Game & Watch or G&W is a line of handheld electronic games produced by Nintendo from 1980 to 1991. Created by game designer Gunpei Yokoi, each Game & Watch features a single game to be played on an LCD
screen in addition to a clock and/or an alarm.
43.4 million copies of
the 59 games were sold worldwide. It was the earliest Nintendo product
to garner major success.[1]
In 1979, Gunpei Yokoi, traveling on the Shinkansen, saw a bored businessman playing with an LCD calculator by pressing the buttons. Yokoi then thought of an idea for a watch that doubled as a miniature game machine for killing time.[2]
The device was known as Tricotronic in Germany.
Mr. Game & Watch is the mascot of the Game & Watch series.
The Shinkansen (新幹線, new trunk line), also known as the "Bullet Train", is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan operated by four Japan Railways Group companies.
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