technology which made them more convoluted.
Game&Watch worked because the games were simple and easy to get the hang of within a few seconds
My grandpa had this fishing game that was set up the same as these that he kept by his recliner. Lots of time spent as a kid "reeling in" little images of fish.
I've been collecting these for about 15 years, still love them. The values are getting pretty nuts now though. PS the maze ones are my personal favorites, they never get old. Like Bombsweeper and Squish.
The gateway drug for many gamers
I haven't thought about the old Tiger LCD handheld I used to have as a kid in forever. I think we had about three or four between me and my brother. Only title I can remember is road rash.
I remember playing octopus and fire on a bootleg handheld my dad bought me when I was a kid. I remember loving it despite not really knowing how to play hahah. Never knew what happened to that handheld though, I probably lost it somewhere somehow
I love the videos very much! I found you because of your setup tour, and i've been hooked ever since! keep up the awesome work!
Kem!
(will be continuing to watch more and loving it)
Loved learning a bit of the history of these classic games. I have to agree with the fact that if you played for a few minutes the difficulty ramps up super quick. Fun times.
I had the pinball dual screen as a kid. Loved it.
Love to see the G Cloud.
YES! It's the device I usually record my retro gameplay on. So comfy and feature filled (and that BATTERY!)
@@TechDweeb
Do you have to be connected to WiFi to play G&W games?
I still have Fire, Octupus, Manhole, bomb sweeper, mario bros but it was a light blue one. All in their boxes (except mario and bomberman) bought by my dad in 1990 trip to Miami.
Played a lot until I got a Game boy in 1994. Happy times!
I collect these! The hardware is still REALLY impressive!! I also have most of the G&W games loaded onto my Analogue Pocket. They’re surprisingly addictive and fun!
Shoutout to the Casio watch collector s 🤘🏻 3:42
Played only some Soviet clones by Elektronika as a kid - Nu pogodi (Egg) and Tiany okeana (Octopus). Don't think I owned any but definitely fun at that time as I remember.
I never had any LCD games growing up very poor. To be honest it would have been amazing back then. We are truly spoiled now. Love your friends jumper
I wanted a casio game wrist watch, but my grandparents got me the mario game & watch. Much harder to sneak into school. I still have it though. Many childhood hours spent on that.
Parachute was my first handheld game, i love how amazing it is to emulate with the entire device faithfully re-created on screen on my miyoo mini plus :)
My grandmother bought me the Zelda clamshell game and watch in 1989. I still have it and it still works. It is in reasonably good shape and i pull the thing out to play every now and then.
I still have my original Donkey Kong. Clocked it. Those barrels moved so fast they were a blur... Modern games need a lot of compute for motion blur.
I have a couple of those games from the 80's and some are still fun to play. Thanks for reviewing them.
2:44 I see you also are a man of culture!
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I actually play game and watch games on my smart watch lol
Started as a joke now a addiction on the bus to work
I remember sometime in the early 1980s playing a Galaxlian or Galaxian-like handheld that was excellent.
I remember when I was a child a couple of these were floating around my home, last year I picked up the Game & Watch Zelda Edition, the modernized Game & Watch, it is pretty awesome and its formfactor is amazing, it feels just like when I was a little kid holding the Game & Watch in my hands! That was the first time I realized nostalgia can be experienced through physical touch, not just from sight and sound.
Mario bros is my favorite G&W game
I have put way too many hours into the Gallery version
My older sister had that first Mario game and watch where they were sorting parcels, but I didn't play it very much. What I did play a lot was a racing game that used the same kind of tech, you were racing down a highway and had to dodge from one lane to another to avoid the traffic. No idea what it was called. I think I mostly played it in the car. Thanks for the video Tech Dweeb!
I almost forgot about the octopus diver one! Had that original gb game. It's definitely great for killing quick downtime.
Never had a Game & Watch but defiantly had a Tiger LCD game of Contra growing up
CASIO WATCH ? HELL YEAH
I always hit a flow state with these games. Getting 4 digit scores.
I owned the fire game and watch in the mid 80s, I spent so long playing it I could clock it every single time. I recently played it on an emulator and still have not lost the skill I built up back then.
My favourite is Fire, because thats the one I had as a kid (and probably still have somewhere)
I play my game and watch at 4x resolution
Lucky my PC cant handle that
@@JsmashTech 💀
A man of culture
So close to 100k!! Lets goooo!!!
We had an exchange student from Japan come stay with us for a month in 1982 and she brought us 2 of the Game & Watch games, one was Parachute and the other was Popeye. I would play both of them for hours on end. They started my love for handheld gaming devices which still continues to this day.
Thanks.
I just did a personal deep dive in retroarch I spent more time playing than I ever thought I would. I feel now that warioware is the next evolution of game and watch collections.
As a kid I had a duel screen zelda witch I have not seen emulated
I’ve been collecting these for a while. Zelda is the best. I actually got Mario bros just yesterday
I just had a vision while watching TechDweeb having like a small "History of Gaming"-Museum in his town. Displaying all his stuff in shiny condition and showing little kids how gaming began. I imagine a cool fridge with root beer in there, some consoles to try out. And of course he'd donate a lot of his income to families in need and stuff. Oof I have so many ideas for that little vision.
Love🖤🧡
G&W are deeply rooted in my childhood memories.
The first time I saw the Gameboy, it first appeared like a step back to me: compares to a G&W the screen was dim and blurry, without colors and the device was far bulkier. That’s when I understand It was usine game cartridges allowing more diverse and complex gales that I understood how good it was.
But G&W are really a beautyful and fun piece of tech.
I had the Tron LCD game... not a game watch, but it's still emulated.
The donkey Kong game and watch was my first one. Simple and addictive
Imagine how morbid "Fire" would be if they remade it in Unreal 5 with modern graphics and physics, sound, FX, the whole bit....
Great video! 🤓 Nice to see the actual devices in the video as well. They have such a cool aesthetic. These games were fun to play via emulators this month. Good pick.
Tennis for Two, created by physicist William Higinbotham and introduced in 1958 at Brookhaven National Laboratory Was the world's first Video game. Also Electronic Quarterback is a handheld electronic game made by Coleco in 1978
I had game and watch gallery 3, I had a lot of fun with that game.
I will try game and watch emulation!
Such Nostalgia, but I had a Tiger game thingy when I was a baby Albert Wesker. But did Tiger Games copy Nintendo Gaming watch?.
Hey i haven't watched yet, but thanks for covering this.
Game & Watch Gallery 2 on the Gameboy Color is still one of my go-to games to just chill for an hour or so.
I remember having one of these. Mario bros factory I think it was.
Single screen. Can't remember exactly what the gameplay was but it think it was having to move around and flip switches that lifted trapdoors
I really loved this video. The Mario Bros game & watch looks so lovely especially. Very cool.
NOW YOU SHOULD DO A TIGER ELECTRONIC HANDHELD VIDEO TECHDWEEB
These are great for the RG Nano (which I got mostly thanks to your videos). Gonna take it back to the frontlines with me when I recover from wounds, will update as to whether or not it is indeed built like a tank. Maybe one day Christopher Walken will present it to my son, who will later have a whole misadventure to get it back...
Dual screen Mario Bros, back when the brothers worked at a bottling plant. Love it so much.
The only one I had growing up was the donkey Kong one. ... And now I only have the gray Gameboy shaped Mario one
It was great playing the game . Games have come so far and are ever changing but through all that we're still the same dweebs we were as kids now that we're adults.
I got Fire for my 6th or 7th birthday or so. Must be somewhere around the early 1980's. Together with the Pac Man arcade cabinet, it started my affinity for gaming.
I don't have Game and Watch before but I remember played Mario Cement Factory from the son of my mom's colleague. Such a nostalgic game.
I grew up with G&W in the 80s. Discovered them when I was accompanying my dad to a bar where he used to occasionally drop by to have a drink on the way home. This is why we were living in Cairo at the time. They were chained to the bar. Perfect distraction for a child. I own 8 and most of them are boxed and in great condition. The real challenge is to get the score past 999. After that it just goes back to 0. I challenge myself to go past that on game A & B before I move on to the next game.
I had the Gauntlet Tiger electronics handheald real game and watch was a few years beyond my time.
Great retrospective video.
Now do Tiger LCD games!
My dad bought Ball the first G&W for my sister and I. We played that thing to death. Later i bought another one called chef. It was pretty good but Ball with the juggler was my fave. One kid at school had the double screen Donkey Kong that we were all envious of.
My favorite one is the cement factory one❤
How do I get this awesome Calculator 🤩? Nice video as always. I wear Casio watches too. Im Starting to feel Dweeby 🎉🔥
your friend is awesome for lending you that handheld. Also that was a killer Mario sweater! (would still take his lunch money}
Great video! SO many memories and now I just wanna play G&W all day. You got any links to those great looking compilation books?
I had the original orange Donkey Kong dual screen. My mum scratched our address on the silver front just in case I lost it. I was so annoyed as I was one of those kids that treasured every device I had, never scratched or damaged a thing.
I sold it 5-6 years ago. Somewhere in the UK is my DK handheld with my name and address etched onto it.
Every Emulation handheld I set up has Parachute at a minimum but usually a good collection of game and watch titles. Parachute being my favourite.
Have a drink every time TechDweeb says "Merry-O".
we had the donkeykong game and watch, back in the 80s. Was my introduction into the home video games :)
Techdweeb, please make a video about the Coleco Tabletop Arcade games sometime! PLEEEEEASE!!
I asked my mom to buy me a game and watch, but ended up with a Mattel hockey hand held. that was my first introduction to mobile gaming:)
I liked and unliked this three times so I could like it four times. Outstanding!
The Zelda dual screen was amazing, 8 dungeons , power ups and a second quest! I miss it…
I had the orange dual screen donky kong when i was a kid. Still have it somewhere.
I had Oil Panic. My mum gave it to me for my 14th b'day.
I have some very cool old Casio LCD games, with excellent mechanics, I also have the 2 modern Game and Watch special editions of Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda which are very beautiful.
I have to say that even as someone born in the End-70s I was quickly bored by the LCD games back then. There were a few exceptions, for example Tomy Pac-Man or Donkey Kong jr. For me, the games offered too little variety, even if they were of course challenging due to the increasing levels of difficulty.
This reminds me the addictive digital pinball portable handheld given free buying Kfc meal
there is ALSO a PINBALL G&W that's out there!! I'm keeping my eye on a few for a good price one of these days 🙂
1:45 I bet his name is Francis or Norman. He looks like Bert from Sesame Street. Sorry, I couldn't help myself. I am sure he's a cool dude. I'll try not to steal his lunch money. 😂✌️
Good guess! :P
your first impression is to steel his lunch money😂🤣
I have played Game and Watch more than Black Myth Wukong on my RTX4090 since watching this video.
Did they have these games on that E Reader thingy for GBA?
I had the Zelda Game and Watch clamshell. Man, I wish I knew what happened to it.
whoa, that guide book looks awesome!! any chance you coudl share a link to where to buy it?? 🙂