All of Me - Game & Watch: Top 3 LCD Handhelds

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All of me

INTRODUCTION

All of Me

It was the last day of school before the summer holidays when my love affair with the Game and Watch began.

Never before had I seen such a wonderous object. So simple yet so captivating. Fits right in my pocket and runs on magic (well batteries, but close enough.). Game and Watch would end up being a fantastical place to escape the disarray of my early life. Somewhere I could create order in the chaos, somewhere I was in charge and somewhere I could keep my head when all those around me were losing theirs.

So, the three games contained in this volume may not be to everyone’s taste or the best of games or even the most notable titles, but they are the three games that were there for me when I needed them most. The three games that saw me through some hard and troubled times. And in all honesty the three games that probably saved my life.

ABOUT

GAME&WATCH

Game & Watch is a series of handheld games developed by Nintendo from 1980 to 1991.

Each Game & Watch has its own game built in, in addition to a clock and an alarm.

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G&W #25 BOX ART

MULTI-SCREEN SERIES

MARIO BROS..

MARIO BROS March 1983

FUN FACT First horizonal multi-screen Game & Watch.

Also features the very first appearance of Luigi!

ALARM

We all know Mario who saved the princess from Donkey Kong. Now he’s back with his brother Luigi, working in a bottl­ing plant, loading cases on a belt conveyor. The conveyor carries the cases up for loading onto trucks.

KENIF KWOTE

In a world long before Tetris the “Mario Bros ignited my passion

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for tidying up. I could disappear into the world of packing boxes into a van ‘til my little heart’s content.

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MULTI-SCREEN SERIES

GREEN HOUSE

G&W #23 BOX ART

December 1982

Flowers are growing in a greenhouse.

Spiders and inchworms are attacking them.

Stanley the Bugman runs around with his spray gun, trying to kill the bugs before they harm his beloved flowers.

FUN FACT Greenhouse was later remade as a special edition to celebrate twenty million Game & Watch units sold.

ALARM

KENIF KWOTE

was my first introduc“Stanley tion into the futility of life. No matter how hard you try, nature always wreaks havoc upon any order you have attempted to create.

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G&W #24 BOX ART

MULTI-SCREEN SERIES

DONKEY KONG March 1983

FUN FACT One of the first appearances of Mario in roughly the same form as we know him today.

ALARM

Mario saved the princess from Donkey Kong. Now Mario has chained D o n k e y K o n g .

Donkey Kong Junior braves snapjaws, sparks and birds to get the key which will open Donkey Kong’s lock. Operate Junior’s movements to save Donkey Kong.

KENIF KWOTE

with Donkey Kong II “ ItthatwasI realised that Mario was

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the real villian. Never before had I felt such empathy for a digital ape and the plight of his family.

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All of me