Picked this up today for one of my sons for hanukkah. He loves this retro stuff.

I still have some of the original ones from when I was a kid. I even have the boxes and directions.

 

Very cool. I grew up playing Game & Watch mini-machines in Taiwan. Had several of them. I still have a dual player ice hockey one.

 

Never had a Game and Watch growing up. However, I did get this gem:

 

I picked up the G&W Legend of Zelda. It's pretty fun.

 

https://www.nintendo.com/products/de...gend-of-zelda/

 

If you go to Nintendo World in NYC, they have a display case with a bunch of historical Nintendo artifacts. This includes all Nintendo hardware from the NES onward, but it also includes a bunch of Game and Watches from the 80s. It even includes some Nintendo card games. (Nintendo was founded as a card game maker.)

 

So my Secret Santa came through for me this year. Instead of socks, I got the Zelda Game and Watch.

I was worried about the form factor after playing for it for the first 30 minutes. I think my hands grew compared to my 10 year old self. But after playing on it nonstop over the past week, I'm enjoying this a lot. I'm using a walkthrough guide, so I'm kind of breezing through the game, but it's so nostalgic.

I hope Nintendo continues with this and releases more in the future. I think some obvious candidates would be Donkey Kong (maybe a clam shell G&W like the old days), Metroid, and Pokemon.