List of Game & Watch Games - Games

Ball is the first game in Nintendo's Game & Watch series of handheld LCD games. It was released for the silver Game & Watch on April 28, 1980 with the model number AC-01.

The player tosses three balls in the air. As the balls fall, the player must catch and toss them up again. One point is earned for each successful catch. A dropped ball will display a broken ball and end the game. The object is to continuously catch the balls that fall and throw them back up, as in juggling.

The game Ball was also featured in the 1994 Game Boy Gallery, was an unlockable game in the 1998 Game & Watch Gallery 2, and was released as a DSiWare game on July 15, 2009. Ball was reissued with model number RGW-001 on its 30th anniversary, and was made available to Japanese members of the Club Nintendo program in 2009 and American members in 2011. It requires 1200 coins in the club nintendo program. Ball is referenced in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl as Mr. Game and Watch's throw.

Flagman was a playable game in Game Boy Gallery and Game & Watch Gallery 3. A version of Flagman becomes available In Wario Land II once the player has achieved 100% completion of the game. It is included in WarioWare Touched! as a microgame called Flagman Game & Watch. In Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mr. Game & Watch has a move called "Flagman", in which he hits the player with a flag. The game was re-released for Nintendo DSi in 2009.

In Vermin, moles pop out of the ground and try to get into the player's garden. The player has to hit the moles with a hammer to keep them out of the garden. 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" in which Wario has to whack a mole with a hammer. Mr. Game & Watch has a move called "Vermin" in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl in which he uses two hammers to strike his opponent. The game was re-released for Nintendo DSi in 2009.

Manhole is a game developed by Nintendo R&D1, and was the sixth Game & Watch game to be released. It first appeared in 1981 as product number MN-06 in the Gold series, and was recreated as model number NH-103 as part of the New Wide Screen series on August 24, 1983.

Each of the four buttons corresponds to an opening in the street. The player must use the buttons to close the manholes before pedestrians fall through the open holes and into the sewers.

A remake of the New Wide Screen version of Manhole appeared in the first Game Boy Gallery, released in 1994, in which the player controls Yoshi. Mario occasionally runs across the screen. This version of Manhole was one of the cards included with purchase of the Nintendo e-Reader, and was unlockable in Game & Watch Gallery 4. Nintendo released Manhole as a DSiWare game on August 19, 2009.

Parachute was released on June 19, 1981. It was the first game in the Wide Screen series, and its product number was PR-21. The player controls Mr. Game & Watch, who is in a boat and has to prevent parachuters from landing in shark infested waters. A life is lost every time the player fails to do this. In Game B, the parachutes can get stuck in trees.

Parachute is a playable game in Game & Watch Gallery 2, Game & Watch Gallery 4, and Game & Watch Collection 2. Mr. Game & Watch uses a parachute from this game in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros Brawl.

Octopus was a handheld Game & Watch Widescreen system released on July 16, 1981, with the product number: OC-22. In the United Kingdom it was renamed Mysteries of the Sea and Mysteries of the Deep. It is considered to be one of the most complex Game & Watch games ever created.

The object is to recover treasure from a sunken ship without getting caught by an octopus. The player must aim his diver under water by jumping off the side of a boat. Each time the octopus touches the player, one life is lost. A point is awarded for each portion of treasure retrieved from a sunken ship, and three additional points are awarded for evading the octopus a second time and returning to the boat. The game speeds as it progresses, and additional lives are granted at 200 and 500 points. Game A is easier, but in Game B, the octopus is quicker and there are more hazards.

Octopus was re-released for the Game Boy in Game & Watch Gallery. It was re-released for Game & Watch Gallery 4, and for the Game & Watch Collection 2. When Mr. Game & Watch gets the smash ball in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, he becomes the octopus and knocks out opponents with his tentacles. Mr. Game and Watch performs headbutts with a helmet from Octopus in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Chef is a Game & Watch game released on September 8, 1981. Its product number is FP-24.

The player controls a chef who flips various pieces of food, including sausage and fish, into the air with a pan. Failiure to keep the food airborne causes a mouse to steal the food off the floor and the player to use up one 'miss'. The game ends with the player's third miss. A cat often pokes the left piece of food, which holds it in place for a small amount of time and makes it harder for the player to guess when the piece will be flippable. The game speeds up as it progresses. In Game A, the player must flip three items of food. In Game B, the player must flip four food items.

Chef is unlockable in Personal Trainer Cooking for the DS after the player has cooked a certain number of meals. It was re-released for Nintendo DSi in 2009. One of Mr. Game & Watch's special moves in Super Smash Bros. Brawl is from this game.

The player character is a fox who waits outside a hen house. The fox must catch the eggs that fall out of the side of the hen house, for one point each. Three lives are given. A life is lost for each egg missed, or half of a life if the egg is missed while a hen appears. The game ends when all three lives are lost. Egg appeared in Game & Watch Gallery 3.

Fire was the fourth Game & Watch game to be released, and one of the most popular in the series. It was made by Nintendo Research & Development 1 and released under the Silver series on July 31, 1980 with the product number RC-04. A Wide Screen series version was released on December 4, 1981, with the product number FR-27.

In the Silver series version, the player controls two firemen who carry a trampoline. The firemen must catch people who fall from a burning building and bounce them into a waiting ambulance. The player is awarded 1 point for each person who reaches the ambulance, and loses one of their three lives for each person who hits the ground. The Wide Screen version eliminates the ambulance, and its graphics are sharper and more colorful than those of the Silver series version.

Fire is a playable game in Game & Watch Gallery, Game & Watch Gallery 3, and Game & Watch Gallery 4. It makes a brief appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, on Flat Zone 2. Players can jump on the trampoline held out by the firemen.

Mr. Game & Watch has a special move based on this game in the Super Smash Bros. series. He is propelled upwards by the men with the trampoline and releases a parachute, as in the Game & Watch game Parachute.

In Game A the middle turtle of the five has no fish swimming in reach and never dives unless the explorer waits too long on its back, at which point fish appear and the turtle dives. In Game B all turtles will dive from the outset, while the colleague appears less frequently.

Two to ten points are awarded, depending on how quickly the package is delivered. It takes approximately 1 hour of game play to accrue 1000 points. The score board only has 3 digits, so once "999" is exceeded it rolls over to "000."

Lives are lost if the explorer lands on a turtle that dives. A life can be recovered at the score levels 200 and 500. The game ends when all lives are lost.

A turtle from this game is used as one Mr. Game & Watch's moves in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Fire Attack is a Wide Screen edition game with product number ID-29, and is set in a "cowboys and Indians" environment. The main character uses a tomahawk-type weapon to protect a fort from burning. The top row of enemies are Indian chiefs who throw firesticks, and the bottom row of enemies are traditional Game & Watch characters who try to set fire to the fort with a match. Two points are earned for each fire blocked. Three misses are allowed, which occur each time the fort catches fire. All misses are erased at 200 points, and again at 500.

Snoopy Tennis was released for the Wide Screen series on April 28, 1982. Its product number is SP-30.

Charlie Brown throws and hits a ball toward Snoopy, who must hit the ball back. Lucy sometimes will hit the ball to Snoopy.

The player controls a station helper who uses a bucket to catch drops of oil from a leaking pipe and empties the bucket into an oil drum. Missing a drop from the pipe or missing the oil drum causes the player to lose a life. The player has four lives, rather than the usual three. Mr. Game and Watch is replaced by Mario in the Game & Watch Gallery version. Mario has the ability to hold two buckets of oil, whereas Mr. Game and Watch could only hold one in the original game. Oil Panic is also one of the microgames featured in the collection presented by 9 Volt in WarioWare: Touched!.

Elements of Oil Panic are featured in Super Smash Bros. Melee and its sequel Super Smash Bros. Brawl. One of the backgrounds of Flat Zone 2 is themed upon the game, and one of the attacks used by Mr. Game & Watch is called "Oil Panic". Mr. Game and Watch's "Tilt Down+B" attack in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl is taken from this game.

Donkey Kong was released on June 3, 1982. It is a dual-screen game from the Multi Screen series, with an orange body. Its product number is DK-52.

Three different versions of Donkey Kong Jr. were released: DJ-101, released on October 26, 1982 for the New Wide Screen series, CJ-71, released on April 28, 1983 for the Table Top series, and CJ-93, released on October 7, 1983 for the Panorama series. Game music was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka. The game was re-released for Nintendo DSi in 2009.

Donkey Kong II was a dual-screen game with a brown body. It was part of the Multi-Screen series, and was released on March 7, 1983. Its product number is JR-55.

This was the console that inspired the Nintendo DS. Game music was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka.

Mario Bros. was released on March 14, 1983, with the product number MW-56. It is a Multi Screen game with a maroon body that opens like a book. It opens to the right, like a Japanese book, instead of to the left, like books from western countries. This game is also playable in Game & Watch Gallery 3 and Game & Watch Gallery 4.

Three different versions of Donkey Kong Jr. were released: DJ-101, released on October 26, 1982 for the New Wide Screen series, CJ-71, released on April 28, 1983 for the Table Top series, and CJ-93, released on October 7, 1983 for the Panorama series. Game music was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka. The game was re-released for Nintendo DSi in 2009.

Game A mode controls two rafts, one on each side of the screen, which move together when the left and right buttons are pressed. In Game B there is only one raft, which can move from one side of the screen to the other.

Mario's Bombs Away was released on November 13, 1983, with product number PB-94, as part of the Panorama series. It features an unlit color LCD screen that faces downward in order to expose the translucent rear to daylight or another external light source. The player character is a military-clad Mario who delivers bombs from left to right, and must keep them away from flaming oil spills and enemy torches. Action is viewed in a mirror that reflects the screen. The game music was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka.

Pinball was a Multi Screen Game & Watch game that was released on December 5, 1983, with product number PB-59. The player controls two flippers on the bottom screen and two on the top screen. Other pinball objects include bumpers, outlanes, rollover lanes, kickbacks and plungers. Hirokazu Tanaka composed the game music.

Crabs emerge from four differently colored columns along the bottom of the screen, and settle at the top. The objective is to avoid being in front of the crab, and to push the crabs from the bottom to prevent them from mounting on the screen. Points are earned by pushing and eliminating crabs. The game ends when the player has been bitten three times. Player movement is in all four directions (Up, Down, Left, Right). The A & B games had similar objectives, but with slightly different speeds. This was one of two Super Color games, and was one of the most expensive games in 1984.

Mickey Mouse was released as MC-25 for the Wide Screen series on October 9, 1981, and as DC-95 for the Panorama series in February, 1984.

Donkey Kong Circus was released on September 1984, as part of the Panorama series. It has a lilac body and product number MK-96.

Donkey Kong Hockey was released on November 13, 1984, as part of the Micro vs. System series. Its part number is HK-303.

Game A is a blackjack game. The dealer's hand is on the upper screen and the player's hand is on the bottom screen. Four buttons are available: double down, bet x10/hit, bet x1/stand and enter. The player starts with a $500 bankroll and can bet up to $100 each hand. Pair splitting is not allowed, and bets must be locked before shuffling is done, contrary to real-world blackjack rules.

In Game B, the player starts with $500 as five numbers cycle in a random pattern on the bottom screen. Pressing the enter button causes the numbers to stop one at a time. There is a $50 reward if all five stop on the same number, or a deduction of $25 if not.

A boy known as the Climber sets out for the Block Mountain, where the Blockmen live, to train as a warrior. Lord Meiji, who he meets on the way, grants him a pair of boots which enable him to jump very high, armor that can break ceilings, and a head band which will help him find a sword that can defeat Dragalo, the dragon. The climber pursues his quest with the assistance of the mysterious bird, Hentori.

The objective of the game is to control Climber by jumping through a tower of platforms and landing on them, and by avoiding monsters and blockmen. The goal is to either grab Hentori or slash Dragalo, while achieving the highest score possible.

Two versions of Climber are available: DR-106 for the New Wide Screen series (1988), and DR-802 for the Crystal Screen series (1986). Climber was an unlockable game in Game & Watch Gallery 4.

Bomb Sweeper is a dual-screen ("Multi Screen") game released in June 1987. Its product number is BD-62.

The player character is John Solver, who must navigate a maze to defuse bombs set by "Jack". When playing on "Game A" mode, the maze begins to move from left to right after a certain number of bombs are defused, and the player must find an exit back to the surface. The top screen is merely cosmetic, and shows the boss who sends the player character into the underground maze. Unlike in most Game & Watch games, lost lives are not reset when a player reaches 300 points.

Super Mario Bros. was released for the Crystal Screen series in June 1986 as YM-801. YM-105, for the New Wide Screen series, was released in March 1988.

Zelda is a Multi Screen game that was released in August, 1989 with the product number ZL-65.

Mario the Juggler was the last Game & Watch game to be released. It was released in October, 1991, as part of the New Wide Screen series, with the product number MJ-108. The gameplay is similar to that of the first Game & Watch released, Ball.