News These Game & Watch Documents are All Kinds of Amazing

Black and white and oh so right

Currently enjoying a resurgence due to many rereleases on DSiWare, Nintendo's portable Game & Watch consoles are the subject of the latest Iwata Asks over at Nintendo Japan's site. Most of the development team, minus the late Gunpei Yokoi, dropped by on Mr Iwata to chat about these seminal titles and hardware and...

• Fri 9th Jul 2010
• Retro
• Game & Watch
• Iwata Asks

Feature Becoming a Nintendo Game & Watch Collector

We ask the experts about collecting this vintage format

Given the durable nature of the Game & Watch range, the appealing design of the casing and the desirable Nintendo branding, it’s little surprise that a truly hardcore collecting scene has risen up over the past few years. The reasons for this differ depending on which collector you happen...

• Tue 2nd Mar 2010
• Retro
• Game & Watch
• Collecting

News Japanese Club Nintendo Members Get Game & Watch Goodness

Retro-themed freebies = WIN

Western Nintendo fans are used to getting rubbish gifts from Club Nintendo while their Japanese cousins take home some seriously amazing kit, but this latest news is especially depressing for anyone outside the Land of the Rising Sun. Nintendo of Japan is offering actual Game & Watch "Ball" units to Platinum...

• Thu 19th Nov 2009
• Club Nintendo
• Japan
• Retro
• Game & Watch

News Game & Watch Games to be Released on DSiWare

Classic handheld games to be available for download soon!

It seemed like a pretty quiet month for Japan - With just three VC games initially announced for a July release and this week having no WiiWare games at all it almost looked as if Nintendo was actually running out of games to release! It seems like it was all a ruse to surprise us with...

• Fri 10th Jul 2009
• Japanese Releases
• DSiWare
• Game & Watch