History of Nitendo: First Hand Game Console "Game & Watch"

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Game & Watch is Nintendo's first console, with 59 games released. The first Game, "Ball," was released in 1980.

It's fair to say that Game & Watch has done a great job for Nintendo. At the time, Nintendo bet everything on Game & Watch, and if it failed, the FC Game BOY behind it, including the current SWITCH, would be gone. Fortunately, it succeeded. Although it was copied by bandai and some Taiwanese manufacturers in the later period, resulting in a decline in sales, it still accumulated a lot of wealth for bandai and provided reliable support for its subsequent development. This week we found some of the Game & Watch pictures and titles and content for vintage console collectors

In addition, the price of the game console is actually determined largely by its rarity. Although only 59 games, but sometimes the same game and different versions of the console, the price difference will be 10 times or even 20 times, the amount of information is still quite large. Later, I'll put together a ranking of rarities and update it later.

Ball in 1980

Game & Watch

The famous first Nintendo handheld

Game & Watch
Game & Watch

Very simple game, through the left and right button control to catch the ball from above.

Later, there were also some changes of different characters on other consoles, such as Mario, Bowser, Wario.

It was such a simple game that made a great game company.
 
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