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The Game & Watch were handheld electronic games made by Nintendo and created by its game designer Gunpei Yokoi from 1980 to 1991. Most featured a single game that could be played on an LCD screen, in addition to a clock and an alarm.

Now a handful of these games are coming to the DSi.

Very rough Japanese to English:

In 1980 Nintendo Game & Watch series was released and now it’s coming to the DSi Ware. The ball, a helmet, the Donkey Kong JR., 9, select the title line. Please come and enjoy both the freshness and nostalgia.

Ball – Ball is the first Game & Watch game ever made. It was released for the silver Game & Watch on April 28, 1980. The object of the game is to catch the balls that fall and throw them back up again, like juggling.

The player tosses three balls up in the air. As the balls fall down, the player must catch it and toss it up again for one point each time. Dropping a ball will end the game.

The game Ball was also featured in 1994 in the Game Boy Gallery game. Later, it was featured in Game & Watch Gallery 2 in 1998. It also makes an appearance in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, in which Mr. Game and Watch juggles the person that he has grabbed.

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Flagman – Flagman was the second Game & Watch game to be released. It was released by Nintendo Research & Devolopment 1 on June 5, 1980. Since it was released in 1980, it is obviously part of the Silver Series. The game is also called FL-02.

The game has four buttons. All of the buttons activate a number. In Game A, Mr. Game & Watch will simply hold up flags with numbers on them. Then, you must repeat the numbers he put up in the exact order which he put them up in, or else you will lose a life. After losing three lives, the game is over. Game B is the same except it is faster.

Flagman was a playable game in Game Boy Gallery and Game & Watch Gallery 3. In WarioWare Touched! there is a microgame called Flagman Game & Watch. In this microgame, Mr. Game & Watch will put up numbers. You have to repeat them in the same order he put them in, much like the real game. In Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl Mr. Game & Watch has a move called Flagman. This is where he takes a flag and hits the player with it.

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Vermin – Vermin was the third Game & Watch game that was released. It was realesed by Nintendo Research & Devolopment 1 on July 10,1980. The game was part of the Silver Series of Game & Watch games.
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In Vermin moles pop out of the ground and try to get into your garden(giving the game it’s name)and you have to hit them with your hammers to prevent them from getting into your garden. You do not have to press a button to hit the moles. The game does that for you.

Vermin was a playable game in Game Boy Gallery for the Game Boy and Game & Watch Gallery 2 for the Game Boy Color. In WarioWare:Mega Microgames there is a microgame called Vermin where Wario has to whack a mole with a hammer.In Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl Mr. Game & Watch has a move called Vermin. In this move he takes two hammers and hits the opponent with them.

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Judge – Judge can be played with both one and two players. You have to quickly respond to the numbers the two guys hold up and then perfectly time your dodge or hit.

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Helmet – In this game, the player has to run across from the exit of one building and into the entrance of another while avoiding the various hardware tools that fall from the sky. Getting hit on the head by the rain of tools will issue the player a miss.

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Chef – A chef paces back and forth in a kitchen, using his frying pan to keep three to four pieces of food airborne. If a piece of food ends up on the floor, a mouse will grab it and the player gets penalized with a miss. The cat at the left hand side of the screen will occasionally grab the left-most piece of food with a fork, only to keep it from falling to the ground.

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Donkey Kong Jr. – Donkey Kong Jr. is in trouble by trying to save Donkey Kong. He must watch out for things like crocodiles, birds and electric flashes. It is a “Multi Screen” game, with two LCD display screens. This game was later included in Game Boy Color’s Game & Watch Gallery 3 in 2000.

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Mario’s Cement Factory – Mario’s Cement Factory was a game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and released in 1983 for the Game and Watch handheld series. The game was released in the Game & Watch widescreen and tabletop versions, as well as the Mini-Classics series in 1998 (a set of four Game & Watch games ported to small keychain-bound handhelds). It was also released as part of the Game & Watch Gallery series for the Game Boy.

In this game, the player assumes the role of Mario, working in a cement factory. The player must empty cement from the hoppers into the cement trucks below. A conveyor belt at the top moves cement into hoppers which can only hold three loads at a time. An alarm sounds when one is full. To get around one uses elevators in the center of the screen. If the player moves to the center when an elevator isn’t there Mario falls to the bottom and loses a life. Losing a life can also occur if one stays on the elevator too long, in which case Mario will either fall or get smashed.

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Manhole – Manhole is a game which first appeared in the Game & Watch Gold series in 1981. A New Wide Screen of it was released on August 24, 1983. It was developed by Nintendo R&D1.

There are four buttons. Each button corresponds to an opening in the street. The player must close the manholes before the pedestrians fall through into the sewers.

A remake of Manhole appeared in Game Boy Gallery in 1994. A port of the New Wide Screen version was included with Nintendo’s e-reader for the Game Boy Advance. The same version also appeared in Game & Watch Gallery and as an unlockable in Game & Watch Gallery 4. The Gold version can also be seen in the museums of the Game & Watch Gallery series.

In Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawl, Manhole is Mr. Game & Watch’s Tilt Down+A attack, in which he flips a horizontal black polygon on the floor up and down to damage an opponent. Also, in the Flatzone stage from Super Smash Bros. Melee, Manhole is one of the platforms that the player can jump on. It also has the character from Manhole moving around as well.

A similar game also appeared on Tamagotchi V4.5.

Nintendo of Japan site translated

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