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Game & Watch 2010: More Like Just Watch
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Most of us over the age of 30 had poor choices when it came to portable gaming growing up. Until the Gameboy debuted in ‘89, there were those neat little football games with lines representing players, baseball games with dots...you get the idea. In that era, Nintendo produced a few fun LCD games called Game & Watch. Now you can own smaller, though slightly less fun, representations of these pieces of video game history [via Technabob]:

Why less fun you may ask? Even though they offer authentic LCD animations from the originals, these gaming facsimiles aren’t actually playable. Also -- most likely for copyright reasons -- popular titles like Donkey Kong aren’t available. Hopefully, the ladies will look past your non-working keychain and will instead be drawn to your undeniable sense of style. You can pre-order them here for only $11 each. An ad and video of these bad boys in action appear after the break.

 

 
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February 21, 2010
The Game&Watch; titles were such an awesome way to kill time on long car rides back in the day. It's a shame that, like you said, some of the better ones can't be made due to licensing issues, although you would think Nintendo has at least a little say in this since it is their system, after all. But no DK, Mario, Zelda... oh well. Cool find!
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February 22, 2010
@Mark: Turning these into little digital photo frames with some animated pics simulating the original probably wouldn't have been too expensive, and probably would have been more interesting. Dunno about profitability though.
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February 22, 2010
This reminds me, I gotta change the batteries on my DK3 Game & Watch sometime. Even though it's a bit too hefty to act as a keychain anyway...
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